Job Description

• 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.
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert in providing additional insights.
• 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.