Financial Analyst

About the role

This is a high-impact role within the Photonics Platform Business (PPB), a rapidly growing business within Applied Materials. You will contribute to building scalable financial infrastructure to support new transformative products in augmented reality smart glasses and optical interconnects for AI datacenters. You will own day-to-day financial operations for PPB's Singapore operations, managing Opex, Capex, spend, inventory, costing, and grant management while partnering with business stakeholders to drive spending discipline and forecast accuracy.

Key responsibilities

• Own day-to-day Opex, Capex and Spend management and reporting activities for PPB's Singapore operations
• Lead in-quarter spending and budget management with PPB SG's business partners
• Independently perform variance analysis, explain forecast-to-actual changes, and identify emerging risks and opportunities
• Partner with business stakeholders to drive spending discipline, forecast accuracy, and investment optimization
• Own cost modeling to support ad-hoc projects, quarterly and annual forecast cycles
• Maintain, review, and analyze the drivers underlying standard cost to ensure accuracy and relevance
• Update and maintain monthly standard costs
• Perform monthly and quarterly inventory counts to ensure inventory accuracy and adequacy of controls
• Drive process improvement initiatives across costing and inventory management
• Consolidate financials for PPB SG's P&L forecasting and reporting with inputs from Opex, Inventory and Capital finance partners
• Develop and automate processes, dashboards and reporting tools that improve financial visibility, simplify consolidation, and support executive reviews
• Track and support Grant submission and claims
• Partner effectively with Operations, Accounting and COE teams to deliver accurate, timely financial outcomes

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, business or operations finance, portfolio finance, investment analysis, or related areas
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Experience managing Standard costs, Inventory, Opex and Capex
• Experience working cross-functionally and supporting business decision-making
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with financial planning and reporting tools (Anaplan, SAP BPC, Tableau, or similar)
• Proven experience in business partnering, with a track record of communicating effectively across multiple functions and stakeholder groups
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Preferred: Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, R&D-intensive and/or start-up environments

About us

Photonics Platform Business (PPB) is a rapidly growing business within Applied Materials. We are harnessing the power of Applied Material's world-leading material science and nano-fabrication capabilities to enable the next generation of augmented reality smart glasses and optical interconnects for AI datacenters.