Business Planning & Performance Management Manager

About this role

The role is for a senior finance professional to lead budgeting, financial planning, forecasting and performance management across Dangote Group. It involves providing strategic financial insights, supporting executive decision-making, ensuring regulatory compliance and driving sustainable performance. The position requires challenging assumptions, explaining drivers of results and recommending actions to protect margins, cash and growth, while overseeing related-party and transfer pricing reporting and improving planning systems. The candidate should be commercially minded, comfortable building driver-based models, presenting to the CEO and coaching a team of analysts. The employer operates a diversified manufacturing and logistics group headquartered in Lagos, with activities across cement, sugar, salt, flour, noodles, poly products, real estate and more.

What you would do

• Lead the annual budget and 3-5 year business planning cycle and obtain board approval.
• Translate group strategy into financial targets and budgets for units and plants.
• Consolidate group budgets and prepare management packs for approval.
• Develop driver-based planning models for volumes, costs, FX, inflation and other inputs.
• Run scenario analyses and monitor forecasting accuracy.
• Own monthly and quarterly forecasting and update rolling outlooks.
• Analyse variances and recommend corrective actions with owners and timelines.
• Design and maintain KPI frameworks and balanced scorecards.
• Facilitate monthly performance reviews with executives and plant leaders.
• Support capital expenditure evaluation and post-investment reviews.

What they are asking for

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related field.
• MBA or relevant postgraduate degree is an advantage.
• Professional certifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA or FP&A) are desirable.
• Minimum 10 years in FP&A, business planning or related fields, with at least 5 years in a senior finance or strategic planning role.
• Experience in manufacturing, cement, industrial or FMCG sectors preferred.

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