Manager Business Analytics & Financial Planning

Your professional experience is valued here

 

A welcoming and supportive setting where you can develop and make a real difference in the world – that’s what you’ll find at COFRA. We’re a family business, geared to creating lasting value and united by an ambition to change industries and society for the better. Aspiration and entrepreneurism are encouraged and rewarded with opportunity. Teams are diverse yet close-knit. Relationships matter. People matter.

What we can achieve together

You will report to the Head of Business Analytics & Financial Planning and you will have broad interaction with other members of the Zug finance team and our global business units.

Quarterly Business Review (QBR) for Redevco and Anthos Fund & Asset Management (AFAM)

Preparation, participation and follow up of quarterly business reviews for Real Estate and Asset Manager-AFAM. QBRs are critical in review process of COFRA businesses performance. During the quarterly meeting the mid- and long-term strategy for the business is determined, financial performance as well as any liquidity aspects is evaluated. QBRs is an exciting intersection between COFRA Group and operating businesses, giving an opportunity to engage in both typical corporate strategy activities (portfolio, M&A, strategy process, sustainability, etc.) and deploying the full business strategy toolkit.

Mid and long-term liquidity forecast for the Group

Implementation and maintenance of a liquidity management tool for the whole Group, taking into account uncertainties of Private Equity cash flows as well as modelling different market scenarios. Given scarcity of capital at the Group level, the importance of liquidity projections becomes more critical in ensuring the overall liquidity of the Group and taking actions upon foreseen liquidity squeeze. This entails coordination and negotiations with different stakeholder groups: project leads, tax department, Anthos organisation, etc.

Management Reporting:

• Design and implementation of a dashboard for performance evaluation of different businesses within the Group, introducing an outside-in view from different sources: News, Bloomberg database, financial accounts of competitors, etc. New performance evaluation tools are afterwards “socialised” within the finance communities.
• Constant improvement of performance evaluation tools, finding new (more efficient) ways of extracting information as well as presenting it, so that decision makers are clear about the facts, working with more sophisticated tolls such as Power BI and Azure databases instead of Excel.
• Regular analyses of the Private Equity and Real Estate businesses of the Group for Executive Management
• Help-out on presentations for the CFO/CEO (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Shareholders)

Special Projects:

• Ad hoc analysis
• Project participation, may be cross-functional within the finance discipline
• Work on M&A deals: evaluation and modelling of the business of targets. Suggesting deal structures based on the economics of targets and appetite of the Group.

You need: 

• University degree in Business and/or other university degree with significant work experience in finance with strong focus on management reporting and/or business analysis
• 5-7 years experience in business, consulting or similar environment, preferably international and/or in a diversified business context
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Extensive experience in reporting processes and tools (e.g. Power BI, Azure database, etc.)
• Motivated self-starter - pro active approach and thinking ahead
• High endurance combined with a flexible, ‘can do’ attitude
• Project management skills & track record
• Controlling & accounting (IFRS) competencies, ideally ACCA degree or similar
• Corporate finance knowledge (CFA degree or similar)
• Medium term mobile to move into next role internationally
• Modelling know-how (ideally CFM degree or similar)
• English (fluency required)
• German / Dutch (preferred)

What we offer you in return

COFRA offers notable benefits, including a competitive pension plan. The opportunity itself is a great way to have a direct impact on the Group and realise potential across a multitude of areas. Training and development is provided to all employees.

If you fit the profile, we would love to hear from you.

COFRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disability. None of this gets in the way of hiring and retaining the best people.