Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 17 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
Provision of business partnering and financial analysis, information and insights which enable the various departments to make appropriate business decisions. Act as the strategic finance Business Partner for operations and commercial teams. Perform a variety of controlling, consulting and administrative tasks to support the Company’s Operations

Responsibilities
Performance measurement
• Developing performance measures that support the company’s strategic direction and champion the achievement of revenue targets through continuous monitoring of business performance and profitability performance mechanisms in line with the overall strategy.
• Make sure that all deadlines are respected working closely with Reporting and Accounting team and interlocking with operations and commercial teams with respect to processes and requirements.
• Report on all quantitative and qualitative indicators put in place to track the progress against the Company’s strategic objectives by endeavoring to match and align performance measures with business strategy, departmental structures, the type and number of measures to use, the balance between the merits and costs of introducing these measures, and how to deploy the measures so that the results are used and acted upon.
• Performance Tracking and Reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor operational performance. Generate regular reports, analyze data, and present findings to the executive team, providing actionable insights and recommendations for improvement.
• Management of overall business targets and timely cascade of these expectations to the entire sales team and performance tracking
• Prepare ad hoc reports to analyze any variances against targets
• Own the periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual as well as ad hoc) business review needs. Prepare and generate reports, templates, slides required for business review to track performance against KPIs.
• Prepare and distribute key business reports and analyses major KPIs: daily, weekly, monthly, YTD, quarterly, bi-annual and annual against targets.

Business Planning and Budget Forecasts
• Engage with management in the top-down budget and forecast setting process and cascading agreed targets to inform bottom-up budgeting and forecasting with the operational teams.
• Coordinate the bottom-up budgeting and forecasting process and provision of information to the commercial and operations departments as and when it is needed
• Coordinate the bottom-up budgeting and forecasting process and provision of information to the commercial and operations departments as and when it is needed
• Performs variance analysis and commentary to management by investigating variances to budget, provide explanations and recommend corrective actions.
• Developing and implementing financial strategies, plans and activities with the aim of strengthening the financial capacity in line with the overall company strategy and regulatory standards
• Partner with Sales and Marketing department to analyze and report on campaign performance and monitor the returns on investment
• Development of relevant sales programs aimed at growing topline, building business cases for the respective programs, and seeking approvals through finance, sales and marketing leadership
• Best Practices: Collect and share best practices on Business Partnering
• Support Missions: Identifies weaknesses and organizes relevant support missions to sales operations and to help remediate any potential issues across the company’s general operations.
• Value Adding Projects: Review the cost of doing business, value chain and pricing analysis and establishment of key performance indicators. Perform ad hoc and structure analysis on a variety of business projects/initiatives

Business Reporting and Data Analysis
• Overall review of reporting platforms for relevance, reliability, and scalability with the expected business growth
• Ensuring the financial statements are prepared in accordance with the IFRS regulations, the audit exercise is carried out smoothly and ensure the entity has a good report at the end of the exercise.
• Provision of reliable figures and in-depth knowledge of the relevant business metrics. Analysis that ranges from top-level review to detailed research. Evaluate sufficiency of the current internal data and make case by case decision on external data needs.
• Ensure that systems are subject to controls which ensure completeness and accuracy of the information they contain
• Coordinating, driving and directing effective compliance and operational risk management and ensure proper functioning of day-to-day controls, periodic monitoring activities and timely resolution of financial and reputational risk issues
• Continuous review of the current sales system and ensuring sufficient tracking of all respective sales processes.
• Create monthly content for top management presentations and board reporting and Serving as a liaison between teams and upper management on Quantitative business insights.
• Development of relevant sales programs aimed at growing topline, building business cases for the respective programs, and seeking approvals through finance, sales and marketing leadership.
• Own the end-to-end process of tracking the sales workforce and operationalmetrics and delivering regular insights to the business.
• Maintain regular check-ins with Sales Managers/Sales Associates and others who contribute to opportunity development to determine how sales opportunities are tracking against plan and identify any problems for internal review and problem solving
• Sales Performance Compensation - Ensuring commission structure is aligned to the Business focus & coordinating payment

Credit Analysis and Reconciliation
• Tracking and continuous reviewing of the entire debtor’s portfolio by driving and directing effective compliance and operational risk management and ensure proper functioning of day-to-day controls, periodic monitoring activities and timely resolution of financial and reputational risk issues.
• Management of debtors aging and advising management on credit limits and recovery processes.
• Assessing the creditworthiness of an individual or company to determine the likelihood that they will honor their financial obligations.
• Reviewing of the financial status of new and existing customers to determine their level of risk and make recommendations
• Assisting the Recovery team in an end-to-end recovery process of collection of debts prior to legal recovery proceedings commencing. Negotiating payments arrangements, handling debtor enquiries and providing administrative assistance to the team
• Evaluating the credit risk of a customer and making recommendation on whether to provide credit terms to a customer and or reduce the credit limit of an existing customer.
• Analyzing the client’s level of risk to determine if the company is protected in the
event that the borrower defaults on their obligations and the level of risk that the client presents

Person Specification
Education, Training,
Skills & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration or Business-related field
• Professional qualification in CPA/ ACCA/ CIMA
• At least four (4) years working experience in Manufacturing Environment- as a Cost or Management Accountant
• Ability to independently plan and execute complex tasks while addressing daily management details and remaining organized and focused.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• To apply for this position, please e-mail your CV and Cover Letter to
• Exechire@truenorthorthafrica.com  and copy s.ashaba@truenorthafrica.com  before close of day on 25th August 2023. All applications shall be acknowledged as received but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Enquiries may also be sent to the same e-mail.

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