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Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Daraz Pakistan, , Pakistan, Pakistan
1 day ago
Job description

About Daraz

Founded in 2015, Daraz is South Asia’s leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. It empowers more than 100,000 active sellers with world-class marketplace technology to reach the fast-growing consumer class in a region of 500 million people. Through Daraz Express and Daraz Pay, it operates the most efficient and digitalised logistics and payments infrastructure in its markets. Daraz’ vision is to be a champion of South Asia serving 100 million customers and businesses by 2030.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Ownership of the Financial Planning Models, collecting all inputs from relevant stakeholders and ensuring outputs represent a coherent future view of business delivery
  • Ownership, governance, review and execution of monthly commercial targets
  • Perform qualititative analysis of operational and financial data and ensure and maintain quality assurance in models
  • Actualize financial models on monthly basis
  • Build and manage financial databases by organizing and analyzing a wide range of data sources while interpreting and summarizing results
  • Manage performance against the budget for each business and Daraz as a whole and report on deviations while working with relevant stakeholders for resolution of same
  • Work cross-functionally with commercial, marketing, data science and logistics teams, to identify new business drivers, opportunities & efficiency gains, and then help materialize them
  • Prepares financial reports for internal / external use at the business unit / entity / department and Daraz level by collecting, analyzing, formatting, and presenting information
  • Assist Financial planning and performance manager in preparing budgets and forecasts
  • Assist the operations and finance teams in monthly reporting
  • Support functional stakeholders by developing new reports / analysis required by the business
  • Support continuous improvement of planning processes through gathering feedback from teams and understanding their needs
  • Provide data to all stakeholders in order to help calculate metrics, report financials, and support analysis and decision making

Skills / Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience working in an analytical / business partnership role with Commercial & Business teams
  • A degree in accountancy or an MBA from top business school + technical skills in Six Sigma / PMI will be an advantage
  • Detailed oriented mindset with a strong grip on numbers
  • Excellent financial modeling skills
  • Go-getter, problem-solving attitude with a proactive approach to getting things done
  • Superior organizational skills to manage multiple priorities, and the flexibility to adapt to changing scope and evolving business requirements
  • Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across management levels
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Power-point is essential
  • Prior experience working with projects involving system integrations is strongly preferred

    • What We Offer

  • International working environment in a start-up setting, and a unique opportunity to learn from the best in e-commerce (Alibaba Group) and business growth
  • A platform to learn from Alibaba’s world-leading ecosystem
  • Rigorous training and exposure in team management, leadership, business analytics, and operations
  • An opportunity to train the next generation of business leaders in the ‘tech’ industry
  • Competitive salary and incentive package

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