Senior Manager – Finance

Job Description

Purpose

Finance Business Partner is responsible for monitoring and managing the financial performance of the division to ensure achievement of divisional goals (e.g., OGSM targets). The role will evolve around Business Engagement, Business and Financial Planning, Budgeting, Performance Reporting, Performance Analysis and Cost Management by providing expert analysis and advise on financial and commercial matters.

In particular, for the role of Maintenance and Fleet Business Partner, a key aspect of the role is the ability to bridge the gap between the more technical aspects and the financial ones.

• Business Partnership/Engagement – frequent interactions with business up to SVP level to design, implement or review the financial soundness of business plans and actions. Bridge gap between non-financial and Finance departments by communicating financial targets and actuals in non-financial terms.
• Business and financial planning – Play an active role in the development of long-term and short-term plans by formulating and helping define strategies, translate them into financial goals and develop sound financial business plans.
• Budgeting – Establish and administer all aspects of annual budgeting processes including procedures, timelines, activities, content, formats, templates, reviews, consolidations, presentations, systems updates, and distributions. Facilitate business budget as a combination of top-down targets and bottom-up input and ensure linkage to divisional goals and KPIs.
• Performance reporting – Establish consistency in financial processes, procedures and systems and actively manage financial risks within the supported Division(s). Ensure that non-financial supplementary information for internal reporting, i.e. volume data or other drivers, is handled as part of an integrated reporting process and maintained at the corporate level to ensure data consistency for management reporting.
• Performance analysis – Provide assessment of financial performance through the development of financial models by analysing complex financial information and reports and provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes, incl. the preparation of monthly meetings with the relevant stakeholders (incl. CFO), the identification and explanation of key variations vs. budget and forecasts, and identification and tracking of potential additional initiatives to drive margins (detailed further below)
• Margin enhancement – Support business areas in identifying of revenue enhancement, cost reduction and other transformation initiatives, support in the quantification of their impact and support, and track, implementation, through financial analysis, strategic benchmarking or other tools and processes.
• Support in monthly closing – Collaboratively with business areas and Financial Control and Reporting, analyse preliminary monthly closings vs. previous periods and budget, support in the revision of accruals and accrual reversions as needed and support in the identification of corrections required for a more adequate financial view.