Finance Assistant at CDL Human Resource

Job Description

• Support the Senior Finance Analyst, Channel Director & Channel heads in financial reporting and business partnering functions for the MAH channel clusters (East & Southern). To assist in delivery of timely and accurate preparation of all channel cluster financial reporting, management reporting, budgets and forecasts and procurement process (tracking spend against budgets).

Key Performance Objectives Tasks
Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare month end reporting schedules for analysis and maintain accrual schedules.
• Adhere to Group reporting deadlines including month end; forecasts; budgets;half-year and year-end.
• Review/ prepare schedules and reports for statutory reporting packs for half-yearand year-end reporting periods.
• Assist Snr. Financial Analyst in collaborating with Shared Services and auditors to prepare deliver on internal and statutory audits.
• Tracking and management of the procurement process and related key stats.

Business Partnering

• Participate in maintaining and improving a robust budgeting model (record trends,understand drivers, correlation, sensitivities, dependencies)
• Prioritize and manage business demands and business partner expectations.
• Facilitation of channel cluster budget and forecast planning cycles.
• Perform analysis and provide commentary on month-end variances against budgets, forecasts and prior years.
• Preparation and analysis of monthly rolling forecasts for Group submission
• Cash flow management athrough preparation of 24-month treasury forecasts and tracking that actual outcomes align to forecasts.
• Extract, combine and summarize data to analyze the financial impact of new initiatives and effectively communicating key findings to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions.
• Developing metrics and reports to provide monitoring for new initiatives.
• Proactively partner with business to identify and evaluate opportunities to improve bottom line business performance and ensure that change initiatives are implemented.
• Participate in the content payment process and ensure the timeliness and validity of payments
• Tracking business & content financial objectives
• Provide support for ad hoc analysis and requests pertaining to outlooks and projects

Requirements

• BCom Finance degree or equivalent
• CPA, with database / Excel proficiency

Experience / Skills

• A minimum 3 – 5 years experience in a Finance/Accountancy role with an emphasis on budgeting and reporting
• Detailed commercial and financial acumen, balanced with creative flair
• Hands-on experience with financial analysis, modelling and report building
• Sound knowledge of IFRS and Taxation rules
• Industry understanding and experience would be advantageous
• Strong communication and relationship building skills

Technical Competencies

• Advanced Excel skills (Macros, pivots and working with advanced and complex formulae)
• SAP experience
• Financial Modeling
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and presentations
• Excellent communication, presentation skills
• Understanding the procurement process

Behavioral Competencies

• Speed and accuracy with figures
• Effective stakeholder management
• Persuading and influence
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proactive and ability to plan ahead
• Coaching
• Conflict resolution
• Attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines
• Analytical thinking
• Innovative problem solver
• Holistic thinking
• Structured, agile, results oriented, customer focused
• Acts with integrity and fairness and high standards of accountability