Regional Finance Analyst (Alcohol Industry)

Tyron Consultancy; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in Cape Town seeks a Regional Finance Analyst to join their Head Office team. The role involves analysing business financial performance, managing new projects in the alcohol industry, and collaborating with European teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in FMCG finance, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in financial reporting tools like Power BI.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in business controlling or finance in liquor/FMCG industry.
• Fluency in English; French is advantageous.
• Experience generating process documentation and reports.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly financial reports including Revenue and Variance.
• Develop and maintain performance tracking tools using Power BI.
• Lead financial forecast processes for the Regional Office.

Skills

Financial planning and analysis

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Customer service orientation

Education

Relevant degree qualification

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Regional Finance Analyst (Alcohol Industry) – Cape Town CBD.

Have you worked for an International Alcohol or FMCG company, dealing with global finance business operations and consolidations?

Join the Head Office team in CPT CBD to analyse and provide a strong understanding of business financial performance at a regional level, bringing sets of data into format for management to base future decisions on.

This position will include managing new projects and key topics driven in Europe, providing the team with new ideas & new technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 5 years experience in business controlling and/or finance – LIQUOR / FMCG industry.
• Relevant degree qualification, English fluent, French is advantageous
• Strong financial planning and analysis skills.
• Experience in generating process documentation and reports.
• Good business understanding, interested in sales and marketing.
• Strong knowledge of Excel (macro, programming), PowerPoint, multi-dimensional tools (ESSBASE, EOS, Microsoft database type) are necessary.
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Integrity and rigor are a must, as well as pro activity and team spirit.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations

Duties and Responsibilities::

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

• Prepare ACTUAL monthly reports – Revenue, Variance, Mid-Month, Month End forecasting.
• Coordinate business reporting (monthly shipments/depletions/stock tracking)
• Develop, maintain accurate & user-friendly performance tracking tools (Power BI and others)
• Aggregate reporting & insights to identify risks & opportunities vs forecast.
• Coordinate efficient information flow & coordinate customer risk queries
• Partner with FD in preparing Business Reviews and adhoc analysis.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Lead financial forecast processes
• Build LE/Budget/R&O forecasts for Regional Office
• Support Regional Team in a five year plan update and Brand Planning.

A&P + FUNDS TO THE TRADE

• Consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse Actual vs Forecast
• Coordinate the tracking to ensure efficient process across European marke
• Follow up Regional A&P budgets vs Actual, prepare monthly and end of year accruals
• Perform audit on invoices received (reality check) and keep record of justification.
• Manage Risk & opportunity to monitor FY landing estimate versus budget/

OVERHEAD COSTS

• Lead forecast processes for European regional office and SA market
• Build and consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse forecasts
• Lead monthly, quarterly and annual reporting providing monthly follow-up
• Prepare monthly & end of year accruals for Regional office and Company.

PRICING PROCESS

• Manage Price list update process to ensure efficiency and control, monitoring price impacts and gap versus budget/
• Lead price lists continuous improvement to drive consistency across Region
• Maintain prices accuracy in the central price list and in the Distributor platform database

REPORTING TOOLS

• Develop dynamic ways to visualize big data sets to empower Management for effective decision taking (with various tools such as Power BI etc.)
• Improve ways of working on existing internal reports to gain efficiency.

ANALYSIS & BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Support the team to create pertinent presentation for Senior Executive meetings
• Ad-hoc analysis of business results for different stakeholders
• Be a business partner of the new projects/key topics driven in Europe providing the team with new ideas, new technical solutions and concretize the analysis to achieve the business objective.