The Senior Director/Vice President Financial Planning and Analysis role is responsible for providing advice and insight to the business. They will work closely with the key business areas and the other finance teams to support the global growth and goals of the company. You will work collaboratively to provide direction to help with the strategic decisions and direction of the company by providing objective and commercially relevant insight and information. You will also be responsible for analysing the financial and operational metrics of the business along with establishing and maintaining reports on the business in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer and business leadership. This role is initially responsible for the establishment of the Project Support function and will continue with supporting the PM function, process improvement initiatives, system enhancements.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
- Significant analytical skillset, including the utilisation of BI and reporting tools.
- Strong quantitative abilities.
- Able to solve complex problems.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships.
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills.
- High level of commercial acumen.
- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages.
- Professional qualification such as CA or CPA or CFA preferred but not required.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance.
- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results.
- 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 and recruit/expand the team as needed.
- Coordinate with accounting staffs, interact with and senior management to prepare data for quarterly earnings.
- Supervise budget development process and prepare detailed business plans.
- Develop business planning process, prepare reports, and analyse all chief metrics for all financial plans.
- Develop financial plans perform comparative analyses and prepare annual budget.
- Prepare reports on income and expense of company, coordinate with various departments, and compile all financial data and prepare final financial reports.
- Evaluate all financial results and associated reporting, conduct financial and commercial studies to develop analyses.
