Financial Planning Manager

Strategic Planning and Decision Making

• Revenue Planning & Business Model Decision Making: Lead processes, analyze, and interpret financial information.
• Vision & Strategy Plan (VSP): Assist in creating a rolling three-year VSP, detailing revenue and profit expectations, and collaborate with marketing, business development, and sales teams.
• Annual Budget and Planning: Collaborate with the Executive team to develop annual budgets and plans for business units.
• Sales Incentive Plans: Collaborate on the preparation of sales incentive plans.
• Strategic Business Partner: Partner with the Leadership team, corporate and business unit leaders on growth and business development initiatives

Financial Reporting and Analysis

• Management Reporting: Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, including variance analysis and commentary to support decision-making.
• Financial Analysis and Control: Execute requirements for financial analysis, planning, control, budgeting, and reporting systems.
• Forecasting and Trend Analysis: Generate forecasts, analyze trends, and create financial models for future planning.

Compliance and Process Improvement

• Financial Compliance: Ensure compliance with IFRS, WK Accounting Manual, and financial policies in collaboration with the finance and accounts team
• Process Improvements: Drive process improvements for efficiency and transparency in enterprise reporting.
• Management Report Enhancement: Collaborate on enhancing management reports.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Leadership Team Participation: Actively participate in the GGM India and Finance Leadership team.
• Collaboration with Shared Services: Build relationships with shared services for financial reporting, accounting, compliance, internal controls, and taxation.
• FP&A Collaboration: Work closely with the Divisional FP&A team on reporting, VSP, and budget.
• Financial Support: Provide budgeting support, expense analysis, and decision-making support
• Market Trend Monitoring: Advise leadership on market trends affecting financial performance and recommend actions to mitigate risks or seize growth opportunities.
• Collaborate with Corporate Tagetik (CARE) and GGM Tagetik (SAIL) project team on enhancement and improvement of management reports for GGM India
• Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and executing on initiatives.

Other Duties

• Various exciting ad hoc reporting requests for GGM India and GGM leadership
• Integral member of various Business or Finance Process Improvement Projects

Job Qualifications

Education:  

• Bachelor’s degree and equivalent finance/accounting work experience
• CA qualified a key requirement

Experience

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in broad based financial related positions.
• Tagetik, Power BI or equivalent reporting software experience and proficiency are preferred.
• Ability to work closely with senior management from both finance and non-finance background.
• Proven success in being able to evaluate and understand business transactions.
• Experience in a multidivisional corporation (mid to large size corporation).

Other Knowledge,

Skills & Abilities: 

CORE COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to clearly communicate concepts, research findings, issues analysis, project and evaluation results, and data interpretations
• Consulting mentality—extracting insights from very complex and/or limited information to make a recommendation to stakeholders
• Results-oriented; able to take concepts and ideas through from implementation to action.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, be proactive, and think independently, and anticipate needs related to future work.
• Highly responsive and resourceful. Positive ‘can do’ attitude and approach to problem solving
• Innovative mindset: willingness to try creative and different ways of accomplishing work.

Certifications: 

CA Qualification

Travel requirements

10% to 20%

Physical Demands

Hybrid (office and remote) depending on requirements.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.