Financial Analyst

5 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited Full time

4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

LOCATION Cape Town, South Africa;
The Financial Analyst will be responsible for leading the finance function for CS for South Africa. The role primarily includes planning and reporting, along with identifying opportunities for driving greater operational and financial efficiencies at the sites, she/he is responsible for. The role would involve driving process improvements through preparing and presenting key management information dashboards and enabling decision making for the senior stakeholders within the CS Operations team.

Summary of Responsibilities
- Serve as the key business partner working directly with CS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations
- Report on the financial performance and lead in the preparation of weekly, monthly and annual financial reviews
- Manage the financial planning and analysis effort and forecast various metrics for financial risks and opportunities
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, evaluate and publish in-depth financial reports and analyses to support strategic decision-making by senior leadership
- Develop and publish key performance indicators and regular business metrics
- Help evolve the team’s practices, constantly looking for improvements in analyzing and understanding data and reporting
- Drive process improvements, cost savings, and support new business initiatives
- Proactively work with the business owners on root cause analyses and solution implementation
- Evaluate and implement opportunities for improving capacity planning inputs, process, and modeling
- Improve tools, processes, scale existing solutions, create new solutions as required based on stakeholder needs

Cape Town, ZAF
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience working with stakeholders
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis



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