Business Planning & Performance Management Manager (Head Office - Lagos, Head Office - Lagos)

Job Title: Business Planning & Performance Management Manager

Job Summary

The Business Planning & Performance Management Manager is responsible for driving budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, and business performance management across the organization. The role provides strategic financial insights, supports executive decision-making, ensures regulatory compliance, and drives sustainable business performance.

Beyond reporting numbers, the role challenges assumptions, explains what is driving results, and recommends actions that protect margin, cash and growth. It also safeguards the integrity of related-party and transfer pricing reporting, and leads the continued improvement of planning systems, tools and analytics across the Group.

The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance leader who is equally comfortable building a driver-based model, presenting to the CEO, and coaching a team of analysts.

Key Responsibilities

1. Budgeting and business planning

• Lead the annual budget and medium-term (3–5 year) business planning cycle, from calendar and templates through to Board approval.
• Translate Group strategy and corporate objectives into financial targets, operating assumptions and plant/business-unit budgets.
• Review, challenge and validate budget submissions from business units, plants and functions for accuracy, realism and strategic fit.
• Consolidate Group budgets, including revenue, cost, capex, headcount, working capital and cash flow, and prepare approval packs for management and the Board.
• Develop and maintain driver-based planning models covering volumes, prices, input costs (energy, fuel, raw materials), FX and inflation.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analysis on key macroeconomic and operational assumptions.

2. Forecasting and performance management

• Own the monthly and quarterly forecasting process, including rolling forecasts and full-year outlook updates.
• Monitor financial and operational performance against budget, forecast and prior year.
• Analyze variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions with clear owners and timelines.
• Design, track and refine KPI frameworks and balanced scorecards at Group, business-unit and plant level.
• Facilitate monthly business performance reviews with executives and business-unit leaders.

3. Cash flow, liquidity and financial optimization

• Drive short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting in partnership with Treasury.
• Support liquidity planning, funding requirements and working capital optimization (receivables, payables, inventory).
• Lead cost optimization and margin improvement initiatives, quantifying benefits and tracking delivery.
• Evaluate capital expenditure proposals and investment cases using NPV, IRR and payback analysis, and run post-investment reviews.

4. Management reporting and executive insight

• Prepare timely, accurate monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports for the Executive Committee and Board.
• Turn complex financial data into concise, decision-ready insight, dashboards and presentations.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support strategic decisions, including pricing, product mix, market entry, M&A and restructuring.

5. Benchmarking and continuous improvement

• Lead internal and external benchmarking of cost, productivity and profitability against peers and industry standards.
• Identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities, and build business cases for action.
• Share best practice across plants, business units and subsidiaries.

7. Systems, tools and analytics

• Support the implementation, enhancement and integration of FP&A and ERP systems (e.g. SAP BPC/SAC, Oracle EPM/Hyperion, Anaplan).
• Drive automation of budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes to improve speed and accuracy.
• Champion the use of BI and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and maintain strong data governance.

8. Risk, sustainability and governance

• Identify, assess and help mitigate financial risks, including FX, inflation, commodity price, interest rate and liquidity risk.
• Support sustainability and ESG performance reporting, including integrating ESG metrics into business plans.
• Maintain robust controls, documentation and governance across planning and reporting processes.

9. People leadership

• Lead, coach and develop the business planning and performance management team.
• Set objectives, manage performance and build technical and business-partnering capability.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, accountability, curiosity and continuous improvement.
• Lead the annual budgeting and business planning process, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.

• Review, validate, and consolidate budgets for management approval.
• Monitor financial and operational performance, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Drive cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and financial optimization initiatives.
• Prepare periodic business performance reports and insights for executive management.
• Oversee related-party reporting, transfer pricing, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Lead benchmarking initiatives to identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Support the implementation and enhancement of FP&A systems, reporting tools, and analytics solutions.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks while supporting sustainability and performance reporting initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• MBA, MSc Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, or related discipline is an advantage.
• Professional certification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA, or FP&A Certification.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Business Planning, Corporate Finance, or Performance Management.
• Minimum of 5 years in a senior finance or strategic planning role.
• Experience in manufacturing, cement, industrial, or FMCG sectors is preferred.

Key Competencies

• Budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
• Financial analysis and business performance management.
• Strategic planning and decision support.
• Cash flow management and treasury optimization.
• Transfer pricing and regulatory compliance.
• ERP and FP&A systems (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent).
• Data analytics and business intelligence tools.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development