Finance Planning Manager

Job Description:

- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to a long-term financial and strategic plan
- Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts
- Producing models to project long-term growth and determine the impacting business factors
- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
- Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results
- Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost-saving initiatives
- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
- Evaluating previous budgets, and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
- Communicating results and recommendations to management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining of operations
- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability
- Managing a team of Financial Analysts

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Accountancy Finance or any related field.
- Similar experience in the position.
- Strong quantitative abilities
- Able to solve complex problems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- High level of commercial acumen
- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages