Overview
Reference: Commercial Finance A
Salary: ZAR/month
Job Location: South Africa -- City of Cape Town -- Cape Town
Job Type: Permanent
Posted: 16 November 2023
Our client is looking for a Commercial Finance Analyst in the FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) space, who will be instrumental in driving business performance through detailed analysis, providing insightful recommendations, and partnering with cross-functional teams to enhance profitability and efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Review the forecast monthly by brand, channel and customer in collaboration with sales leaders and supply chain.
- Support the CFO and Head of Commercial Finance with budget and forecasting processes, month end reporting, and ad-hoc reporting requirements and IT related projects.
- Support the Director of Retail, D2C and Business Development via business partnering, analysis, opportunity assessments and quarterly performance reviews.
- Develop and maintain accurate retail store contribution statements.
- Ensure all pricing, promotions and for retail stores are reflected accurately in SAP.
- Investment requests for new retail stores.
- Forecasting and reporting on entire retail store.
- Develop and maintain trackers on retail KPIs (e.g. labour hours, OT tracking, promo tracking etc.).
- Monitor monthly marketing and trade spend in comparison with Budget and latest estimates.
- Forecasting and reporting on entire South Africa advertising and consumer promotion spend.
- Partner with the Director of marketing to assess the effectiveness of current processes and to suggest and implement improvements.
- Assist product managers with the costing for new product development.
- Administrator for the business intelligence warehouse.
- Analyze and recommend promo mechanics across brands to improve efficiency and uptake.
- Provide accurate views on risks and opportunities.
Key Skills: - Needs to have excellent attention to detail.
- A high level of interpersonal skills and ability to engage, communicate and influence internal and external stakeholders at all operational levels.
- Methodical and structured approach to tasks.
- Able to set priorities and clear targets.
- High flexibility.
- Able to grow with the level of responsibilities and with the size and structure of the business.
Qualifications: - University degree and ideally studying towards the CIMA degree.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in a finance analytical role.
- Highly numerate with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Experience in the area of Accounting/Controlling or internal/external audit with strong retail and marketing interest.
- Excellence Excel skills.
- SAP experience considered to be an advantage.
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