FP&A Service Lead

Key Responsibilities

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Detailed data driven insights to identify focus areas to ensure working capital (cash flow) delivery is on track, issues understood, and initiatives are devised
• Collaborate with FP&A and PRI teams on 9+3 and 9+15 budgeting processes
• Develop insightful and accurate management and financial information to key stakeholders to support business decision making and cost management
• Reporting of actual cash flows and understanding of variances to prior year, prior month, detailed budget and budget

Shared service Governance / Partner Relationship Management (PRM)

• Ensure operational partner reviews are happening, supported with quality material, KPIs, analyses, RCAs, on TOP quality
• Manage partner Communication as per Global communication timeline and MSA
• Drive issue log management: quality Issues. Manage/govern the entire issue management process & build awareness and usage of the issue management tool
• Regular communication materials published to all partners – (Operational Partner review meeting, Hub Performance Call, Issue log meetings, FOCLT)
• Launch generic comms to our partners on key messages in line with Global Comms guidelines.
• KPI’s / Process Performance management: Collection of KPI metrics and investigating the problem areas and presenting these reports to the Finance community (i. Hub level reports, ii. CFO Reports for the LM’s)

Finance Operations (Desired)

• Takes accountability for the output of financial accounting processes and procedures, Controls processes performed from _VOIS of the respective market(s)
• Aggregates and provides relevant, accurate and timely financial and management information to relevant stakeholders
• Leadership skills and experience in managing non reporting teams in a complex and changing/dynamic operating environment
• Act as a business consultant in terms of the financial accounting process
• Promotes a culture of proactive continuous improvement of processes, systems, and people
• Ensures the correctness and completeness of all _VOIS owned IFRS Balance Sheet accounts for the market(s)
• Proactive identification, ownership, and coordination for the resolution of any material risks to prevent any financial misstatements for all the _VOIS Balance Sheet accounts and processes
• Identify and highlight any material corrections (over-accrual, under accrual, revenue adjustments, etc.) to financial statements before closing to avoid misstatements.

Direct reports: 35- 40 FTEs

Qualification & Requirements

Essential

• Experience in finance, in-particular in all areas of FinOps, FP&A, either by practical delivery or through oversight
• Very strong cooperation, coordination, communication, and presentation skills
• Analytical-minded, hardworking, innovative, adaptable, team player and leader with broad experience and understanding of performance management
• Drive the implementation of Digital Agenda
• Ability to work in a complex multi-geography environment and under pressure
• Good visualization of issues, advanced PPT knowledge
• Excellent communication skills to ensure a transparent representation of the results, processes and procedures and to influence multiple stakeholders

Experience

• Experience in a role with ‘strong impact without authority’ (e.g., project management, functional/dotted line/matrix/cross locational team management) is desirable
• Strong communication skills – ability to tell story behind the numbers
• Key attributes are the ability to conceptualize, visualize, ideate and “think out of the box”
• Resilient self-confident and self-assurance. experience in dealing with persons of other nationalities is as added advantage

Must Have Technical / Professional Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with 10+ years of experience in financial accounting and management reporting of a global organization
• Experience in Shared service or telecom industry is as added advantage
• A sound understanding of the absolute necessity of compliance with policies, standards and the criticality of an effective controls framework

Benefits

No information available.