Finance Business Analyst
M-KOPA
South Africa · Southern Africa
Role type
Corporate Development, M&A & Strategy
Experience
Analyst
Summary
Build commercial business cases and investment appraisals while partnering with business leaders on capital allocation, budgets and forecasts.
About the role
Advertised as Finance Business Analyst, this South Africa role describes a Finance Business Partner remit. The work centres on decisions about new markets, products and operating cost bases: testing investment assumptions, explaining financial performance and helping leaders choose where to allocate capital. It also includes hands-on planning, management accounts and several concurrent forecast cycles.
Key responsibilities
Develop market and product business cases using financial models, scenarios, net present value and payback analysis.
Lead budgets and reforecasts with cost-centre owners and challenge the assumptions behind proposed commitments.
Explain changes in cost and performance and translate the analysis into practical actions for business leaders.
Participate in operational decision-making and communicate financial trade-offs to senior non-finance stakeholders.
Key requirements
Demonstrated experience in budgeting, management accounts, planning and forecasting.
Ability to build and challenge financial models and investment appraisals.
Track record of influencing senior non-finance stakeholders with clear commercial analysis.
Capacity to manage multiple cost centres, planning cycles and competing deadlines.
Full-time; the vacancy’s visible location is South Africa. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and may close early. No dated deadline is published. The official application form is accessible.