Financial Planning and Analytics Lead

Roles and Responsibilities

• • Financial support of local business cases and development of sales and expense forecasts.
  • Review inventory levels and co-ordinate processes to ensure working capital ratios are aligned to inventory policy.
  • Analysing the impact of key variables such as the exchange rate and ammonia price.
  • Reviewing valuation runs in SAP and resolving any issues arising from those valuation runs – including working with Supply Chain to understand fluctuations in volumes.
  • Developing and maintaining models for the allocation of costs to products and customers SAP.
  • Monitor and analyse monthly, quarterly and year-end projections and explanations, and provide insights on trend analytics.
  • Develop and design methods to enable speedy reporting by automating processes outside of standardized financial and management reporting.
  • Provide FP&A support to business leaders related to productivity, demand planning, reporting, and metrics.
  • Identify and understand business challenges whilst proposing and creating solutions.
  • Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert in providing additional insights.
  • Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
  • Preparation of business result reports, financial projections, and analysis to support financial and operational objectives.
  • Ensure quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the month-end close, monthly reports, accruals, forecasts, and the annual budget / operating plan preparation.
  • Create, refine, and automate reporting tools/models/dashboards that provide analysis and insight into KPIs, thus enabling the business leadership to make timely, accurate and fact-based decisions.
  • Check pricing data currently in the SAP system and the new pricing data received.

      Qualifications and Experience

• • BCom Degree in financial accounting or CMA.
  • Honours’ Degree in Finance, or Post Graduate Diploma in Finance.
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years in Finance-related roles with financial reporting, management, and costing experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • CIMA: 3 years business experience.
  • Understanding of mining and/or manufacturing industries.
  • Understanding of accounting and finance processes.
  • Understanding of financial policies, procedures and processes.
  • Proficiency using ERP and Cognos software.

  Key Competencies

• • Business Report Writing
  • Project Management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Presentation Skills
  • Analysing
  • Entrepreneurial & Commercial thinking
  • Adhering to principles and values
  • Deciding & Initiating Action
  • Planning & Organising
  • Relating and Networking

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