Financial Planning Manager

We believe that work is not just an office you report to every morning. It is rather the right place for discoveries as well as innovations and a venue for development of professional skills. Employees in Panda always work to reach new heights in performance through enthusiasm, punctuality and adaptability. If you believe you can be the one with this skillset, join us today to start your first step towards a quite successful career path.


Job Purpose

Provides economic analyses, studies, and counsel on all matters of potentially significant financial impact to the company, including economic/competitive trends, pricing, cash flow, product line evaluation, and capital additions. Develops long-range budgets and other
projective guidelines and measures. This is a high-level analytical position, combining a thorough knowledge of accounting and finance issues with business sense


Job Responsibilities


• Responsible for the design, development, deployment and maintenance of all internal FP&A reports.
• Responsibility for the preparation of the monthly forecast and quarterly business review for his functional area of business and related subsidiaries.
• Develop strong understanding of all key performance drivers and issues relating to budget, forecast and actual results and incorporate into monthly quantitative and qualitative analysis of commercial operations financial results; including variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted.
• Participating in the annual strategic planning and budgeting processes. This will include establishing assumptions, spreadsheet modeling, consolidation, and analysis and presentation preparation to key stakeholders in the business.
• Responsibility for preparing ad-hoc financial analysis to support senior management decisions.
• Responsible for Working Capital and department spending analysis.
• Responsible on Risk evaluation, risk management, and enforcing pecuniary policies and guidelines throughout the company.
• Responsible on the feasibility and analysis of all functional business activities and ensure the alignment with the company strategic targets and annual budget.

PLANNING
Feasibility studies and business cases C forecast and projections

OPERATIONAL
Financial Analysis Budgeting (Prepare, Analyses, Forecast)

REPORTING
Monthly Financial Performance report

Follow up
Supplier Performance and Commercial Income

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance a must and Master of Business Administration in Finance (MBA) is highly preferred.
• A Qualified Accountant/ Charted Financial Analyst (CPA, CA, CMA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA)


Experience, Skills & Competencies


• Minimum of 5 years of experience as Financial Planner of Finance department
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to gather, analyze and present data.
• Ability to organize multiple responsibilities and deliver results in an accurate and timely manner while adapting to changes in priorities.
• Detail and process oriented.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of urgency and follow up skills.
• Ability to organize multiple responsibilities and deliver results in an accurate and timely manner while adapting to changes in priorities.
• A proven track record in a complex retail environment is highly required.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Business Intelligence application