Regional Business Planning & Performance Advisor

Role & responsibilities

Job Summary

The Regional Business Planning Advisor supports the regional logistics leadership team by driving governance, financial stewardship, and performance insights to enable effective business decisions. This role is responsible for coordinating corporate planning processes, managing monthly cost accounting and financial close activities, and delivering accurate stewardship reporting. By leveraging strong analytical skills and cross-functional collaboration, the advisor identifies trends, risks, and opportunities that enhance operational efficiency and business performance. Success in this role requires sound judgment, clear communication, and a strong commitment to accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.

What you will do:

• Support regional planning through annual corporate plan activity.
• Lead monthly financial & operational stewardship including value capture analysis, variance analysis, KPI performance tracking.
• Coordinate and derive insights from regional business stewardship by preparing key discussion materials, facilitating conversations with stakeholders, and delivering on actionable follow-ups
• Drive insight generation by engaging advisors and identifying opportunities for deeper KPI analysis as well as driving structural cost savings initiatives
• Respond to other ad-hoc business and analysis requests
• Champion process improvements and digital transformation, identifying best practices and scaling initiatives across the organization.
• Proactively look for ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency (eliminate, simplify, automate, standardize).  
• Support development of various tools aimed at bringing better data visibility. Improvement of existing tools by engaging with different stakeholders.
• Ability to manage upwards and build relationships with leadership.
  
  Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in either Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), or finance, Business Administration or a related field from a recognized university scoring GPA 6.0 and above
• Minimum 8 years prior work experience in planning, Performance Analysis & Reporting, variance analysis.
• Familiarity or having worked in domains/companies eg supply chain, logistics , upstream or marine facilities, oil & gas and operations highly preferred
•  Strong knowledge of Microsoft office applications such as Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with system like SAP, Tableau, Power BI.
• Experience with tools/systems like Snowflake, Adaptive is preferred
• Skills like Analytical thinking, Adaptability, Communicating Effectively, Collaboration, Creating Business Value, Strategic mindset
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, proficiency in English and interpersonal skills.