Starke Ayres: Financial Planning Analysis Analyst

3 weeks ago


Kempton Park, South Africa Plennegy (Pty) Ltd. Full time

The role for a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst (FP&A) has become available in our Production and Supply Chain Department in Kempton Park. The FP&A Analyst will consider economic and business trends, review past company performance, and attempt to anticipate obstacles and potential problems. The FP&A Analyst works closely with senior management to increase the company’s efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial plan.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long-term financial and strategic plan
- Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts
- Producing models to project long-term growth and determine the impacting business factors
- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends, and associated commentary to the Leadership team
- Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
- Utilising BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance
- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
- Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results
- Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost-saving initiatives
- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
- Evaluating previous budgets, and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
- Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation, and streamlining of operations
- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts, and profitability
- Prepare costings for current and new products
- Monitor product volume throughputs in the Production and Supply Chain to ensure: The maintenance of Recovery Rates The accurate recovery of costs to the respective Cost Centres
- Calculate and manage bill of materials for all manufactured products
- Monitor the profitability of products and make recommendations
- Reconcile the Cost Centre Recovery accounts against expenses monthly
- Assist with cost of sales calculations for budget purposes
- Assist all departments with accurate GP% forecasts by product for budgeting

**REQUIREMENTS**:
**Education**:

- A BCom degree in Accounting (NQF level 7) or a relevant field is required for consideration (essential)
- An Honours degree (NQF level 8) in Accounting and/or a relevant field is required for consideration (preferential)

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 10 years of relevant analytical experience

**Skills**:

- Significant analytical skillset, including the utilization of BI and reporting tools
- Able to solve complex problems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- High level of commercial acumen
- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages
- Analytical report writing skills o Sage X3 or Pastel (advantage)



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