Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Salary: Market Related

Requirements:
• Preference given to fully qualified ACMA (CIMA).
• B.Comm degree
• Min 5 years business experience
• SAP (FI & CO modules)
• Datawarehouse related tools
• Advanced MS Excell & PowerPoint
• Hyperion Smart view (not essential, but advantage)
• Hyperion Essbase (not essential, but advantage)

Duties & Responsibilities
• Co-ordinate and manage the annual financial planning process across all functions to ensure the development of comprehensive and robust annual operating plan.
• Track performance against plans and interpret data to direct and inform management decision making.
• The preparation and development of strategic plans and bottoms up annual operating plans for the business. Prepare quarterly forecasts. These include full financials, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow & Income Statement.
• Responsible for all relevant financial reporting to the Asia Pacific Division (APD) regional office.
• Produce, review and analyze management reports of actual month’s results versus plan and prior year for Revenue, Gross Margin, EBIT, Headcount, Capex, Working Capital and other KPI’s for the AMP Cluster.
• Design and implement relevant financial analysis reports as required by the business on an ad hoc and ongoing basis.

Analysis & Financial Control
• Analyze and interpret financial data to give insight to financial impact on business and ensure control and management of organization. This also includes financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• To provide financial oversight and control over business and functional operating expenses
• Share analysis cross-functionally and build consensus on market direction and impact on business.
• Analyze historical sell thru and sell in data per distribution channel and future growth trends in order to prepare the future seasonal buy budgets for the Brand Merchants.
• Use future seasonal buy budgets, economic outlook, demand planning sales forecasts and the production plan to compile the company inventory schedule used for forecasting DSI’s & stock forward covers Reviewing and signing off on the seasonal costing tools to ensure that products achieve the minimum hurdle rate in terms of margin.