Finance Process Analyst

O'Brien Recruitment; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

O'Brien Recruitment in Cape Town is recruiting a Finance Process Analyst to redesign how finance operates across the group. The role focuses on PTP, OTC and RTR processes, identifying bottlenecks, controls gaps and opportunities for automation.

You will work hybrid from Cape Town, reporting into Finance Transformation, and you'll gain hands-on experience mapping processes, building SOPs and dashboards. Hands-on finance experience and Advanced Excel proficiency are required; Power BI and ERP

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills essential for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with Power BI and ERP migrations is a strong plus.
• Ability to explain finance end-to-end processes and controls.

Responsibilities

• Analyse current finance processes to identify gaps and improvements.
• Map end-to-end processes and maintain SOPs.
• Investigate reconciliation issues to find root causes.
• Gather data to support process decisions and build KPI dashboards.
• Run workshops with finance teams across the group.
• Identify automation opportunities and support new systems adoption.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Tools

ERP migration experience

Job description

Finance Process Analyst (PTP / OTC / RTR) — Finance Transformation

Cape Town | Hybrid | Permanent

Know creditors, debtors and month-end inside out? This is your move out of processing.

A global creative and media group is building out its Finance Transformation function from its Cape Town hub, and is looking for someone with real finance operations experience to help redesign how finance works across the group. This is a finance role, not a business analyst role. You will spend your time looking at how finance actually runs — where the bottlenecks are, where controls are thin, why reconciliations keep breaking — and helping fix it. The process documentation and transformation methodology will be taught to you on the job.

What you’ll be doing

• Analysing current finance processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities
• Mapping end-to-end processes and maintaining SOPs and process documentation
• Investigating reconciliation issues through to root cause
• Gathering and analysing data to support process decisions, and helping build reporting packs and KPI dashboards
• Running workshops, testing and feedback sessions with finance teams across the group
• Identifying automation and simplification opportunities, and supporting adoption of new systems and ways of working

What you need

Hands-on experience in one or more of the following — depth across two or three is ideal:

• Procure-to-Pay: purchasing, creditors / accounts payable, supplier management, invoice processing, payment runs, supplier reconciliations
• Order-to-Cash: billing, debtors / accounts receivable, cash allocation, collections, credit control, customer reconciliations
• Record-to-Report: balance sheet reconciliations, month-end close, journals, intercompany, financial controls

You should be able to explain a finance process end-to-end without being walked through it, spot where the risks and controls sit, work a reconciliation back to its root cause, challenge how things are currently done, and hold your own with finance supervisors and subject matter experts.

Advanced Excel is essential. Power BI, shared services or centralised finance hub experience, and exposure to an ERP migration or system implementation from the finance side are all strong advantages.

What you don’t need

You do not need a formal Business Analysis qualification, a Lean or Six Sigma certification, extensive process mapping experience, or a transformation project title. The hiring manager has been clear: strong practical finance process knowledge is preferred, and the methodology will be developed in the role.