FP&A AND COMMERCIAL ANALYST

Purposeof the Goal

Responsible for the production of management reports, budgets, forecasts, scorecards/dashboards, business cases and being a finance business partner to other functions.

Key Performance Objectives

Reporting & Analysis

• Support production of management reports
• Support production of various analyses as required.
• Produce and maintain a database of data and information useful for financial decision making (drivers, economic indicators, product and price lists, etc)

PlanningandForecasting

• Support the production of the annual budget, including data collection and analysis.

• Collect and consolidate inputs to the budget
• Support the production of the annual forecast, including data collection and analysis
• Collect inputs to the forecast process.
• Support the production of Business Cases

Business partnering

• Collect inputs to the Business Case
• Liaise with Commercial teams on advance requests and periodically reconcile settlements between Finance and Commercial teams
• Liaise with Commercial function to understand and support their needs and requirements and provide feedback to Finance.
• Liaise with Commercial function and develop deep understanding of commercial drivers and trends (trends, KPI's, commercial drivers, etc.

Finance Projects

• Support execution of in-country / Corporate identified Projects in Finance

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

FMVA, BIDA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification desirable

Above 3 years of experience in financial analysis planning, budgeting and forecasting and a real knack for understanding commercial workings of a business enterprise.

Experience in reporting and variance analysis

Knowledge and working knowledge of relevant corporation taxes

Experience in multi-national environment will be an added advantage

. Fluent in English.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

The incumbent is required to have the following functional competencies:

Accounting / IFRS

Accounting applications

Accounting Ratios

Administration skills

Automation techniques (beneficial)

Commercial acumen

Data collection

Data visualization skills (graphs, diagrams, etc)

Dashboards, Balanced Scorecard, Key performance indicators (KPI's) & Objectives Key Results (OKRs)

Excel

Financial Management (Corporate Finance)

General IT skills

Taxation

. Tools like Think Cell or ZebraBI, Power Query and PowerBI advantageous.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

Acts with integrity, objectivity and high standards of accountability

Analytical skills

Assertiveness

Attention to detail

Business partnering

Commercial mindedness & Curiosity

Communication skills

Industry knowledge / awareness

Influential

Open-minded

Planning, Execution & Control

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Project management

Stakeholder management

Supportive

. Time management / deadline driven.