Senior Finance Role

Role Purpose

To lead Ektifa's financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting agenda, and to stand up the organisation's performance management architecture. The role drives financial insight across a multi-commodity agribusiness portfolio (dairy, wheat, poultry and goats), owns the Business Intelligence (BI) reporting layer, and establishes segmented and intercompany business-unit reporting through a value-chain-driven methodology. The role is foundational: it is responsible for building the FP&A and reporting function from set-up to a steady operating state ready to support Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) and a corporate balanced scorecard.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Own the annual budgeting cycle, rolling forecasts and the long-range plan across all business units and commodity lines.
• Build and maintain the corporate financial planning model, integrating volume, yield, pricing and cost drivers specific to dairy, wheat, poultry and goat operations.
• Establish a Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB)-ready framework, linking cost packages and activity drivers to measurable KPIs and accountable cost-centre owners.
• Lead capital expenditure planning and post-investment review for greenfield and expansion projects, including DSCR and debt-service sensitivity analysis.
• Coordinate the consolidation of business-unit budgets into the group plan and present variance bridges to leadership.

Management Reporting & Business Intelligence

• Lead the Business Intelligence reporting function, defining the data model, reporting hierarchy and self-service dashboards for finance and operational leadership.
• Develop the monthly management reporting pack, with variance analysis, driver-based commentary and forward-looking insight rather than backward-looking description.
• Translate operational and financial data into actionable insight that informs pricing, capital allocation and margin-improvement decisions.
• Partner with IT / systems to ensure the BI layer is sourced reliably from the ERP (e.g. Oracle Fusion) and operational systems.

Performance Management & Scorecard

• Establish the organisation's performance management framework from the ground up, including the design and roll-out of a corporate balanced scorecard.
• Define KPI libraries and cascade objectives from corporate level to business unit and cost-centre level.
• Institute the cadence of performance reviews (monthly / quarterly business reviews) and the supporting reporting that underpins them.

Segmented & Intercompany Value-Chain Reporting

• Design and develop segmented reporting that isolates the financial performance of each business unit and commodity line.
• Build intercompany business-unit performance reporting using a value-chain-driven methodology, attributing margin and cost at each stage from input to finished product.
• Establish transfer-pricing and internal cost-allocation logic between business units to ensure fair and transparent intercompany performance measurement.
• Surface value-chain margin pools to identify where economic value is created and eroded across the agribusiness.

Function Set-Up & Leadership

• Lead the establishment of the FP&A and reporting function, including processes, templates, governance, tooling and team structure, to a ready operating state.
• Define data governance and reporting calendars, ensuring a single source of truth across planning and reporting outputs.
• Recruit, develop and lead the FP&A and BI team.

Key Performance Indicators

• Budget cycle delivered on calendar with leadership sign-off.
• Forecast accuracy within an agreed tolerance band against actuals.
• Management reporting pack delivered within agreed working days of month-end close.
• Balanced scorecard and KPI framework live and adopted across business units.
• Segmented / value-chain reporting operational and used in decision-making.
• ZBB framework readiness and quality of cost-driver linkage.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics is required; a Master's degree or MBA in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline is strongly preferred.
• Professional qualification (CMA, ACCA, CPA, CFA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive FP&A, performance management and finance experience, including several years in a senior or managerial capacity leading teams.
• Experience in agribusiness, FMCG, manufacturing or another asset- and inventory-intensive sector is a strong advantage.
• Demonstrated track record of building or standing up an FP&A / reporting function and a performance management framework.

Technical Competencies

• Advanced financial modelling and driver-based forecasting.
• Balanced scorecard and KPI / performance management framework design.
• Business Intelligence tooling (e.g. Power BI, Oracle Analytics) and data modelling.
• ERP experience (Oracle Fusion Cloud or comparable) and strong Excel.
• Cost allocation, transfer pricing and value-chain margin analysis.
• Working knowledge of IFRS as it applies to management reporting.

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong commercial and analytical judgement; able to convert data into decisions.
• Builder mindset, comfortable establishing structure where little exists.
• Influencing and stakeholder management across finance and operations.
• Clear communicator able to present to executive leadership and the board.