Sr Financial Planning Analyst (PR26134)

TMEIC Corporation Americas • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Provide financial planning and analysis services to a global business operating across multiple business units, entities, and currencies. Lead key planning and performance analysis activities, deliver decision-ready insights, and partner with leaders to strengthen financial discipline and business outcomes.

The role leads planning, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, variance analysis, and management presentations. It also manages assigned portions of the Mid-Range Plan, annual budget, periodic forecasts, and consolidation processes; recommends and monitors performance KPIs; and conducts analyses to support business decisions. The position identifies and implements approved improvements to planning methods, reporting, controls, and analytical tools, promotes consistent use of financial policies and systems, and provides technical guidance and work review to associates.

The role requires less than 15% domestic and international travel. Applicants must complete an online application for this specific position; a resume may be attached but does not substitute for the application.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• Five years of experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or business analysis, including ownership of planning or forecasting deliverables.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills, including assessing complex data, testing assumptions, and communicating conclusions.
• Critical thinking, sound judgment, and problem-solving skills.
• Successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
• Strong personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility.
• Experience with a global, multi-entity, multi-currency organization.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills, including PivotTables, data visualization, and VBA or other automation tools.
• Experience with financial planning and analysis platforms and with process improvements or systems implementations.
• Experience in a project-based business where results are measured by project.
• Advanced experience with financial modules in an ERP or planning system.
• Availability to travel domestically and internationally less than 15%.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese.
• CFA or CPA.

Responsibilities

• Lead accurate and timely short-, medium-, and long-term financial planning, forecasting, and reporting across assigned business units and entities.
• Develop, maintain, and review complex financial models to assess performance, evaluate business scenarios, and explain financial implications to management, collaborating with business operations, business development, and technology teams.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to translate operating plans into financial forecasts, constructively challenge assumptions, and identify risks and opportunities.
• Analyze actual results against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods; explain key variances, trends, and drivers; and recommend actions.
• Prepare and lead financial analyses and presentations for management reviews, ensuring conclusions are accurate, concise, and decision-relevant.
• Manage assigned portions of the semiannual Mid-Range Plan, annual budget, periodic forecasts, and consolidation processes; coordinate inputs and resolve data issues.
• Recommend and monitor meaningful financial and operational KPIs measuring strategic and project-based performance.
• Perform ad hoc, comparative, and historical analysis to inform investment, resource allocation, pricing, cost management, and other business decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning methods, reporting, controls, and analytical tools, and lead implementation of approved improvements.
• Promote consistent application of financial policies, data integrity, and effective use of ERP and planning systems; document key assumptions and processes.
• Share knowledge and technical guidance with associates and review assigned analytical work for quality and consistency.
• Fulfill general employee accountabilities, including bringing full effort to assigned work, advising the manager, communicating early when work cannot be delivered as specified, collaborating across the organization, exemplifying company core values, complying with policies and laws, recommending improvements, and effectively using business tools and processes.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed, less than 15%.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior