Job Title: Deputy Manager Finance and Planning
Job Purpose
- Act as an interface between finance and business e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial.
- Leverage advanced financial analysis and market research skills to identify optimization opportunities (pricing, cost, volume, channel, etc.) and support business value drivers.
- Evaluate reasons for variance in plan and actual numbers.
- Apply strong analytical and research-driven approaches to support business growth, and long-term planning.
Key Accountabilities:
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Description
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- Provide financial analysis and deliver insights that connect financial performance with business operations (manufacturing, logistics, and commercial) to support decision-making.
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- Develop partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all GMs and their teams in order to help drive the business plan and strategy.
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- Enable monthly stewarding of budgets and enable strong internal controls.
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- Assist in creating monthly, annual, and long-term forecasts by integrating market/industry research, activity drivers, and business targets.
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- Lead process improvement initiatives (e.g., reporting automation, dashboarding, data visualization) to enable timely and efficient decision-making.
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- To liaison with business team for CP requirements.
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- Evaluate and challenge budgets, conduct project appraisals, and compute IRR for strategic initiatives.
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- Apply market/industry research and financial modelling techniques to support business growth initiatives.
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Skills / Abilities & Key Knowledge Areas
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Must-have Leadership Competencies
- Putting People First: Moderate
- Encourages Innovation & change: (Innovation, Value Creation & Decision-Making Skills): Advance
- Collaboration: Advance
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Must-Have Technical / Functional Skills
- Strategy development and financial modelling: Advance
- Business planning, target setting and performance management: Advance
- Proficiency in research, valuation, and analytical tools: Advance
- Strategic cost management: Moderate
- IFRS, accounting and statutory reporting: Moderate
- Project management: Moderate
- Corporate finance, structured finance and project finance: Basic
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Key Knowledge Areas
- Financial modelling and advanced analysis
- Equity research & industry benchmarking.
- Market and sector research (macro, industry trends, competitor analysis).
- Business development
- Presentation & communication
- Stakeholder management
Others already covered in ‘technical / functional skills’
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Experience & Education (& Technical Qualifications if applicable)
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Professional Experience
- Overall 6 to 8 years of experience.
- Prior experience in equity research, sell-side/buy-side analysis, or brokerage house research teams is highly desirable.
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Education & Technical Qualifications
- Must have: BBA or equivalent (Bachelor’s in Finance / Banking / Economics) OR Chartered Accountants
- Preferable: MBA (Finance) and/or CFA Charter holder (or CFA Level II/III cleared).
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