Finance Analyst

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our

Hybrid Work Model


**Job Description**:
CHEP is currently recruiting in Durban, South Africa. Our Finance Team is looking for a Finance Analyst (FP&A) to join them. The role will be based in Westville with a Hybrid working approach.

This position is responsible for supporting and performing a range of planning activities including but not limited to Long Term Planning, Annual Budgeting & Forecasting activities to support the business reporting requirements as well as developing, creating and generating FP&A reporting within the region including but not limited to Standard Reporting and other business support an Analysis activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

Finance Planning & Reporting:

- Provide key stakeholders with financial and statistical reporting information that meets quality standards; is relevant and accurate; distributed on time and maintain the confidentiality of this information. These include, but not limited to, the update, analysis, review, maintenance and reporting of company metrics, supply chain reporting, product profitability, performance dashboards, summary financials, and other key financial metric tools.
- Support in delivering key reporting deliverables, both internal and external, pertaining to budgets, forecasts & strategic plan reporting as well as the compilation of regional Business Performance Review packs (BPR), conforming to internal & external service level standards, and within the group reporting timelines.
- Supports the execution of the Annual Budgeting and Forecasting process and Strategic Planning process in the region to provide performance targets.
- Planning, co-ordination, and collation of financial information from various sources to support the planning process for quarterly forecasting, annual budgets and strategic planning, as well setting up templates, reports and other tools to support the business to input into all planning activities.
- Supports the execution of other Business Support & Analysis activities to efficiently serve internal customers.
- Supports the delivery of FP&A outputs to maintain internal service levels through the implementation of standard tools and processes to simplify operations and facilitate best practice sharing across the business.
- Development and generation of standard and ad-hoc Finance reports to serve customers and fulfil internal service levels
- Publishing key metrics, dashboards, and reports onto Sharepoint and other reporting sites.

Finance Systems:

- Support and input into the delivery of all FP&A systems implementations.
- Function at an “Power/ expert User” level for all FP&A systems including but not limited to HFM (BRACS), BW, SAP Analytics Cloud (PPM), SharePoint
- Function as a systems trainer to the regional BU for all end users utilising FP&A related systems.
- Supporting UAT and regression testing for any ongoing FP&A system changes, upgrades, maintenance and enhancements including but not limited to BW, SharePoint, Hyperion Financial Management, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

Other:

- Support and input into the delivery of all FP&A related projects & process improvement initiatives.
- Partnering with the business to ensure all planning and reporting expectations are delivered as well as an effective performance management of BU operations. This will include support with data analytics to better understand costs drivers & trends to support business decision making.
- Document assumptions, procedures, and the creation of SOP’s & user guides as well as communicating relevant methodology to the business where appropriate.
- Perform any ad hoc tasks or projects assigned by Finance Management.

**Qualifications**:
Tertiary Financial Qualification - Degree required (B-Com)

Experience
- 3-5 years in Finance (Management & Financial Accounting)
- Experience with constructing Management reporting packs
- Business Warehouse systems experience
- Use of KPI’s, Dashboards and Metrics Reporting
- Development of Dashboards and reporting using advanced Excel
- Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
- Proficiency in data manipulation, interpretation and analysis

Skills and Knowledge

Essenti