
Advanced Specialist, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis
Pearson VUE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Philippines
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About the role
- Provide robust financial reporting, planning, and analysis support to the Virtual Learning business.
- Deliver accurate and insightful P&L reporting and variance analysis.
- Provide high‑quality analysis to support business decisions.
- Produce and analyse revenue metrics, dashboards, and forecasts using data and visualisation tools.
- Support target setting, budgeting, and forecasting cycles by challenging assumptions and consolidating inputs.
- Act as a finance partner for revenue‑related projects, ensuring accuracy in project setups and accounting treatments.
- Apply a strategic lens to identify opportunities to improve cost efficiency and performance.
- Work closely with finance and non‑finance stakeholders to ensure financial information is clearly understood and effectively used.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis or a closely related finance role.
- Strong accounting knowledge, ideally with experience in project accounting and revenue‑related activities.
- Confident analysing complex data, building models, and presenting insights to both finance and non‑finance audiences.
- Clear and persuasive communication, adapting style to different stakeholders.
- Strong prioritisation skills and judgment, particularly in fast‑moving or ambiguous environments.
- Comfortable working independently while collaborating across a global, matrixed organisation.
- Experience with finance systems (Oracle preferred) and data or visualisation tools (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau).
- Advanced Excel user with a high standard of accuracy and quality to work.
- A professional accounting qualification is preferred, but equivalent experience will be considered.
Benefits
- Exposure to a broad FP&A remit within a dynamic business area.
- The opportunity to influence decision‑making through high‑impact financial insight.
- Collaboration with experienced finance and business leaders across regions.
- Development of skills across reporting, planning, forecasting, and strategic finance.
- Career growth within a global, purpose‑driven organisation.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial reportingplanninganalysisP&L reportingvariance analysisbudgetingforecastingdata analysismodel buildingproject accounting
Soft Skills
communicationprioritisationjudgmentcollaborationindependencepersuasivenessadaptabilitystakeholder engagementstrategic thinkingcost efficiency
Certifications
professional accounting qualification