Business Partnering and Performance Insights:
- Establish and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant Business/Function Leadership team. Ensure underlying performance is well understood. Proactively challenge and propose performance improvements. Monitor and investigate anomalies and trends.
- Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope: Ensure robust and timely forecasts. Deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.
- Supervise and support cost reduction initiatives: Ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability. Analyze and interpret actuals. Support reporting and cost allocation processes.
Strategy Planning:
- Support the annual planning process: Ensure plans are appropriately challenged and assured.
- Produce detailed cost forecasts covering pre and post allocation view: Draw insights and highlight areas where performance targets are not being met.
- Submit plan/forecast data into relevant cost management systems: Ensure data quality in the submissions.
- Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions: Understand the implications balancing risk and reward.
- Participate in projects and provide financial insight.
Performance Reporting:
- Responsible for the cost performance reporting activities of the respective business.
- Provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information.
- Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly/quarterly basis: Update in-year outlook.
- Provide input for the MI recharge process for the entities: Ensure costs are recharged fairly and accurately.
- Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI: Ensure integrity and accuracy to meet business requirements.
Continuous Improvement:
- Continuously improve cost related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.
What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)
Must have educational qualifications:
- Finance or Engineering Subject area Degree level or equivalent
Preferred education/certifications:
- Master s Degree or other qualification in a finance field e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants
Minimum years of proven experience:
- 5 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
Preferred experience:
Experience within global, complex and matrix organizations in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, preferably in oil gas or retail or logistics or manufacturing or asset-based businesses.
Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):
- Knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.
- Continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.
- Experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI.
- Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior partners.
