96 Financial Analysts jobs in Pakistan

Position Summary

The Financial Planning Manager will be responsible for leading budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and strategic planning processes. This role will ensure effective financial decision-making through insightful analysis and scenario planning. The ideal candidate will bring prior experience in financial modeling, performance tracking, and cross-functional business partnering.

• Financial Planning & Budgeting: Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process. Coordinate with department heads to gather and validate assumptions. Consolidate and present budgets to senior management.
• Financial Analysis: Prepare variance analysis (actual vs. budget) with actionable insights. Analyze revenue, expenses, profitability, and cost-saving opportunities. Support business units in evaluating financial feasibility of key projects.
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to long-term financial planning aligned with business goals. Develop scenario models to assess business impact under varying conditions. Evaluate capital investment and ROI opportunities.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Prepare monthly financial reports, dashboards, and KPI summaries. Ensure timely and accurate reporting to management and stakeholders. Automate and streamline reporting processes where possible.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with operations, sales, marketing, and other departments to support decision making. Act as finance liaison in cross-functional initiatives and projects.

3–5 years of experience in FP&A or corporate finance roles

• Qualified CA/ACCA
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills (Excel proficiency is a must)
• Experience with ERP and financial planning tools (e.g., SAP, Power BI, or similar)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and deadline-driven
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Industry experience in Agri, Manufacturing, FMCG or Chemicals

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Finance and Sales
• Industries: Accounting

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Founded in 2015, Daraz is South Asia’s leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. It empowers more than 100,000 active sellers with world-class marketplace technology to reach the fast-growing consumer class in a region of 500 million people. Through Daraz Express and Daraz Pay, it operates the most efficient and digitalised logistics and payments infrastructure in its markets. Daraz’ vision is to be a champion of South Asia serving 100 million customers and businesses by 2030.

Serve as a strategic finance partner, owning financial planning models, analyzing operational and commercial performance, and collaborating cross-functionally to drive budgeting, forecasting, and reporting excellence that supports data-driven decision-making and continuous business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the Financial Planning Models, collecting all inputs from relevant stakeholders and ensuring outputs represent a coherent future view of business delivery.
• Ownership, governance, review and execution of monthly commercial targets.
• Perform qualitatative analysis of operational and financial data and ensure and maintain quality assurance in models.
• Actualize financial models on monthly basis.
• Build and manage financial databases by organizing and analyzing a wide range of data sources while interpreting and summarizing results.
• Manage performance against the budget for each business and Daraz as a whole and report on deviations while working with relevant stakeholders for resolution of same.
• Work cross-functionally with commercial, marketing, data science and logistics teams, to identify new business drivers, opportunities & efficiency gains, and then help materialize them.
• Prepares financial reports for internal/ external use at the business unit/ entity/ department and Daraz level by collecting, analyzing, formatting, and presenting information.
• Assist Financial planning and performance manager in preparing budgets and forecasts.
• Assist the operations and finance teams in monthly reporting.
• Support functional stakeholders by developing new reports / analysis required by thebusiness.
• Support continuous improvement of planning processes through gathering feedback from teamsand understanding their needs.
• Provide data to all stakeholders in order to help calculate metrics, report financials, and supportanalysis and decision making.


Required Skills / Abilities:
• 5+ years of relevant experience working in an analytical / business partnership role with Commercial & Business teams.
• A degree in accountancy or an MBA from top business school + technical skills in Six Sigma/PMI will be an advantage.
• Detailed oriented mindset with a strong grip on numbers.
• Excellent financial modeling skills.
• Go-getter, problem-solving attitude with a proactive approach to getting things done.
• Superior organizational skills to manage multiple priorities, and the flexibility to adapt to changing scope and evolving business requirements.
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across management levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Power-point is essential.
• Prior experience working with projects involving system integrations is strongly preferred.

What We Offer:

• International working environment in a start-up setting, and a unique opportunity to learn from the best in e-commerce (Alibaba Group) and business growth.
• A platform to learn from Alibaba’s world-leading ecosystem.
• Rigorous training and exposure in team management, leadership, business analytics, and operations.
• An opportunity to train the next generation of business leaders in the ‘tech’ industry.
• Competitive salary and incentive package.

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The FP&A Analyst will play a key role in supporting financial planning, forecasting, and analysis activities across the organization. This role will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver insights that drive strategic decision-making and operational efficiency.

