CW - Senior Finance Manager

Career Category Finance Job Description Senior Finance Manager – Maghreb Cluster Reports into the MEA Finance Director & the General Manager covering Maghreb Cluster Accountabilities - Selects, trains, coordinates and coaches’ adequate staff with capability to perform required assignments - Manages preparation of forecasts and budgets - Provides recommendations to BU based on analysis of deviations from budgets - Provides leadership, consultancy and financial support to various company functions, teams and departments - Acts as link between Finance and Business Units - Ensures data integrity between Business Units, Finance and Supply Chain - Manages the reporting processes (analytical management) Responsibilities - Leads business planning and decision-making processes; ensures all required financial analysis, modelling of "what if" scenarios is provided - Ensures timely production of monthly forecasts of sales trends in coordination with business analysts; supports production planning - Oversees monitoring of actual and forecasted cost and revenues (on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis). Tracks activity based OPEX. - Coordinates and consolidates budget, latest estimate and variance analysis - Leads long-term planning support activities - Ensures there is no overdue receivables working with Customer Finance. - Ensures all company data is collected, derived and consolidated data from all departments to produce reliable forecasting and plans. - Ensures efficient processes and procedures are in place to monitor contracts (insurances, leasing, rents, etc.) - Leads FP&A projects locally and may participate in MEA / ICON projects - Communicates and provides direction to BU Managers about financial trends and their business implications - Provides decision support to various stakeholders (BU’s, project teams, functions). Analyses and prepares reports to support management. - Ensures data integrity across platforms (Hyperion, Anaplan, Budget/LE decks) - Ensure implementation and adherence to corporate and local guidelines - Coach and mentor Finance department staff - Response to Audits/Controls from internal/external entities - Ensure Finance Review of Payments SOP and Shipping Guidelines SOP are followed. Qualifications Minimum Requirements - Degree in Economics or Business Administration or Finance - Experience of more than 6 years’ work in similar position in an international environment - Experience in accounting, budgeting and planning - Fluency in English, French is a pre-requisite both in written and oral communication - Arabic language skills would be highly preferred - Excellent user of Office Programs as Word, Excel, PowerPoint Preferred Requirements - Studies specialized in Finance (financial analysis, controlling, accounting, consolidating) - MBA would be an advantage - Experience in various areas of finance and accounting - Experience of 2 to 3 years in a Management position within an international finance department would be an asset - Industry knowledge - Basic know-how of applicable laws concerning business admin, taxes (esp. VAT), accounting and consolidation - Basic knowledge of US GAAP - Experience with SAP FI/CO - Experience with BI systems (Power BI, Tableau etc.) Competencies - Demonstrates advanced communication skills and abilities - Regularly represents the company and function internally and externally - Collaborates, negotiates and persuades others, both internally and externally - Demonstrates a strong customer focus in all activities - Analyses complex problems; integrates disciplinary and business strategy knowledge to develop recommendations - Demonstrates strong project management and planning skills - Learns quickly; motivates other to adapt quickly to new systems, processes and tools - Demonstrates strong leadership and coaching skills - Demonstrates strong management and delegation skills - Serves as a role model for Amgen Values .