Sunday, October 13, 2013

Manager - Financial Planning / Analysis - Gulf Bank

To support the Executive Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis in the role of strategic planning and analyses activities; ensuring financial discipline via comprehensive financial reporting analyses structure and assist senior management in their decision making by providing relevant information and recommendations through timely and accurate reports. Manage planning, budgeting and forecasting process across the business groups.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree preferably in an Accounting or Finance major, or any related Business Administration major along with CPA or CA
Experience: 5 - 7 years, preferably in banking financial control

Accountabilities:
Management Analysis and Reporting
    Produce and organize the month-end financial report for submission to senior management and Board of Directors in order to provide information on the bank’s financial performance. The process entails the following:
    Comparative analysis of the business performance and trends against plan & prior year ensuring it contains all the required information to explain major variances and reflect evolving business developments
    Review and consolidate the analytical commentaries based on input from the member business groups in order to prepare the Monthly performance Report

Planning & Budgeting
Organize the production and finalization of annual budget for presentation to the senior management following a rigorous discussion and analysis of submissions by the member business groups and operating divisions.

The process entails the following:
    Supervise the relevant information gathering process and consolidation of the input received from business groups,
    Check the data received for consistency with the underlying business assumptions, prior period performances and projected market conditions,
    Review and analyse the global and business group budgets, 3 year plans and capital projects for reasonableness, consistency and fit with the overall Bank strategy
    Participate in the finalization process involving discussions with business groups and performing scenario analysis

Strategic Planning
    Coordinate the preparation of strategic business plans by analyzing both internal and external business information in order to present plans and forecasts to the senior management for decision-making

Credit Rating Review
Support Executive Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis in co-ordination with rating agencies, co-ordinate with business groups and provide all required information for the rating review

Trends analysis
    Review competitors’ financials and compare their performance with Gulf Bank, by analyzing key performance ratios and identify industry-wide trends.
    Monitor Economic Trends and Public Finances in general economic environment, key economic indicators and government finances and analyze impact on business performance and strategic plan of the bank

Monitoring profitability
    Implement process to track key parameters (e.g. cost of funds, deposits, loans etc.) on a daily/weekly basis in order to monitor bank's profitability and variance with budget.
    Support Executive Manager- Financial Planning & Analysis in scenario analysis, stress test on profitability and other analysis required to monitor profitability

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