Planning Director

Responsibilities:
• Lead the commercial planning strategy for Egypt BU team inline with the company direction
• Responsible for leading & supporting BU with the development of the IGP, AOP, Quarterly forecasts and rolling forecast.
• Responsible for upward communication and preparing presentations on BU business performance to Egypt Management Teams.
• Ensure the financial planning models (P&L, B/S and Cash Flow) updates for the AOP/Forecast.
• Ensure the submission of planning and extraction of planning & actual data to/from the Company's system
• Work comfortably with the Company's local system (SAP) to extract, validate and reconcile actual data.
• Provide analysis of current business results vs. Plan/Forecast highlighting opportunities and risks
• Work closely with the accounting team to proactively identify actual vs. Forecast gaps and adjust for them.
• Supervises the delivery of value-added cross-functional planning support (e.g. Task force presentation, payout analyses etc...)
• Provide senior management with periodic reviews of the channels performance and profitability per channel.
• Provide Post assessment reviews for the commercial function major initiatives and ensure targets achievement.
• Ensure periodic MC reporting and analysis.
• Supervises local financial analysis projects (new innovations launches, marketing analysis and promotions).
• Lead on all sector alignment and reporting
• Work closely with the control team to proactively identify actual vs. Forecast on major Operating expenses performance, KPIs