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