Manager, Business Planning & Budgeting

Role overview

Planning, consolidation, and performance

• Lead annual budgeting, business planning, and forecasting across multiple entities and assets; review results against plans and identify corrective actions.
• Analyse revenue, costs, profitability, cash flow, and assumptions to improve forecasting and support business objectives.
• Oversee group consolidation, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations, financial statement review, and validation of operating-company submissions.
• Align reporting with IFRS and internal standards; prepare consolidated analyses and management reports.
• Monitor asset and portfolio performance, assess risks and underperformance, and recommend improvements.
• Assess investment cases, feasibility, returns, CAPEX needs, and performance against approved business cases.
• Present findings to senior management and strengthen financial governance, controls, reporting, and forecasting processes.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in FP&A, business planning, budgeting, forecasting, or group finance.
• Strong hands-on group consolidation and intercompany elimination experience; excellent understanding of IFRS, consolidated statements, P&L, and cash flow.
• Experience analysing performance across multiple entities, assets, investments, or operating companies.
• Experience in investment analysis, financial modelling, feasibility assessment, and CAPEX planning.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Industry-side finance experience is highly preferred.

Preferred industry backgrounds

• Relevant backgrounds may include power generation, energy and utilities, renewable energy, infrastructure, independent power producers, investment holding companies, portfolio or asset-based businesses, and diversified groups.