Responsibilities:

Principal Accountabilities:

Financial Planning & Budgeting: leading the company level annual budgeting & 5 years planning process, periodic forecast cycles, consolidating inputs from various departments/contracts Finance Managers to ensure alignment with company goals.

Variance Analysis: Perform company level detailed "Actual vs. Budget" and "Budget  vs. Forecast" analysis to identify trends, root causes of deviations, and opportunities for cost optimization in collaboration with portfolio finance managers.

Financial Modelling: Build and maintain complex, driver-based financial models for scenario planning, cash flow forecasting, and capital expenditure (CapEx) requests. And as needed supporting the bidding team pricing modelling.

Reporting & Dashboards: Develop and automate top quality monthly management reporting packs and interactive Power BI to track key KPIs. Including AI tools adoption for a smarter, faster and more reliable reporting.

Early identification of key financial risks and assist in creation and establishment of remedial action plans.

Stakeholder reporting - Provide accurate information to the various stakeholder as requested, including shareholders required management reporting.

Financial Reporting – Support as needed the preparation financial statements and other needed financial reports. Reconcile when a financial discrepancy appears, inform direct manager and deliver all related reports accordingly. Financials annual and quarterly financials. Prepare special financial reports by studying and analysing account information.

Develop close working relationships with different Finance unit team members as well as wider company stakeholders for multiple reporting and analysis deliverables.

Support establishing and owning effective cash management processes to optimize working capital available.

Coordinate with Finance stakeholders and IT Department for identification, selection, implementation, operating and maintenance of accounting/reporting tools and software.

Finance Partnering: Act as a finance advisor to non-finance stakeholders, translating data into actionable insights for executive leadership.

Support the Senior Manager in different ad hoc reporting, analysis, business cases building, financial governance, and other requests.

Communications and Working Relationships:

Frequent contact with Finance Managers, Operations teams etc.

Participate in all Unit, project and Company related meetings.

Interface with External stakeholders including parent companies.

Framework, Boundaries, Decision Making Authority and Responsibility:

Assist in the Company related finance and accounting aspects.

Assist in the preparation of Financial Progress Reports in Management & Board meetings.

Company/Technical Competencies:

Scope Management - Manages scope of project/portfolio if assigned.

Management reporting - Prepares monthly financial reports for the company

Integration Management

Communication - Communicates across and outside the business.

Commercial Management - Acts commercially for the business.

Monitoring and Reporting

Corporate Governance – Ensures compliance by the business.

Budget Management – Assist in managing budget for the business.

Business Reporting – Assist in reporting for the Company.

Required Skills:

Degree in Accounting / Finance with a CPA /CIMA/CMA/CFA/ACCA/CA. 

Five to Ten years of experience in Finance, Accounting & FP&A functions including minimum of three years in FP&A position.

Thorough knowledge of the principles, procedure, and practices of accounting and financial records and transactions.

Ability to self-manage end to end planning and forecasting cycles

Tech savvy and self-driven approach to explore, learn, and adopt latest AI tools

Experience with Financial Modeling and detailed Analytics

Proficiency in Finance and advanced Analytical Skills

Ability to interpret complex financial data and generate actionable insights