About the job Commercial Finance Manager
Commercial Finance Manager
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric (Grade 12)
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- 7 to 10 years of FP&A or business partnering experience
- Data-savvy, strong SAP knowledge with a minimum of 3 years practical experience
- Business partnering skills, influencing, learning agility, transparency and ethical conduct
- A fluent level of English language is required due to international exposure
Responsibilities:
- Business partnering:
- Manage reporting and approval process for commercial project and monthly reports
- Support with creation of business opportunities, utilizing business case to support Profit Plan and annual business targets
- Foster and maintain effective cross-functional relationships between
- Finance, Sales, Marketing,
- Supply Chain and Customer Service
- Conduct project pricing analysis, including profitability, benchmarking, cost savings, and competitive assessments
- Perform Quarterly -annual analysis, comparing accounts' P&L against proposed pricing conditions and Market conditions to evaluate the impact on profitability
- Proactive commercial business relationship management and partnership
- Build strong relationships with the members of the country leadership team
- Co-pilot the country's performance to profitable growth
- Ensure real-time support, financial guidance, and improved insights into business performance and informed decision making
- Provide decision support for commercial deals, pricing actions and investment opportunities
- Build strong business and commercial acumen through direct relationships with the customers and business units
- Assess and advice on appropriate actions to manage business and finance risk and communicate impact effectively
- Lead or support the development of business cases
- Analytics:
- Provide insights into the business performance for the areas under responsibility and quality commentaries for monthly reporting requirements
- Lead the business partnering support for the annual profit plans and monthly forecasting working together with the country leadership teams
- Specific focus on margins and profitability analytics
- Leadership and continuous improvement:
- Proactively build a strong team to drive the value in the organization
- Design and propose financial solutions to business challenges while maintaining governance and financial controls
- Continuously improve tools to get better insights into the business
- Prioritize demands, proactively manage expectations of the stakeholders
- Lead projects, apply business acumen and commercial awareness to deliver business objectives
- Coordinate the finance support to the country and zone leadership teams on ad-hoc projects and requests
- Board member of the local company based on company request and needs