• Assist in the development of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plans
• Analyze financial results and variances against budget/forecast; provide actionable insights
• Support monthly reporting packages for senior leadership, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow analysis
• Maintain and enhance financial models to support scenario planning and business cases
• Collaborate with accounting during month-end close to ensure accuracy of financial data
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation within FP&A workflows

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Economics
• 2+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis or accounting

• Must be proficient in Excel with ability to create summary reports that are easy for the organization to digest
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to take vast amounts of data and input into a model that allows for efficient analysis
• Excellent verbal and written skills and ability to communicate effectively with management both in the finance and business operations groups
• Ability to perform and remain organized in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment by multi-tasking
• Ability to take initiative and work independently with frequently changing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills with desire to grow in finance profession
• Experience with SAP & Hyperion Essbase

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At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

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WPP Media PK is currently looking for a Manager Financial Planning & Analysis to join us. In this role, you will liaise with GroupM /Agency teams to oversee the day-to-day activities of the reporting function and ensure the company’s finance is organized and efficient and produces accurate financial and management accounts.

This role reports to the Associate Director - Financial Reporting

• Opportunity to work for World Best Agencies under one roof.
• Multi facets roles, advisor, trusted partner, leader, listener, executor, etc
• Fast pace, demanding, fun loving and satisfying work environment.

In this role, your goals will be:

• You will be in pace with the GroupM’s value proposition and familiar with the company culture.
• To assist in budgeting, quarterly forecasting and monthly rolling forecast for agencies and GroupM.
• Assuming the budgeting role of the agencies assigned, on track to becoming the trusted business partner to agencies.

• You will be able to make analysis on the agency’s financial performance and involve in the daily operation of the business and operational finance.
• Being a valued team member in supporting to drive growth of the company.

• You will be able to advise the management team on the strategy and deployment of resources in order to facilitate the management of the business.
• Ability to plan, strategize and execute mid to long term plan to improve the overall financials margins for agencies and group.

• Preparing budgets and quarterly forecasts and timely submission to regional office.
• Provide and interpret financial information of the company to the Group management.
• Perform monthly closing and financial reporting, liaison with regional finance team on reporting matters.
• Producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines to regional office and local management.
• Monitoring actual performance with budgets and forecasts, providing summary of variances and reasoning.
• Must be aware of making chart of accounts, balance sheet and profit and loss account.
• Other projects as and when assigned.

• MBA (Finance)/ACCA qualified.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience in similar position, people, team management skill is essential.
• Self-driven, forward looking, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus.
• Ability to lead, plan and manage change.
• Ability to earn respect and trust from senior management and external stakeholders.
• Diligent and willing to be hands, ‘roll up your sleeves’
• Flexibility and comfortable working in a fast pace matrix reporting environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Positive thinking, motivated and collaborative team player.
• In depth knowledge of processes, tools and techniques.

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, employee wellbeing facilities, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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WPP Media PK is the leading global media investment management operation in Pakistan. We see major growth coming on Digital platforms with internet penetration growing to 87 million broadband users and 85 million 3G/4G subscribers. Social media platforms have also grown substantially in Pakistan where Facebook stands at 34 million subscribers and Tik Tok has replaced Instagram to become the second most penetrated social platform. While the digitalization of the market is happening at a fast pace, it has also opened up opportunities for specializations like e-commerce, Digital Content, Video Planning solutions, Technology and Data & Analytics in Pakistan.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Finance and Sales

• Technology, Information and Internet, Advertising Services, and Marketing Services

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Grade Level: L2/L3

Location: Islamabad

What is Expert Financial Planning & Analysis?

This position is responsible for managing financial planning within the FP&A Central team.

The role reports directly to the Stream Head FP&A - Central.

What does Expert Financial Planning & Analysis do?

• Maintain and update consolidated and SBU-wise financial planning models, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business assumptions.
• Collaborate with FP&A business partners and other finance teams to analyze variances in P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow against budgets and forecasts.
• Work with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and other functions to review assumptions and incorporate inputs into financial statements and planning models.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to gather inputs and ensure timely submission of planning deliverables.
• Prepare, analyze, and present impact analyses and overlays.
• Support group-level planning by coordinating and consolidating non-financial KPIs.
• Prepare segment-wise profitability and cash flow analyses for SBUs.
• Assist in preparing planning presentations and reports by liaising with relevant stakeholders.