Business Planning & Performance Management Manager

Job Summary

• The Business Planning & Performance Management Manager is responsible for driving budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, and business performance management across the organization.
• The role provides strategic financial insights, supports executive decision-making, ensures regulatory compliance, and drives sustainable business performance.
• Beyond reporting numbers, the role challenges assumptions, explains what is driving results, and recommends actions that protect margin, cash and growth.
• It also safeguards the integrity of related-party and transfer pricing reporting, and leads the continued improvement of planning systems, tools and analytics across the Group.
• The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance leader who is equally comfortable building a driver-based model, presenting to the CEO, and coaching a team of analysts.

Key Responsibilities

Budgeting and business planning

• Lead the annual budget and medium-term (3 - 5 year) business planning cycle, from calendar and templates through to Board approval.
• Translate Group strategy and corporate objectives into financial targets, operating assumptions and plant/business-unit budgets.
• Review, challenge and validate budget submissions from business units, plants and functions for accuracy, realism and strategic fit.
• Consolidate Group budgets, including revenue, cost, capex, headcount, working capital and cash flow, and prepare approval packs for management and the Board.
• Develop and maintain driver-based planning models covering volumes, prices, input costs (energy, fuel, raw materials), FX and inflation.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analysis on key macroeconomic and operational assumptions.

Forecasting and performance management

• Own the monthly and quarterly forecasting process, including rolling forecasts and full-year outlook updates.
• Monitor financial and operational performance against budget, forecast and prior year.
• Analyze variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions with clear owners and timelines.
• Design, track and refine KPI frameworks and balanced scorecards at Group, business-unit and plant level.
• Facilitate monthly business performance reviews with executives and business-unit leaders.

Cash flow, liquidity and financial optimization

• Drive short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting in partnership with Treasury.
• Support liquidity planning, funding requirements and working capital optimization (receivables, payables, inventory).
• Lead cost optimization and margin improvement initiatives, quantifying benefits and tracking delivery.
• Evaluate capital expenditure proposals and investment cases using NPV, IRR and payback analysis, and run post-investment reviews.

Management reporting and executive insight

• Prepare timely, accurate monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports for the Executive Committee and Board.
• Turn complex financial data into concise, decision-ready insight, dashboards and presentations.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support strategic decisions, including pricing, product mix, market entry, M&A and restructuring.

Benchmarking and continuous improvement

• Lead internal and external benchmarking of cost, productivity and profitability against peers and industry standards.
• Identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities, and build business cases for action.
• Share best practice across plants, business units and subsidiaries.

Systems, tools and analytics

• Support the implementation, enhancement and integration of FP&A and ERP systems (e.g. SAP BPC/SAC, Oracle EPM/Hyperion, Anaplan).
• Drive automation of budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes to improve speed and accuracy.
• Champion the use of BI and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and maintain strong data governance.

Risk, sustainability and governance

• Identify, assess and help mitigate financial risks, including FX, inflation, commodity price, interest rate and liquidity risk.
• Support sustainability and ESG performance reporting, including integrating ESG metrics into business plans.
• Maintain robust controls, documentation and governance across planning and reporting processes.

People leadership

• Lead, coach and develop the business planning and performance management team.
• Set objectives, manage performance and build technical and business-partnering capability.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, accountability, curiosity and continuous improvement.
• Lead the annual budgeting and business planning process, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
• Review, validate, and consolidate budgets for management approval.
• Monitor financial and operational performance, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Drive cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and financial optimization initiatives.
• Prepare periodic business performance reports and insights for executive management.
• Oversee related-party reporting, transfer pricing, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Lead benchmarking initiatives to identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Support the implementation and enhancement of FP&A systems, reporting tools, and analytics solutions.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks while supporting sustainability and performance reporting initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• MBA, MSc Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, or related discipline is an advantage.
• Professional certification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA, or FP&A Certification.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Business Planning, Corporate Finance, or Performance Management.
• Minimum of 5 years in a senior finance or strategic planning role.
• Experience in manufacturing, cement, industrial, or FMCG sectors is preferred.

Key Competencies

• Budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
• Financial analysis and business performance management.
• Strategic planning and decision support.
• Cash flow management and treasury optimization.
• Transfer pricing and regulatory compliance.
• ERP and FP&A systems (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent).
• Data analytics and business intelligence tools.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development.