JOB DETAILS:
Summary
The FP&A Specialist is responsible for planning including preparation of annual organizational budgets, producing periodic forecasts covering profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow. The FP&A Specialist is responsible for preparing reports that show the organizational performance against budget to be used by management for decision making. Management will depend on information provided by FP&A Specialist to make decisions on major capital investments and various growth strategies.
Responsibilities
• Working in conjunction with the Reporting Manager to prepare the annual budget and supporting analysis and presentations
• Preparing monthly and quarterly forecasts covering the profit and loss account, cash-flow statement and balance sheet
• Working in conjunction with the corporate and regional FP&A teams to prepare the 10 year and 3year plans
• Ensuring that all budget/planning processes run effectively and comply with required legislation while meeting all deadlines.
• Preparing the quarterly FPA template for submission to corporate FP&A
• Preparing regular reports to monitor profit and loss and operation of defined KPI’s on new and special interest projects
• Ensuring that requisitions are within agreed budget and flagging deviations from agreed budgets
• Conducting in-depth review of projects or accounts to give the CFO and wider business an understanding of issues driving the project
• Capital expenditure tracking and control, this is by preparing capex forms for all capital investments to ensure all spend is within budget and all over spend is approved by top management
• Preparing reports and presentations for the CFO that aid in management decision making, reviews from the regional and Corporate office, Board meetings and any other such activity
• Updating the fixed power pricing tables to be used for billing
• Assisting the CFO on other projects and operational support as may be assigned from time to time
• Working closely with other teams to ensure the organization’s strategic goals and performance objectives are met
• Creating a high performing team environment enabling employees to reach their full potential and maximize personal and business performance
Person Specification
Education, Training, Skills & Experience Qualifications:
• Experience of ERP systems, Oracle knowledge preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Creative and analytical thinker
• Self-motivated, able to work in a team and independently
• Ability to work in a high volume, fast paced environment
• Detail oriented and able to multitask, meet deadlines and adjust to changing priorities
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of the organization, including senior management
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent follow up skills
• The incumbent must be flexible as there may be occasions that require working beyond the standard working week to ensure the positions expectations and responsibilities are met.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance /Accounting
• Professional Certification i.e. ACCA, CPA, CFA, CIMA
• Environment
• 90% of work will be performed in climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. 5-10% travel will be required in support of the position’s responsibilities.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands and finger to feel and handle; reach with arms and hands; talk and hear. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, and crouch; lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds.
Additional
• We are a dynamic organization in a rapidly changing industry. Accordingly, the responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.
• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
• The incumbent must be flexible as there may be workweeks that require more than 40 hours to ensure the positions expectations and responsibilities are met.
Job application procedure
You can apply by submitting your cover letter and CV to exechire@truenorthafrica.com. with subject line by Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist – AR 14th December 2023 All application documents Must be in either PDF or MS. Word.
More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
