SENIOR FINANCIAL MANAGER: FP&A

Finance
The Senior Financial Manager: Forecasting, Planning and Analysis (FP&A), is responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis agenda to provide senior stakeholders with current, accurate financial and operational forecasts. The role involves synthesizing and consolidating financial performance, optimizing revenue realization, and ensuring effective cost management and governance. This position will manage a team and develop FP&A processes and tools to drive financial forecasting deliverables.

Job Purpose
To lead The Beverage Company’s FP&A reporting agenda, ensuring the delivery of accurate financial forecasts and performance insights. The role is crucial in supporting strategic decision-making, optimizing financial performance, and managing costs effectively.

Key Accountabilities and Outputs
Forecasting, Planning and Analysis:
• Lead the synthesis and consolidation of financial plans, including the 3-Year Strategic Plan (PSP), Annual Operating Plan (AOP), monthly rolling forecasts, and weekly flash reports.
• Manage FP&A relations and workstreams, serving as the primary point of contact for financial planning and analysis matters.
• Develop and enhance FP&A processes and tools to improve financial forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
• Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of all financial forecast deliverables.
• Oversee cost management, governance, and optimization for expenditure.

General Business, Financial and People Management
Actively participate in strategic planning and budgeting processes

Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices, processes and systems
Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls
Manage cost drivers and take the necessary action to mitigate financial risk and address variances and discrepancies
Ensure that the right people capacity is in place and manage employee performance through effective and goal directed people leadership

Qualifications and Experience
Post Graduate degree in Financial Management or related disciplines (CA(SA) or CIMA preferred).
Over 12 years of financial experience, with more than 5 years in FMCG FP&A.
Extensive knowledge and experience in FMCG process development and execution.
SAP
Microsoft Office
QlikView

Key Qualities
Communication
Complex written proposals or presentations aimed at setting or changing strategy for a business unit or an external client

Problem Solving
Proactive identification of business, commercial and financial problems that do not always have predetermined guidelines, routines or procedures for solution, determine cause and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on previous experience and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.

Relationships Maintained
Groups of individuals at a senior management level inside the organisation

Behavioural Competencies
Persuasiveness
Ability to persevere until an effective outcome is reached.
Takes into account another's viewpoint when stating a point.
Looks at all available avenues of influencing another's decision. Looks for a win-win scenario when influencing another's decision.

Accountability
Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
Prepares a roadmap for success.
Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan.
Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
Always acts in the company’s best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular
Ensures others are on track for achieving their goals.

Judgment and Decision Making
Able to gather information from a variety of sources.
Understands cause and effect relationships within data and interprets this to make competing, holistic decisions
Develops alternatives before making complex decisions
Looks for the most innovative, efficient and value adding solution when making a decision
Makes decisions in time and forecasts when decisions need to be made
Formulates a “big picture” understanding of the near-term impact of decisions (including the time and resources required to implement decision)
Evaluates the longer term business impact of decisions
Takes initiative when making decisions

Legal and Ethical Conduct
Keeps current with all the laws and company policies that govern one’s work activities, or seeks
counsel before acting
Conforms with all laws and company policies that govern one’s work activities
Keeps abreast of changes in standards applicable to one’s profession
Acts in accordance with conventional ethical and professional standards
Takes action to enforce legal, policy, ethical and professional requirements; exposes violations

Analytical Thinking
Able to take a complex task and breaking it down into manageable parts in a logical, detailed way.
Thinks of multiple explanations or alternatives to a problem
Able to identify the information needed to solve a problem effectively
Performs tasks accurately and thoroughly, making adjustments to ensure needs are met
Considers business priorities when making decisions or analysing the costs and benefits of various alternative solutions.