Job Location: Lagos State.

Job Purpose:
The Business Planning & Analysis Manager is responsible for developing and using financial early warning forecast systems for the country. This highly analytical and technically-adept individual provides financial and budgetary forecasts for the country to global officers for use in short and long-term company financial and budgetary planning, ensuring reporting system interoperability and data integrity.

Major Accountabilities:
· Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results
· Proactively carryout value-added analyses on financial data, supporting and testing information provided by global and regional financial officers
· Collaborate with financial control personnel to ensure consistent financial data reporting processes and results
· Assist with the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in global and regional, as well as country, Business Franchise, and Business Unit planning
· Proactively interface with financial officers in other country organisations to obtain financial best practices and in-market data results, benchmarking country results and methods against ones from other markets
· Drive continuous learning within the country by performing post-implementation financial analyses on past initiatives and sharing results across the organization
· Ensure consistency and interoperability between different financial reporting systems
· Key interfaces include: Finance leader; Country Head; Financial control personnel; Region Finance group

Key Performance Indicators:
Financial and Business Results:
· Impact of early warning and value-added analyses on country profit
Strategy/Market Focus:
· Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided by the BPA group
Operational Excellence:
· Reliability, timeliness and accuracy of budgetary and financial forecasts
· Accuracy of early-warning system and results
· Satisfaction of internal customers with timeliness and depth of reporting information provided
People, Capabilities, and Management:
· BPA group satisfaction, retention, and development

Ideal Background:
Education;
· University degree in economics, accounting, business, or related field
· Advanced degree in business, economics, or related field preferred

Experience;
· Significant (5-7 years) experience in budgeting and/or controlling positions
· Experience designing and operating financial reporting and forecasting systems
· Excellent analytical ability
· Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to clearly present data in reports distributed to regional and global officers

Application:
Qualified applicants should forward CVs to ‘[email protected]’ using ‘BPA’ as subject of application before Friday 4th December, 2015. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews.