Business Partner Manager

SoluGrowth is looking for Business Partner Manager:

- To establish an analytical framework that supports and monitors performance results of the Business, generates in-depth analysis, insights, and challenges to support the Business Unit.
- Prepare the Budget and Forecasts for the company and develop and maintain all necessary controls, systems, and processes to ensure the efficient and effective management.

**RESPONSIBILITY**

**Budgeting and financial control**
- Manage, define, and execute the budget/forecast process throughout its life cycle. (Preparing budget templates, meeting with the departments, updating cost drivers, etc)
- Be the contact point for the department during the processes of budget creation, update and revision
- Consolidate, evaluate, and discuss the divisions’ budgets and prepare the consolidated budget.
- Review outputs and refine costing allocations where necessary.
- Maintain and update the budget model (operational and financial) with actual data, on a monthly basis.
- Ensure that the Company’s budget is in line with approved business plan.
- Analyse planned and realised budget utilization and provide the necessary analysis for reporting and disclosure.
- Review of forecasts based upon historical performance and activity KPI.
- Uploading the budget into the system, and updating the system after each reforecast.
- Verify that revenue, OPEX and CAPEX targets are met.
- Ensure that the correct procedures and controls are followed in the Company.
- Ensure that costs and revenues are accurate and valid in terms of predicted costs.
- On a monthly basis, identify and correct misallocations and other incorrect accounting entries to ensure accurate financial information.
- Identify and correct expense accruals.
- Provide financial information, as accurately and reliable as possible, within the agreed timeframe to management and/or departmental heads, such as monthly variance reports.
- Prepare and present adhoc studies covering all the operational activities of the company.

**Financial analysis**
- Create business planning models, incorporating strategies and directions provided by all functional areas of the company (i.e., market strategy, service strategy, organisational strategy and financial strategy)
- Develop specific financial models incorporating key functional drivers (income, investment, expenses, cash flow etc).
- Provide advice on accounting (IFRS) and tax issues.
- Prepare financial valuations (cash flow, cost of capital, NPV, mix of finance).

**Business Case Management**
- Establish measurable performance parameters and standardized sources for measurement, to evaluate ongoing success of decisions
- Drive the business plan and forecasts of the Business
- Oversee and drive financial modelling and business case framework that simultaneously leads, supports and governs all key commercial/ financial activities
- Provide strategic inputs regarding the prioritisation of the project initiatives
- Evaluate potential impacts of existing and new business opportunities, products, services, channels etc.

**Finance operations**
- Collaborate closely with the Accounts Payable team to ensure the complete, accurate and timely accounting of payable transactions relating to the Business
- Ensure all requisitions and receipting is performed on time.
- Oversee the activities of the Business regarding CAPEX spend asset management and accurate transaction processing
- Understand the key performance drivers of the Business and provide insights across functions
- Maintain the financial relationship with structures within the business and ensure the correct accounting of the related financial activities
- Work closely with the Gross Margin team to resolve any queries from the business and ensure corrective actions are taken to forestall recurrence of identified issues
- Develop and maintain effective cost efficiency plans to reduce cost drivers
- Identify under-performance within the Business and provide improvement recommendations
- Recommend initiatives to the function to implement the proper levers to track and identify business/operational risks in the function
- Ensure that policies, procedures, and guidelines are being followed by the business
- Generate management reports detailing analysis, findings, and recommendations for Exco, Management Reviews
- Provide ongoing support and direction on commercial, business and risk issues identified and recommend solutions

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Degree in Economics/Finance
- BCom, BCompt, or similar
- Honours degree an advantage
- 3 + years minimum experience in budgeting/planning, analysis or in a functional area relevant to Cell C organizational structure

**CORE COMPETENCIES & ATTRIBUTES**
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Influencing with Integrity & Ethics
- Agile Leadership
- Change and Innovation
- Outcome-Based Orientation