Head, Financial Planning & Controls Job HF Group
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Principle Accountabilities
Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.
- Oversee monthly and quarterly performance reviews, variance analysis, and business insights for senior management.
- Ensure timely preparation and distribution of monthly rolling forecasts for business units and legal entities.
- Partner with business units to provide financial analysis and advisory support for strategic projects and investments.
- Ensure timely and accurate segment reporting.
- Own intra-company cost allocation frameworks and models.
- Own inter-company cost recharge frameworks and models and ensure tax efficiency.
Balance Sheet & Capital Management
- Manage balance sheet planning and capital optimization, including liquidity optimization in collaboration with Treasury and GM Finance.
- Ensure that the bank has an effective ICAAP.
- Own the Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) processes.
- Oversee preparation of ALCO, EXCO and board papers.
- Prepare debt funding pitch decks
Financial Controls & Governance
- Drive cost management initiatives, ensuring efficiency and alignment to strategic objectives.
- Develop and maintain financial control frameworks across functions.
- Build strong financial governance processes that support compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure timely departmental policies reviews.
- Oversee model governance for all models developed and managed in Finance.
- Perform and oversee revenue assurance.
- Maintain and update KPIs tracker for the Finance division.
Accounts Payable, Receivable & Reconciliations
- Ensure vendors are paid timely and with optimal credit terms.
- Ensure GL reconciliations are timely and that outstanding issues resolved promptly.
- Ensure that the trial balance (TB) can be relied upon by all users.
- Ensure accuracy of the Fixed Asset Register and its associated depreciation schedules
- Ensure accurate maintenance of receivables records and reconciliations
Financial Information System
- Ensure implementation of set system improvements (SAP and its integrations)
- Collaborate with IT to ensure EoD processes are supportive of finance processes
- Ensure GL variance between systems is resolved on a timely basis
Decision Support
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation of dashboards and KPIs.
- Provide thematic guidance to modelling teams.
- Strengthen finance business partnership.
- Review quarterly competitor analysis and present to management.
- Create a roadmap for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Finance and collaborate with Innovations and IT teams.
Audits
- Facilitate internal audits
- Collaborate with Head of Financial & Regulatory Reporting to facilitate external audits
- Ensure closure of internal and external audit findings
Team Management
- Design a talent development program for the team
- Ensure time performance measurement and management for the team
- Mentor the team
Ad-hoc
- Any other duty as assigned from time to time by the Finance and HFC leadership
Key Competencies and Skills
- Results-oriented
- Strong negotiation skills
- High emotional intelligence
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Highly analytical
- Problem solving skills
- Good communicator & excellent presentation skills
- Team player
Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Academic and Professional
- A business-related degree from a reputable institution preferably Finance, Accounting, Banking, data science or a related quantitative field.
- CPA(K)
- CFA, FRM, FRR, CIFA certifications will be an added advantage
Experience and Technical Skills
- A minimum of 12 years’ experience in banking with hands on experience finance, internal audit, external audit, financial risk management, strategy.
- 4 years should be at management level.
- Hands on experience in finance leadership
- Experience in board relations
- Experience in CBK relations
- Managing external audits
- Strong appreciation of accounting principles
- Excellent Ms Excel skills
- Strong Data & BI skills including SQL, EDW, PowerBI, Python, R
- Team and or People Management
- Strong business acumen
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