Business Finance Manager

As a leader, the role will assist staff members in providing value-added, meaningful, and insightful reporting and analysis for Senior Management. • *Key responsibilities** - Identifying and addressing the financial impact of business decisions and strategic initiatives, ability to analyse and forecast business impacts. - Partners in business and make recommendations based on analyses to the business units and senior management. Works with the Business Unit Finance team in aligning on decisions and recommendations. - Accountable to present an objective view of the financial situation and provide sound recommendations for the allocation of resources in the most efficient way to achieve the business goals and objectives. - Responsible for monitoring monthly expenditure variance on an ongoing basis and ensuring that actual expenditure remains in line with plan. - Lead investigation when variances are significant and taking necessary control action as required. - Lead, direct and manage the preparation, execution and analysis of the budget and rolling forecasts for business units. - Responsible to lead the unit’s strategic business drivers to determine investment allocation, creating comprehensive and highly structured business cases for proposed projects, ascertaining investment cost and benefits to scope, dependencies, risk, and its alignment to strategic objectives. - Introduce a way of thinking culture that causes people with the authority to recommend projects to first consider their value, risks and relative priority as a fundamental element of submitting the project proposal. - Accountable for evaluating opportunities/risks/ efficiencies by providing sufficient information to facilitate fair evaluations. - Responsible to report on the KPI performance of the assigned group of departments. - Review internal controls and recommend enhancements - Able to present solid proof business cases to Cost Management Committee. - Ability to Enhance costing process of menu development and changes. - Regular review of general ledger accounts and ensures exceptional items are addressed on timely manner. - Enhance and continues improvement of systems and automations. Qualifications • *About you**: - Relevant College or University qualification to min Bachelor's level - Bachelor Degree or equivalent in Accounting or Finance Preferred - Qualified ACCA, ACA, CPA, CMA or CA or any other related post graduate level qualification - Minimum 7 years relevant experience - Good knowledge of internal finance system - Experience working to tight internal reporting timescales - Expert in costing methodologies and cost reduction techniques - Enhance and continues improvements of operational systems. - Knowledge of cost centre accounting, preparing budgets and forecasts. - Experience manager of a large and diverse team. - Must have the ability to maintain strict confidentiality of records and information. - Strong analytical skills with ability to review variances, understand business cycles and their impact in the profit and loss accounts.