Commercial Finance Lead Analyst

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Eaton Full time

What you'll do:

This is an analytical role focused on supporting commercial reporting and commercial finance processes.

The role reports directly to and closely supports the Commercial FP&A Manager.

Being a true data guru you'll develop fantastic relationships with your key senior stakeholders (within the country and outside) supporting them with timely analytics and insights to drive the success of the business.

Your contribution will be instrumental in maximizing the "value added" by the team while constantly delivering the expected high performing results.


Responsibilities:

Analytics:

  • Support the FP&A manager with providing insights into the business performance for the areas under responsibility and quality commentaries for monthly reporting requirements
  • Prepare forecasts and annual profit plans working together with the key stakeholders
  • Specific focus on sales (customer, product) analytics, incoming orders, price, rebates and mix calculations to drive profitability
  • Lead project analytics (revenues and profitability)
  • Ensure the tracking of the rebate agreements in collaboration with the sales team
  • Support the preparation of the management financial presentations
  • Support SIOP and revenue forecasting processes in close collaboration with sales, services and supply chain teams
  • Support working capital KPIs analytics and advise on improvements, specific focus on AR and collections in close collaboration with the sales and credit teams

Compliance / Projects / Continuous improvement / Ad-hoc:

  • Proactively build strong relationships with cross-functional teams to drive the value in the organization
  • Propose financial solutions to business challenges while maintaining governance and financial controls
  • Continuously improve tools to get better insights into the business, support any local ERP enhancement or new implementations
  • Prioritize competing demands, proactively manage expectations of the stakeholders
  • Provide the finance support to the country and zone leadership teams on adhoc projects and requests

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in the field of finance
  • At least 5 years of practical experience of financial planning & analysis FP&A
  • Analytical mindset, sales and business acumen, business partnering
  • Excellent knowledge of Excel
  • Datasavvy, good with systems such as SAP, Power BI
  • Enthusiastic, learning agility
  • English language at fluent level
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees.

Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

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