Senior Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• Driving the overall FP&A strategy
• Owning all C-Suite management reporting including requirements for Exec Board meetings, Group CFO reviews, Business Review Meetings with the VC.
• Driving system/solution development and roll-out
• Engaging with Finance Leader within the entities
• Determining and rolling out best-practice methodologies w.r.t. planning and reporting
• Driving reporting quality and standardization across the Automotive Division

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Support in the preparation of budgets for GDA in conjunction with the commercial business department to ensure reliability of the key assumptions. Control and monitoring of operating budget, investigating variances where necessary. Support the re-forecasting the budget during quarterly financial reviews recommending upward or downward adjustments considering market conditions and business requirements.
• Support with the budgeting and forecasting calendar, and process
• Support with the budgeting and forecasting templates and requirements
• Support with the budgeting guidelines and assumptions (e.g. Manpower Planning)
• Review budgets by LE (P&L, BS, and Cash Flow) and Profit Centre (P&L, WC, CapEx) for:
• Group Functions and Group Consolidation
• Division Functions and Divisional Consolidation
• BUs within existing Divisions
• Incubated Businesses – New Sectors
• Support budget challenge reviews (review outputs, scrutinize assumptions and drivers, assess sensitivity of drivers) for:
• Division
• BUs within existing Divisions
• Incubated Businesses – New Sectors
• Support in defining the budget cost recharges and allocation framework for:
• Group services provided to business
• Division services provided to business
• Shared services provided to business