Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Apex Group Full time

Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst

Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Date Posted: Feb 22, 2023

**Description**

**Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst**

**Location: Johannesburg / Cape Town**

Apex Group is looking for an individual to support our business leaders as a Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst who understands ‘the how’ and ‘why’ each of the business areas truly provides a valued contribution to the business revenue and can support them on delivering people related solutions to business problems.

In this role, you will work collaboratively and strategically with the business on cost efficiencies related to functional headcount budgets. You will work with ExCo and business leaders to ensure headcount modelling, forecasting and actuals are managed and executed accurately. You will span across HR and Finance teams, ensuring that information flows effectively between teams and can drive decision-making.
- Responsibilities:

- Gain understanding of existing workforce planning and functional headcount reports, reviewing reporting processes and creation of process flow documentation for key reporting and decision-making.
- Create workforce plans and cost management practices globally.
- Utilise analytical skills and people data to feed into and make recommendations for workforce decision making processes, identifying gaps and solutions to meet long term workforce requirements.
- Review with HR leaders the strategic decisions related to workforce planning, identify key gaps in roles, identify implications on workforce and plan accordingly.
- Support the end-to-end cycle of workforce planning from collection during budget planning to tracking and governance throughout year, considering headcount and base cost management to support the business objectives.
- Support the delivery of the overall headcount budget to ensure cost efficiency across the Apex workforce.
- Provide statistical analysis and reports, working closely with Finance on reconciling budget forecasts to actual monthly costs to feed the P&L
- Provide high level strategic input to drive recruitment activity and location strategy.
- Headcount synergy tracking
- Creation of reports to fulfil customer demand;
- Creation of key process flow documentation.

**Requirements**:

- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- Knowledge and experience of People related costs, ie. Functional headcount reports, location strategy, workforce planning
- Strong IT skills, in particular Microsoft Excel and SQL programming / Visual Basic (SSIS / SSRS);
- Strong understanding of accounting systems, experience with Navision preferable but not essential;
- Problem solving and strong communication skills;
- Good understanding of the main functions of a finance team;
- Business analysis and process flow experience;



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