This role reporting to the Senior Commercial Finance Manager, will be a Finance Business Partner to the South African Flavour commercial team, providing financial insights to drive improved decision-making and deliver business results through driving growth and profitability. Focus will be both strategic and tactical to achieve targeted near and long-term goals and objectives.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Business Partnering with commercial team to drive growth and profitability
Prepare analysis and insights on the key drivers of financial performance for the South African Flavour business unit
Support the Senior Commercial Finance Manager in preparing and managing customer and product profitability analysis and reporting
Interpret and analyse customer specific requests from the sales team and partner to develop financial P&Ls and analytics
Business partner to the Sales teams, providing insightful analysis to support decision making
Financial reporting and analysis
Support Financial reporting and analysis for all customers
Daily and weekly sales reporting
Support month-end processes, quarterly financial forecast, and budget
Financial data maintenance - support new product code creation, maintain product mapping, create system inputs of key financials during forecast and budget cycles.
Develop financial models through benchmarking and process analysis
Business Planning and analysis
Assist with the coordination and preparation of the long-term plan and annual budget process for the business.
Process Improvement and special projects
Work to improve core commercial finance processes and reporting
Ensure all processes are documented and Sarbanes Oxley compliant
Prepare ad hoc commercial project viability studies
CANDIDATE PROFILE
BCom in Accounting/Finance Relevant degree or equivalent Qualification
4-5 years' experience in Finance roles with FMCG preferable
High level of Advanced Excel skills required and preferably experience of TM1, SAP and PowerBi
Experience in communicating effectively and building positive working relationships with commercial teams
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyse and interpret complex data to provide actionable insights to support decision making
Strong personal leadership, being able to work in a results-driven culture with big focus on execution
Demonstrates initiative, accountability and adopts a perspective of continuous improvement
Strong planning and organisational skills and ability to manage to deadlines
Thorough understanding of business, processes, systems, and internal controls