Finance Analyst, Photonics Platforms Business

Key Responsibilities

Opex, Capex and Spend Management

• Own day-to-day Opex, Capex and Spend management and reporting activities for PPB’s Singapore (SG) operations.
• Lead in-quarter spending & budget management with PPB SG’s business partners.
• Independently perform variance analysis, explain forecast-to-actual changes, and identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Partner with business stakeholders to drive spending discipline, forecast accuracy, and investment optimization.
• Own cost modeling to support ad-hoc projects, quarterly and annual forecast cycles.

Inventory and Costing

• Maintain, review, and analyze the drivers underlying standard cost to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Update and maintain monthly standard costs.
• Perform variance analysis on standard cost variances, identifying root causes and communicating findings to stakeholders.
• Perform monthly and quarterly inventory counts to ensure inventory accuracy and adequacy of controls
• Drive process improvement initiatives across costing and inventory management

Grant Management

• Track and support Grant submission and claims
• Support quarterly Grant reviews and reporting

Financial Reporting

• Consolidate financials for PPB SG’s P&L forecasting and reporting with inputs from Opex, Inventory and Capital finance partners.
• Develop and automate processes, dashboards and reporting tools that improve financial visibility, simplify consolidation, and support executive reviews.

• Drive process and system improvements for forecasting and reporting to enhance visibility and quality of Opex, Inventory and Capital reporting.

Stakeholder Partnership & Collaboration

• Partner effectively with Operations, Accounting and COE teams to deliver accurate, timely financial outcomes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, business or operations finance, portfolio finance, investment analysis, or related areas.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Experience managing Standard costs, Inventory, Opex and Capex
• Experience working cross-functionally and supporting business decision-making.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with financial planning and reporting tools (Anaplan, SAP BPC, Tableau, or similar).
• Proven experience in business partnering, with a track record of communicating effectively across multiple functions and stakeholder groups
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

Preferred

• Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, R&D-intensive and/or start-up environments.

## Qualifications

### Education:

Master's Degree

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### Years of Experience:

4 - 7 Years

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## Additional Information

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### Shift:

Day (Singapore)

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### Travel:

No

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### Relocation Eligible:

No

### Referral Payment Plan:

None

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