Business Planning and Performance Manager

1. Job Purpose Leads, integrates, and oversees Company's performance management and business planning functions. Ensures that planning processes and performance measurement systems are strategically aligned to support corporate objectives, resource optimization, and continuous improvement. Managing the full budget cycle, conducting investment feasibility studies, engaging with investors and bankers for capital structuring and fund raising, and identifying growth opportunities to drive long-term business success.

• Own end-to-end annual business planning and budgeting processes in coordination with all departments and in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Develop the corporate budget framework, templates, and timelines, and ensure adherence across departments.
• Consolidate and validate departmental budgets and ensure accuracy and completeness of submissions.
• Provide financial insights and recommendations during the planning cycle to ensure resource optimization and cost efficiency.
• Track and report budget performance throughout the year, including variance analysis and budget reforecasting where required.
• Coordinate budget presentations to executive management and support the Strategy Director in preparing materials for board and shareholder reviews.
• Ensure integration of business planning activities with long-term strategic objectives and capital expenditure planning.
• Collaborate with department heads to develop forecasts, assess resource needs, and ensure appropriate budget allocations aligned with business goals.
• Maintain and improve planning and budgeting tools, templates, and processes for continuous improvement.

• Oversee the development and implementation of company-wide performance management tools, such as Balanced Scorecards and KPIs.
• Ensure accurate performance tracking, variance analysis, and timely reporting across departments and subsidiaries.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and scorecards for executive review and departmental performance discussions.
• Recommend to the management improvements and transformation initiatives based on performance gaps.
• Challenge business managers and improve performance interpretation and actions to be taken.
• Support the management on decision making using analytical and reporting tools to address specific problems requiring analysis and resolution.
• Support the development of business targets by facilitating the definition of appropriate KPIs.

• Oversee the business analysis exercise to identify new growth opportunities, market trends, and strategic initiatives.
• Analyzes past and current financial performance data.
• Continuously hunt for and evaluate business development opportunities to enhance the company s market presence and profitability.
• Work closely with relevant departments to develop and implement plans to capture identified opportunities, ensuring they align with overall business objectives.
• Collaborate with external partners and internal teams to explore innovative business models and new market segments.

• Conduct detailed feasibility studies for new business opportunities, potential acquisitions, and investments to assess profitability and strategic fit.
• Liaise with investors and bankers for debt and capital restructuring, fund raising, ensuring that financing arrangements align with the company s growth and strategic objectives.
• Develop financial models for evaluating new investment opportunities, focusing on risk and return assessments, ROI projections, and financial stability.
• Provide strategic financial insights to leadership on how to optimize capital structure and secure funding for long-term initiatives.

• Drives the development and the implementation of department policies, systems, processes, procedures, and controls covering all areas of function so that all relevant procedural/ legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service in a consistent manner.
• Facilitate a process to identify and share lessons learned best practices.

• Conducts analysis and generates reports as required using the appropriate tools, charts, graphs, spreadsheets, technical reports etc.
• Work closely with Strategy team and other cross functional teams to produce suite of reports and documents, including annual Budget, business plan, forecast, Business analysis commentary, reforecasts, key business lines and corporate KPIs.

• Maintain prescribed hygiene standards.
• Ensure all local environmental requirements are adhered to.
• Knowledge of regional council compliance requirements.

• Produce end of month departmental report, on time, and as required by the management.
• Ensure accurate and up to date, daily, weekly, monthly records as required by the management.
• Ensure tasks are understood by the team…