KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.
- Develop and implement processes for business planning, enterprise budgeting, enterprise performance monitoring and analysis, financial modelling and post investment review.
- Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic performance reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.
- Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats.
- Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights and options to enable the business to make sound decisions.
- Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements, with a focus on the key drivers of value in the enterprise.
- Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics and corporate targets.
- Review of IFRS9 model outputs, impairment drivers, and translating these for insights to business teams in a non-technical manner to inform business decisions.
- Review of investment spend and operating costs for opportunities to extract cost efficient initiatives and inform return on investments.
- Ensure timely and quality board and senior management performance packs.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
For the above position, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:
- Possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution; a master’s degree will be an added advantage.
- Be a Certified Public Accountant CPA.
- Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in the finance field, with demonstrated management experience in the following areas:
- Financial analysis and performance management
- Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
- Business partnering
- Strategic financial planning and budgeting
- Stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
- Leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise
