Lead One Africa - FP&A & Business Partnering

Job description

**Division** Finance **Department** Commercial Finance **Sub Department** One Africa Finance **Job Purpose** Key partner for the CFO, will be responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis processes, budgeting & forecasting, conducting analytics, liaising with operations support functions, driving a proactive, collaborative partnership between FP&A teams, project manage cross-functional initiatives across SAGA & Global, identifying trends and opportunities and providing broad decision support to assist advancement of SAGA business and financial strategy. **Accountabilities** **1.Support the budgeting and forecasting process** - Deliver forecast analytics and insights that result in a corporate perspective of the forecast/budget. - Develop KPIs and metrics that support the Businesses strategy to improve performance and quantitative analysis around these key business drivers. - Present monthly/quarterly and annual operational and financial budget reports and present them to the SAGA leadership team and Cipla global leadership. - Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of review meetings. - Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, with time sensitive deliverables. - Become an expert on business and financial drivers for each business within SAGA. **2.Develop partnership with stakeholders throughout organization** - Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning. - Conduct weekly meetings with FP&ainate ad hoc requests from leadership. **3.Leading cross functional projects** - Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects. - Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables. - Responsible for ensuring that projects are planned, managed, and governed in a consistent, transparent, and disciplined manner. - Set performance metrics that can be regularly tracked to measure progress. - Enforce consistency and standardize processes across the team. **4.Delivering Strategic Insights** - Drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives. - Drive profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senioctions. - Actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes **5.Leading and developing the team** - Creates effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the team. - Ensures the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development. **6.Drive Profitablity** - Identify and drive margin improvement opportunities through cost optimization, pricing insights, and business performance analysis. **Education Qualification** Qualified Chartered Accountant / MBA (Finance) **Relevant Work Experience** 10-15 years of work experience required. The role will require Financial skills and clarity on both short and long-term planning. This big picture view needs to be married with an eye for detail, with a focus on process management skills and the ability to develop and implement comprehensive business, financial and control processes. • Strong Ability and proven experience in managing a Cross- functional team of finance professionals. • Proven experience in managing relationships with Senior Leaders within the business. • Excellent communication and good relationship builder in order to drive and ensure alignment to all BU’s requirements and overall business needs. • Solid forecasting experience in order to review, with a hands-on approach for resolution of issues. • Delegation capability in order to ensure role clarity amongst team members and to ensure efficiencies. • Excellent systems approach and skills within relevant Financial systems, ie. Excel, SAP, etc. **Competencies/Skills** **Job Location** Lower Parel **Shift Hours** **Diversity Requirement**