FP COMMERCIAL ANALYST

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 Requirements

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. 

How to Apply

Interested candidates are invited to send their CV and/or cover letter only through this LINK.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.