Senior Financial & Planning Analyst

Siti Mursyida binti Hasan Azhari

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$20000 / month
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About Candidate

I’m an ACCA‑qualified finance professional with substantial FP&A experience supporting senior and executive management in a complex, multi‑function business environment. Former Senior Downstream Planning & Performance Analyst at PETRONAS, leading multi‑billion Ringgit performance reviews, enterprise‑level financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and investment analysis. Strong business partner with proven ability to collaborate across functions, resolve complex issues, and provide strategic direction. Advanced proficiency in Excel, financial modelling, PowerBI, SAP (BCS, BPC, MM, S/4 HANA, FICO-aligned), Tableau, QlikView, UBS, and Microsoft Project. Demonstrated interest in leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies to enhance financial reporting, forecasting accuracy, and decision‑making. Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and multilingual, with strong organisational skills, stakeholder management up to senior executive level, and experience producing audit‑ready financial reports, dashboards, and business cases.

Education

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ACCA
INTEC EDUCATION COLLEGE

Experiences

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Senior Finance Planning Analyst 2021-12-16 - 2025-10-31
PETRONAS

• Developed and executed CAPEX Projects Year End Projection optimisation initiative that saved RM1.5 Bil across PETRONAS Downstream for Q3 2025, which amounting to 22% of cost-optimisation, strengthened investment governance and improved financial control. • Successfully built financial models, provided strategic monthly advisory support and deep-dive performance analysis to management team on RM6.7 Bil of projects planning and CAPEX monitoring for Downstream throughout 2025 and achieved best practise of CAPEX and Project Reporting template across PETRONAS. • Led annual structured planning and budgeting frameworks, scenario models, and multi‑year forecasts (1+4 years) planning cycle for PETRONAS Downstream for CAPEX, OPEX, and Cashflow, ensuring accurate, optimised budgeting, and aligned with PETRONAS’s mission and vision for each year. • Served as the primary liaison and sole custodian for strategic initiatives especially for Downstream CAPEX projects, ensuring effective rollout, accounting standard adoption, and alignment across Finance, Strategy, Operations, and Technical teams. • Led Sustainability initiative of CDP Projects for Downstream Business for PETRONAS Global benchmarking in 2025 sustainability reporting and Net Zero Carbon Emission pathway, coordinated with Europe Finance teams and reported to World Economic Forum (WEF), enhancing transparency and alignment with global ESG frameworks relevant to energy trading. • Pioneered a structured planning calendar for Downstream CAPEX Projects and Non Traditional Business, applying Lean Six Sigma methodologies to streamline reporting processes, enforce fixed timelines, and ensure all milestones and reviews were completed with high accuracy. • Performed monthly financial closing activities, reviewed project accruals, coordinated financial data collection across multiple APAC and Middle East project clusters, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency of submissions, ensuring compliance with internal controls, policies, and reporting requirements for monthly project forecasts, milestones, variance analysis and performance analysis for CAPEX in accordance with IAS 16 to report Downstream projects monitoring of RM5.2 Bil 2023, RM5.4 Bil 2024, RM6.7 Bil 2025 as well as for Non-Traditional Business as per IFRS 15, covering all projects and growth under Downstream Business and its subsidiaries which are Petrochemical, Refineries, Trading, and Marketing sectors. • Generated monthly executive Summary Reports, built performance dashboard and acted as strategic advisor to senior leaders via PowerBI for Downstream Business Unit for informed decision-making process through data‑driven insights, market analysis, and performance evaluation. • Ensured strong adherence to internal financial controls by identifying risks early, resolving complex non routine project accounting issues, performing deep dive variance analysis, and investigating data mismatches and anomalies, led root cause investigations and implemented corrective actions to ensure accurate financial representation for key PETRONAS Downstream projects. • Pioneered in UAT (User Acceptance System) for the adoption of PIC (PETRONAS Integrated Complex) into SAP BCS (Business Consolidation System) for monthly financial projections and monthly Actual financial data to streamline the reporting process for Downstream ensuring smooth data delivery. • Partnered monthly with cross‑functional teams between finance, operations, treasury, project owner, and senior management, for any ad hoc tasks to strengthen collaboration attitude, embed planning discipline, improve forecasting accuracy, as well as to drive alignment between operational team and strategic team. • Led SAP BPC Refresher Course in 2023 and provided coordination, oversight and methodology for P & PM (Planning & Performance Management) tasks for Budgeting year cycle 2024-2029, ensuring timely and high quality deliverables from junior analysts. • Delivered RM4.5B OPEX savings (3.7% of total OPEX) in 2022 through granular cost breakdowns and disciplined monitoring of controllable expenses. • Conducted consolidated monthly financial analysis for Revenue up to RM122 Bil and OPEX for RM121 Bil for PETRONAS Leadership Team for Downstream Business. • Drove continuous improvement in reporting processes through automation and led automation of CAPEX analysis in PowerBI which saved manhours and high analysis retention for the reference of top management.

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Regional Merchandise Planning Executive 2020-11-02 - 2021-03-31
Al-Futtaim Group (Marks & Spencer)

• Performed weekly and monthly financial analysis, performance analysis, trend analysis and forecast on merchandise categories (Home Decorations, Fashion, Food) for Malaysia and Singapore retail stores and pop-up stores on an accurate and timely manner. • Liaised closely with Buying team in planning and coordinating the quarterly Budget using the current quarter data for high accuracy of budget. • Performed ad hoc tasks to support Merchandising and Buying team to ensure smooth buying process delivery.

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Inventory Planner 2015-01-01 - 2016-12-31
Telekom Malaysia (TM) Berhad

• Coordinator of 78 staffs of CPE HSBB & Yard nationwide. Provided the guidelines of managing and monitoring the stockholding of CPE HSBB & Copper Cable as well as provided the needs of the 78 CPE HSBB & Yard Coordinators. • Coordinator of BAU (Streamyx) Warranty Management Programme Initiative in Negeri Sembilan. BAU Warranty Management Programme is a cost-saving initiative proposed by SUMO to empower the product warranty. Managed a team of 4 from SUMO team to give out briefing to Contractors and TM Maintenance team in Negeri Sembilan in April to June 2015. • Assigned to cater inventory cleansing in Central Region for UniFi devices in the system known as SIMS to monitor the movement of all UniFi devices in Malaysia. Achievement: Finished “inventory cleansing” in 3 weeks. (Mid June – Early July 2015). • Performed monthly and weekly inventory movement and analysis for UniFi devices, BAU Streamyx devices, and copper cable across Malaysia for accurate inventory monitoring and costing.

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Finance Intern 2014-02-10 - 2014-05-20
Mohd Noh & Co

Performed audit for SME companies.

Skills

CAPEX & Project Management
80%
Financial Performance Analysis
80%
PowerBI Dashboard
80%
SAP BCS
80%
SAP BPC
70%

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