Large International Corporation looking for a Regional Financial Planning and Analysis Manager for their Africa region

BUDGETTING, FORCASTING AND 3 YEAR PLANNING

• Develop budget / forecast planning in line with corporate requirements.
• Build detailed budgets for specific sub locations.
• Coordinate collection and production of information across SA Sub Regional Platform.
• Actively participate in construction of budget / forecast / 3YP presentations.
• Lead timely and accurate reporting and integration of Budget data into reporting platform (e.g Sun/Cognos/Business Intelligence Tools).

REPORTING AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS

• Support and work in close cooperation with general accounting functions of the company.
• Ensure all revenue and costs are recognized completely and accurately through client billing / supplier invoices or proper accruals, supervise analytical allocation of accounting entries.
• Ensure General and Administrative costs are properly reported in their month of occurrence with proper analytical allocation.
• Control accuracy and completeness of information reported.
• Analyze variances against budget/forecast and previous year. Analysis of existing product performance on a monthly basis. Applying knowledge of the business to deepen and further add value to this exercise through trend analysis and supporting management team understand the financial results pertaining to operational activity.
• Prepare monthly analyses for management, including product line profitability, analysis by contract, rolling forecast and G&A review.
• Provision of management commentaries within various reports required for distribution to stakeholders across the organization (e.g MMR, QBR, etc).
• Analysis of headcount information within region in liaison with HR department and Payroll Accounting team.
• Ownership, maintenance, update and enhancement of Business Intelligence Tools. Review and clean-up of data in the financial system to ensure accurate reporting in the database, working with relevant stakeholders at respective Sub Regional Levels.
• Preparation and development of Product monthly dashboards which combines a summary of operational and financial data to be distributed to senior management.
• Ownership of SA Sub-regional Office controlled transactions in products such as Medical Supply Chain, TSS, Cross Boarder and Air Ambulance, working in collaboration with other departments in organization, reporting accurately, interpret data and develop recommendations and improvements based on findings.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS

• Optimization of existing tools and systems to ensure reliability and productivity of reporting.
• Involvement and support in ad hoc FP&A projects, as they arise.

Required Work Experience (Brief description of the job-related experience needed to perform the job)

• Minimum 5 years of working experience with at least three year’s experience of regional financial planning & analysis responsibility or equivalent, preferably in a multi-national organization with revenue of at least US$50 million.
• Experience in a fast pace, multi-national organization, ideally within the professional services industry.
• Experienced in supporting operations in developing countries, diverse nationalities and cultures.
• Exposure to dealing with senior executive and operational management teams.

Required Qualifications (Brief description of the educational background needed to perform the job)

• Bachelor of Accounting / Management Accounting.
• CA or CPA qualification.

Ref: CPT000109/GG