Strategic Planning and Decision Making
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.
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.
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
Bachelor s degree and equivalent finance/accounting work experience
CA / MBA
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).
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.

Financial Planning Manager

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