Responsibilities:
- Plan, collect data and prepare annual budgets/Rolling Forecast, monthly and quarterly financial forecasts, operating plan and modeling tools in conjunction with the Finance Manager and Sales/Marketing teams.
- Submit, follow-up and justify budget components to the local management and to finance team.
- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses, and capital expenditures.
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance Supervision of Financial Analyst(s).
- Develop analysis of variances against operational plan, rolling forecast and business plan, suggest adequate corrective actions where needed.
- Prepare rebates set-up, ensure proper calculation and manage their payments
- Preparation of working capital analysis, P&L and balance sheet
- Implement and work with a Business Intelligence Tool and Dashboard reports
- Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies and understand ROI in marketing programs, menu pricing, new store rollouts as well as new projects
- Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
- Providing all departments (sales, marketing, HR, CS & SC…) with the necessary financial analysis and information
- Providing ad-hoc month-end business report analysis to management
- Maintaining Pricing Index, Item Master and Standard Costing Computation
Key performance indicators (KPIs):
- Timely and Accurate Reporting in the different environments
- KPI = deadline compliance + Post deadline adjustments tracking
- Precision: Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly well-organized and efficient
- Active involvement in the good communication between finance and other departments.
- Monthly closing on time and with all BIC procedures completed (31 steps in the closing procedure to manage in 4 days)
- Accurate and timely reports on P&L and balance sheets items;
- Completion of tasks within company and legal deadlines/standards;
Qualifications:
R = Required, D = Desired
- R – Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Economics/Finance
- R – 5+ years’ experience in Financial Planning and Analysis
- R – Fluent in English, People Oriented, Proactive
- R – Exposure and interest to ERP and comfortable with IT including Power BI.
- R – Exposure in Consumer Products & Retail industry
- D – Professional Accounting certification such as ACA, ACCA, CFA is a plus
- D – MBA in financial management and planning is a plus
- D – JDE, ANAPLAN, S2M & HFM knowledge is a plus
- D – Professional knowledge of French is a plus
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to BIC Nigeria on careers.bic.com to apply