Financial Analyst

Financial Management:Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting process for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa clusters.Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.Provide basic support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations.Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company's financial goals and strategies.Conduct Finance review of incentive contracts.Compliance and Governance:Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures.Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data sources used.Provide guidance to business partners on their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.Relationship Management:Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and evaluating multiple incentive deals, and proactively align priorities with Central and Coastal Southern Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in SSA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest deals’ timelines and risks/opportunities.Critical Success Factors in The Role:The What:Deliver financial excellence and drive business growth in the Central and Coastal Southern Africa cluster.Ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.Maintain compliance with policies and procedures and reporting requirements.The How:Enable each other to success: Work and win together with business stakeholders as partners and be a role model in removing barriers to getting work done.Deliver quickly and seamlessly: Plan carefully and execute successfully, to make it easier to get things done.Listen and learn from business stakeholders: Gain profound insights into her/his stakeholders’ needs to help them accomplish their objectives.This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.