Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Role Profile

• Provision of business partnering and financial analysis, information and insights which enable the various departments of Kyosk Digital Services to make appropriate business decisions. Act as the strategic finance Business Partner for operations and commercial teams. Perform a variety of controlling, consulting and administrative tasks to support Kyosk Digital Services operations and its satellites.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis

Performance measurement

• Production and reconciliation of key month end reports regarding Volumes, Revenues, Profit, Variance Analysis and P&L by region, by warehouse, by category, by product, by sku, by sales agent, by number of kiosks etc.
• Provision of reliable figures and in-depth knowledge of the relevant business metrics. Analysis ranges from top-level review to detailed research
• Prepare ad hoc reports to analyse any variances against targets e.g., volume and mix analysis
• Own the periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual as well as ad hoc) business review needs i.e., prepare and generate reports, templates, slides etc required for business review to track performance against KPIs.
• Prepare and distribute key business reports and analyses (Revenues): daily, weekly, monthly, YTD, quarterly, bi-annual, annual against targets.

Budget / Forecasts

• Engage with management in the top-down budget and forecast setting process and cascading agreed targets to inform bottom-up budgeting and forecasting with the operational teams.
• Coordinate the bottom-up budgeting and forecasting process and provision of information to the commercial and operations departments as and when it is needed

Business Partnering

• Develop country and company packs for internal and external presentation
• Support the country finance manager, general manager and operations and commercial teams with finance need
• Perform ad hoc and structure analysis on a variety of business projects/initiatives

Ad hoc Tasks

• Best Practices: Collect and share best practices on Business Partnering
• Support Missions: Identifies weaknesses and organize relevant support missions to Kyosk Digital services satellite operations, to help remediate any potential issues across country.
• Value Adding Projects: review of cost to serve, value chain and pricing analysis, establishment of key performance indicators.
• Any other duties within the finance team as assigned by the Country Finance Manager

 Key Relationships

• Being the interface between commercial and operations w.r.t business planning and financial analysis
• Regular meetings with senior finance colleagues in Accounting and reporting and support them with all financial issues they might face
• Regular contact with the Kyosk Management to provide them with business analysis insight and help them in monitoring the business internal growth and follow up performance indicators on a monthly basis
• Decision Making Authority
• Work is conducted independently, but against a specific work plan with final review by the Country Finance Manager
• The role is a development role, managing the input/output to/from financial reporting systems. Successful candidate should show proactivity and autonomy to perform his/her assignments

 Minimum Qualifications & Desired Skills

• Formal education, professional qualifications or accreditations from industry bodies
• Graduate from Accounting / Business / Engineering or equivalent school
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Postgraduate Degree in Finance
• Excellent spreadsheet skills.
• Working Experience of ERP
• Previous knowledge of Management Reporting Tools
• Advanced knowledge of excel analysis and data modeling skills e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot
• Advanced knowledge of data wrangling/cleansing tools - ETL (Extract Transform Load) techniques such as Get and Transform in ms excel.
• Additional knowledge of MySQL would be an advantage but not a requirement
•  3-5 years in a leading Audit Consulting Firm or
• 3-5 years as a financial analyst (in a multinational company)
• Multiple assignments in major industrial companies or experience in the FMCG sector
• >5 years in business planning and analysis

Competencies & Skills:

• Financial Acumen;
• Business Acumen;
• Operational Excellence;
• Analytical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills;
• Risk Management;
• People Leadership & Development;
• Project management;
• Customer Orientation;
• Out of the box thinking and innovation;
• Teamwork and team management;
• Effective decision making
• Tech Savvy.