Business Performance Reporting Manager at Lafarge Cement

About the role

The Business Performance Reporting (BPR) Manager is responsible for the production of high quality, timely and accurate financial and business performance reports that help understand the country’s performance context and points the leadership to strategic decisions for the future.

BPR manager will also be responsible for coordinating Month End Closing (MEC) activities by ensuring that the financial cycles, FPPA and controlling inputs, are completed in line with reporting timelines, and that financial results are reflective of business understanding with detailed insights and commentary on financial performance.

What you'll be doing

Business Performance Reporting

• Coordinate the MEC process and consolidation in FPPA; responsible for validating the credibility of the financial numbers on the MEC process. Drive process documentation for all controlling activities (Standard Operating Procedure) to ensure standardization of all processes in line with finance best practices.
• Ensure that performance and monitoring information is gathered and submitted with the right level of detail and context and within time frames to enable effective decision making at leadership level.
• Ensure that the FPPA Minimum Control Standards and internal control process are adhered to, with the right level of documentation backing up finance treatments within the FPPA team.
• Monitor the integrity of our balance sheet working to minimize and manage balance sheet exposures with clear actionable items within agreed time-frames.
• Prepare periodic business performance presentations; explaining the performance highlights for the period and variances versus budget, forecast and previous period in order to ensure adherence to annual performance commitment.
• Drive the delivery and reporting of all Functional KPIs (HR, Logistics, Industrial, Sustainability) to ensure that they are prepared, validated and reported on a timely basis as part of the Month-end reporting process.
• Coordinate all audit requests made to the financial planning team during annual internal audits and statutory audits.

Board and Investors Relations Reporting

• Prepare Quarterly Board Reports with detailed analysis of LAP performance for quarterly Board of Directors and Finance Committee Meetings.
• Responsible for all financial performance analysis and quarterly investor’s earnings call presentations. Lead preparation of earnings call presentation, press release, CFO and CEO quarterly earnings call commentary/scripts and potential questions and answers pack.
• Support the preparation of the Annual Report as well as planning and execution of Shareholders Annual General Meeting. This includes providing support to legal department to obtain proxies and other forms required from institutional shareholders.
• Monitors the share price of LAP and the share purchase activities of the investors

Strategy Executions

• Prepare a reporting framework for tracking all strategic initiatives across all the functions
• Monitor actual execution of the business strategy – tracking all initiatives agreed during strategy session
• Maintain dashboards to measure initiatives Vs strategic initiatives across all functions
• Reports and tracks cross functional cost savings initiatives Vs strategy commitments

Finance Projects

• Key resource person for the Finance reporting digitalization project - Anaplan. The Anaplan project is aimed at simplifying financial and operational planning and ensure we transit to digital.
• Drive with the team, the tracking and implantation of the Decarbonization targets – set up reporting framework, maintain and track consolidated dashboard over the 3 scopes of Decarbonization
• Drive Cost Management Initiatives that will help the company manage increasing costs amidst volatile by supporting the Functional Controllers in ensuring that business derives value in all transactions and savings is realized.
• Support the finance organization in driving new ways of work through digitization and adoption of best-in class analytics applications and tools across the team.

Who you'll be working with 

Internal

• Chief Financial Officer, FPP&A Team Leads, Finance Shared Services Team, Treasury & Corporate Finance Team and other internal stakeholders

External:

• Internal & external auditors.

Key Performance Indicators

• On time submission of all country Performance Reporting KPIs- quality and timely submission
• Continuous process improvement in the area of business reporting- simplifying business reporting process and reduce time to complete on an ongoing basis.

What we are looking for 

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or any other relevant degree.
• 5 to 7 years’ experience with at least 3 years in Business Planning, Management Reporting and Analysis roles.
• Experience in multi-national companies is an added advantage.
• Strong Excel and MS Office proficiency (including good knowledge of PowerPoint)
• Good knowledge SAP and SAP FC is a plus.

Behavioral competence:

• Ability to work effectively under time pressure, in a demanding environment, while maintaining the highest professional standards.
• Ability to self-organize, prioritize tasks, take initiatives, and make recommendations while engaging with Senior Leaders.

Leadership and Managerial Abilities

• Build informal networks across functions to ensure smooth flow inputs for own deliverables.
• Top presentation skills to be able to convey clear and synthetic messages (verbally or on paper).

Mobility Requirements

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment with occasional stretches to meet strict timelines. Work may occasionally require some local travel with overnight stay