JOB
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Position: Senior Financial Analyst
March 2015
JOB
PURPOSE
PURPOSE
You
will be responsible for providing data driven insights and financial analysis
to inform decision making and drive business performance. Your will be
responsible for assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making
presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.
will be responsible for providing data driven insights and financial analysis
to inform decision making and drive business performance. Your will be
responsible for assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making
presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.
You
will be expected to work with MIC planning and submission calendar to be able
to provide timely information to Millicom.
will be expected to work with MIC planning and submission calendar to be able
to provide timely information to Millicom.
THE
WAY WE WORK
WAY WE WORK
You
are open-minded, proactive, result-oriented, and passionate and the way you
work energizes others. You are committed to the timely delivery of a job well
done. You behave with integrity, professionalism and transparency.
are open-minded, proactive, result-oriented, and passionate and the way you
work energizes others. You are committed to the timely delivery of a job well
done. You behave with integrity, professionalism and transparency.
CORE
RESPONSIBILITIES
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Monitor
and analyse business and financial performance against targets on an
on-going basis. - Liaise
with business units to ensure high quality of analysis and narrative
reporting across the organization, emphasizing both operational and
financial KPIs. - Work
with the operating divisions to understand business developments and to
understand and track sets of agreed KPIs. - Provide
insightful and well-written commentary and explanations of key
business performance variances to targets. - Provide
Management with detailed, forward-looking commentary that highlights
business opportunities and risks and their anticipated effect on full-year
revenues, costs and profit. - Suggest
improvements to the planning and reporting processes to provide greater
clarity and insight into developments and challenges in the respective
business units. - Demonstrate
insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts, to
provide practical counsel to business partners and management in order to
drive business results. - Works
at the direction of the Head of FP&A in performing various financial
or budget analyses in the areas of profit planning, capital expenditure
and cash flow budgeting. - Assist
in the quarterly reforecasting process by preparing reports to evaluate
current run-rates and trends and report on opportunities, risks and the
impact of business drivers. - Actively
participate in the preparation of Budgets and Long range Business Plans
including validating and documenting all key assumptions. - Maintain
and develop various financial models and standard templates distributed
for use by all stakeholders during the planning processes, ensuring high
quality, accuracy and focused analytic review - Challenge
the reasonability of Revenues and operating expenses during the respective
planning and reporting processes to ensure proper representation and
accuracy of the business performance. - Pricing,
product, competitor and commission structure analysis in partnership with
the commercial teams to optimize returns. - Assisting
in various organizational projects and initiatives with analytical
insights and capabilities.
MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor
level degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics. - ACCA/CPA/CIMA
– partly qualified will be recommended but not required - At
least 4 years relevant work experience in an FMCG/Telco or Financial
Services. - Confident
communication skills as this role involve liaising with various key senior
managers of the business - Strong
MS Office skills (Medium to Advance) especially for Excel and PowerPoint. - Financial
Systems Knowledge will be required to make work easier - Desire
to drive efficiencies and improve processes. - Strong
organizational skills and problem solving abilities - Strong
Influencing Skills
DEADLINE
FOR SUBMISSION: 6th April 2015
FOR SUBMISSION: 6th April 2015