Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFS

Our Client, is a global social enterprise aiming to improve the lives of the two billion people in the developing world that live without access to reliable energy. We provide distributed, affordable solar energy solutions for households and small businesses that are transforming the way people all over the world use and pay for energy.

Client has immediate opening for following position:

Job Description : Manager- Financial Planning & Analysis

Location : Nairobi, Kenya

Reporting to : FP&A Head

JOB DESCRIPTION :

The FP&A function is responsible for preparation & management of the financials of the Company's Annual Business Plan, Annual Budgeting Process, and Current Year Forecasts with one year roll forward with an inherent objective of Budgeting, Budget Control and including also for innovation around gainful cost reductions to achieve continuous and enhanced efficiency. This also includes process development; communication; system guidance; presentation dashboards &formats; and analysis of the same for accuracy, reasonableness, and completeness.

This position is responsible for preparation of the periodic, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial analysis focused around the following items and supports the decision making process of C-Level management around these items

- Cost control and reduction by way of financial forecasting - Continuous forecasting &review & monitoring of business plan to ensure the route to profitability.

- This will involve forecasting of monthly, quarterly, financials, identification of all embedded and potential risks along with recommendations for risk mitigation.

- Identify innovative ways of cost savings even beyond business plan, in a gainful manner with an out of box thinking is highly desirable

- Analyze business performance - monitoring and analysis of regional, sub regional & line of businesswise profitability on a monthly basisand make recommendations for areas of potential netcost savings along with financial cost benefit analysis along with summary of key non-financial factors

- Analyze margins (region and unit wise) - product, channel, customer margins at all levels (before and after allocations of overheads). Variance monitoring with regard to standard value chains and reconciliation with overall profitability to identify gaps and make recommendations for effective decision making.

- This will also include benchmarking with regard to industry comparable and includes regular tracking and review of product costs improvements.

- Analyze performance, effectiveness & efficiency of processes, business model & organization structure and identify potential ways to make structure more efficient (business unit consolidations, shared services model, transactional cost contract versus time & material, variable vs. fixed costs strategy etc.)

- Analyze & review of marketing spends with regard to brand and performance campaigns and short and long term ROI

- Analyze, benchmark and monitoring on human capital & manpower costs. Detailed understanding of rationale and impact (financial and morale) for headcount movement made in the past 24 months is needed.

QUALIFICATION:

- Experience - 5 to 7 years ofpost qualificationexperience in corporate finance with exposure to - best-in-class- financial planning and analysis practices.

- Proven ability to influence Global business partners with minimum supervision.

- Demonstrated aptitude in leading complex financial analysis and problem solving. The position requires experience in and creating financial budgets and models in Excel or similar software.

- Excellent communication & presentation skills

- Hands On- experience on budgeting, short and long-term planning processes; financial performance; and capital budgeting.

- A clear, concise, confident, and thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of accounting, financial statements including cash flow statement, and financial analysis is required.

- PC and system support skills with experience in ERP (Navision preferable) and consolidation software considered desirable.

- Must possess sound knowledge of Microsoft Office.

- Education - MBA and CA or CPA

- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while simultaneously meeting all goals and deadlines.

- Travel is required for this role to regional locations on need basis.

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