Finance Manager

Job Description

POSITION PURPOSE: The Finance Manager, FP&A role supports the SIB Finance department through financial closing, budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning. This position acts as a liaison between the business unit and corporate, ensuring accurate corporate reporting, creating senior management presentations, and leading special projects. Strong financial analysis, attention to detail, communication, hands on, and organizational skills are essential, as well as the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive process improvements.

PRIMARY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Reporting and Presentation: Take full ownership of all financial reporting on Closing, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Long-Term Planning. This includes the preparation and delivery of monthly financial presentations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and clear communication of financial performance.
2. Collaboration with Operations and Finance Leaders: Establish and maintain strong working relationships with Operations and Finance leaders. This involves active engagement during the monthly closing process to gain a deep understanding of financial results, variances from budgeted figures, and the underlying drivers of performance.
3. Capital Investment Analysis, reporting and Improvement: Conduct thorough analyses of capital investments to identify opportunities for improvement within the service lines. Collaborate closely with Operations and Finance management to develop and implement action plans to enhance performance and reliable forecast for capital deployment.
4. Preparation of Financial Reports: Prepare comprehensive monthly and quarterly financial reports that provide clear insights into the company's financial health and operational performance. These reports should be well-structured, visually appealing, and tailored to the needs of different stakeholders.
5. Financial Overheads controlling: Report and control overheads evolution for the Division
6. Support to Finance Department: Provide ongoing support to the Finance department during key financial processes, such as monthly closing, budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning. This may involve data analysis, report preparation, and ad hoc projects as needed.
7. Collaboration with SIB Finance and Operational Leadership: Undertake additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, working in close collaboration with SIB Finance and Operational Leadership to ensure alignment with overall business objectives and strategic priorities.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT: Hybrid work model 3 days in the office. Travel < 30%.

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Background

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering or equivalent degree.
• +7 years of experience in Financial/Corporate business environment.
• Prior experience with financial modeling, FP&A in a project environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency with various financing mechanisms and capital structuring / consolidation (including some IFRS background).
• Experience in building relationships with a variety of stakeholders at the site based operations, engineering, project management, sourcing, and executive levels].
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets (vlookups, macros, pivot tables, etc.).
• Quick learner of IT systems

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential / sensitive information.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment and autonomously.
• Strong sense of ownership & responsibility.
• Self-starting, flexible and responsive; able to drive decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated success reviewing, negotiating & securing capital financing.
• Proactive and willingness to take initiative to solve impasses, provide solutions, and stimulate creativity.
• Organized, passionate and curious to learn, stretch abilities and assume additional or new responsibilities.
• Ability to adapt to new systems and processes.
• Experience with Industrial customers.

Required Certification / Licenses / Training

• CPA, CMA, CFA or MBA preferred.
• Experience in measuring CO2 impacts is a plus.