Vacant Position: Head, Budgeting & Corporate Performance Management Unit

1. To formulate, assess and monitor the realization of APICORP’s short to medium-term business strategies and plans, towards realizing its longer-term vision and strategies.
2. To develop plans to realize the business objectives and help the Corporation maintain a competitive advantage and allocate resources appropriately.
3. To provide strategic direction, motivational leadership and operational oversight at an institutional level in the effective formulation of the annual work programs, corporate planning, administrative and capital expenditure budgets and Corporate Performance Management processes.
4. To ensure alignment of the annual work plans with the Organization’s strategy, attainment of KPIs and provide regular Management Information reporting.
5. To play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between strategy, business, and finance for the work planning and spearhead the discussions with executive management that drive the institutional direction in a structured and formal manner.
6. To motivate, convince and generate a buy-in at an institutional level with an ability to influence strategic decision-making and to instigate a performance driven culture by acting as a change leader.
7. Advise on the vital organizational decisions via an extensive stakeholder management/relationship management across the Corporation, demonstrating strong written, verbal, and oral communication skills and an ability to forge strong meaningful business partnerships.

1.2 Develop, implement and monitor the annual business plans, KPIs, budgets and objectives; provide regular management reports that include insight, analysis, forecasting and comment on the Corporate Performance and results.

1.3 Identify opportunities and champion initiatives that enable the unit to increase its impact or to deliver innovative and differentiated services, encouraging unit members to fully contribute.

1.4 Ensure the unit works effectively and proactively across Organization and other stakeholders to ensure the delivery of services/results that meet Organization’s interests and for knowledge sharing.

2.2 Guide and advise all Organization units in their planning and analysis of budget requirements, preparation of budget requests, and management of allocated budgets.

2.3 Present recommendations on maximizing cost efficiencies, minimizing wasteful spending and preventing resource expenditures on non-priority areas to ensure that the budget is linked to the programs of the Corporation from a utilization point of view and from the operational plan perspective.

2.4 Responsible for the formulation of budget preparation and implementation guidelines and procedures for all organizational units so as to put in place and manage an effective best practice budget allocation system.

2.5 Consolidate and evaluate the administrative and capital budget based on the units’ business plans and budget requests.

3.2 Lead the Implementation of the corporate Performance Management framework that introduces the framework, methodology and tools for an effective Corporate Performance planning, monitoring and assessment of the Organization’s units.

3.3 Promote the introduction of tools for corporate business planning and Corporate Performance Management and Key Corporate Performance Indicators concepts for the assessment of the units’ plans in line with the budget exercise.

3.4 Help the Corporation’s units to define and measure desired business goals across functions, departments, and lines of business, utilizing Corporate Performance Management tools.

4.2 Prepare and present periodic budget execution reports, including quarterly budget utilization reports and comprehensive mid-year budget review proposing to the Executive Management possible budgetary re-allocations and transfers.

4.3 Issue periodic reports and analyses of budget implementation during the year, including the execution of operational and support programs and forecasts of year-end Corporate Performance.

4.4 Provide on-line and real time access to budget information to all organizational units to facilitate and strengthen management of their budgets.

4.5 Communicate timely to Organization units the decisions made by Management on all matters relating to budgets.