Job offer: Manager, Financial Planning & Reporting

Position Summary

Responsible for coordination, production and reporting of the NTC’s monthly management accounts, with responsibility for all management level financial reporting, as well as coordinating the NTC’s budgeting and financial planning processes and also manages product pricing for the NTC.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the annual budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes
• Develop yearly business plan with 3 years financial forecast through collaboration with group strategy team, local management team and users’ departments
• Prepare performance pack for monthly and quarterly CEO call with Group Executive Members
• Prepare board papers to provide financial and non-financial information about business strategies and potential business opportunities
• Lead tracking and benefits realization from TCO projects, site profitability analysis and revenue assurance
• Prepare monthly site profitability analysis and present to the Committee led by Group Executives
• Prepare internal reports such as weekly operational reports, monthly management report and external reports such as MIC report, PTD report
• Provide insightful reporting and analysis to enhance decision making at management and group level
• Support the management in evaluating cost optimization opportunities
• Draft presentation to the Management Committee and other stakeholders on the above
• Provide ad-hoc support to the management on a range of commercial, financial, and legal matters
• Monitor performance by tracking country KPI target and evaluate quarterly KPI result
• Facilitate evaluation and improvement of the planning and reporting processes and deliverables
• Preparation of financial management reports on business plan achievement of the NTC for internal management and for the group
• Preparation of yearly insurance renewal through SCM RFP process
• Identify financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends, and recommend actions to management
• Provide financial and non-financial analysis to internal and external requests on evaluation of business opportunities, investment plans, addressing performance gap and identifying cost efficiencies
• Evaluate financial viability of business cases (CAPEX & OPEX) prepared by users’ departments and provide recommendations
• Work with finance operations and finance shared services to review P&L and balance sheet variance analysis and reconciliations
• Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis to support key decision-making across the NTC
• Prepare revenue and EBITDA gap analysis report to management and recommend actions to close the gap
• Monitor project cost risks, issues and change control, communicate the impact to the user department heads in case of cost overrun

Required Qualifications & Skills

• CIMA, ACCA or CPA qualified
• Minimum 7 years relevant experience, preferably in the telecommunications industry
• Strong experience in financial modelling
• Mastering PowerPoint skills
• Experience of monitoring and reporting on capital expenditure on major projects would be an advantage
• Experience of building and using a budgeting and forecasting system and rolling it out across the organization