Specialist – Budgeting & Planning

Job Purpose

The Budgeting & Planning Specialist supports the budgeting process by assisting in the development of guidelines, templates, and timelines. The role involves coordinating with functions and subsidiaries (SPVs), monitoring budget utilization, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and financial guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in developing budget guidelines, timetables and templates to ensure a clear and simple budgeting process
• Communicate budget guidelines, timetable and templates with REMAT’s functions and SPVs as applicable and ensure alignment
• Support different functions with the budgeting process ensuring alignment with relevant guidelines
• Collect and consolidate functions’ and SPVs’ budgets in a timely and accurate manner and obtain required approvals
• Monitor and control budget to ensure targeted and effective use of budget resources and avoid any budget deficit and overruns
• Conduct budget variance analysis on the forecasted and actual budgets
• Develop variant budget reports and ensure their alignment with the procurement plan
• Assess budget modification requests and review the analysis of supporting business cases to ensure validity.
• Perform tasks assigned by direct supervisor in a comprehensive and accurate manner