Job Description

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Our client in the financial sector is seeking to recruit a Head of Financial Planning and Business Intelligence to work closely with the leadership team to formulate the compnay's financial and strategic plan. The incumbent will be responsible for working with each market segment Heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts and regularly calculate and present metrics to measure business performance.

Responsibilities:

Planning:
Developing financial models to support strategic planning and decision-making processes.
Build and continually refine models to understand the impact to the business of changing regulatory and market landscape.
Evaluate previous budgets and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets.

Reporting
Analyze financial and operational results to better understand the compnay's performance and the performance of each market segment, products and clients:
Get relevant data from appropriate data sources.
Create models to bring data together from multiple sources or tables.
Use BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance.
Provide insights around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability.
Prepare monthly reporting on the company's performance for the Senior Management team and on quarterly basis for the Audit Committee.

Communication:
Analyze and comment on any budgetary differences providing insights to senior management the reasons behind the company's performance and results.
Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centres' results.
Make clear recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to improved revenue generation and streamlining of operations.
Deliver reports on market trends of the banking sector.
Respect all deadlines for reports required by the Group.
Abide to all policies and procedures and BOM guidelines with regards to all reports produced.

Management:
Lead a Financial and Business Analyst.
Actively and effectively train and coach the Financial and Business Analyst.
Collaborate with the HR department for activities such as recruitment, talent development and retention and performance management of the Financial and Business Analyst.