Director / Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis. Background from a renowned international/multinational company is a must.
Responsible for the financial planning and analysis to support the core pharmaceutical distribution business and new strategic business development.
1. Support business unit, regional and senior management in delivering the company’s performance objectives.
2. A trusted business advisor to business unit leaders.
3. Take ownership for the Divisions budgets, forecasts long range and other business plans (includes country target setting, business analysis and forecasting performance).
4. Internal reporting to senior management, including variance analysis on monthly, quarterly, and annual basis and ensuring that senior management has necessary visibility on budget performance data.
5. Develop financial models to support investment evaluation. Prepare business cases to present to the senior management and board of directors.
6. Ability to analyse new business opportunities and establish financial performance metrics for new business initiatives.
7. Fosters a budget and control culture in the organisation and monitors budget implementation. Raises and addresses issues as they arise.
8. Responsible for analysis on ad hoc (financial) topics as requested by senior management, the board and related committees including activity based costing.
9. Presentation of results and findings of analytical work to senior management & other departments as required.
10. Providing insightful management and commercial reporting, you will continually challenge the business to deliver revenue and margin improvements.