Budgets, Quarterly Reviews & Long-Term Forecasts: Assist the GM in driving the Annual Financial Budgets, Forecasts and Long Term Planning exercises in a structured manner and within guidelines communicated in order to ensure adherence to process and timelines and document final approvals Using SAP BPC, run the consolidation of Budgets, Quarterly Forecasts, Rolling Forecasts on a monthly basis and the yearly exercise of 5 Year Long Term Planning for Trading Group, Property Group and AF Group to provide a group-wide view of the consolidated results Assess and train / guide Finance partners to ensure the Budgets, Forecasts and Long-Term Plans in BPC system per the Group Guidelines Financial Analysis & Reporting: Preparation, Financial Analysis & Reporting of the Monthly Management Consolidated Results along with commentary for variances in order to facilitate review by the Senior Management for timely decision making In coordination with the GM, develop Operational KPI trend analysis and reporting, segmental reporting, Like-for-Like analysis and drill down reporting to ensure accurate and timely reporting of the operational KPIs/Trends to the Senior Management. Follow-up with the Divisional Teams for the receipt of monthly Divisional Performance Reports (CFO Dashboard) and carry out analysis on the same to facilitate review by the CFO and Group Financial Controller with the Divisional Finance Heads Assist the GM to develop the formats/reports for Pre and Post-acquisition reviews of the new Businesses in the AF Group to report actual performance of the new Businesses versus the Investment Case periodically Assist the GM in the development of periodical comparative reporting of various AF businesses vis-à-vis other similar external segmental businesses / companies in the region and across other geographies. Assist the GM and Group Financial Controller in the analysis and review of various Costs / Capex trends to recommend measures for cost reduction / control. Assist the GM in the development and reporting of the periodical Financial Scorecard reporting to enable monitoring of the business performance Analysis and Preparation of other ad-hoc reports from time to time for the Group Financial Controller, CFO and the Senior Management with variance analysis and commentary on Group, Division and Entity Level to facilitate strategic reviews Required Skills: Required skills to be successful: Familiarity with computerized financial systems, including PC spreadsheets and database skills. In depth knowledge and understanding of International Accounting Standards. Very strong Management Accounting skills
