Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

The FP&A Manager will lead the company's financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and commercial finance activities. The role will act as a strategic business partner to executive management, providing financial insights, profitability analysis, and decision support across telecom infrastructure, EPC projects, and investment initiatives. Key Accountabilities: • Lead the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning across all business units. • Prepare monthly management reports, executive dashboards, and Board presentations highlighting financial and operational performance. • Perform detailed variance analysis against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, providing actionable recommendations to management. • Develop financial models, business cases, investment evaluations, and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making. • Partner with Operations, Projects, Commercial, Procurement, and Executive Management to provide financial insights and improve business performance. • Monitor project financial performance including project profitability, margins, revenue, cost analysis, WIP, backlog, and CAPEX utilization. • Analyze revenue trends, gross margins, EBITDA, operating expenses, working capital, and overall business profitability. • Support pricing strategies, commercial proposals, and investment evaluations through financial analysis. • Drive continuous improvement of planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to increase forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency. • Lead reporting automation initiatives and optimize ERP reporting capabilities, ensuring full utilization of Microsoft Dynamics or equivalent ERP systems. • Build and standardize financial dashboards, KPIs, and performance reporting frameworks across the organization. • Support executive leadership in strategic planning, business expansion, and operational improvement initiatives. • Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and Treasury teams to ensure consistency between financial reporting and planning activities. • Support due diligence exercises, banking requirements, investment activities, and strategic projects as required. • Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A team while fostering a high-performance, analytical, and business-partnering culture Knowledge, Skills, and Experience: • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration. • Professional certification preferred: CFA, CMA, CPA, ACCA, SOCPA, or equivalent. • Minimum 8 10 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Corporate Finance. • Strong experience within telecom, EPC, infrastructure, construction, engineering, or project-driven environments. • Proven expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, business partnering, and management reporting. • Strong understanding of project financial analysis, profitability analysis, CAPEX planning, and performance management. • Experience working in high-growth organizations, investment-backed companies, or rapidly expanding businesses. • Strong hands-on experience with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms. • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities. • Experience building FP&A functions, reporting frameworks, dashboards, and planning processes. • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate financial information into strategic recommendations. • Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • High level of accountability, ownership, and execution discipline. • Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and support executive decision-making in a fast-paced environment. • Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail.