Finance Business Planning Analyst

Be a part of a revolutionary change!

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Our new vision means we’re reinventing our financial modelling, planning and forecasting tools. Join us in Finance and you’ll work across the full breadth of the business, making sure our new commercial model is profitable and sustainable. There’s something new to learn every single day: changes to integrate and challenges to conquer. If you love working collaboratively and taking risks, you’ll be in your element here.

Our work spans the globe and includes audit, treasury, internal control and commercial financial support. Whether your skills are in financial control, planning and forecasting, data analytics or digital risk, there’s space to move your career forward in any number of directions.

Your ‘day to day’

As a Business Planning Analyst, you are responsible for providing support to the Manager Business Planning in the areas of short-term and long-term planning (by conducting impactful analyses on internal and external factors that affect business performance), reporting of business performance both locally and to PMI, and providing financial evaluations for business initiatives.

Your Responsibilities Include

Pricing Strategy and Business Forecasting

• Assist the Manager Business Planning in achieving the optimal pricing strategy and sales forecast accuracy through effectively monitoring and analyzing business KPIs and market trends leading to business insights, identifying risks and opportunities that can impact future growth, and develop proposed action plans to address these, monitoring and analyzing economic, fiscal & regulatory developments, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape
  
  

Performance Reporting and Executive Management Support

• Support in monitoring and reporting business performance by providing business updates, industry reports, sales highlights, and other management reports as required. Provides periodic information necessary in monitoring progress and validation of projects/strategic plans that will serve as basis for business reviews with management.
  
  

Business Intelligence

• Responsible for maintaining market and competitive information system and database. This involves regular collection, classification and update of various information as well as identifying and managing internal and external sources of market and competitive information. This entails regular update and forecast of competitive pricing landscape in the market, share of market and analysis of competitor audited financial statements and tax payments. Responsible as well for building a database and repository of all information (market research and data statistics) and ensuring integrity of the data. Works with Manager Business Planning in analyzing the information gathered to provide relevant and actionable inputs to the evaluation and implementation of business planning and projects.
  
  

Business Partnering

• Act as a strategic partner of other functions (i.e. Commercial) by providing data driven analyses and recommendations on business initiatives. This includes the development of the financial evaluation (ROI, MC, pricing and volume) of proposed projects and new product launches (NPL).
  
  

External Affairs Support

• Assist in delivering the requirements of External Affairs, such as analyses and calculations in relation to planned engagements with external stakeholders, illicit trade estimates, and other ad-hoc matters.
  
  

Business Orientation and Knowledge Sharing

• Conduct business orientations to requesting individuals/groups (i.e. new hires, OC/Regional visitors) and collaborate with other teams and functions in building forecasting and planning capabilities through trainings and workshops.
  
  

Project Management

• Manage specific finance projects from planning, execution, evaluation, and migration to business-as-usual activities.
  
  

Who we’re looking for

• College/University degree holder in management, business, economics or related course
• Minimum 2-3 years work experience in areas requiring high level of analysis, preferably Business Planning, Commercial Strategy, Financial Planning; and with working knowledge on basic accounting
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving, abstract reasoning/thinking, and communication skills
  
  

What we offer

Our Success Depends On Our Talented Employees Who Come To Work Here Every Single Day With a Sense Of Purpose And An Appetite For Progress. Join PMI And You Too Can

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
  
  

Work location and schedule

The Finance Center, BGC, Taguig City

Monday to Friday, 8:30a-5:30pm

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