Finance Decision Support Manager Job at Guinness Nigeria Plc

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Job Title: Finance Decision Support Manager

AutoReqId: 35445BR

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Reports To: Head of Finance Planning & Analysis (HFP&A)

Organisation: Guinness Nigeria Plc (a Diageo company)

Purpose of Role:

The role holder will drive key decision support initiatives and work alongside project teams to develop financial models/insights on the highest value priorities that will deliver business growth.

Key Accountabilities:

1.    Responsible for developing Pricing and Tax models that show scenarios and sensitivities to support decision making, this includes: – Generating insights from parity pricing across sales divisions – Owning and generating insights from volume-price elasticity model

2.     Developing investment appraisals and financial models as well as driving alignment with key stakeholders before presentation for approvals.

3.    Responsible for evaluating non-capital expenditure (CAPEX) projects including: – Evaluating viability of non-capital expenditure (CAPEX) projects – Continuously reviewing and aligning  with key stakeholders

4.  Business Strategy implementation tracking & environmental scan including: – Route-to-Market (RTM) strategy analysis – Measurement and Evaluations (M&E) Effectiveness – Divisional performance effectiveness – Generating insights from competitive intelligence – Macroeconomic and market analysis

5.   Controls and Risk Management (CARM) compliance – Assist the Head of Finance Planning & Analysis (HFP&A)in ensuring Controls and Risk Management (CARM)  on Strategy documents and Project evaluations, testing controls and assessing results and potential improvements

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:  – Graduate Calibre. Professional qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) is mandatory – Minimum 8 years post qualification experience in financial and/or management accounting role in an FMCG company. – Experience with SAP and Magnitude would be an added advantage – Analytical, interpretative and decision-making skills – Excellent project management skills – Advanced Microsoft office proficiency – Self starter, high commitment, delivers against goals with minimal supervision –  Proven ability to facilitate, persuade, influence and build credibility with all levels and all functions – Clear and succinct communicator

Barriers to Success in Role: – Lack of attention to detail. – Inability to challenge people and outputs. – Inability to influence key stakeholders – Inability to build relationships across the Finance and non-finance community – Lack of creativity in identifying new approaches to business issues. – Inability to plan work or deliver to high quality in tight deadlines

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