Senior Director: Finance

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The Senior Director, Finance is a leadership role, accountable for overseeing and managing the financial operations, strategies, and performance of the organization.

This role involves managing financial planning, reporting, risk management and ensuring the organization's financial health and compliance with relevant regulations.

This role is responsible for providing strategic pricing strategy and analysis to the business.

This role is responsible for providing leadership and consulting support to senior leadership / management on matters pertaining to financial management, commercial structuring and strategic implementation in support of achieving corporate objectives and business growth.

This role provides overall leadership and management of their finance and commercial teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key**Responsibilities**:

- Develops and ensures execution of the financial strategy in alignment with its overall business goals. This includes both short term and long-term financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Oversees the preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial reports to senior leadership.
- Conducts in-depth financial analysis to provide insights into practice’s financial performance, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Uses data-driven analysis to make strategic financial decisions.
- Identifies, assesses, and mitigates financial risks that could impact business profitability or financial stability.
- Implements risk management strategies to safeguard assets and investments.
- Ensures that the organization complies with all financial regulations, accounting standards, and tax laws in the regions where it operates.
- Maintains strong relationships with regulatory authorities and auditors, where applicable.
- Manages the allocation of financial resources, including capital investments and return thereon.
- Establishes and maintains robust financial controls, policies, and procedures to prevent fraud, errors, and financial mismanagement.
- May assist with evaluation of potential mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures from a financial perspective. May lead financial due diligence and integration efforts when necessary.
- Maintains relationships with internal stakeholders, communicating the company's financial performance, strategic initiatives, and growth prospects.
- Oversees the management of the finance information systems and necessary reports for critical analyses of financial performance.
- Builds and leads a high-performing finance team, setting clear goals and expectations, providing mentorship, and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
- Manages a team of Finance Managers/Controllers and Commercial Specialists carrying out the financial management and control processes.
- Responsible for negotiating financial and commercial matters with internal and external stakeholders. Specifically required to take the lead on vendor negotiations as a key lever in the business.
- Responsible for negotiating client SLAs based on deal risk assessments and commercial outcomes required.
- Oversees current and future business needs through the development and implementing pricing strategies that enhance profitability.
- Owns scenario analysis, what if comparisons, sensitivity analysis, on key deal during deal structuring cycle.
- Works across multiple business areas to train and develop managers on pricing pursuits for account, sales enablement and delivery teams and deliver ongoing education to ensure Sales understanding and compliance.
- Accountable for managing the pricing strategy and analysis team ensuring they understand and can execute all pricing responsibilities in accordance with Company policies and procedures.
- Ensures the facilitation of deal reviews and approval by Sales and Finance by managing the communication and structuring of business opportunities.
- Initiates and leads discussions on pricing strategy and analysis policies and procedures improvement to ensure they are up to date, business enabling practices.

**Knowledge and Attributes**:

- Process driven and commercially astute.
- Significantly vast knowledge about the industry including competitors and market trends (Telecommunications and/or Internet Service Provider).
- Significantly vast understanding of how technology solutions are influenced and affected by various business scenarios.
- Excellent business negotiation and, conflict resolution skills.
- Political savvy.
- Significantly vast knowledge of financial principles, a