FP&A Performance lead - Strategic

Job Purpose 
The purpose of this role is to lead, own and govern EPM activities, ensuring accurate, timely and execution of end-to-end performance management cycles. In addition, the role acts as the primary FP&A interface with DBB teams, translating business requirements into system enhancements, leading prioritization and UAT, and driving continuous improvements of DBB FP&A platforms; SAP, EPM and SAC to strengthen insight quality and decision support.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and govern month-end close activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to timelines across FP&A and EPM, while resolving issues proactively.
• Perform monthly financial performance reviews, providing insightful variance analysis versus budget and forecast and highlighting key risks and opportunities.
• Develop and assess business cases, validations, and ad-hoc financial assessments to support decision-making.
• Govern end to end monthly EPM cycles, including system runs, data uploads, validation logic, and full ownership of rejects and exception resolution.
• Own reconciliations between source systems, EPM, and reporting tools, ensuring issues are root-caused, permanently resolved, and prevented through improved controls and process design.
• Validate and govern GL data, cost allocations, key business drivers, consolidation outputs, and unallocated data, ensuring integrity, transparency and reliability of financial results.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across DBB platforms (SAP, EPM, SAC), owning automation, simplification, and efficiency opportunities.
• Act as the primary functional and interface lead between FP&A and DBB teams for system-related enhancements, owning business requirements, prioritization, UAT, validation, and deployment.
• Act as a subject-matter expert (SME) for EPM and performance management processes, defining governance standards, driving best practices, and standardization.

Education & Experiences 
Educational Background    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
Years of Experience    3-5 years of experience
Qualifications & Other Requirements      Excellent command of English Language 
Skills in Microsoft  
Experience with SAP systems and reporting/analytics tools (e.g., Powerbi/ SAC) is highly preferred

Functional Competencies
•    Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
•    Process improvement and automation mindset
•    Performance management and variance analysis
•    Financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting
•    Business case development and financial modeling
Personal Skills 
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    High attention to detail 
•    Proactive and ownership-driven mindset
•    Strong communication and influencing skills
•    Continuous improvement and learning orientation