Finance

Commercial Finance

One Africa Finance

Key partner for the CFO, will be responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis processes, budgeting & forecasting, conducting analytics, liaising with operations support functions, driving a proactive, collaborative partnership between FP&A teams, project manage cross-functional initiatives across SAGA & Global, identifying trends and opportunities and providing broad decision support to assist advancement of SAGA business and financial strategy.

1.Support the budgeting and forecasting process

• Deliver forecast analytics and insights that result in a corporate perspective of the forecast/budget.
• Develop KPIs and metrics that support the Businesses strategy to improve performance and quantitative analysis around these key business drivers.
• Present monthly/quarterly and annual operational and financial budget reports and present them to the SAGA leadership team and Cipla global leadership.
• Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of review meetings.
• Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, with time sensitive deliverables.
• Become an expert on business and financial drivers for each business within SAGA.

2.Develop partnership with stakeholders throughout organization

• Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning.
• Conduct weekly meetings with FP&ainate ad hoc requests from leadership.

3.Leading cross functional projects

• Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
• Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
• Responsible for ensuring that projects are planned, managed, and governed in a consistent, transparent, and disciplined manner.
• Set performance metrics that can be regularly tracked to measure progress.
• Enforce consistency and standardize processes across the team.

4.Delivering Strategic Insights

• Drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives.
• Drive profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senioctions.
• Actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes

5.Leading and developing the team

• Creates effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the team.
• Ensures the highest level of effectiveness and continued skill development.

6.Drive Profitablity

• Identify and drive margin improvement opportunities through cost optimization, pricing insights, and business performance analysis.

Qualified Chartered Accountant / MBA (Finance)

10-15 years of work experience required.

The role will require Financial skills and clarity on both short and long-term planning. This big picture view needs to be married with an eye for detail, with a focus on process management skills and the ability to develop and implement comprehensive business, financial and control processes.

• Strong Ability and proven experience in managing a Cross- functional team of finance professionals.
• Proven experience in managing relationships with Senior Leaders within the business.
• Excellent communication and good relationship builder in order to drive and ensure alignment to all BU’s requirements and overall business needs.
• Solid forecasting experience in order to review, with a hands-on approach for resolution of issues.
• Delegation capability in order to ensure role clarity amongst team members and to ensure efficiencies.
• Excellent systems approach and skills within relevant Financial systems, ie. Excel, SAP, etc.

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