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The Group Financial Analyst Manager plays a pivotal role in overseeing and managing the financial performance. This strategic position is responsible for consolidating financial data, preparing management reports, conducting in-depth trend and variance analysis, and delivering actionable insights that support executive-level decision-making.
The ideal candidate is a highly analytical, people-savvy professional with an innate ability to influence and challenge constructively. You must bring a strong business acumen, outstanding attention to detail, and the interpersonal strength to thrive in a high-performance, office-based role within a dynamic corporate environment.
- Prepare consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for the group, ensuring timeliness and accuracy.
- Oversee the preparation of business unit management accounts, maintaining consistent standards across the organisation.
- Design and maintain reporting templates and dashboards to enhance clarity and performance tracking.
- Analyse trends, review variances, and identify risks or opportunities across KPIs, forecasts, and actual performance.
- Proactively query the numbers, ensuring insights are meaningful and solutions-focused.
- Lead and coordinate the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes across all business units.
- Deliver financial modelling and insights that support the Group CFO and Group CEO in strategic decision-making.
- Identify areas for cost efficiency and performance improvement.
- Conduct detailed variance analysis with recommendations and follow-up actions.
- Support long-term financial planning by conducting scenario modelling and forecasting.
- Evaluate new business ventures, investments, acquisitions, and divestitures, providing recommendations grounded in financial rigour.
- Deliver ad hoc financial analysis to support corporate strategy and growth initiatives.
Qualifications
- Relevant Accounting / Finance Degree
- CA (SA) advantageous
Criteria
- 8 – 10 years experience in a similar role
- High Dominance & Influence: A strong-willed, confident communicator with the ability to lead conversations, persuade and engage stakeholders across all levels of the business.
- Detail-Oriented Thinker: Obsessed with accuracy and data integrity; someone who leaves no number unchecked.
- Analytically Strong: Naturally curious and rigorous — constantly questioning trends, variances, and performance drivers.
- Business Partner Mindset: A collaborative team player with commercial awareness and the ability to translate numbers into actionable business insights.
- People-Centric Leader: Builds trust quickly, communicates effectively, and brings energy into financial discussions.
A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.