Job description

The Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role is positioned within a well-known organization operating in the manufacturing sector and is responsible for managing the budgeting, planning, analysis, and forecasting functions for an assigned business area. The mandate of the role is to support the achievement of the overall business strategy by delivering timely, commercially relevant insights and analysis based on best practice financial planning methodologies, while continuously improving financial planning and analysis processes. The role involves overseeing end-to-end budgeting cycles, ensuring accuracy of methodologies, projections, and calculations generated by departments, and developing detailed financial plans and financial forecasts, including comprehensive 5-year plans for plants aligned with the corporate financial strategy and plant-level objectives. The position requires close monitoring and control of expenditures, advising plants on cost control measures to achieve financial performance above budgeted figures. The role contributes to capital plan development and performs financial analysis of capital projects to support the capital planning process. It requires coordination with warehouses to conduct stock reconciliation of all related inventories, directing the preparation of balance statements to enable accurate inventory status analysis and asset management. Responsibilities also include reviewing activities related to the maintenance of fixed asset accounts to ensure account balances accurately reflect underlying facts. The role oversees and reviews financial analysis and reports prepared by associates and analysts, ensuring clear communication of financial and market information in management reports that reflect overall company performance and support timely, informed decision-making, including responding to ad hoc management information requests. The position involves managing the implementation and development of functional financial planning and analysis policies, systems, processes, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with all procedural and legislative requirements while delivering consistent, high-quality, cost-effective services. It also requires effective internal communication with Area Owners to support the company’s vision, strategy, mission, and corporate objectives, regular liaison with plant stakeholders to provide key financial performance indicators to the finance team, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders such as business units, financial institutions, auditors, and service providers, adhering to the highest standards of business ethics. The role includes managing employee performance and development through the setting of annual performance targets and development objectives and leading a diverse team within a large organizational environment.