Financial Planning and Platform Analysis (Shopee)

About the team

This role entails analyzing financial data for Shopee Thailand using SQL and Excel, leading P&L projections across various intervals, consolidating and analyzing SEA market performance, applying structured frameworks for insights, refining estimation and forecast solutions, and presenting actionable business-focused reports to stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Analyze financial performance both at platform level and on targeted initiative basis - identify business opportunities and influence budget approval and allocation process based on financial analysis
• Analyze financial performances across different Shopee markets in Southeast Asia and other Regions
• Manage internal cost and performance tracking process with the goal of improving this workflow over time
• Summarize key results and present to senior management on a bi-weekly basis or as required for project approvals
• Liaise internally and externally across multiple teams to obtain necessary information for analysis and ensure successful execution of given projects
• Support other functions in budget planning, budget request process inquiries, and budget execution on a daily basis
• Work closely with budget owners to support the annual, quarterly and monthly budget process. Perform analysis on prior years/quarters/months spending.
• Build forecasts using historic trends plus commercial input from business functions. Perform the monthly analysis and discuss the forecast with the related budget owners. Control of the monthly spending versus expected forecast.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or related fields
• 1-2 years of experience 
• Prior experience in audit, finance, banking or consulting is an advantage
• Proficient with financial terms and concepts with good understanding of standard business P&L items
• Strong stakeholders management and communication skills
• Outstanding structural thinker, with strong time-management and organizational skills
• Self-driven with willingness to learn and improve
• Strong sense of responsibility and able to work under pressure to deliver results
• Fluent in English, Proficient in Excel; Technical skills such as SQL is a plus. Willingness to learn is a must