Finance Business Partner

Responsibilities:

• Works with the business to translate technical and/ or commercial strategy into plans and budgets;
• Analyses performance against plans, identifying and recommending operational and process improvement;
• Supports decision making through analyses and interpretation of data.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Participate in the preparation of the mid and long term plans, budgets and forecasts for the operational and capitalzed expenses in Technology by taking into consideration the strategic priorities of the company
• Early warning of trends and produce rolling forecasts as required for critical areas/projects/programmes in Technology
• Further develop processes and framework ( models included ) for budgeting and forecasting the operational and capitalized Technology expenses within the team and define interfaces to other teams;
• Continuous refreshement of the budgeting and reporting process and framework

Reporting and analysis:

• Provide monthly resonability checks of the completeness and accuracy for the accruals and provisions, charges in advance
• Provide monthly reporting of the CAPEX and OPEX in Technology and analysis of their varriances versus budget/ forecast, last fiscal year same period , by cost category and projects;
• Prepare the estimates for the current month ( Flash report) by considering the previous month trend and forecasted figures, directly linked with the business
• Develop the short, mid and long term trend analysis for Technology related drivers and drive the right recommendations
• Prepare all the required and relevant analysis and studies for supporting performance and decission making

Technology Strategic Projects Support:

• Develop the performance tracker for the Technology related projects/programmes, by considering all the financial and non financial data relevant for decission making and follow up;
• Provide support into the development of medium and long term plans for projects
• Plays an active role in the execution of the relevant in selected work stream.

Requirements:

• University degree in Economic Studies;
• 4-5 years of experience in dealing with financial/business issues ( ideally in TelCo/Mobile industry)
• Extensive financial knowledge ( management accounting included);
• Project management experience;
• Has detailed and varied experince of how to develop the forecasting, reporting and analysis tools
• Ability to work with different groups and levels
• Good influencing skills - able to influence key decissions, by presenting business insights and drive recommendations
• Strategic thinking
• Able to take a holistic view of the business with efficiency and profitability focus
• Fluent English
• ACCA/CIMA degree (or in progress)