Financial Planning & Reporting

MANAGER – FINANCE

BUSINESS PLANNING AND REPORTING

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Member of a team performing the following management reporting responsibilities:

- MIS Reports - overall responsibility for preparation of the company and GFS management reports

- Business Planning, preparation of budgets / forecasts, analysis of Monthly MIS against the budgets and forecasts, variance monitoring, commentary for the variances

- Responsible for preparation of Pricing models for the hourly and FTE rates and other recoveries from clients. Interact with the operation leads, line departments and update the pricing models on a quarterly basis. Develop scenarios for alternate pricing models, pro-actively making recommendations for various scenarios.

- Review recoveries and internal charges from other divisions, analyse trends and ensure correct costs are being charged to GFS

- Identify key drivers for the costs and recoveries and interact with the operations leads to ensure that monthly recoveries and costs are in line with the budgets / forecasts.

- Set up and follow-up of early warning indicators / financial KPI’s for the operations. Report actual financial performance for the costs, recoveries-in and recoveries-out for the various operational streams

- Preparation of business cases for various transitions, track and report actuals against the business case.

- Work collaboratively with team of staff performing similar tasks across other service areas to ensure consistency in approach and quality of service delivery to service area clients.

- Constantly endeavour to identify & suggest methods of reducing operating expenses

- Value added suggestions to the management

- Present the management reports to the senior management and all the functional heads

KEY SKILL REQUIREMENTS

- Strong core Budgeting, Reporting, Analytical and Pricing skills

- Expert Excel skills

- Strong accounting system skills

- Strong communication skills

- Process improvement

- Relationship skills

- Attention to detail and deadlines

- Team leadership skills to manage and lead small team of qualified professionals

Leadership Skills

- Ability to help lead financial controllership for the legal entity and to propose improvements to processes/systems

Interpersonal Skills

- Able to communicate effectively and confidently

- Ability to influence peers and promote improvement initiatives in a team environment

Client Orientation

- Ability to recognize drivers for customer satisfaction and manage workload to meet these, including identified KPIs.

- Ability to communicate effectively with customers with respect to issues encountered

- Demonstrated ability to manage ongoing ad hoc requests, queries and complaints/issues appropriately.

Technical Specialist Skills

- Experience with ERP GL software an advantage

- Experience with reporting, pricing and budgeting.

- Experience performing accounting control tasks, including journal entry, reconciliations and reporting

Planning & Organising

- Able to time manage workload to meet monthly, quarterly and annual accounting cycle deadlines.

- Able to adapt to changes in processes and systems

QUALIFICATIONS & BACKGROUND/WORK EXPERIENCE

- 5-8 years accounting experience in finance function with focus on Budgeting, Analysis, Pricing and Reporting.

- Accounting degree or equivalent

- Chartered Accountant with 5+ years post qualification experience.

- Experience in a Shared services environment working on the pricing, cost and commercial models would be preferable

PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

- Able to focus on customer requirements and satisfaction, while also managing detail and deadlines

- Individual contributor

- Ability to work under pressure

- Self starter who is motivated by a fast paced environment and embraces challenges

STAFF SUPERVISED (NUMBER OF STAFF/LEVEL)

May need to manage small team of qualified professionals

Please mark subject line as 'MANAGER – FINANCE:BUSINESS PLANNING AND REPORTING'and mail to arvind@leadsearch.biz

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