Financial Planning & Analysis Expert manages the long range plan, budget and forecast processes for the cluster / country, he/she is responsible for target setting, resource and challenge allocation, and monthly financial performance monitoring.
Business Controller supports the business units in setting strategy, decision making, provides insights & options that drive enhanced value creation, is part of the bid management process and helps the business to achieve targets through relevant and timely monitoring of results
Group / Region Reporting
- Meeting Group / Region reporting Deadlines as per the reporting timetable
- Addressing Group / Region related queries
- Preparation Group/ region related requirements, Swing, Ops Commentary, Pricing updates etc
Local Reporting
- Monthly Cost allocation
- Day 2 result analysis commentary for MD with various variation and explanation on variances
- Monthly Dashboard for MD
- Revenue reports to LOB for revenue comments
- Balance Sheet Review
- Other Corporate deliverables
- Deployment of QMS System within Finance
- Long Range Forecasting and Budgeting
- Lead the planning process
- Set the timetable, the agenda, the guidance, the tools & the process steps
- Define and validate the set of key information to be planned and monitored
- Coordination with the Business controllers for forecast reporting to SEAP
- Validation of the forecast and reasons for variation against the trend
- Ensuring an accurate intra forecast based upon revenues, margins and customer figures with the help of review with the Business controllers
- Validation and Compilation of Budgeting activities as per Group reporting and Local Reporting requirements
- Provide early warnings to management as soon as material deviations are detected and support and monitor corrective actions to be taken
- Work Closely with Business controllers
- Adopt, at all times, a safe behaviour by exercising due regard for the health and safety of SGS employees and clients, in line with SGS policies and procedures.
- Comply, at all times, with SGS Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct
Finance Responsibilities
- Group reporting requirements
- Identify Loss makers and devising actions to bring in green
- Tracking the deliverables to achieve Revenue and LC Targets
- Monthly Revenue and LC comments and commentary for SEAP
- Monitoring of Unbilled and WIP, Provisions
- Support the Business team / Finance Team for completion of unresolved queries
- Forecast Monitoring and maintaining accuracy against actual delivered
- Facilitating Budget completion exercise
- Control on various matrices allocation
- Open PR and BOSS OM orders Monitoring
Business Partner Support
- Part of the business unit management team contributing to strategy & decision making, whilst being a constructive challenger
- Provide strategic input and financial support to commercial & operating issues (pricing, etc.), track and report financial information and identify activities which are below the required performance level and bring changes to improve them
- Support the on-going review & maintenance of an adequate operational control environment over financial items with the SBU managers e.g. over site rental costs; customer credits etc
- Assist the management with ‘Management of change’ requirements with necessary planning
- Preparation and submission of Monthly dashboard
Business Cases
Gather all inputs from commercial & technical departments & external references
- Review / challenge business case, present trade-offs and rank alternatives
- Support senior management to take the appropriate decision
- Identify ways to track actual results and carry out ex post analysis & propose recommendations.
- Finance Support to Bid Management
- Prepare CAPEX proposal and track the timely execution with deliverables
- Execute profitability analysis of SGS offers and verify alignment with forecast
- Negotiation with external stakeholders (i.e Suppliers and Clients)
- Support with ad-hoc analysis to develop revenues, margins and return on investment
Target Setting, Planning, Performance Management & Monitoring
- Monitor business unit performance against targets
- Support business to identify, analyse, validate and implement remedy actions
- Adopt, at all times, a safe behaviour by exercising due regard for the health and safety of SGS employees and clients, in line with SGS policies and procedures
- Comply, at all times, with SGS Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct
- Support the Cluster / Country GM Finance to define priorities and targets for the business
- Drive the management reporting standardization by systematically using the Symphony solution
- Provide input into individual target setting process ensuring these are linked to the agreed plan
- Define the set of KPIs and information to be regularly monitored
- Ensure an accurate intra forecast based upon revenues, margins and customer figures
- Provide early warnings to management as soon as material deviations are detected
- Support and monitor the implementation of corrective actions / initiatives
Finance Support to Bid Management
- Execute profitability analysis of SGS offers and verify alignment with forecast
- Support with ad-hoc analysis to develop revenues, margins and return on investments
Resources Allocation
- Support the Cluster / Finance & Procurement Director with resource allocation (including Group challenges) across the Cluster / Country by preparing scenarios and evaluating risks and opportunities
- Challenge business plans & request for resources through the Business Analyst
