Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Qualifications

• Formal education, professional qualifications or accreditations from industry bodies.
  
• Must be a Graduate from Accounting / Business / Engineering or equivalent school.
  
• Prefarably Qualified professional (ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
  
• Postgraduate Degree in Finance.
  
• Excellent spreadsheet skills.
  
• Working Experience of ERP
  
• Previous knowledge of Management Reporting Tools
  
• Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence Tools e.g., Power BI, Tableau etc
  
• Advanced knowledge of excel analysis and data modelling skills e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot
  
• Advanced knowledge of data wrangling/cleansing tools - ETL (Extract Transform Load) techniques such as Get and Tranform in ms excel.
  
• Additional knowledge of MySQL would be an advantage but not a requirement.
  

 

Experience / Preferred Background

• 3-5 years in a leading Audit Consulting Firm or 3-5 years as a financial analyst (in a multinational company).
  
• Multiple assignments in major industrial companies or experience in the FMCG sector
  
•  5 years (or more)  in business planning and analysis.
  

 

Qualifications

• Formal education, professional qualifications or accreditations from industry bodies.
  
• Must be a Graduate from Accounting / Business / Engineering or equivalent school.
  
• Prefarably Qualified professional (ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
  
• Postgraduate Degree in Finance.
  
• Excellent spreadsheet skills.
  
• Working Experience of ERP
  
• Previous knowledge of Management Reporting Tools
  
• Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence Tools e.g., Power BI, Tableau etc
  
• Advanced knowledge of excel analysis and data modelling skills e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot
  
• Advanced knowledge of data wrangling/cleansing tools - ETL (Extract Transform Load) techniques such as Get and Tranform in ms excel.
  
• Additional knowledge of MySQL would be an advantage but not a requirement.
  

 

Experience / Preferred Background

• 3-5 years in a leading Audit Consulting Firm or 3-5 years as a financial analyst (in a multinational company).
  
• Multiple assignments in major industrial companies or experience in the FMCG sector
  
•  5 years (or more)  in business planning and analysis.
  

 

• Performance measurement
  
• Make sure that all deadlines are respected working closely with Reporting and Accounting team and interlocking with operations and commercial teams w.r.t the close process and requirements.
  
• Production and reconciliation of key month end reports regarding Volumes, Revenues, Profit, Variance Analysis and P&L by region, by warehouse, by category, by product, by sku, by sales agent, by duka etc
  
• Provision of reliable figures and in-depth knowledge of the relevant business metrics. Analysis ranges from top-level review to detailed research
  
• Prepare ad hoc reports to analyse any variances against targets e.g., volume and mix analysis
  
• Own the periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual as well as ad hoc) business review needs i.e., prepare and generate reports, templates, slides etc required for business review to track performance against KPIs.
  
• Prepare and distribute key business reports and analyses (Revenues): daily, weekly, monthly, YTD, quarterly, bi-annual, annual against targets.
  
• Budget / Forecasts
  

• Engage with management in the top-down budget and forecast setting process and cascading agreed targets to inform bottom-up budgeting and forecasting with the operational teams.
  
• Coordinate the bottom-up budgeting and forecasting process and provision of information to the commercial and operations departments as and when it is needed
  

Business Partnering

• Support the country finance manager, general manager and operations and commercial teams with finance need
  
• Perform ad hoc and structure analysis on a variety of business projects/initiatives
  

Ad hoc Tasks

• Best Practices: Collect and share best practices on Business Partnering
  
• Support Missions: Identifies weaknesses and organize relevant support missions to Kyosk Digital services satellite operations, to help remediate any potential issues across country.
  
• Value Adding Projects: review of cost to serve, value chain and pricing analysis, establishment of key performance indicators.Being the interface between commercial and operations w.r.t business planning and financial analysis.
  
• Regular meetings with senior finance colleagues in Accounting and reporting and support them with all financial issues they might face.
  
• Regular contact with the Kyosk Management to provide them with business analysis insight and help them in monitoring the business internal growth and follow up performance indicators on a monthly basis
  
• Any other duties within the finance team as assigned by the Country Finance Manager.