BUSINESS PLANNING & ANALYSIS MANAGER at Stresert Services Limited

Job Purpose 

Acts as a Business Partner, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to CPO/BF/GLF/Region/Cluster/Global Management; to be responsible for running core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information, and pro-active cross-functional liaison with the Financial Reporting & Accounting (FRA), franchises and commercial teams.

Major Accountabilities

• Provides management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly operational reviews and ad-hoc requests on revenues, SPC, cost centers, customers, product and sales channels, Management Cash Flow, Profit and Loss (P&L) by area and shared service cost allocations.
• Performs analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; makes recommendations to mitigate these risks.
• Ensures pro-active Business Partnering with FRA, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and other Functions; supports implementation of smooth processes to support on time and accurate information gathering.
• Ensures on-going business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drives early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners.
• Drives the annual budgeting, rolling forecast and Strategic Planning processes.

• Ensures integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provides value added; provides recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement.

{C}·         Drives and improves business case proposals and profitability tracking.

{C}·         Leads the monthly BPA closing procedure and Business Unit (BU) management reporting packages.

• Drives communication with country finance peers and BPA team.
• Analyzes investments and sales to provide resource allocation recommendations.
• Drives BPA sub-project work streams to define and implement lean processes.
• Continually improves and streamlines management reporting processes and systems to meet the changing demands of the business.
• Develops and strengthens the BPA function.

Integrity and Compliance

{C}·         Works within Integrity and Compliance policies and ensures those around him/her do the same.

{C}·         Works to ensure a diverse and inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment.

Ideal Background

Education:          Financial Accounting, Business related courses, CFA, ACCA, ACA, Masters Degree

Functional Experience

·         Financial Reporting & Accounting (FRA)

·         Commercial Business Planning & Analysis (BPA)

·         Global line functions (Tech ops, Development)

·         Audit (internal/external) & Business Process Controls

·         Manage outsourced or off-shored services

·         Minimum of 6 – 8 years related  deliverables

Leadership Experience

·          People management

·         Project leadership

·         Global/Regional/Country experience

·         Different business models/change management

Functional Competence

·         Financial reporting, accounting and tax

·         Business partnering and decision support

·         Planning and performance management

·         Business controls and compliance

·         Continuous improvement

Leadership Competence

·         Self: Leadership impact, integrity & drive

·         Team: Team building, talent development across boundaries

·         Business: Strategic direction, change & innovation