Career Category
Finance
Job Description
Senior Finance Manager – Maghreb Cluster
Reports into the MEA Finance Director & the General Manager covering Maghreb Cluster
Accountabilities
- Selects, trains, coordinates and coaches’ adequate staff with capability to perform required assignments
- Manages preparation of forecasts and budgets
- Provides recommendations to BU based on analysis of deviations from budgets
- Provides leadership, consultancy and financial support to various company functions, teams and departments
- Acts as link between Finance and Business Units
- Ensures data integrity between Business Units, Finance and Supply Chain
- Manages the reporting processes (analytical management)
Responsibilities
- Leads business planning and decision-making processes; ensures all required financial analysis, modelling of "what if" scenarios is provided
- Ensures timely production of monthly forecasts of sales trends in coordination with business analysts; supports production planning
- Oversees monitoring of actual and forecasted cost and revenues (on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis). Tracks activity based OPEX.
- Coordinates and consolidates budget, latest estimate and variance analysis
- Leads long-term planning support activities
- Ensures there is no overdue receivables working with Customer Finance.
- Ensures all company data is collected, derived and consolidated data from all departments to produce reliable forecasting and plans.
- Ensures efficient processes and procedures are in place to monitor contracts (insurances, leasing, rents, etc.)
- Leads FP&A projects locally and may participate in MEA / ICON projects
- Communicates and provides direction to BU Managers about financial trends and their business implications
- Provides decision support to various stakeholders (BU’s, project teams, functions). Analyses and prepares reports to support management.
- Ensures data integrity across platforms (Hyperion, Anaplan, Budget/LE decks)
- Ensure implementation and adherence to corporate and local guidelines
- Coach and mentor Finance department staff
- Response to Audits/Controls from internal/external entities
- Ensure Finance Review of Payments SOP and Shipping Guidelines SOP are followed.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Degree in Economics or Business Administration or Finance
- Experience of more than 6 years’ work in similar position in an international environment
- Experience in accounting, budgeting and planning
- Fluency in English, French is a pre-requisite both in written and oral communication
- Arabic language skills would be highly preferred
- Excellent user of Office Programs as Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Preferred Requirements
- Studies specialized in Finance (financial analysis, controlling, accounting, consolidating)
- MBA would be an advantage
- Experience in various areas of finance and accounting
- Experience of 2 to 3 years in a Management position within an international finance department would be an asset
- Industry knowledge
- Basic know-how of applicable laws concerning business admin, taxes (esp. VAT), accounting and consolidation
- Basic knowledge of US GAAP
- Experience with SAP FI/CO
- Experience with BI systems (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
Competencies
- Demonstrates advanced communication skills and abilities
- Regularly represents the company and
function internally and externally - Collaborates, negotiates and persuades others, both internally and externally
- Demonstrates a strong customer focus in all activities
- Analyses complex problems; integrates disciplinary and business strategy knowledge to develop recommendations
- Demonstrates strong project management and planning skills
- Learns quickly; motivates other to adapt quickly to
new systems, processes and tools - Demonstrates strong leadership and coaching skills
- Demonstrates strong management and delegation skills
- Serves as a role model for Amgen Values
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