Financial Planning Associate

Hard discount in the Philippines — quality everyday essentials at everyday low prices.

DALI is the first and fastest-growing grocery discounter in Southeast Asia, opening roughly one store a day across Luzon and expanding throughout the Philippines. Six years in, we have entered our most significant phase yet: ALDI, one of the world's largest hard-discount retailers, has entered as a strategic investor alongside our existing global and regional backers, giving us the capital and operating discipline to pursue a whitespace large enough for decades of high growth. We're looking for someone to join our Finance and Business Development team and work at the centre of how the company plans and grows. You'll partner directly with our Sr Corporate Finance and Business Development Manager, sit close to real decisions, and be deployed against the questions that shape where DALI goes next — from unit economics and expansion to the strategic initiatives that define our trajectory. This is broad, high-ownership work, and few roles will build your strategic and commercial judgement this fast.

What you'll do

• Own financial and operational analysis end to end — historical performance, scenario modelling, and evaluation of new business initiatives — and turn findings into clear recommendations the team can act on
• Build the data picture yourself — pulling and pressure-testing numbers across accounting, supply chain, and operations to get to a source of truth
• Surface data inconsistencies and process gaps and drive them to resolution — not just flag them
• Build and maintain the financial models, structured Excel workbooks, reports, and presentations that leadership and investors rely on
• Prepare the analysis, reporting, and materials that go to leadership, the board, and investors — and stand behind the numbers in the room
• Take full ownership of your workstreams and deliver independently against agreed timelines, with scope that grows as you do

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Management, or related field.
• 3–5 years in a demanding analytical role — investment, consulting, corporate finance/strategy, or a comparable seat where you owned real work. Exceptional candidates with less will be considered.
• Excellent Excel and financial-modelling skills, and real fluency working with messy, real-world data
• A structured, strategic thinker who can move from a blank page to a defensible answer and explain the so what in plain terms
• A good grasp of accounting principles and financial statements, you don't need to be an accountant, but you need to be able to read and question what the numbers say
• Someone who follows through without needing constant direction, asks the right questions, and brings solutions rather than just problems
• Familiarity with AI tools, Power BI, or a language like Python or R is a plus, not a requirement

What's in it for you

• Live exposure to strategy, business performance, and investor and board reporting at a company ALDI SÜD, IFC (International Finance Corporation, member of the World Bank), ADB (Asian Development Bank), and Creador among others has backed.
• A front-row seat to the decisions that shape DALI as it enters its highest-growth phase
• Genuine room to grow into more scope and seniority as the team builds out
• A team that hands real responsibility to people who earn it
• Above market compensation

The details

• DALI Head Office, Carmona, Cavite. Full-time. Hybrid working arrangement can be discussed.