Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Wakanow

Job Description

• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager works closely with senior management to increase a company’s efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial plan.
• 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
• Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
• Utilizing BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and result
• 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

Requirements

• First Degree in Accounting, Finance or related fields
• Professional Qualifications such FMVA, ACCA, and ACA are all relevant qualifications
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in finance and treasury.

Technical Requirements:

• Risk-Taking
• Tracking Budget Expenses
• Financial Planning and Strategy
• Statistical Analysis
• Reporting Research Results
• Database Design, Strategic Planning
• Forecasting
• Analyzing Information
• Conceptual skills
• Financial skills
• Presentation skills Visualization