Manager - Finance

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Statement Management:
   - Review and Approve of Profit & Loss statement
   - Validate Financial assumptions and ensure aligning with business operation.
   - Develop and implement pricing model to adopt local and international business.
   - Manage and monitor detailed cash flow at milestone levels for inflows and outflows to ensure healthy financial operations.
2. Strategic Commercial Planning:
   - Develop and implement comprehensive commercial strategies aligned with business goals.
   - Design and execute commercial strategies to maximize sales turnover.
   - Provide regular reports and insights to senior management to guide decision-making.
3. Financial Analysis and Reporting:
   - Monitor financial performance and provide regular reports on commercial activities and outcomes.
   - Support budget analysis and the preparation of presentations for budgets and business plans.
4. Risk Management:
   - Identify potential risks to commercial operations and develop mitigation strategies.
   - Establish internal controls to monitor pricing, cost structures, and financial assumptions.
   - Conduct regular risk assessments and scenario analysis to anticipate challenges and develop contingency plans.
   - Identify potential risks and opportunities to maximize profitability.
5. Operational Efficiency:
   - Advise on the process changes to reduce the timelines for Customer pricing and P&L preparation.
   - Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to commercial activities.
   - Ensure commercial operations comply with EDGE policies, procedures, and regulations.
   - Develop template for standard costing; unit cost analysis; reports; inventory analysis; cost absorption parameters and any other template required based on the specific project requirements.
6. Stakeholder Collaboration:
   - Work closely with the BD team to optimize pricing strategies.
   - Deliver effective communication to customer queries within given time from the day of receiving the queries.
   - Collaborate with BD, finance, supply chain, and commercial teams to ensure alignment of commercial plans.
7. Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
   - Encourage the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance commercial performance.
8. Ad Hoc Reporting:
   - Deliver EDGE ADHOC report requests.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor degree in accounting/ finance or equivalent
• Professional certification in accountancy (CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, CIMA etc.)
• 10 years of experience in commercial planning and pricing in a public/private organization.
• Experience in pricing and commercial planning in a public/private sector defense engineering organization.

Technical Skills:

• Financial Analysis & Reporting
• Contracts Management
• Financial Planning & Budgeting
• Cost Accounting
• Commercial Awareness