FP&A AND COMMERCIAL ANALYST

Job Description

Purpose of the Goal

Responsible for the production of management reports, budgets, forecasts, scorecards/dashboards, business cases and being a finance business partner to other functions.

Key Performance Objectives

Reporting & Analysis

• Support production of management reports
• Support production of various analyses as required.
• Produce and maintain a database of data and information useful for financial decision making (drivers, economic indicators, product and price lists, etc)

Planning and Forecasting

• Support the production of the annual budget, including data collection and analysis.

•  Collect and consolidate inputs to the budget
• Support the production of the annual forecast, including data collection and analysis
• Collect inputs to the forecast process.
• Support the production of Business Cases

Business partnering

• Collect inputs to the Business Case
• Liaise with Commercial teams on advance requests and periodically reconcile settlements between Finance and Commercial teams
• Liaise with Commercial function to understand and support their needs and requirements and provide feedback to Finance.
• Liaise with Commercial function and develop deep understanding of commercial drivers and trends (trends, KPI's, commercial drivers, etc.

Finance Projects

• Support execution of in-country / Corporate identified Projects in Finance

Job Requirement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

· CIMA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification desirable

·    1-3 years of experience in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and a real knack for understanding commercial workings of a business enterprise.

· Experience in reporting and variance analysis

·   Knowledge and working knowledge of relevant corporation taxes

· Experience in multi-national environment will be an added advantage

. Fluent in English.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

The incumbent is required to have the following functional competencies:

·         Accounting / IFRS

·         Accounting applications

·         Accounting Ratios

·         Administration skills

·         Automation techniques (beneficial)

·         Commercial acumen

·         Data collection

·         Data visualisation skills (graphs, diagrams, etc)

·         Dashboards, Balanced Scorecard, Key performance indicators (KPI's) & Objectives Key Results (OKRs)

·         Excel

·         Financial Management (Corporate Finance)

·         General IT skills

·         Taxation

.         Tools like Think Cell or ZebraBI, Power Query and PowerBI advantageous.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

·         Acts with integrity, objectivity and high standards of accountability

·         Analytical skills

·         Assertiveness

·         Attention to detail

·         Business partnering

·         Commercial mindedness & Curiosity

·         Communication skills

·         Industry knowledge / awareness

·         Influential

·         Open-minded

·         Planning, Execution & Control

·         Presentation skills

·         Problem solving

·         Project management

·         Stakeholder management

·         Supportive

.         Time management / deadline driven.