Senior Financial Planning Analyst

3 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Conova Recruitment Full time

**Role details**:

- Improve the budgeting & forecasting process to suit the needs and ambitions of the business.
- To take overall responsibility for the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash flow planning process
- To provide value add reporting through cross-department business partnering.
- Develop, document, and maintain processes across departments to achieve the above objectives
- Provide recommendations across the business to drive long-term shareholder value

**Detailed Responsibilities & Tasks**:

- Act as the FP&A tool (Planful) expert for Finance and continuously look for ways to improve processes and analysis through the tool with a vision of moving to rolling forecasts and multi-scenario planning
- Liase with the Revenue Manager (Finance), Account Managers (Client Services) & Business Development to build the quarterly Corporate Revenue forecast.
- Liase with the Global teams to build their Revenue / Cost budgets. Oversee the Operational cost budgets with local Heads of Finance.
- Produce, enhance, and maintain budget templates tailored to the needs of the department and regional requirements.
- Ensure budget templates include appropriate dimensions (i.e., job roles, foreign exchange, offices) to allow enhanced forecasting insights for office P&Ls & cashflow forecasts)
- Review, enhance, and maintain the monthly departmental management accounts
- Hold monthly meetings with cost owners to understand & challenge variances to forecast.
- Proactively highlight risks and opportunities (i.e., cost efficiencies, client risks).
- Business partner and maintain financial models for ad hoc projects (i.e., ROI, revenue recognition models, profitability exercises, FX analysis)
- Work with the FP&A Director to implement enhanced, regular reporting/analysis with non-financial data to identify trends and capture opportunities
- Act as a key support contact for the Finance team for building complex models and excel support
- Seek to bring non-finance stakeholders into the Planful FP&A tool to allow department heads to build plans in the tool, self-serve reporting and increase efficiency in the planning process.

**Requirements**:

- Relevant accounting qualifications (CA Articles, ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc)
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive, with open regular communication with stakeholders
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills
- The desire and willingness to investigate and challenge information and action where appropriate
- Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise workload
- Experience with FP&A tools (I.e., Planful, Power BI, Tableau)
- Flexible to do international travelling if need be



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