Financial Planning & Analysis Senior Specialist

In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive financial planning and analysis activities for ABB Electrification, providing reliable insights into financial performance, budgets, forecasts, and strategic initiatives. Each day, you will collaborate with business leaders and stakeholders across the organization to analyze results, identify risks and opportunities, and support data-driven decision-making. You will play a key role in leading planning cycles, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance reviews, while translating complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations for senior leadership. You will also support strategic investments, transformation initiatives, and cost optimization projects, while contributing to continuous improvement of FP&A processes using tools such as Power BI, Power Query, SAP analytics, and AI solutions. The work model for the role is hybrid. This role is contributing to the Electrification Business Area Finance team, supporting ELBA division FP&A activities. The role reports to the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager based in Switzerland. Main stakeholders are ELBA leadership, business leaders, functional managers, and finance teams across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading monthly and quarterly financial performance reviews, analyzing variances versus budget, forecast, and prior year, and translating financial and operational KPIs into actionable insights and recommendations
• Coordinating annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-term planning processes across the ELBA division
• Preparing clear financial reports, management presentations, and performance narratives to support senior leadership decision-making
• Partnering with business leaders and functional managers to understand business drivers, challenge assumptions, and provide fact-based financial insights
• Identifying risks and opportunities impacting profitability and cash flow, and supporting actions to improve business performance
• Driving automation and simplification of FP&A processes using tools such as Power BI, Power Query, SAP analytics, and AI solutions
• Implementing process improvements, standardization initiatives, and best practices across planning, reporting, and controlling activities
• Supporting strategic initiatives, transformation programs, cost optimization projects, and other ad-hoc assignments

Our team dynamics: You will join a dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing FP&A team, where you will be able to thrive.