Senior Manager FP&A

Description
Zutari:
Co-creating an engineered impact.

Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with almost 90 years' experience. As human-centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across Africa.

We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

The Senior Manager FP&A - is responsible for leading Zutari’s planning, forecasting, operational finance, management reporting, business partnering, and performance insight capabilities across the Group. Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the role serves as the key finance interface into operations and plays a central role in linking financial performance, project performance, business drivers, and management decision-making. The role will lead the Project Finance Accountant (PFA) team and the finance data and operational reporting capability, ensuring that finance support to the business is commercially relevant, analytically strong, and operationally embedded.

The role is responsible for driving high-quality budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, management reporting, and financial insight, while helping operational leaders understand the drivers of business performance and make better decisions.

This role requires a senior finance leader with strong commercial acumen, management accounting capability, operational finance experience, and the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insight. The incumbent must be able to operate effectively in a multi-entity, project-based, and increasingly multi-jurisdictional environment, while building strong relationships across finance and the business.

Strategic Finance Partnering and Operational Support

• Act as the primary finance partner to operations, providing insight, challenge, and support on financial and business performance matters.
• Build strong relationships with operational leadership and project-facing teams to ensure finance is embedded in decision-making and performance management.
• Translate financial and operational information into meaningful insight that supports delivery, profitability, resource planning, and business improvement.
• Provide the Group Chief Financial Officer and executive leadership with forward‑looking insights on business performance, key risks, growth opportunities, and strategic trade‑offs..
• Strengthen the quality of finance engagement with the business by ensuring commercially relevant, timely, and practical support to operational stakeholders.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

• Lead the Group’s budgeting and forecasting processes across business units and operational areas, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and operating realities.
• Drive robust planning assumptions, challenge inputs, and improve the quality, consistency, and credibility of budgets and forecasts.
• Coordinate forecasting cycles and ensure meaningful visibility of expected performance, risks, opportunities, and resource implications.
• Inform scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and reforecasting to improve business responsiveness and decision-making.
• Work…