Finance Manager – Planning & Budgeting

Reporting to the Head, Planning & Budgeting, the role is responsible for coordination of the Group planning and budgeting process, consolidation of Group budgets and preparation of Group financial plans and related key performance indicators for review and approvals. This will be achieved by liaising with subsidiary finance functions to ensure budgets are prepared as per planning calendar, strategic themes, and feed in overall group objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with subsidiary finance functions to prepare and consolidate annual forecast, budgets, and related key performance indicators.
• Coordinate alignment of subsidiary financial plans and budgets to the approved Group strategic themes.
• Review budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations
• Analyze past financial data to identify trends, patterns, and co-relate to industry trends, and draw recommendations for performance improvement.
• Create agile, integrated financial plans and build in scenarios to reflect likely macro-outcomes.
• Prepare reports and presentations for senior management, tracking performance against budget, with commentary on on budget variances.
• Track remedial actions per entity towards meeting budgets gaps and run rates.
• Review and provide recommendations to senior management on cost reduction strategies, and revenue growth opportunities.
• Prepare regular reports on budget re-prioritization and resource allocation based on emerging trends to aid in achieving annual targets.
• Review Group expenditure trends to identify common themes and draw recommendations for improvement of operational efficiency.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university
• Is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Professional qualifications in financial analysis or Master’s degree in a business related field is an added advantage
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the finance field, including experience in the following areas:

• Financial analysis and business performance management
• Use of business intelligence solutions such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, etc.
• Finance project management
• Business Partnering
• Stakeholder management.

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

To be considered your application must be received by Friday 16^th August 2024

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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