Fp&a Analyst

Oversee the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting process.
- Financial support of local business cases and development of sales and expense forecasts.
- Review inventory levels and co-ordinate processes to ensure working capital ratios are aligned to inventory policy.
- Analysing impact of key variables such as exchange rate and ammonia price.
- Reviewing valuation runs in SAP and resolving any issues arising from those valuation runs - including working with Supply Chain to understand fluctuations in volumes.
- Developing and maintaining models for the allocation of costs to products and customers SAP.
- Monitor and analyse monthly, quarterly and year-end projections and explanations, and provide insights on trend analytics.
- Develop and design methods to enable speedy reporting by automating processes outside of standardised financial and management reporting.
- Provide FP&A support to business leaders related to productivity, demand planning, reporting, and metrics.
- Identify and understand business challenges whilst proposing and creating solutions.
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Preparation of business result reports, financial projections, and analysis to support financial and operational objectives.
- Ensure quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the month-end close, monthly reports, accruals, forecasts, and the annual budget / operating plan preparation.
- Create, refine, and automate reporting tools/models/dashboards that provide analysis and insight into KPIs, thus enabling the business leadership to make timely, accurate and fact-based decisions.
- Check pricing data currently in the SAP system and the new pricing data received.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- BCom Degree in financial accounting or CMA.
- Honours’ Degree in Finance, or Post Graduate Diploma in Finance.
- Minimum 3 to 5 years in Finance-related roles with financial reporting, management, and costing experience in a manufacturing environment.
- CIMA: 3 years business experience.
- Understanding of mining and/or manufacturing industries.
- Understanding of accounting and finance processes.
- Understanding of financial policies, procedures and processes.
- Proficiency using ERP and Cognos software.
- Business Report Writing
- Project Management
- Attention to Detail
- Presentation Skills
- Analysing
- Entrepreneurial & Commercial thinking
- Adhering to principles and values
- Deciding & Initiating Action
- Planning & Organising
- Relating and Networking
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Coping with pressures and setbacks

Following instructions & procedures