JOB TITLE
IT FINANCE AND PLANNING MANAGER
GRADE:   IFPM001
LOCATIONS: Lagos HO 

REPORTS DIRECTLY TO
Head, Group Wide IT Services

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Provide finance and planning support to all ITG groups in areas such as investment decisions, budgeting, resource planning and 3rd party supplier control
 Budget planning encompassing capital, operational expenditure, and salary costs amongst others
 Monitor budget-execution levels reporting any variances to Head, GW ITS and other bank stakeholders
 Provide budget execution related reports to other finance functions as required
 Develop financial models and criteria used to evaluate alternative IT investments
 Assist in the development of business cases supporting the funding of IT projects and perform project profitability analysis after implementation
 Plan approved initiatives in cooperation with Architects, Vendor Managers, Service Delivery Managers
 Manage IT staff and project portfolio roster recording current IT staff utilization levels in the projects under execution
 Estimate staffing needs and compare with expected activity levels flagging eventual headcount gaps
 Monitor 3rd party invoicing and deliverables as to contract adherence suggesting corrective actions
 Create and maintain a “dashboard” of financial / non-financial metrics that can be used whether IT is providing effective and efficient services to business areas (e.g. balanced scorecard)
 Definition of IT chart of accounts
 Break down IT costs into defined categories e.g. consumption based (variable technology usage: telecomm, data center,, ), project based (initiatives) and infrastructure based (fixed cost: network infrastructure,, )
 Identify ITS cost drivers
 Design and maintain reporting / data gathering process as input for scorecard
 Define and monitor performance management framework

KEY RELATIONSHIPS  Office of the Head, Group Wide IT Services
 IT Services Group Heads
 Financial Control
 Business Transformation Group

SKILLS REQUIRED
 Budgeting
 Financial Control and Governance
 Project Management
 Monitoring, compiling, performance reporting (financials, non-financials)
 Administrative ability
 Benefit / Value assessment
 Data gathering
 Communication skills
 Decision making
 Documentation
 Activity Based Costing
 Total Cost of Ownership
 Economic Value Added
 IT objectives / scorecard
 IT organizational design
 Methods, standards creation
 personal  Relationship management
 Strong Oral and Written Communication
 Results orientation
 Benefit / Value assessment
 Decision making
 Integrity and honesty
 Teaming

KEY MEASURABLE
 Accuracy of budget against actual
 Efficiency of plans
 IT resource management
 Financial Governance
 Project Portfolio Governance
 Project Portfolio quality

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
First degree in relevant field. MBA would and relevant industry certifications will be an added  advantage

EXPERIENCE
Minimum of 10 years professional ICT Experience with a minimum of 5 - 7  years Enterprise Solution Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus Experience
APPLICATION DETAILS:
Qualified and interested candidates should send their resumes to both: contact@gvapartners.com and recruitment@gvapartners.com. PLEASE, STATE THE POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING FOR AS THE SUBJECT OF THE MAIL.