Role Overview
A client of byteSpark.ai which is a major regional telecom operator in the region is seeking a Senior Manager FP&A to lead group financial planning, consolidation, forecasting, and performance management activities. This is a senior, hands-on FP&A leadership role requiring ownership of consolidated actuals, budgets, forecasts, intercompany eliminations, foreign currency impacts, and management reporting across multiple entities or business units. The successful candidate will direct annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash flow forecasting, and long-range planning while ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery. They will develop financial models, scenarios, business cases, and investment evaluations that inform strategic decisions and telecom growth initiatives. The role will analyze revenue, operating expenditure, profitability, cash flow, subscriber or commercial KPIs, and variances against targets to identify risks and opportunities. The Senior Manager will deliver executive reporting, dashboards, and concise recommendations to finance leadership and other senior stakeholders. They will lead and develop FP&A professionals while partnering with commercial, technology, operations, and corporate functions across distributed and international teams. The position will drive improvements to consolidation, planning, reporting, controls, data quality, and performance management through effective use of ERP, planning, and business intelligence tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or an equivalent discipline; a professional finance or accounting qualification is strongly preferred.
- Substantial senior-level FP&A experience with ownership of complex planning, forecasting, performance management, and executive decision support.
- Demonstrated expertise in consolidating actuals, budgets, and forecasts across multiple entities, business units, or regions, including intercompany eliminations and foreign currency impacts.
- Advanced capability in integrated budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash flow forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation.
- Strong management reporting and performance analysis expertise covering revenue, operating expenditure, profitability, cash flow, variances, and operational KPIs.
- Proven experience leading and developing FP&A teams while coordinating deliverables across finance and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and practical experience with ERP systems, enterprise planning platforms, Power BI, or comparable business intelligence tools.
- Ability to communicate complex financial findings to executives, manage multiple remote priorities, and deliver accurate outputs under demanding deadlines.
Desirable
- FP&A leadership experience within telecommunications, technology, infrastructure, or another capital-intensive multi-entity organization.
- Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CMA, ACA, or an MBA with a finance concentration.
- Experience improving or automating group consolidation, planning, reporting, and performance management processes.
- Exposure to international operations, multiple currencies, distributed teams, and regional group-reporting structures.
- Knowledge of telecom commercial and operational drivers such as subscribers, ARPU, churn, network investment, customer acquisition costs, and capital expenditure.
This vacancy remains open and applications are being reviewed. Originally posted .