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FP&A Assistant Manager 07/2020 - current
Unilever, Tema, Greater Accra Region Ghana
Industry: FMCG
Highly experienced finance professional with diverse experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, cost control and financial management and reporting. Skilled in providing financial insights that inform key business decisions to drive business growth and profitability. Proven track record in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and integrity in financials. Adept in computer software, developing financial plans and analyzing business performance. Logical, insightful, and objective with focus on accurate and efficient work.
Financial Planning and Analysis Assistant Manager (FP&A) Unilever Ghana PLC 07/2020 – Current: ? Lead the development of the annual operating plan and monthly rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with the company's financial and business objectives. ? Analyze financial data to identify trends and outliers, providing strategic insights and recommendations for process improvements. ? Prepare management reports on financial performance, including variance analysis and trend analysis to facilitate business planning and decision-making. ? Prepare P&L forecast with Oracle Hyperion Planning with supporting analysis and participate in review of these forecasts with the country leadership team. ? Provide accurate, timely, high quality financial analysis and lead the comparisons of actual results to forecast for the purpose of identifying problem areas that may require corrective action. ? Manage all processes related to reporting results and forecasts (FP&A model) – budgeting, analysis, and interpretation of results. ? Perform deep dive analysis for all SKUs using costing sheets to bring more visibility on costs to help with accurate pricing decisions and prepare Gross Margin Variance Analysis (GMVA) reports to support cost movements and explain key drivers of the gross margin. ? Challenge the sales and operational plan (S&OP) process and forecast assumptions to drive towards a high degree of alignment between volume and value and to ensure they reflect market realities. ? Ensure full alignment on the P&L implications and support the business with the identification of risks and opportunities by working closely with sales & marketing leads, finance business partners and supply chain in different processes to identify risks and opportunities in the financial forecast and partner interventions required.--
Overheads Assistant Manager (Cost & Budget Control) 11/2017 - 07/2020
Unilever, Tema, Greater Accra Region Ghana
Industry: FMCG
Highly experienced finance professional with diverse experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, cost control and financial management and reporting. Skilled in providing financial insights that inform key business decisions to drive business growth and profitability. Proven track record in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and integrity in financials. Adept in computer software, developing financial plans and analyzing business performance. Logical, insightful, and objective with focus on accurate and efficient work.
Overheads Assistant Manager (Cost & Budget Control) Unilever Ghana PLC 12/2017 – 06/2020: ? Analyzed operational expenses to identify opportunities for cost reduction and improvement of operational efficiency. ? Developed performance metrics and dashboards, providing insights and recommendations for cost-saving opportunities to functional directors. ? Implemented cost-saving measures and worked closely with procurement on vendor contracts to ensure value for money. ? Led cross-functional teams to optimize processes and streamline operations to improve productivity and reduce costs. ? Supported the organization's quest to minimize and control overhead costs by doing a critical review of all functional budgets and monitoring spend which helped to identify and implement some savings initiatives leading to a reduction of cost and initial budget by 3.8m Euros. ? Delivered improved business performance in the overheads area by tracking, monitoring, and intervening in the overheads cost and budget control process. ? Monthly deep-dive and variance analysis to understand the driving factors of spend to make right business decisions. ? Coordinated Cost Center and General Ledger usage discipline with stakeholders to drive efficiency and general improvement in the overheads process and reporting. ? Improved ways of working to drive performance by optimizing the use of SAP ERP and developing a new overheads dashboard for efficient overheads reporting. ? Supported the implementation of master data governance tool to improve data quality & governance around cost centers.--
Accounts Payable Analyst 01/2016 - 11/2017
British American Tobacco, Accra, Greater Accra Region Ghana
Industry: Manufacturing
Highly experienced finance professional with diverse experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, cost control and financial management and reporting. Skilled in providing financial insights that inform key business decisions to drive business growth and profitability. Proven track record in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and integrity in financials. Adept in computer software, developing financial plans and analyzing business performance. Logical, insightful, and objective with focus on accurate and efficient work.
* Processed a wide variety of payments of invoices by verifying transaction information, scheduling, preparing disbursements, obtaining authorization of payment and handling requests for information and data. ? Performed payment run process in SAP to generate disbursement of funds. ? Generated SAP payment runs, and reconciled transactions paid through a run to actual transfers made to the bank. ? Managed open purchase orders report by monitoring, analyzing, and reporting the status of open items. ? Reviewed, audited, and processed payments to project vendors, consultants, subcontractors and other suppliers of goods and services. ? Ensured compliance with tax laws, filing of tax returns, and making payments on time to avoid penalty. ? Performed month-end activities which included but not limited to, revenue and cost recognition, possible accruals, and account reconciliation.--
Treasury Analyst 02/2015 - 12/2015
British American Tobacco, Accra, Greater Accra Region Ghana
Industry: Manufacturing
Highly experienced finance professional with diverse experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, cost control and financial management and reporting. Skilled in providing financial insights that inform key business decisions to drive business growth and profitability. Proven track record in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and integrity in financials. Adept in computer software, developing financial plans and analyzing business performance. Logical, insightful, and objective with focus on accurate and efficient work.
? Forecasted cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment. ? Ensured that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements. ? Invested funds and maintained banking relationships. ? Overseeing the extension of credit to customers. ? Monthly bank reconciliations for all banks ensuring overdue reconciling items are sorted out, making timely payment to staffs, suppliers, and other stakeholders by checking for completeness of financial documents. ? Analyzed bank fees and recommended cost-saving plans.--
Accounting Assistant 09/2011 - 12/2013
Volta River Authority, Akosombo, Eastern Region Ghana
Industry: Energy
Highly experienced finance professional with diverse experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, cost control and financial management and reporting. Skilled in providing financial insights that inform key business decisions to drive business growth and profitability. Proven track record in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and integrity in financials. Adept in computer software, developing financial plans and analyzing business performance. Logical, insightful, and objective with focus on accurate and efficient work.
? Processed expense and medical claims for staff and retirees. ? Processed invoices and ensured all payments were made in accordance with the company policy. ? Prepared monthly accruals, account analysis, and variance analysis of various operating expenses. ? Administered month-end balance sheet account analysis and prepared related reconciliations. ? Coded invoices and other records to maintain organized and accurate records. ? Maintained accuracy when reviewing and reconciling general ledger. ? Reviewed purchase documents and company receipts for reconciliation with statements.--

Universite Mohammed Premier 09/2008 - 09/2011
Oujda, Orientale, Morocco
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Financial Management & Accounting
Bachelor's degree in financial management & accounting

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