Job DescriptionJob Description
- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to a long-term financial and strategic plan
- Work with Finance Head to build the annual budgets and forecasts for each BU and Cost Centres
- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
- Utilising BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance
- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
- Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results
- Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost-saving initiatives
- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
- Evaluating previous budgets, and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
- Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining of operations
- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability
Skills And Attributes
The more common skills and attributes that are needed for this role may include:
- Minimum of 10 to 12 years of relevant analytical experience
- Significant analytical skillset, including the utilisation of BI and reporting tools
- Strong quantitative abilities
- Able to solve complex problems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- High level of commercial acumen
- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages
- Professional qualifications such as CA or CPA or CFA
