Finance Analyst

Takealot Group a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Finance Analyst to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the Head: Corporate FP&A.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and continually improve analytical capabilities working through complex business issues in order to provide actionable reporting that enables business decisions and to meet financial and strategic commitments.
• Translate business questions into analyses; assess financial impact (sales profitability KPIs) incorporating AI-driven scenario modeling and predictive analytics
• Assess financial impact in terms of sales profitability and other performance metrics.
• Produce monthly management reports comparing business performance to business plans and unpacking variances.
• Design and perform complex multi-variable analyses by applying appropriate statistical methodologies to determine resolutions that clarify and address operational and business concerns
• Evaluate data to make recommendations for continued or new business direction
• Consider multiple scenarios and points of view and potential outcomes for recommending actions based on analysis
• Communicate and share recommendations and relevant information and iterate on analyses based on different business scenarios or assumptions.
• Provide ongoing optimization revenue opportunities lost-opportunity analysis that the business units can act on to improve metrics and increase sales/revenue.
• Drive automation and process redesign; implement tooling and efficiencies with focus on AI-enabled workflow automation and intelligent reporting
• Provide reporting monthly on the key profitability drivers of the business and make recommendations for driving efficiencies
• Assist and be actively involved in the Takealot Group Budgeting and Planning cycle
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships with key business partners to ensure alignment on strategies to maximize financial results

Skills required:

• Strong analytical skills with solid foundation in statistical techniques.
• Strong business acumen with an understanding of the marketing accounting decision support models operations and financial levers that drive profit loss and customer experience.
• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Ability to translate business needs and goals into analytic approach and response
• Deep experience with data mining data analytics predictive modeling and advanced modeling techniques
• Strong ability to interpret AI model outputs validate results and translate insights into business recommendations
• Ability to work independently productively proactively and follow through on all responsibilities to bring projects to a successful conclusion.
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner with associates from across the business.
• Must be solution oriented with a thirst to learn and ability to think logically through multi-faceted problems.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities and multiple projects that will impact the business at various levels
• Advanced in Excel Looker TM1 and database extraction with exposure to AI tools

Qualifications and Experience required:

• 3 years post-qualification experience (CIMA/CA(SA) preferred)
• Retail experience preferred
• SQL experience (data extraction)
• Experience with BI tools (Qlik / Power BI / Looker)
• Strong analytical mindset with demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and process improvement

The Environment:

• employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer-centric fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun work hard take ownership work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference