Job Purpose and Objectives
The Finance Business Analyst for Strategic Land Investments and Management serves as the bridge between finance and business operations, providing relevant data analysis, forecasting, and strategic insights to help businesses make better financial decisions and improve financial performance.
Job Responsibilities and Tasks:
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Gathers and provides data inputs to be used in the preparation of the operating business plans
- Monitors financial performance and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and improvement areas
- Computes for the cash flows, internal rate of returns, net present values and yields per hectare per land use/project
Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Performance Reporting
- Creates dashboards and reports for the business units in scope
- Prepares monthly management reports, including but not limited to land utilization reports, leasing occupancy rates, KPIs, and variance analysis against budgets and forecasts
- Supports the annual budgeting process of the business units in scope
- Helps departments prepare accurate forecasts and analyze deviations from budget
- Tracks metrics like revenue, costs, profitability, and efficiency to identify trends and variances
Revenue, Cost and Profitability Analysis and Optimization
- Works closely with business development, sales and marketing and operating teams to evaluate product profitability, promotional effectiveness and pricing strategies
- Assesses financial performance of projects
- Recommends product/service discontinuation, repositioning, or investment based on margin analysis
Strategic Planning and Business Support
- Provides data-driven insights and assists in business case development to support the business units strategic initiatives such as acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures
- Identifies inefficiencies in financial or operational processes
Control and Governance
- Promotes best practices in financial management, controls, and reporting
- Ensures compliance with internal policies, as aligned with approved Governance policies, accounting standards, and other regulatory guidelines
- Raises financial, planning and/or other risks and proposes mitigating measures to address them
- Assists in the conduct of external audits of entities in scope
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Acts as a liaison between finance, legal, business development, commercial and operations teams
- Translates business requirements into financial terms and vice versa
Job Specifications:
- Accounting or finance graduate or any related business course
- At least 2 years experience in finance/accounting, financial analysis, accounting, or business analysis
- Experience in land holdings and/or real estate is highly preferred
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
- Has experience using an ERP and other Microsoft Office applications
- In depth in finance, accounting processes & control principles; ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports
- Well-versed in Philippine Financial Reporting Standard (PFRS), statutory reporting and tax compliances.
- Keen attention to details
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Maintain the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and conduct
- Able to provide clear concise reports and analysis
- Strategic approach in recommendations; can think outside the box
- Able to collaborate well with others
- Agility and adaptability to the fast-paced nature of the business and to manage concurrent needs
