Job Description Summary
About the role:
As an Infrastructure and End User Services (IES) Lead BPA, you will be responsible for the Business Planning & Analysis of global infrastructure services managed by IES. You will work closely with IES Head BPA and the IES Service Tower heads to drive productivity, accurate financial forecasting, strong financial controls and continuous process improvements.
As part of the role, you should also drive change and innovation in day-to-day processes by providing streamlined and automated solutions where possible, to reach standardized, simple, and efficient processes across the IES Finance function.
Job Description
Key Requirements:
- Development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for respective service towers. Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data
- Handle SOW approvals for the towers, rebooking, and ICSI invoicing if applicable. Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control, and drive corrective actions.
- Conduct value added analyses, and recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas.
- Manage the execution of regional / global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof.
- Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information.
- Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country, Business Franchise (BF), and Business Unit (BU) planning.
- Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results.
- Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc
- Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control and drive corrective actions.
- Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas. Manage and ensure the development of a team of experienced BPA professionals.
Essential Requirements:
- MBA/CA preferred
- Minimum 12-15 years relevant finance experience, including BPA, Strategic Planning and Business Operations
- Strong financial controlling skillset, functional know-how and excellent analytical skills - able to connect the dots from various source of information and generate financial insights from independent analysis
Desirable Requirements:
- Strong communication skills: able to articulate the key findings and recommendations clearly to senior management team
- Achievement of Budget targets, quarterly financial forecast accuracy, Specific Franchises output KPIs.
- Display high professionalism and can-do attitude in an executive fast paced setting
- Display high curiosity, with continuous learning / improvement approach
Skills Desired
Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization