Senior Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Coordination and consolidation of Annual Departmental Operating Budgets and analysis of actual expenditure against plan.
• Preparation of daily and weekly production statistics and analysis of performance against expected/plan targets, efficiencies, usage, rate, and output.
• Profitability and viability analysis on products, markets, and initiatives.
• Ensuring price reviews and system price updates are maintained correctly.
• Periodic sales volume and value tracking and analysis.
• General analytical and statistical support to the sales and marketing department; weekly sales tracking, distributor discounts, and sales commissions (incentives pay) analysis.
• Preparation of monthly management reports, variance analysis, and reconciliations (monthly management load files, monthly cost files, and reconciliations).
• Preparation of approval documents (CARs) for new projects, creating the projects in the ERP system, and monitoring them to ensure expenditure is within budget.
• Assisting in the preparation of Annual Financial plans and periodic forecasts.

Requirements

• Five years’ relevant costing experience in manufacturing
• University degree BCom or BSc Statistics
• Professional qualifications CPA or equivalent
• Oracle EBS – Minimum five years’ experience
• MS Office - Excel professional level knowledge