Senior Manager - Budgeting, Planning & Financial Analysis
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Lead budgeting, forecasting, project accounting, and financial control while ensuring compliance and risk governance in construction and development projects.
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1 . Budgeting & Forecasting
- Lead annual, multi-year, and rolling budget processes across assets and BUs, covering pre-development, construction and delivery phases
- Establish and maintain TDC baselines, reforecasts, and cash-flow projections, incorporating construction progress and procurement strategies
- Implement driver-based budgeting models linking scope, program, procurement, and construction productivity drivers to outcomes
- Own budget phasing aligned with construction programs to support funding plans, cash calls, and liquidity management
- Align budgets and forecasts with funding strategies (equity, debt, drawdowns, covenants)
2. Project Accounting & Financial Control
- Process and control project accounting transactions in SAP (in coordination with Finance) & PRISM, including budget uploads, budget transfers, commitment creation, accrual postings, and cost allocations
- Maintain commitment and actuals tracking at project, package, and contract level, ensuring timely and accurate capture of construction costs
- Monitor forecast-to-complete (FTC) and update projections based on certified quantities, executed variations and procurement commitments
- Track and record TDC movements, including approved budget changes, reallocations and cumulative impact of variation orders and claims
- Record and monitor contingency, inflation and risk drawdowns, ensuring approvals are obtained and reflected correctly in systems
- Perform monthly reconciliations between budgets, commitments, actuals, and cash flow, investigating and resolving variances
- Maintain complete audit trails for all budget changes, approvals and re-baselining actions in line with governance requirements
- Support internal and external audits by providing transaction-level support, reconciliations and documentation
- Ensure compliance with financial policies, approval matrices and delegations of authority related to construction and development spend
3 . Planning & Decision Support
- Support asset feasibility and development-stage business planning, ensuring assumptions on construction cost, revenue, program and lifecycle are realistic and aligned with financial strategy
- Lead option analysis (phasing, packaging, procurement strategy, acceleration/deceleration), quantifying financial trade-offs across development and construction stages
- Develop scenario and stress-testing models to assess impacts of inflation, delays, constructability risks, funding constraints and scope changes
- Support stage-gate financial readiness reviews, ensuring affordability, funding, constructability and risk impacts are clearly articulated
- Partner with Development, Construction, and PMO teams to translate master programs into financially phased plans
4. Reporting & Insights
- Deliver consolidated BU-level financial and non-financial reporting across development and construction, including:
- TDC baseline vs forecast vs actual
- Construction cost and progress variance analysis
- Funding availed vs required
- Cash-flow projections
- Commitments, risks, and opportunities
- Design and deliver management, ExCo, and Board dashboards with clear construction and development narratives
- Embed early-warning indicators (cost overruns, program slippage, cash pressure)
- Ensure reporting supports delivery and investment decisions, not just compliance
5. Risk & Governance (Coordination Model)
- Coordinate closely with the central Risk team, ensuring:
- Consistent risk taxonomy and scoring
- Alignment with ERM frameworks
- Clear ownership between DFA, Risk, Development, P
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