Job Description

GM - Financial Planning & Analysis and Financial Transformation

The position is accountable for financial planning and analysis and for creating a roadmap and implementation plan for finance transformation projects.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Analysis:

- Supports the CFO to develop short- and long-term financial plans that support the differentiation and uniqueness of the brand while continuing to align with overall strategic plans and goals of the Organization.

- Preparation of Annual Operating Plan (AOP), periodic review, and forecasting, reviewing MIS for key business parameters, store profitability, supporting cross functional business projects on financials, reviewing actuals/ budgets for corporate functions

- Leads cross functional alignment on financial strategies.

- Strengthen finance strategies by determining accountabilities, communicating, and enforcing programs and procedures.

- Contributing to financial and accounting information, analysis, and make recommendations to strategic thinking and direction.

- Advising on long-term business and financial planning. Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting

- Support in providing financial control ; finalize budgets, set up control and monitoring mechanisms and track variance.

- Integrates financial information and provides quality financial reporting to the Board and senior leadership teams.

- Provide financial support on the development and execution of strategies including Capital Projects financial analysis, price and margin analysis, and review of new business initiatives.

- Monitoring/review, approval and analysis including all pricing deviation verification/review and approval to ensure all pricing are within budget

Financial Transformation:

- Lead improvements in existing F&A processes (AP, AR, GL, Treasury, and Inventory), by identifying developing quality process solutions, considering the nature and focus of business.

- Drive change management for financial process improvements by working through various technology based and other solutions, anchor user testing, and drive stabilization of the changes, post implementation.

- Lead delivery and governance of the projects, while tracking clear measures of success.

Qualifications:

Ideal Candidate :

- Experience in Finance for around 8 to 13 years

- Chartered Accountant/ MBA in Finance

- Company Secretarial membership mandatory