Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.
• Develop the strategy for a business area of significant function, anticipating mega-trends and complex challenges and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets long-term business needs.
• Take overall responsibility for designing, developing and delivering the organization's financial management and/or control strategy.
• Lead the development of annual and longer-term business plans for a significant function or small local business, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes (i.e. revenues or other key performance indicators) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
• Set and communicate the strategy for achieving the organization's mission, vision and values within a function, together with the broad actions needed to implement it; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.
• Develop and maintain personal relationships with corporate senior executives of strategic potential accounts to facilitate business acquisition and retention.
• Manage and report on business performance; hold direct reports accountable for achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of business objectives, balancing the need to deliver short term business objectives with the longer term delivery of stakeholder value.
• Represent the organization in external relations with investors, clients, the public and others. Will focus on a significant function or equivalent area of the business.

Requirements

• University / Post Graduate (Masters Degree)
• Experience level enables job holder to provide leadership to others regarding work related systems, processes and challenges
• Experienced in strategic management and leadership across company functions directing substantial resources over long time frames
• Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
• Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Acts with expertise as the organization's authority on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.
• Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on costing, budgeting and finance tasks.
• Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
• Uses expertise to acts as the organizational authority on creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.