Description
The Finance Manager collaborates closely with the Finance and Client Facing organization, providing financial business support. This role involves overseeing financial planning, financial analysis, and reporting, managing financial risks, and financial modelling and reviewing of client deals and business cases.
Financial Management:
- Production of key business drivers to be used in strategic planning, annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting
- Volume trend and product mix analysis
- Proactive identification of development areas in designated markets
- Support in pricing and interchange related discussions
- Management of ad hoc analysis of Market and Client trends
- Provide support in revenue management and investment decisions
- Participate in continuous improvement activities
Incentives and Contracts:
- Responsible for deal modelling for clients and ensuring it meets business needs and internal governance and compliance requirements
- Review incentive deal proposals and provide feedback
- Detailed deal tracking for all executed deals
- Provides financial analysis for forecasting contra-revenues
- Deal reforecasting on a monthly/quarterly basis and budget process
- Collaborate with other internal stakeholders to ensure that client incentive contracts are executed efficiently
Expense Management:
- Proactive management of cross-functional expense planning
- Financial leadership in forecast and budget process for the markets
- Advisory and guidance to cost center managers
- Participation in continuous improvement activities
- Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts
Compliance and Governance:
- Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures
- Ensure data integrity and consistency of information
- Provide guidance to business partners on their approved budgets and forecasts