Financial Planning & Analyst Manager at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc

The Job

• Build and maintain strong relationships with divisional/BU heads and other business leaders, and act as their finance business partner for appropriate decision making
• Manage the weekly Business Margin Review for Food and Agro-Allied Division
• Drive margin improvement through accurate financial information and analysis
• Review and analyse actuals vs. forecast at Division and BU level
• Understand full set of financials (P&L, B/S, Cash Flow) at Division and BU level
• Support financial analysis on New Product Development
• Understand and analyse SKU/Customer/Regional profitability
• Understand and analyse our various distribution model
• Analyse Advertising and Promotion return on investment
• Develop robust Sales and cost of sales forecasting system
• Develop new financial tracking tools for Sales department
• Develop margin sensitivity analysis across the Business
• Work closely with Head of FP&A/Management Reporting & Costing on any ad-hoc analysis required for management and shareholders

The Person

• Senior commercial Financial Analyst with supervisory experience or a FP&A Manager seeking a stable opportunity with very large responsibilities and direct exposure to executive management and shareholders of the company.
• Demonstrate full understanding of financials, planning and analysis
• Experience of ERP and BI systems and advanced Excel skills
• Strong team player who enjoys being challenged and drive process improvements within an organization.

Qualifications

• Five (5) O’ level credits including Mathematics and English
• First Degree in related field
• Relevant professional qualifications and membership of ICAN, ACCA, or other similar professional bodies
• Masters Degree will be an added advantage

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years experience of commercial financial analysis, management reporting and budgeting
• Experience in managing a small team and working with various business partners
• Worked in multinational FMCG company with exposure to senior management