Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

About Daraz

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.

For more information, please visit www.daraz.com.

Job Summary:

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 the business.
• Support continuous improvement of planning processes through gathering feedback from teams and understanding their needs.
• Provide data to all stakeholders in order to help calculate metrics, report financials, and support analysis 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.