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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Employer
IHS Towers
Location
Cranford, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Sep 25, 2020

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Job Role
Financial Planning & Analysis
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Group FP&A - Business Planning Manager, London UK

About IHS Towers

Founded in 2001 by the trio of Sam Darwish, William Saad and Mohamad Darwish, along with a strong team of telecoms engineers, IHS is one of the largest independent tower operators in Africa and the fourth largest independent multinational tower operator globally.


Reporting to Director - Group FP&A, this individual will be part of the Financial Planning & Analysis team and support all Business Plan related activities and processes including Group planning and forecasting activities | board presentations and internal management reporting | developing business rhythms and cycles to monitor performance whilst delivering informed analysis to support strategic decision making.


Core Responsibilities

  • Focus on the Group Business Plan (BP) and financial modelling activities
  • Assist with core FP&A processes around reporting, forecasting and budgeting processes
  • Work closely with the country teams and Group teams to source information, validate assumptions, ensure alignment and improve quality and timeliness of BP outputs
  • Analyse financial performance against budget | forecast, highlighting trends, investigate variances and recommend corrective actions
  • Assist with the preparation of quarterly board presentations
  • Build appropriate automated models, KPI and dashboards to analyse trends | monitor performance
  • Implement and develop BI tools and relevant financial models to improve analysis and decision making
  • Continuous improvement to simplify, standardise and streamline processes related to FP&A
  • Support as required the FP&A team with ad-hoc projects as needed.


Qualifications and Experience

  • Prior experience in financial planning | modelling across corporates | investment banking | private equity | consulting
  • Extensive years of relevant experience post university
  • Ability to develop financial models from first principles
  • Highly numerate with excellent analytical and Excel skills | competent to handle and manipulate large volume of data
  • Superior PowerPoint skills, especially to support presentations to internal and external stakeholders
  • Commercial awareness and knowledge of business drivers (revenue, costs, profitability, capex and returns measures)
  • Strong time management skills and ability to multi-task between various ongoing responsibilities
  • Ability to build relationships across all levels | functions and work independently with minimal supervision when needed
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with a flair for delivering crisp, succinct information to senior management
  • A change agent, tolerant of ambiguity, comfortable to operate in a high growth, entrepreneurial environment
  • Experience of capital intensive or infrastructure-like business desirable.

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