Sime Darby Finance/FinTech

Senior Analyst, Portfolio Strategy

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Location: Malaysia | Selangor | Menara Sime (B196)

Company

Sime Darby Industrial Sdn Bhd

Functional Self-Leadership Objectives

  • Ensure safety goals are achieved through personal commitment, no harm to self or others and participation in safety initiatives.
  • Actively listen to and build positively on others’ ideas.
  • Display fairness, exhibit trust and create real teamwork and sharing.
  • Ensure business direction, team purpose and change agenda is understood, agreed to and work activities are aligned.
  • Seek formal and informal development opportunities for growth.
  • Proactively seek and maintain collaborative working relationships with peers and manager to deliver results.

Functional Objectives

  • Display fairness, build trust and maintain respectful relationships through open lines of communication vertically and horizontally
  • Ongoing planning and control systems achieve quality results that establish benchmark
  • Proactively built network to understand the big picture
  • Opportunities for contribution to the community actively sought
  • Anticipated and constructively responded to stakeholder issues

Role Specific Deliverables

  • Lead commercial analysis and research requirements for assigned projects across Industrial, Motors and Group
  • Define complex problems, breaking into the various facets to logically explore and evaluate solution pathways for each, leveraging financial analysis, research and stakeholder engagement
  • Apply broad analysis (commercial considerations, financial knowledge, market insights) and thinking skills to resolve complex problems, triangulating from multiple data sources
  • Analysis and interpretation of large, abstract data sets, using statistical models and other tools to demonstrate and synthesise relationships
  • Interpretation of data beyond financial analysis and critical thinking to get to root cause and understand ‘why’ and ‘so what’
  • Proactively identify gaps and issues in data analysis and research outcomes, instigating further analysis and pivot in approach to solve problem
  • Consider interdependencies and relationships between complex problems in developing investigation approach
  • Resourcefulness in finding research answers through a variety of sources
  • Integrate problem solving, judgement and preparation of recommendations for decision making into strategy research and data analysis projects
  • Synthesize findings into opportunities, risks and impacts for the business and articulate findings tailoring to target audience to compel action
  • Formulate action plans to incorporate material findings into planning, reporting and / or decision making activities
  • Synthesis and communication of regular market developments applying judgement across materiality of market development for business activities and target audience
  • Build relationships and business knowledge across Industrial, Motors, Group spanning activities, projects, performance, industry developments, opportunities and risks, to apply context and judgement for reporting and research activities
  • Serve as subject matter expert on select facets of reporting, applying technical knowledge such as finance and accounting principles in relation to metrics
  • Negotiate and liaise with stakeholders on identifying suitable information requirements for the target audience and purpose
  • Own appropriate information channels and relationships across business entities and Divisions to allow timely and accurate reporting, proactively foreseeing and managing issues
  • Identify and deliver continuous improvement initiatives across quality, efficiency and information suitability
  • Contribute to defining strategic vision and objectives for the Group

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