Title: Finance Analyst, AG APAC - Tropical Oils

Job Requisition ID: 325911

Location:

Palembang, South Sumatra, ID Indonesia, 30113

Category: FINANCE

Description:

Job Purpose and Impact

Finance Analyst responsible for delivering accurate, timely, insight‑driven financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis to support effective business decision‑making. This role acting as a finance business partner to the FP&A team, commercial and supply chain functions. The role translates operational and commercial plans into financial projections, monitors key performance indicators and explains variances. The position also analyzes SG&A performance to support cost control and optimization.

Key Accountabilities

Prepare monthly CTP P&L forecasts, including Mid‑Month and Early Bird updates, and perform variance analysis against actual results. Partner with Supply & Demand Planners to gather inputs such as sales and shipment volumes, pricing, MSC costs, and other income and expenses. Translate operational inputs into accurate monthly P&L forecasts and ensure consistency across actuals, budgets, and forecasts.

Develop monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts, as well as short‑term financial outlooks for Monthly Management Business Reviews. Collaborate with Supply & Demand Planners to understand key assumptions (sales volume, pricing, costs, capex) and convert Supply Review and Commercial Review outputs into financial projections.
Lead annual budgeting and long‑term financial planning processes. Consolidate budget inputs and work closely with MSC Finance and FP&A to align assumptions on volumes, pricing, and costs, ensuring consistency with overall company targets.
Produce monthly management reports for CTP and Hindoli, analyzing gross margin performance against forecast and budget. Clearly explain variances related to price, volume, mix, cost, and operational efficiency.
Deliver meaningful insights that go beyond reporting, helping the business understand performance and make informed decisions.
Conduct SG&A performance analysis across CTP, Hindoli sites, and Jakarta.
Monitor key business KPIs, including revenue growth, margins, SG&A, and EBITDA.
Identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities, and support cost control and profitability initiatives. Act as a finance business partner to the FP&A Lead, Commercial, and Supply Chain teams, including supporting data collection and ad‑hoc analyses as needed.

Qualifications

Minimum Diploma III or Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, related major or equivalent experience
Minimum 3 years of working experience in finance field.
Able to communicate effectively in English, both spoken and written.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint .Advanced Excel skills are highly expected.
Ability to operate Power BI is considered a strong advantage.
Could conducts complex financial analyses and make decisions with key financial information.