Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan

- Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts

- Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors

- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team

- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance

- Utilising BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance

- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results

- Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results

- Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives

- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions

- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts

- Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets

- Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations

- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability

- Managing a team of Financial and Business Analysts

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

The more common skills and attributes that are needed for this role may include:

- Significant analytical skillset, including the utilisation of BI and reporting tools

- Strong quantative abilities

- Able to solve complex problems

- Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships

- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills

- High level of commercial acumen

- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages

- Professional qualification such as CA or CPA or CFA

- Should be able to make effective presentations.