Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Job purpose

• A Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager is responsible for overseeing the budgeting process and performing financial analysis. This job holder develops accurate forecasts based on historical data and create detailed reports that explain their financial recommendations to senior management.
• FA&A Manager’s role is to provide overall financial support and work closely with senior manager to increase company’s efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial plan & refine the strategy and financial projections for the business.

Main duties

The FP&A Manager performs a wide range of duties that may include, but are not limited to:

• Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to a long-term financial and strategic plan. Additionally, I support business decision-making through her/his role as a business partner.
• Work with Function heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts.
• Managing the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning process
• Analyzing actuals against budget/ forecast and prior year
• Producing models to project long-term growth and determine the impacting business factor.
• Work closely with Marketing team for the delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
• Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
• Utilizing BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance.
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results.
• Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost center 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 senior 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.
• Perform monthly management financial statements and make full reconciliation with Sigma report to give useful commentary for both P&L and BS.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant analytical experience or 5 years in similar role
• Professional qualifications such as ACCA or CPA or CFA
• Fluent in English
• Good at Analytical skill, strong at Power BI and other reporting tools.
• Good quantitative analysis ability
• 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 package