Finance Business Partnering Lead - Sandton - Boardroom Appointments

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    Boardroom Appointments Sandton

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    Finance Business Partnering Lead - 3-Month Contract

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Contribute to budget development and monitor utilization throughout the financial year in line with operational plans.
    • Prepare or review budget reports to ensure accuracy and relevance to work activities.
    • Maintain accurate financial documentation to support record-keeping and legislative compliance.
    • Identify potential budget risks that may lead to increased costs or financial losses.
    • Present proposals for planned activities requiring financial resources.
    • Authorize and manage expenditures.
    • Analyze data to forecast expenditure and cash flow trends, providing recommendations to improve the budget.
    • Achieve operational and cost targets.
    • Optimize resource allocation to minimize wastage.
    • Monitor costs in line with operational plans throughout the financial year.
    • Review cost reports and address or explain variances from the budget.
    • Identify, control, and escalate potential risks leading to increased costs.
    • Manage costs within approved budgets to achieve cost efficiencies.

    Customer Service and Relationship Management:

    • Build relationships to manage expectations, share knowledge, and create buy-in.
    • Nurture cross-functional relationships to obtain and provide work support.
    • Evaluate customer needs to deliver quality service.
    • Communicate customer service solutions and secure stakeholder buy-in.
    • Ensure product knowledge and advice are technically accurate and keep customers informed of products and services.
    • Address customer queries and complaints promptly, taking ownership of issues.
    • Analyze customer feedback to propose improvements to customer service.
    • Provide regular reports on service delivery against service level agreements and customer targets.

    Compliance and Governance:

    • Ensure adherence to statutory, legislative, policy, and governance requirements.
    • Implement relevant policies, governance, and practice standards across the organization.
    • Stay up-to-date with legislative amendments, industry best practices, and internal compliance procedures.
    • Review compliance systems and procedures in response to audit findings and changes.
    • Develop an understanding of risks and risk management approaches.
    • Implement and contribute to governance and compliance processes and identify risks.
    • Educate others and suggest improvements in compliance processes.
    • Participate in specialist risk forums where necessary.

    Process Improvement and Efficiency:

    • Implement and monitor business processes according to quality standards, policies, and governance requirements.
    • Align processes with customer journey mapping.
    • Research and consult on improvements and opportunities for technology enablement.
    • Suggest innovative ideas to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and reduce redundancy.
    • Monitor customer feedback reports and align processes for maximum efficiencies.

    Strategic Planning and Operational Management:

    • Contribute to the business area's tactical strategy to achieve overall business objectives.
    • Develop and implement an operational plan to achieve business objectives.
    • Translate business performance into actionable objectives to drive improvements.
    • Participate actively in executive committee discussions.
    • Translate strategy into operational targets, ensuring focus areas are communicated throughout the business unit.

    Financial and Risk Analysis:

    • Drive enterprise risk management to manage uncertainty, opportunities, and risks.
    • Provide accurate and compelling narratives about the organization's performance for external audiences.
    • Ensure 'one version of the truth' for all reporting, reconciling management reports across business areas.
    • Review variance analyses prepared by the team, discussing major variances with business unit heads.
    • Contribute to and support during the development of business case financials for projects or initiatives.
    • Conduct reviews for cost-reduction opportunities and analyze costs, pricing, sales results, and performance against plans.

    Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:

    • Build and sustain collaborative relationships with peers and stakeholders to achieve synergies.
    • Participate in specialist communities of practice, contributing to knowledge sharing and organizational improvement.
    • Actively share information about successes, issues, trends, and ideas to support a culture of development.


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