Senior FP&A Analyst

Hire Hangar Global; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hire Hangar Global is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to be the primary finance interface for department heads and sales leaders. This senior, analytical role owns the full-year forecast and presents insights to non-finance stakeholders, requiring a confident communicator and advanced Excel modeler with Anaplan experience.

You will maintain a rolling forecast, lead variance analyses, and drive sales planning while supporting budget season.

Qualifications

• Near-native English; will present to non-finance stakeholders daily.
• Senior FP&A experience; independently owned full-year forecast.
• Advanced Excel; build complex models from scratch.
• Anaplan/enterprise planning tool experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain rolling full-year forecast from deals to cash flow.
• Conduct budget vs. actual variance analysis for leaders.
• Prepare contribution margin reports and inventory efficiency analysis.
• Lead sales planning feeding into the full-year forecast.
• Support budget season (October through December).
• Maintain and update the Anaplan model.
• Perform advanced Excel modeling for ad hoc analyses.
• Pull light Salesforce data for inputs.

Skills

FP&A experience

English fluency

Advanced Excel

Anaplan

Remote collaboration

Stakeholder presentations

Tools

Anaplan

Google Workspace

Salesforce

Slack

Zoom

Job description

We are seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to serve as the primary finance interface for department heads and sales leaders. This is a senior, analytical role with significant internal client-facing responsibility, requiring someone who can own a full-year forecast independently and present financial insights directly to non-finance stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a confident communicator, an advanced Excel modeler, and comfortable operating in enterprise planning tools such as Anaplan.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a rolling full-year forecast at all times, from deal closure rates through cash burn, covering the income statement and statement of cash flows
• Conduct budget vs. actual variance analysis and present findings directly to department heads and sales leaders
• Prepare contribution margin reports and inventory efficiency analysis
• Lead sales planning, including deals, pipeline, and conversion rates, feeding into the full-year forecast
• Support budget season (October through December), the heaviest planning cycle of the year
• Maintain and update the Anaplan model
• Perform advanced Excel modeling for ad hoc analysis
• Pull light Salesforce data for pipeline and forecast inputs

Required Qualifications

• Near-native English is non-negotiable; this person presents to non-finance stakeholders daily and serves as the face of FP&A to the business
• Senior FP&A experience, having independently owned a full-year forecast and run variance analysis
• Advanced Excel skills, with the ability to build complex models from scratch
• Anaplan experience or strong background with an enterprise planning tool (platform familiarity matters more than specific tool experience, as each Anaplan instance is unique)
• Comfortable presenting financial data to commercial and operational leaders
• Must have prior remote work experience, be fluent with remote collaboration tools and platforms (such as Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Asana, or similar), and have ideally worked with US or UK-based companies. Applications without this experience will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in healthcare tech, SaaS, or medical device industries
• Familiarity with Salesforce
• Experience coordinating budget season processes

Tools & Technology

• Anaplan
• Advanced Excel
• Google Workspace
• Slack, Zoom, and other remote collaboration tools