AM, Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Summary

• Provide requisite support to CEO/Director/Head Finance in analysing and monitoring key business metrics and in partnering  assigned businesses through periodical interaction with Corp/BU teams and business reviews. 
• Support BU in annual business planning exercise. 
• Monitor working capital and risk management. 
• Support special Corporate/BU initiatives and CapEx/M&A projects.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support CEO/Director/Head Finance in performance management of assigned businesses through analysis and monitoring of key business performance metrics.  Participate in business reviews.
• Actively participate in development of 3-Year Strategy Statement and Annual Operating Plans of assigned BUs as per Corporate guidelines.
• Engage with BUs to optimise utilisation of BI tools /Dashboards for improving performance monitoring and business analytics.
• Help ensure financial discipline and working capital management. Help enforce strict credit control.
• Support special Corporate/BU initiatives (BI, Costing Forum, Centralising Credit Control, etc).
• Monitor capital expenditure. Support new CapEx/Greenfield projects, M&A and restructuring initiatives.
• Critically examine and help strengthen existing systems, workflows, procedures, policies and controls.
• Help monitoring compliance with Group policies and processes, including DOA, Accounting Manual and other Finance Guidelines.
• Help tracking of internal audit observations on Compliance and Governance and timely implementation of agreed actions plans.

KPIs

• Business support & performance monitoring.
• Business intelligence and analytics.
• Support special Corporate/BU initiatives.
• Skills development.

Work experience requirement

Chartered Accountant with 5-7 years relevant experience preferably in medium/large sized FMCG businesses (multi-product/multi-location)

Qualification

MBA with specialisation in Finance from a reputed Business School will be an added advantage.

Competencies