Job Description

Requirements:

• BCom Accounting/ BCom Financial Management
• Honours degree will be beneficial
• CIMA will be beneficial
• 1 -2 years experience in a financial planning and analyst role
• 2 years experience in a general or operational financial management role
• Completed articles will be highly beneficial
• Looking for energetic, self driven individual. Who shows initiative, asks tough questions.

Responsibilities:
Budgeting:

• Take lead on the annual budget process.
• Work with relevant cost center budget owners to create a realistic operational expenses budget.
• Assist people with building their business cases and relevant ROIs.
• Determining best investment for the business.
• Understand cause and effect drivers of environmental forces. (i.e. political, economic, legislative, technological).
• Adapt and transform finance management plans to maintain relevance with the macro-environment.
• Assist budget owners throughout the year to keep to the set budget.

Reporting:

• Provide in-depth analysis of various aspects of the business, with the purpose of enhancing the financial performance, and addressing any possible business risk in a timely manner.
• To fulfil an integral role within the finance team analysing past results and forecasting future outcomes
• Assist business with managing their expenses by giving proper insights into actual results vs budget. Assisting budget owners with data as and when required.
• Providing accurate and insightful information and reporting to various business departments and exco. Help to build a scalable business.
• Monthly submissions of TBs and forecasts to the group on Cognos Controller.
• Assist with reporting as required by the CFO.
• Month-end and year-end rollovers.
• Calculate ratios and performance measures:

• Debt covenants
• Net asset values
• EBITDA, Normalised EBITDA
• Project NPVs
• To provide in-depth and well considered analysis of various aspects of the business, and across all areas of the business, with the purpose of enhancing the financial performance, and addressing any possible business risk in a timely manner
• Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers

Analysis and forecasting:

• Monthly financial forecasts submitted within group deadlines.
• KI forecasts, sales/churn forecasts.
• Cost calculations and price planning.
• Various reports to assist with decision making and performance improvement

Key initiatives ROI:

• Successful implementation of KI products with regards to process flow, financial processes and systems that are scalable and efficient.
• Setup SME cloud billing, processes and ensure easily scalable from finance function perspective.
• Assist with the setup of the necessary infrastructure for ASP.
• Assist with the treasury, reconciliation and settlement function for a Buy-now-pay-later product.

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us in 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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