Durban: Finance Business Partner: H/O posted by Sharon Nurock Recruitment cc

• Degree level Finance or related qualification.
• CA / CIMA / CTA, or qualified through experience.
• Minimum 2+ years experience in a Finance function supporting month end, budgeting & forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills are crucial for this role, including the ability to interpret financial data, perform variance analysis, and identify trends
• Excel proficiency and ability to work with large data sets.
• SAP experience, a strong advantage.
• The ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders – business units, 1C functions, vendors, and senior management – is crucial.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills are essential.
• Willingness to go the extra-mile & a focus on delivering customer satisfaction.
• Willingness to travel locally and overseas.

The Job: (potential to go perm)

Finance Business Partnering:

• Work with the Financial Accounting teams both locally and overseas to ensure accuracy of monthly close for allocated functions.
• Budgets and forecasts for allocated functions across all locations.
• Conduct meetings with stakeholders – budget holders, heads of Business Units to achieve plan approval in line with Divisional timetable.
• Prepare financial insight for forecast review approval.
• Lead monthly meetings with budget holders to ensure that costs are controlled within forecast, investigate major variances and suggest corrective actions.
• Support employment cost forecasting process.
• Deliver headcount KPI reporting & analysis for allocated functions.
• Calculate and process recoveries and liaise with BU Finance teams re: IT recovery spend.
• Co-ordinate with BU finance teams, shared costs & recovery forecast updates.
• Support purchasing process, ensuring appropriate system structures, cost coding and approval structures are in place.
• Assist with, and manage financial queries from external parties (e.g. vendors, Auditors).
• Support internal and external finance audit processes.
• Ad-hoc tasks.

Driving Improvement:

• Identify and highlight opportunities for streamlining processes and evolving reporting to suit the specific requirements of the business & provide meaningful insight.
• Identify and implement appropriate business tools to support decision-making.
• Develop a detailed understanding of cost drivers and identifiy opportunities for optimising cost efficiency.
• Support development of cost centre / dashboard reporting to drive enhanced insights and simplified decision-making.
• Own saving tracking & reporting for transformation & efficiency initiatives.