Africa Financial Planning/ Performance & Analysis Specialist at Schneider Electric

Africa Financial Planning/ Performance & Analysis Specialist

The main mission is on a monthly basis, to provide to the Local Management a clear diagnostic of the performance of the African countries (by businesses/segment), a follow-up of the main global actions plans, and a detailed assessment of the potential financial risks and opportunities vs Target/RF. The person also plays a key role in implementing changes of Group Performance Measurement systems and will contribute to and/or lead transverse initiatives and projects.

• Follow-up and distribute Africa's Orders & Invoicing Reports (Entity and Managerial Views) – weekly/monthly.
• Follow-up orders portfolio with reliable, timely and accurate analysis.
• Monitor and analyze monthly CCO (Consolidated Contribution) result by Business Unit
• Control Upstream allocations and lead corrective actions.
• Contribute effectively to the preparation of Quarterly business review.
• In charge of all aspects of external reporting HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) Group reporting (input data, respect deadlines), ad-hoc analyses.
• Responsible for the Internal reporting (actual vs budget by department sales, expenses…), of coordinating the corrective action plan in case of deviations identified (vs Target and vs Rolling Forecast)
• In charge of specific analysis requested by the Local management or the Cluster
• In charge of alerting the local CFO and the Africa Cluster Financial Planning & Analysis Manager in case of major deviation (Orders or Profit & Loss) vs Target or vs Rolling Forecast
• Specific analysis to support the pricing decisions
• Performance monitoring for the Go-To-Markets
• Drive standardization and mutualization of Reporting and Analysis to prepare next evolution
• Support Entity CFO (*) in day-to-day performance monitoring ensure overall performance consistency cross Business and alert on major deviations
• Drive and coordinate reporting and analysis processes and outputs and ensure highest consistency & quality (closing, Forecast, Target, prior, …)
• Drive and coordinate implementation of transversal projects & new rules / processes as per Group policies
• Support Financial Business Partners' reporting & performance analysis requests with a mission of continuous standardization and minimizing ad’hoc needs.

Key deliverables

• Refresh reports (from our Business Intelligence tool) and reporting preparation (Corporate specific)
• Risk, Opportunity tracking and travel and Training cost update on
• Update and upload monthly zone reports by validation of data, Tableau top line and Tableau SFC
• Reconciliations FI revenue to the BI report and FI cost vs COPA
• Updating of templates for Rolling forecasts
• Support in updating efficiency tool (START)
• Request and consolidate QBR (quarterly business review) related reports
• Refresh Essbase retrieves for cluster and country for Rolling Forecasts
• Support with Prior campaign, transfer pricing campaign, smart finance projects, target setting and BI
• Bachelors degree or Diploma in Finance
• Advanced excel skills

ERP Skills (SAP Preferred)
 

• Management of big data