Responsible for leading and managing the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function, including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, business performance management and MIS reporting. Provide insightful financial analysis to support management decision-making and drive business performance. Develop and ensure business strategies and financial plans are aligned with the Company’s overall objectives.
Strategic:
- Understand broader macroeconomic trends impacting the BU and provide relevant insights to business leadership.
- Drive the business performance review and analysis agenda by provide retrospective and prospective insights to business leadership.
- Support M&A, portfolio analysis and corporate strategy development activities in the Group (provide relevant BU inputs).
- Contribute to the development of financial strategies for the BU that align with the Group's overall vision and its current and long-term business objectives.
- Work in close coordination with commercial & operations to share insights and enhance FP&A with real value-add outputs.
Operational:
- Collaborate with BU teams regarding project feasibility studies and development planning.
- Orchestrate LT planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in the BU, within the respective frameworks set out by Group FP&A.
- Prepare advanced analyses and reports for BU leadership.
- Set recurring management reporting frameworks for BU (, financial, and operational metrics, KPIs), within the broader framework set out by the Group FP&A.
- Collaborate with Group FP&A / Advanced Analytics CoE on the progress of advanced analytics in BU ( design and roll out of analytics use cases).
- Collaborate with IT and other relevant stakeholders regarding the roll out of technology tools that impact the FP&A remit.
- Manage large, complex projects evaluate findings, prepare reports, and make recommendations to senior management about the financial implications of the proposed investments and transactions.
- Establish and maintain positive, ongoing relationships with the external finance community.
People Management:
- Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of financial professionals to ensure financial planning and analysis projects are conducted credibly and that recommendations and reports are accurate and timely.
