PLANNING ADVISOR

Job Description

Accountable for the Jamaica & Bahamas Cluster financial reporting and co-development and execution of special projects at both the corporate line levels with a view to enhancing the efficiencies and overall profitability of the company. The position is additionally accountable for identifying new business opportunities to be pursued by the Jamaica & Bahamas Cluster.

Main Responsibilities

• Leading the process of preparing the company’s strategic business plans.
• Budget coordination and elaboration.
• Identifying cost improvement initiatives that increase profitability and monitoring monthly results of projects being executed.
• Preparing capital investment analysis, business cases for growth opportunities, and CAPEX execution follow-up.
• Participate in regional strategic projects targeted to achieve improved strategic positioning and increase profitability, growth opportunity assessment, and valuation.
• Executing competitive analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses, monitor industry trends, and macroeconomic analyses.

Position Challenges

• Accuracy in the financial calculations.
• Need to find and present improvement solutions to ongoing business processes.
• The need to constantly scan the business horizon to discern trends and developments from which the company can extract business opportunities to be pursued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Masters' Degree in Business, Management, Finance, Economy, Project Manager, Engineering or similar.
• 2 years of experience in planning position, production, or finance.

Skills

• Knowledge in Strategic Planning, Project Management & Processes, and Finance Management.
• Numerical skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word.
• Excellent research, analytical, planning, organizational, and management skills.