Senior Finance Analyst

1 month ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Pernod Ricard Full time

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Assists with the timely and accurate reporting of financial performance of the PR Africa business (PR affiliates + third-party markets), together with all budgeting and forecast workflows to ensure management has clear visibility of past, current, and anticipated future performance. The Senior Finance Analyst will work alongside Sales, Marketing and Operations teams to ensure clarity and transparency on sales performance, and the link to net revenue generation, and on driving cost optimisation initiatives across the business. The Senior Finance Analyst will establish strong working relationships with counterparts in all African markets and will be a best practice champion for Pernod Ricard group reporting principles, providing guidance and support, and rolling out best practice initiatives across the region. The Senior Finance Analysis team is responsible for consolidating and reporting the Africa region performance and collaborating with teams in markets to identify risks to delivery of targets and opportunities to mitigate those risks.

KEY COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE

Report and Analyse Financial Performance:

- Own the preparation and loading of data into Polaris for Africa on monthly reporting and forecast.
- In charge of the management of monthly reporting and forecast deadlines.
- Super user and champion of ERP and Finance tools.
- Management of master data mapping across Africa.
- Management of local and group reporting.
- Management of P&L slicer and Flash files to be shared with group and local teams using Essbase and local ERP’s.
- Building of new and standardized reports for Africa for all P&L lines.
- Share financial reports to internal stakeholders.
- Verify and validate master data in ERP systems (JDE, Navision, Business Central) in order to facilitate accurate management reporting.
- Update, reconcile and circulate management reporting BI tools (Qlikview, PowerBI) to relevant stakeholders in agreed timelines.
- Analyse results and confirm accuracy and consistency of reporting.
- Owning the preparation of monthly P&L commentary pack, executive presentations, and other ad hoc presentation requirements.

Compile information and develop tools for accurate financial budgets, plans and estimates:

- Recommend improved methods of analysing results.
- Understand the business cycle to provide relevant reporting and analysis to stakeholders.

Business partnering function:

- Provide 'real time' support and advice to the business, adding value to the decision-making process.
- Together with stakeholders build reports and analysis to assist them with reliable information to enhance decision making.
- Develop appropriate tools to enable the business to better manage and understand financial performance of their brands, functions and/or customers.

Collaborate with internal stakeholders
- Give internal stakeholders accurate financial information when required.
- Attend cross-functional meetings for the South Africa and broader Africa businesses to enhance reporting and tools performance.
- Provide financial and analytical support to the affiliates.

Collaborate with external stakeholders
- Identify and communicate performance challenges to PR Group together with appropriate mitigation plans in the event of delays and challenges in reporting and forecast submissions.
- Support the external audit process by providing relevant, accurate and timely responses to audit queries on ST P&L’s.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Educational Requirements and Work Experience:

- Qualified and currently enrolled in accounting post graduate certification i.e., CIMA, CA(SA) or other recognised certification.
- Minimum 3/5 years in financial reporting, report writing and analytical experience, financial audit or financial advisory (Transactions and Corporate Finance)
- Experience in FMCG environment
- Preference will be given to applicants who have worked in a multi-national environment.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience in manufacturing environment added advantage

Functional and Technical Competencies:
Reporting & Analytical Skills, attention to details, problem-solving skills, forecast and budget building, strong commercial/operational acumen, good user of BI tools, initiate pro-active business changes and improvements, present and communicate information effectively to different audiences, strong technical expertise on ERPs, advanced excel competencies (processing of significant amounts of data in the most optimized/user friendly report), tech-savvy.

Behavioural Competencies:
Strong interpersonal skills, effective decision-making, strong planning and organisation skills, teamwork, communication, change management, initiative, self-motivated, strong work ethic, promotes Innovation and best practices related to systems & processes.

Leadership Competencies:
Strategic Vision, Entrepreneurship, Result Orientation, Live the Values

Job Posting End Date:
Target Hire Date:
2024-12-01

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