Financial Analyst

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Finance professional with strong analytical and communication skills to join our regional finance team as a Financial Analyst and support the Middle East and Africa organization.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Support Sr. Finance Manager in all FP&A planning analysis and reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support our fast growing organization.
Develop standardize and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights and support monthly quarterly and annual forecasting and budgeting processes.
Build and update dashboards using Excel Hyperion Essbase PowerBI and other business intelligence tools.
Independently investigate data issues ask pertinent questions identify root causes and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality.
Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support and conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights.
Translate business inputs into financial assumptions build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends covering areas such as revenue new product launches pricing operating expenses.
Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability data flow and accuracy.
Perform special projects and ad-hoc reporting as required by finance and business leadership.

How You Will Get Here:

Education:

Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Economics or a related field or equivalent experience.
MBA degree preferred.

Experience:

3 years of relevant experience in finance.
Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization.
Proven track record of analytical abilities and experience in presenting analysis to business partners.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:

Advanced user in Excel. Proficient user in Hyperion Power BI.
Effective verbal and written communication skills able to present analysis concisely and effectively.
Attention to detail and consistently delivering high-quality work. Ability to learn quickly and multi-task in a fast-paced setting.
Good understanding of business processes and financial controls able to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions.
Self-motivated eager to learn new concepts able to work individually and as part of a team.

Required Experience:

Work ScheduleStandard (Mon-Fri)Environmental ConditionsOfficeJob DescriptionWe are seeking an experienced Finance professional with strong analytical and communication skills to join our regional finance team as a Financial Analyst and support the Middle East and Africa organization.Key Duties and R...

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Support Sr. Finance Manager in all FP&A planning analysis and reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support our fast growing organization.
Develop standardize and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights and support monthly quarterly and annual forecasting and budgeting processes.
Build and update dashboards using Excel Hyperion Essbase PowerBI and other business intelligence tools.
Independently investigate data issues ask pertinent questions identify root causes and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality.
Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support and conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights.
Translate business inputs into financial assumptions build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends covering areas such as revenue new product launches pricing operating expenses.
Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability data flow and accuracy.
Perform special projects and ad-hoc reporting as required by finance and business leadership.

How You Will Get Here:

Education:

Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Economics or a related field or equivalent experience.
MBA degree preferred.

Experience:

3 years of relevant experience in finance.
Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization.
Proven track record of analytical abilities and experience in presenting analysis to business partners.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:

Advanced user in Excel. Proficient user in Hyperion Power BI.
Effective verbal and written communication skills able to present analysis concisely and effectively.
Attention to detail and consistently delivering high-quality work. Ability to learn quickly and multi-task in a fast-paced setting.
Good understanding of business processes and financial controls able to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions.
Self-motivated eager to learn new concepts able to work individually and as part of a team.

Required Experience:

Key Skills

Cognos
Forecasting
Hyperion
Microsoft Access
Pivot tables
Accounting
Analysis Skills
Microsoft Excel
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Budgeting
Financial Planning

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