Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Job Purpose
- To develop and implement systems for collecting, analyzing,
verifying, and accurately reporting financial information on a regular
basis.
- Analyze and develop financial budgets and forecasts for SSA,
support the development of financial plans as well as tracking of the
annual operating budget to ensure robust reporting on operating results.
- Analysis and tracking of the SSA performance on all key KPIs
to facilitate optimal decision-making.
- To create a robust MIS infrastructure to support decision
making process.
Key Responsibilities
Management / Financial
Accounting and Reporting
- Analysis of monthly actual P&L report highlighting
variances for all the elements of P&L for MOR reporting on various
business parameters
- Brand P&L consolidation and review for SSA
Financial/Commercial
Controlling:
- Close monitoring of Gross to net adjustments to mitigate
against margins attrition.
- Analyze monthly actual OPEX spend vs budget and working
with BU leadership to ensure saving plans are put in place.
- Perform value chain and margin analysis for price recommendation
and recommend appropriate pricing to teams and management.
- Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that
simplify complex topics, with time sensitive deliverables.
- Creating simplified dashboards for tracking performance and
supporting decision making
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Preparing complex financial models for
annual/quarterly/monthly forecasting and budgeting activity for SSA to
enable in-depth of analysis by customer, brands, therapy areas etc.
- Revenue forecasting and consolidation for the SSA region,
clearly highlighting and tracking the risks and opportunities.
- Partner with respective function/region leads to budget,
forecast and to understand and explain budget variances and financial
trends.
- Perform expert variance analysis to identify key performance
drivers and reason for variances vs forecast and business cases.
Education Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or related fields
- CPA or ACCA
- MBA in Finance preferred
Relevant Work Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position within a
multinational
- FMCG/Manufacturing company
- Deep understanding of IFRS and local accounting and reporting
process
- Strong Analytical/Communication and Presentation Skills
- Financial modelling, Scenario planning and Sensitivity
analysis
- Advanced MS Excel and Power point skills
- Ability to handle pressure situations and meet short
deadlines.
- Hands on SAP working experience
- Excellent command of English both spoken and written
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