Strategic Finance Associate

Strategic Finance Associate About the Role We are looking for a Associate to join the Strategic Finance team and help strengthen how the business plans, tracks performance, allocates resources, and makes decisions across markets. This role will partner with country and functional teams to drive planning, performance management, and strategic initiatives that connect directly back to the P&L. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, commercially minded, and comfortable solving complex problems in a fast-moving, multi-market environment. They should be unafraid to roll up their sleeves, work through imperfect data, challenge assumptions, and translate insights into practical actions that improve business performance and support the company’s most critical priorities. Key Responsibilities: • Annual & Quarterly Planning: Partner with country and functional teams to drive the annual and quarterly planning process end-to-end, ensuring financial targets and strategic priorities are aligned and pressure-tested. • Analytics & Insights: Deliver financial insights that drive action and decision-making. Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to improve data accessibility, automate where possible, and conduct deep-dive investigations when the numbers do not reconcile or require further investigation. • Strategic Initiatives: Lead or support cross-functional projects that improve financial performance and operational efficiency. Ensure initiatives connect back to the P&L so the business is making trade-offs with full visibility of impact. • Presentations to Leadership: Own the narrative and present financial performance, strategic recommendations, and risk/opportunity assessments to senior leadership on a regular cadence. • Business Trends & Variance Analysis: Analyse performance trends and drivers of variance across markets, synthesizing complex data into a clear "so what" for senior leadership. • Operating Process Improvement: Work with stakeholders to design and…