Financial Planning & Analysis/Cost Performance Role - CA/ICWA

Business Partnering and Performance Insights:

- Establish and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant Business/Function Leadership team. Ensure underlying performance is well understood. Proactively challenge and propose performance improvements. Monitor and investigate anomalies and trends.

- Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope: Ensure robust and timely forecasts. Deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.

- Monitor and support cost reduction initiatives: Ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability. Analyze and interpret actuals. Support reporting and cost allocation processes.

Strategy & Planning:

- Support the annual planning process: Ensure plans are appropriately challenged and assured.

- Produce detailed cost forecasts covering pre and post allocation view: Draw insights and highlight areas where performance targets are not being met.

- Submit plan/forecast data into relevant cost management systems: Ensure data quality in the submissions.

- Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions: Understand the implications balancing risk and reward.

- Participate in projects and provide financial insight.

Performance Reporting:

- Responsible for the cost performance reporting activities of the respective business.

- Provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information.

- Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly/quarterly basis: Update in-year outlook.

- Provide input for the MI recharge process for the entities: Ensure costs are recharged fairly and accurately.

- Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI: Ensure integrity and accuracy to meet business requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

- Continuously improve cost related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL (EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS)

These are the essential requirements of the job description and should focus on quantifiable criteria

- Consider whether a degree and/or professional qualification is required to succeed in the role. If not a direct requirement for the role, academic achievements and professional qualifications should not be listed

Must have educational qualifications:

- Finance or Engineering Discipline Degree level or equivalent

Preferred education/certifications:

- Master's Degree or other qualification in a finance discipline e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants

Minimum years of relevant experience:

- 8 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting

Preferred experience:

- Experience within global, complex and matrix organizations in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, preferably in oil & gas or retail or logistics or manufacturing or asset-based businesses.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

- Knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.

- Continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.

- Experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI.

- Continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.

- Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior stakeholders.