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Commercial Finance Business Analyst

Full-time

Headhunters

Gauteng
Scope and general purpose of the role: 
  1. Overall Commercial and FP&A (Financial planning and analysis) support to Middle East/Africa (MEA) Business and Region.
  2. Actively support the Commercial and Sales teams with commercial guidance.
  3. Custodian of BI development and related data integrity/maintenance.
Essential (non-negotiable) candidate requirements:
  • Tertiary qualification; viz. financial or business management qualification
  • MBA would be advantageous
  • Be approachable to team members and have strong communication skills
  • Computer literacy – Google suite, with Google Sheets and MS Excel at an Advance level
  • BI experience – COGNOS capabilities / Data warehousing and Integrated systems
  • Commercial support / understanding of key business drivers 
  • FP&A reporting
  • Experience in regional reporting, prepare presentations and experience in a multinational environment    

Responsibilities include the following :

COMMERCIAL BUSINESS PARTNERING:  (35%)
  • Review and update price change request
  • Perform workings and support for price change decisions
  • Proactively review SKU profitability and discussions with Sales team
  • Finance and Commercial related support to the Sales Teams
  • Flag risk areas of low margins, pricing anomalies, etc
  • Provide proactive commercial insights and feedback to Management
  • Identify, interpret and advise on the impact of costs changes
MONTH-END CLOSING:  (10%)
  • Submit weekly sales orders in HFM on time as required
  • Update monthly rebates and discounts workings or perform review if prepared by others. Track sales discount agreements and arrange for credit note processing at designated contract time. 
  • Perform designated expense review (eg. samples) and raise appropriate accruals where expenses are missing or reallocate expenses where required. 
  • Submit regional flash reporting for Reflective and Tapes division and review final results for both 
  • Supplementary information preparation and submission to SSO.
  • General support to the SSO during month end activities, in order to achieve HFM submission on day 3
  • Update sales information for Global customer scorecards
FP & A SUPPORT:  (20%)
  • Update of various regionally assigned monthly and quarterly reporting schedules 
  • Prepare financial smartview templates for inclusion in the MBR presentation deck
  • Assume responsibility for monthly regional reporting requirements including, but not limited to:
    • Flash report during financial closing week for responsible BU’s
    • Pulse report during 3rd week of the month for responsible BU’s
    • GM Scorecard (pricing updates)
    • Rolling forecast preparation
    • Preparation of first draft of the Business Review presentation deck and circulate to responsible persons for comments
  • Perform commercial regional and local reporting as required
  • Ensure team keeps to regional timelines in terms of monthly reporting
  • Attend regional FP&A meetings/calls as and when required
  • Responsible for all regional reporting for the Reflective and Tapes businesses
FORECAST, ANNUAL BUDGET AND STRATPLAN:  (Ad-Hoc  10%)
  • Assume accountability for monthly sales forecast file, and associated commercial trackers.
  • Prepare schedules and reports required for annual budget pack
  • Contribute towards preparation of presentation deck and reviews
  • Preparation and upload of HFM data (Reflective and Tapes)
  • Stratplan: Support with assigned responsibilities as part of Stratplan process, focussing on Industry and price related updates
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE:  (15%)
  • Manage Cognos (data warehouse) updates and uploads including data preparation and data reconciliation
  • Update sales data required by the commercial team, (Eg. Sales Pivot file, DataStudio, etc)
  • Develop reports as requested by internal customers
  • Oversee and review  PLT reporting and PLT Data Integrity
  • Assume responsibility for all sales and commercial reporting
  • Review master data integrity (BI driver)
GENERAL:  (10%)
  • Provide support for stock take as and when required
  • Support during statutory audit as and when required
  • Training support to the business on areas of expertise i.e. Google, BI etc.
  • General finance support to the business
  • Responsible for VAT administration (return submissions, VAT recon, etc.
Please note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, your application has been unsuccessful.
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