Financial Analyst

Talent Shore Ltd.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Shore Ltd. seeks a Financial Analyst to join the group finance team. You will translate data from finance, CRM and recruitment systems into reliable insights that drive commercial decisions.

You will lead the analysis for Comanos, our renewable energy business, build complex models for seasonal activity, and develop dashboards and reports for management across multiple regions including South Africa. Strong Excel, Power BI/Tableau and FP&A experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years in financial analysis, FP&A or similar data-focused finance role within an SME.
• Part or fully qualified ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW or equivalent, or a strong numerate degree.
• Strong Excel skills and experience reconciling data across systems.

Responsibilities

• Bring together data from finance, CRM and recruitment systems into a single view.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools; keep underlying data clean.
• Spot gaps or inconsistencies in the data and work with system owners to fix them at source.
• Lead on financial analysis for Comanos, modeling pricing, payroll costs and margins.
• Forecast revenue and support the annual budget and reforecast process.
• Explain the numbers clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

Job description

Financial Analyst

About Us

We are a market-leading and award-winning international recruitment consultancy, operating globally across the UK, Germany and the USA. We specialise in recruiting professionals for the built environment and energy sectors.

About the role

The Financial Analyst (FA) sits in the group finance team and turns data from across the business into numbers people can trust and act on. If you like pulling data together from different systems, getting it to reconcile, and then working out what it's telling you, this role is a good fit.

You'll work with the finance teams across London, Manchester, Berlin and South Africa, as well as the CFO and regional Managing Directors, so being able to explain your findings clearly to non-finance people matters as much as the analysis itself.

You'll also lead the analysis for Comanos, our renewable energy business. It's seasonal and can swing a lot from month to month, so we need someone who gets right into the detail, spots trends and risks early, and is comfortable building and running complex models for a high volume temp recruitment business.

Key Responsibilities:

Data & Integration

• Bring together data from our finance, CRM and recruitment systems into a single, reliable view of performance
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools, and keep the underlying data clean and reconciled
• Spot gaps or inconsistencies in the data and work with system owners to fix them at source
• Look for ways to automate manual reporting and cut down on spreadsheet rework

Comanos (Renewable Energy)

• Lead on financial analysis for Comanos, tracking performance through a seasonal and often volatile trading pattern
• Review trends and risks in the numbers and flag issues early, with a clear view on what is driving them
• Maintain, develop and build complex models covering new pricing, bonus schemes and the day-to-day running of a high volume temp business
• Model the cost of the different payroll types used across the workforce and make sure margins are understood
• Monitor utilisation of runners and cost of sales closely, as these are critical to the profitability of the business

KPIs & Performance

• Track and analyse the KPIs that drive sales performance across the group
• Report monthly trends and areas of concern, feeding into board reporting
• Analyse profitability and margin by country, team and revenue stream

Forecasting & Planning

• Build revenue and sales forecasts using historical data and market trends
• Support the annual budget and reforecast process
• Model scenarios and what-ifs to support commercial decisions

Business Support

• Answer ad hoc questions from the CFO, board and Managing Directors with clear, well-backed analysis
• Support finance projects and system changes where data and reporting are involved

Technical Requirements:

• 2-3 years' experience in a financial analysis, FP&A or similar data-focused finance role within an SME
• Part or fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW or equivalent), or a strong numerate degree
• Strong Excel skills (V/HLUs, XLOOKUP, Pivots, SUMIFs, Power Query and modelling experience)
• Experience combining and reconciling data from more than one system
• Confident building and maintaining complex financial models
• Multi entity and currency exposure
• An analytical mind, and the ability to explain what the numbers mean in plain language

Desirable:

• Temp or contract recruitment experience, ideally with multiple payroll types
• Exposure to seasonal or volatile businesses
• Power BI, Tableau or similar BI tools
• Xero experience
• Recruitment or professional services experience