Financial Planning Analyst (FP&A)

AECI Limited; Brakpan; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AECI Limited is seeking a Financial Planning professional to drive financial analysis, budgeting, and strategy across its Plant Health businesses. The role requires in-depth insights into data accuracy and trends to support operational decision-making. Candidates should have a strong background in finance and demonstrate leadership in financial controls and reporting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Ability to manage financial master data.
• Experience in developing financial models.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial planning and analysis to enhance decision-making.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Collaborate with business units on financial alignment.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Data accuracy

Internal controls

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Job description

Purpose of the job

Financial Planning

• Drive financial planning and analysis to support strategic decision-making across the organization.
• Lead and coordinate the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes within the Plant Health businesses.
• Support and enhance internal financial controls, particularly in areas related to data accuracy, reconciliation, compliance and credit control .
• Maintain and govern financial master data to support data integrity, reporting accuracy and ensure robust financial analysis can be performed across all business units.
• Financial Analysis:
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through data-driven insights including that of customer and product profitability.
• Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate business scenarios and support planning, including the development of forecast models, EVA models and similar
• Collaborate with business units to align financial plans with operational objectives.
• Lead the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes across multiple entities, including developing and implementing different periods of forecasting
• Consolidate and analyse budget submissions, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational goals.
• Support long-term financial planning and scenario analysis as part of the budgeting and forecasting processes, including constant updating of the model to factor in key business changes.
• Collaborate with business units to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure accuracy.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast, identifying key variances and trends.
  
  

FP&A Business Partnering

• Provide FP&A analysis, interpretation and support to business including variance analyses and financial dashboards.
• Analysis of customer & product profitability and interpreting results to drive decision making towards more profitable business
• Provide financial insights and commentary to support business decision-making, especially around agent profitability, EVA and RONA generation.
• Coordination of the escalation or identification of issues and advise finance leadership of potential business and / or operational risks, as well as developing and implementing proposed solutions to mitigate those risks.
  
  

Proactive Financial Management And Internal Control

• Identify and understand business challenges whilst proposing and creating solutions.
• Ensuring a robust internal control environment is implemented and monitoring controls to ensure their effectiveness
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert in providing additional insights.
• Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, revenues and material costs, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made including for Board and Management meetings.
  
  

Master Data Management

• Maintain and ensure accuracy of financial master data, including GL accounts, cost centres, and product hierarchies.
• Collaborate with IT and operations to ensure consistency and integrity of data across systems.
• Support data governance initiatives and contribute to system improvement projects.
  
  

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in balances in collaboration with supply chain and operations teams in respect of inventory balances
• Ensure reconciliations are completed in line with internal control requirements and audit standards.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of reconciliation processes and documentation.
  
  

People Management And Development

• Support development of direct reports and indirect reports, including coaching and relevant on the job training.
• Training of the business and other support functions in various finance areas.
  
  

Adhoc projects & support as required by management