Accounting / Finance Jobs In South Africa : Group Finance Planning and Analysis Manager at Mr Price Group. The Group Finance Planning and Analysis Manager at Mr Price Group is responsible for providing a consolidated view of the group’s financial performance. The role supports the Group Head of Finance in ensuring the group’s financial plan is relevant, accurate and sufficiently flexible to drive the business and model options and various financial scenarios. The role requires working with key stakeholders across the group providing business planning, commercial and financial analysis.
The Financial Planning & Analyst manager is responsible for partnering with the business and providing insight into business performance, influencing and supporting business planning & commercial decision making and forecasting and budgeting processes of the group. The FP&A manager is responsible for identifying areas of commercial risk and opportunity, through financial analysis and insight, ensuring these are swiftly identified and acted on by the business functions. The FP&A manager will manage the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting for the company and oversee and validate the short-term cash flow projections of the group.
Key interfaces:
- Divisional financial directors
- Divisional finance managers
- Group support cost centre managers
- Internal/external audit • Group treasury & tax
- Group head of investor relations
- Group data analytics team
Key responsibilities:
Reporting
- Consolidation, review and analysis of Monthly executive reporting packs
- Consolidation, review and analysis of divisional and group budgets
- Preparation of Half Year and Year-end Analyst Packs
- Preparation of board monthly reports
- Support Group Head of investor relations on reporting requirements
Job Requirements:
- 5 years’ experience in financial planning & analysis
- CA (SA) Competencies
- Results oriented
- Ability to manage diverse stakeholders
- Strategic and critical thinking
- Collaboration and influencing, ability to lead and develop others, team player
- Innovative
- Strong commercial awareness
- Maturity and confidence to communicate at the highest level
- Strong appetite to explore and employ technology
- Excellent analytical capabilities
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