SKILL DESCRIPTORS:

• Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience:
• Designs the organization’s planning processes and decision-making channels.
• Explains business issues and trends of our own business unit as compared to other business units.
• Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business, its interrelationships, and priorities.
• Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals, measurement, and business finance.
• Develop business cases for own function, reviews, and critiques cases for other functions.
• Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
• Finance and Accounting: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience:
• Documents financial interdependencies within the organization.
• Develops and applies cost/benefit analysis or ROI as part of business decisions.
• Provides build-buy-lease analysis for major expenditures.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cost accounting and reporting practices, tools, and procedures.
• Explains cost/benefit analysis, financial analysis and modeling, organizational practices.
• Coaches’ others on how to quantify costs and benefits for major expenditures.
• Organizational Governance: Knowledge of the processes, customs, policies, and rules affecting the way the organization is administered and controlled; ability to ensure compliance with governance guidelines and policies. Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures that internal business practices mirror industry-standard best practices.
• Describes experiences in the development of governance policies or practices.
• Complies with codes of ethics that benefit the overall good of all constituents.
• Ensures clear and timely disclosure of relevant business performance data to all stakeholders.
• Implements procedures to verify and safeguard the integrity of all financial reporting.
• Helps in building a framework of internal controls and corporate disclosure for attaining the company’s objectives.
• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of “big picture” thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. Level Working Knowledge:
• Implements the group’s go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
• Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there. Level Extensive Experience:
• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.
• Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material. Level Extensive Experience:
• Conducts and documents analyses of a variety of financial statements and indicators.
• Anticipates the potential impact of decisions based on financial data analysis.
• Oversees financial analysis to evaluate organizational and managerial performance.
• Evaluates financial statements and ensures regulatory compliance.
• Advises others on a variety of financial tools, techniques, and approaches.
• Directs others work with financial and cash flow ratios and trend analyses.
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results. Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates the key benefits and drawbacks of alternative models.
• Uses financial models to seek investment opportunities, cost-savings ideas, and growth opportunities.
• Utilizes the features and facilities of multiple modeling tools applicable to various situations.
• Participates in making business decisions based on financial forecasts and models.
• Consults on the application of a variety of forecasting and modeling techniques.
• Analyzes and resolves anomalies discovered when running models.
• Financial Risk Management: Knowledge of tools, techniques, and strategies applied in financial risk management; ability to quantify, qualify, and manage financial risk. Level Extensive Experience:
• Updates and implements improvements to risk assessment and management methods.
• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of alternative risk management approaches.
• Recommends risk assessment procedures and techniques based on organizational need.
• Consults on a variety of risk assessment approaches and applications.
• Evaluates, recommends, and justifies optimum risk management scenarios.Advises others on a variety of risk and reward factors and their relationships.

REQUIREMENTS:

Work Experience & Skills:

• More than 10 years of Accounting, Costing, FP&A and Controlling related experience with excellent business partnering skills.
• Experience with Syteline, SAP preferred, strong Excel skills required as well as proficient in other Microsoft Office software.

Education:

• Degree or equivalent required.
• Chartered Accountant, ACCA or equivalent preferred.