Head Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Title: Head Financial Planning and Analysis

Location: Ogun State

Job Summary

Our client, a leading manufacturing company in Nigeria is hiring a Head Financial and Planning Analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Circulate the annual business planning guidelines/assumptions and provide guidance to Head, Finance & IT and other budget holders during the planning process.
• Manage collation of budget inputs across the company, ensuring inputs from all plants/ functional areas follow stated guidelines.
• Oversee the preparation of the consolidated annual budget.
• Monitor approved budget allocations by obtaining information on revenue and expenditure, and reporting variance on a monthly basis.
• Drive periodic budget forecasting and recommend budget review, as required.
• Develop periodic and other ad-hoc budget reports, forecasts and analysis.
• Manage periodic business performance monitoring and reporting process, liaise with Units/Departments to obtain data on defined metrics and generate monthly business performance statements, noting major deviations from planned budget and risk areas.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reports to aid executive management decision making.
• Conduct in-depth variance analysis to explain deviation from budget/forecasted performance and highlight Management’s actions needed to correct the situation.

Requirements

• First degree or its equivalent in Accounting, Finance,
• Economics or other business- related discipline
• A Master’s Degree (e.g. MBA, etc.) and proficiency in MS Navision are added advantage.
• Professional certification in any of ACA, ACCA, CFA, etc. is required
• Minimum of 15 years job- relevant experience, with at least 5 years at management level, in a finance role, within a manufacturing setting.
• Nature of Work: Day and Onsite

Salary: N14m- N18m

Application: Interested candidates should send CVs to careers@worknigeria.com using the job title as subject of the email