Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture seeks a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to lead the preparation of timely, accurate, and insightful financial reports, and design and implement automated financial dashboards and business intelligence tools. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of six (6) years’ progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, or business finance.

Requirements

• Lead the preparation of timely, accurate, and insightful monthly management and financial reports
• Design and implement automated financial dashboards and business intelligence tools
• Develop financial models, trend analysis, forecasts, scenario analysis, and performance reports
• Establish and monitor key financial and operational performance indicators
• Conduct detailed variance and trend analysis
• Enhance reporting processes, data visualization, and user experience
• Support senior management and governance bodies
• Lead the Institute’s annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes
• Develop robust short-, medium-, and long-term financial forecasts
• Coordinate the preparation, consolidation, review, and analysis of departmental and project budgets
• Provide analytical review and challenge of budget assumptions, funding proposals, and expenditure plans
• Develop and enhance automated budgeting templates, tools, and workflows
• Drive continuous improvement and automation of budgeting and forecasting processes
• Support budget holders through training, guidance, and financial business partnering
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the Institute’s Full Cost Recovery (FCR) framework
• Develop accurate costing methodologies
• Ensure institutional costs are appropriately allocated and recovered
• Conduct cost-benefit and financial viability analysis
• Develop and maintain automated costing tools and models
• Maintain and regularly update institutional service catalogues, pricing structures, cost bases, and recovery rates
• Drive process improvement, reporting automation, ERP enhancements, and financial systems optimization
• Strengthen financial data governance, integrity, and reporting standards
• Develop institutional capacity in financial planning, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence
• Build strong collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Attractive benefits
• Excellent working conditions
• Pleasant campus environment

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