Senior Finance Business Partner
- Black River
- Not disclosed
- Permanent
- Added 19/08/2025
- Closing 18/09/2025
A business advisory role in the Business Unit (Agriculture) by assisting Operation Team to improve their financial analysis, internal controls and communication with Shared Service Finance team.
Financial Management
- Support and contribute to the production of the five-year business plan and financial strategy of the BU.
- Monitor adherence to the Financial Strength outcomes set out in the five-year business plan and recommending improvements to the plan.
- Provide relevant and timely information to enable it to assess performance against the Group’s strategy and objectives.
- Monitor financial KPIs (scorecard) which will be used to assess the success of both the business and the financial strategy.
- Manage expenditures and look for cost-efficient solutions to inefficiency problems.
- Develop expense, budget, and supply chain reports for management.
- Forecast cost-related changes and risks.
- Provide recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.
- Revise the budget on a quarterly basis provide a full-fledged forecast based on updated information and changes in budget assumptions.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior executives in BU as well as in Shared Service teams so as to identify their needs and seek full range of business solutions
- Support the BU MDs and GMs in projects profitability assessment (DCF/ROI/IRR) & cost-benefit analysis to improve decision-making.
Risk Management and controls
- Lead and enhance BU internal processes to drive operational efficiency and to ensure compliance with internal policies, controls and procedures
- Construct and monitor reliable control systems.
- Ensure that BU teams comply with all financial and technological regulatory requirements, as well as the group policies.
- Guide financial decisions by establishing, monitoring and enforcing policies and procedures in the BU.
- Maintain relation with external and internal auditors and investigate their findings and recommendations.
- Execute all recommendations of the Audit and Risk Committee on a timely basis
- Actively manage relevant risks within the BU function
- Verify and approve purchase order, payment vouchers, cheques and capex forms
- Monitor the checks of internal and cost controllers
Reporting
- Ensure credibility of the Finance function by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial trends and forecasts.
- Track performance against key targets and outcomes and produce regular corporate level management information to all senior management.
- Produce regular financial reporting to give an overview of business and financial performance and setup the required meetings e.g. Management Business Review (MBR) presentation packs
- Follow-up of budgeted & unbudgeted capex and presentation during MBR
- Follow-up of debtors and creditors and presentation of top contributors during MBR.
- Preparation and follow-up of specific month-end journal entries as defined by SLA
- Highlight trends, key actions, and strategic implications.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to help ensure the Department is well informed and has a strong voice in the organisation.
- Increase management effectiveness by training, coaching and counselling.
- Undertake regular performance appraisal to all direct reports, providing effective review and ensuring objectives are in place.
- Set goals, establish result measurements and review job progress of direct reports.
Other
- Work with the IT department to recommend suitable technology solutions to enhance our financial modelling, analysis and reporting capability.
- Act as the digitalisation & projects lead for the business unit; ensuring the implementation of finance projects e.g. Dashboards, Monday, RPAs, Fixed Assets Register, SOPs, SLAs, etc.
- To undertake ad hoc duties as agreed with the Managing Director.
- Set-up monthly calls with stakeholders i.e. FP&A, Accounting, Operations, Technical, IT, etc. to discuss on issues/challenges and follow-up on projects.
- Update the capex tracker on a real-time basis
- Approve all payment vouchers regarding the BU and act as first signatory for payments before the MD.
- Any other cognate duties as may be necessary in the circumstances and/or required by the employer.
Medine Ltd Corporate
- 4, Uniciti Office Park, Rivière Noire Road, Uniciti, Bambous., Mauritius