Job Title:  Manager Financial Planning & Analysis (Re-Advertised)

Organisation: Uganda Airlines

Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda

Reports to: Chief Finance Officer

About Organisation:

Uganda Airlines is the flag carrier of Uganda. The company is a revival of the older Uganda Airlines which operated from 1977 until 2001. It began flying in August 2019.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Ensure that the annual business plans and budgets are aligned to the strategic objectives of the organization.
  • Manage the annual budgeting and planning process to ensure that this is within the budget timetable and ensure the executive team is updated and alerted to relevant issues.
  • Consolidate departmental work plans and budgets as per company standards.
  • Ensure timely and accurate forecasts with in-depth insights into the performance of the airline are prepared in a timely manner.
  • Monitor and control procurements to ensure that these are within budget and revenue forecasts for funding.
  • Ensure that all costs (fixed and variable) are managed within standards and budget parameters.
  • Translate company targets and indicators into departmental targets and Key performance indicators.
  • Communicate to all relevant parties the approved budget and work plans and update the relevant information systems.
  • Provides financial and statistical analysis, support, and reporting to leadership
  • Generates routine reporting as well as specific ad hoc analysis.
  • Participates and contributes to meetings involving key finance issues.
  • Directly responsible for the development and delivery of financial analyses, and provision of accurate financial performance data to all stakeholders, supporting and informing senior leaders in monthly financial performance
  • Manage capex and opex projects through their full implementation lifecycles, from initial concept and sizing to implementation.
  • Complete ad-hoc requests across all product lines, maintain data models and long-term financial projections
  • Support individual product lines in selected financial analysis projects.
  • Manage a team of direct reports, ensure workload distribution, and identify process improvement opportunities across the team – including automation, training, etc.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• University degree or equivalent. Professional Accounting qualification is an added advantage (CA/CPA/CMA/CFA).
• Possess good business acumen.
• 3-5 years experience in a similar position. Airline experience in experience is an added advantage.
• Good presentation skills utilizing Microsoft Office tools and any others as may be required.
• Effective communication and leadership skills to drive ownership and accountability.