Finance Director, Africa Partners Market at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Job Title: Finance Director, Africa Partners Market

Activities

• Develop financial strategies and interventions to enable the delivery of APM’s financial plans, partnering with various functions.
• Responsible for budgeting, accurate volume and revenue forecasting, and financial planning processes.
• Identify trends and opportunities to deliver revenue growth, profitability and cost optimisation.
• Manage, review and report on financial forecasts including comprehensive variance identification in forecast versus actuals and plan.
• Identify risks to the plan and generate ideas to solve for variances to plan.
• Deliver excellent decision support, business performance management (BPM) and present financial performance insights to senior stakeholders and external partners.
• Responsible to managing trade spend, A&P and overheads within approved limits, leads on the S&OP process and M&E.
• Monitor the financial metrics to assess the health of the business.
• Champion and ensure a strong Controls, Compliance and Ethics agenda in line with relevant financial regulations, standards, policies and CARM controls framework.
• Maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders – banks, auditors and regulatory bodies.
• Support partners with capability building on financial management practices.
• Facilitate effective communication between partners and Diageo stakeholders.

Candidate Profile

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or related subjects
• Either CA/CIMA Qualification
• 7+ years’ experience gained in various finance roles including finance business partnering.
• Strong experience in forecasting and business planning.
• Track record of success in highly demanding environment.
• In market knowledge within the consumer goods industry.
• Experience in RGM is an added advantage.
• Highly numerate, strong analytical and interpretive skills
• People management, communication and ability to build relationships across levels.
• Planning, negotiating and problem-solving.
• Ability to grasp complexity of markets (complex entity structure, multiple channels and markets, languages, cultural differences)
• Ability to influence people across all the levels in the organization.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and work to a series of tight deadlines.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 24th October 2024. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION”