Strategy & Planning, Senior Analyst - Strategic Finance and Special Projects - GrabFood Philippines

Get to know the role:

You will support the Head of GrabFood PH in formulating strategy and key initiatives for GrabFood to grow in the Philippines. You will co-own management of the country’s P&L and budgets, lining up all strategic initiatives and ensuring that the team’s activities are geared towards sustainable growth.

The role will be ever-changing and requires competence with dealing with numbers, but also an ability to pivot to generalist skills like project management and execution. When called upon, you may be asked to directly lead certain projects that go beyond day-to-day operations of the team.

You will also co-own reporting and tracking responsibilities, for both local and regional stakeholders.

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The day-to-day activities:

• Act as a sounding board for and support the thought leadership together with the Head of GrabFood PH and the team’s other managers, with a particular focus on sustainable growth and management of the country’s P&L.
• Design performance measurement dashboards and trackers for GrabFood.
• Support the running of Grab’s corporate planning cadence and calendar for the Philippines.
• As needed, develop frameworks to analyze business problems, develop hypotheses, mine data, deliver recommendations, and assess impact of proposed solutions.
• Partner closely with all business stakeholders within GrabFood, Grab transport and other cross-functional teams to ensure coordination across teams.
• Serve as Project Manager for initiatives that may be assigned to you.

The must haves:

• ​​​Business/Finance-related Bachelor's Degree in with a strong academic record

• Fluent in English and Filipino

• Proficient in quantitative analyses and financial modelling

• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets is required. Experience with R/Python/SQL is a plus

• Highly comfortable in an semi-structured environment and organisation that changes frequently

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving/ decision-making skills

• A self-starter and independent learner who takes the initiative to challenge the status quo

• 2 to 3 years of strategy/ management consulting experience or corporate strategy/ planning experience or banking/ finance experience (for manager role)

• Entrepreneurship experience would be a bonus