Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Advisor

, Philippines Job Family Group: Finance Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: October 13, 2026 Business unit: Finance Experience Level: Experienced Professionals Job Description: What’s the role The FP&A Senior Advisor plays a key role in supporting strategic business decisions through financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, and business insights. As a trusted finance partner, this role works closely with business and finance leaders to translate operational and commercial performance into clear, actionable recommendations that drive growth and value creation. The successful candidate will help improve decision-making, strengthen financial performance, and ensure financial discipline by delivering forward-looking insights through data, analytics, and digital tools. The role focuses on moving beyond traditional reporting to provide meaningful analysis that supports business strategy and long-term success. What you’ll be doing Lead integrated planning and forecasting: Own and coordinate planning, latest estimate and appraisal processes, ensuring assumptions, financial outcomes and business drivers are transparent, consistent and aligned with business strategy.  Drive performance management: Monitor financial and operational performance against targets/benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support timely interventions to drive competitive performance. Provide business appraisal and decision support: Apply value and risk lenses to investment, portfolio, commercial and operational decisions, ensuring options are evaluated with sound financial logic and business judgement. Generate actionable options and recommendations: Leverage automated analytics dashboards to convert data, trends and scenarios into clear options, decision-ready recommendations and practical interventions that support senior leadership decision-making. Strengthen financial discipline and controls: Ensure planning, reporting and appraisal activities comply with governance, control, assurance and financial reporting requirements. Partner across the business: Build trusted relationships with business leaders, finance colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, challenge constructively and influence better decisions. Enable digital and analytics transformation: Champion automation, self-service reporting, driver-based modelling, scenario planning and predictive analytics to improve speed, quality and efficiency of finance delivery. Develop capability and talent: Coach and develop team members, build future-ready FP&A capabilities and foster a learner mindset across business partnering, data, digital, analytics and process excellence. Transformation & Continuous Improvement: Drive simplification, automation, digitisation and process improvement across planning & appraisal activities, leveraging technology, analytics and AI-enabled tools where appropriate. AI-enabled FP&A governance and decision support: Review, interpret and leverage outputs from AI-enabled tools to deliver high-quality FP&A support, ensuring insights, forecasts and recommendations are grounded in robust assumptions, strong data integrity, sound judgement and disciplined AI risk management and governance. Required Skills and Capabilities Business partnering and commercial acumen: Ability to understand value drivers, business models, market dynamics and operational levers, and convert them into practical financial advice. Financial performance management: Strong capability in KPI design, target setting, variance analysis, forecasting, performance appraisal and intervention planning.  Planning and financial decision-making: Ability to coordinate business planning, translate strategy into financial targets and link plans to milestones, actions and measurable outcomes. Financial modelling and scenario analysis: Experience in driver-based modelling, sensitivity & scenario analysis, risk and opportunity framing, business cases and investment appraisal. Data analytics and insights: Ability to validate, analyse and interpret data; identify patterns and trends; and generate insights that answer business questions and improve decision quality. Data management and digital acumen: Understanding of data quality, governance, reporting automation, dashboarding, analytics tools and digital solutions that improve finance processes with ability to work with AI. Storytelling and strategic executive communication: Ability to convert complex analysis into clear, concise and compelling messages for senior stakeholders, including recommendations and decision asks. Process excellence and continuous improvement: Ability to simplify, standardise and improve finance processes while maintaining governance, control and operational discipline. Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to build trust, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity and influence outcomes across functions, geographies and leadership levels. Change leadersh