Business Finance Manager

The Business Finance Manager (BFM) role is accountable for the end-to-end daily performance of the business from Commercial Finance Manager, Operations Finance Management, Insurance, Treasury and Tax management and reporting. The individual will work closely with the Chief Accountant to ensure all reporting in the system is accurate and complete (P&L,WC and CF). Financial Manager will help bring performance clarity and ensure the business meets and exceeds its strategic growth ambitions. Provide concise, quality financial information, analysis and insights to shape and support business decisions and growth. Financial performance against strategy Financial rhythm aligned with HIL reporting; forecasting requirements and Controls and compliance. The role will be responsible for holding the Chief Accountant, the Finance Commercial Manager, the Tax Officer, and the Operations Finance Manager to account on reporting deliverables in their respective areas. The individual will also be responsible for supporting the HR function (including budgeting). BFM will ensure BPM sessions are held monthly with no fail.

• Consistently Deliver Great Performance – Challenging and supporting market leadership and other stakeholders to drive outstanding business performance
• Find Solutions – in commercial finance, operations finance – Converting/driving financial reporting into analysis and insights – answering the “why” questions not just “what”, driving the expertise and understanding all aspects of the market’s financials i.e. Annual Operating Plan, Actuals, Risks and Opportunities and most important thinking into the future/forecasting.
• Work closely with Finance Business Partners –  Sales, Marketing & innovations and Finance Business Partner Operations and HR to drive performance and help create additional value.
• Work with and engage with commercial Leadership Team to ensure commercial decisions are made with a full understanding of the financial implications. Looking at both internal data and also keeping an ear open on external data/analysis.
• Working closely with Execs on overall business forecasting, planning and performance.
• Work with treasury team and banks to optimize our treasury capabilities and work on capital structure (and update every 6 months based on economic changes or what is going on with the business) ensuring we have a strong well optimized balance sheet. Working very closely with banks.
• Tax control and ensure we are working in a compliant manner and have the right relationships with URA.
• Insurance team management and ensuring they are working optimally and solving insurance issues timely.
• Work closely with Business Development Mgr and Accounting team to drive total P&L, Working Capital and Cash Flow.
• Consistently find solutions, improving capabilities within wider finance team and providing functional influence. Hold Commercial Finance Team, Operations Finance Team and Credit team to account on deliverables
• Stakeholder management at HIL.

Top Accountabilities

• Driving Performance management within the organization with the outcome of value creation by:

1. Owning & driving the monthly forecast process to ensure we are driving the right mix agenda and holding tension on other line items to achieve set business KPIs.
2. Drive understanding of Over Heads costs plus partnering with the Executive team to own budget monitoring and control.
3. Supporting regional teams through regional profitability analysis and insights with target deliverables in line with set company objectives to guarantee business excellence.
4. Through reporting, Drive the weekly performance review meetings to ensure delivery of monthly commitments and support the S&OP process on target setting process.

• Drive daily performance conversation including finding the opportunities and provide insights to commercial teams.
• Responsible for the coordination of the monthly Commercial BPM process and meetings to ensure excellent and timely delivery by engaging all stakeholders.
• Support with WC/OCC reporting and thus understanding all drivers of WC
• Support with overall consolidation of Yearly Plan and monthly reporting.
• Support in Treasury management and ensure we get optimal services and costs from the banks including competitive interest rate and consistent review our capital structure to ensure we are maximizing our BS/Cash.
• Support in Providing strategic financial forecasts to drive an effective & efficient business model (Drive business strategy modelling) through coordination with key stakeholders.
• Lead Market annual operating process modelling to obtain an end-to-end view of the financials while coordinating all stake holders to ensure full compliance to set timelines.
• Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities to remediate any gaps to targets
• Responsible for holding the Chief Accountant, the Finance Commercial Manager, the Tax & Treasury Officer, Insurance and the Operations Finance Manager to account on reporting deliverables in their respective areas.
• Bring in external lense of the Country/Region economy, political climate to ensure organization is mitigating on any possible risks and taking advantage of any opportunities there may be.

• Graduate, qualified accountant or MBA.
• 5-10 years’ experience in an FMCG environment in a similar role

• Proven ability to persuade, influence and build credibility cross the functions.
• Ability to work autonomously and engage cross-functionally; self-starter
• Commercially aware and articulate
• Analytical and logical
• Ability to manage projects, prioritize and work to deadlines; lead others across the organization
• Flexible and able to adapt readily to a changing environment
• Strong presentation and influencing skills with good communication skills
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and Financial Modelling skills and Power Point presentation skills.

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