Support the Financial Planning Manager and Business Planning and Analysis Manager in all financial planning, analysis and reporting for the Cavalier Group and subsidiaries, optimizing efficiency and profitability.

Minimum Requirements
• B.Comm Management/Financial Management
• CIMA qualified or partly qualified
• 0 – 2 years applicable experience

Budget Management
• Support the setting of quality budget and forecasts for sales and operational areas of the Cavalier Group and subsidiaries, broken down to low level KPI’s which roll up to overall Group budget, ensuring delivery of Cavalier long-term goals and strategy.
• Provide technical guidance in terms of the budgetary processes according to set standards.
• Support quarterly rolling forecast process considering changing factors to highlight issues and facilitate the implementation of remedial actions.
• Conduct weekly forecast and review to focus resources and ensure budget delivery.
• Develop and implement robust control processes and procedures to ensure sales controllable costs are in line with Budget.

Management Reporting
• Perform financial and non-financial management reporting on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
• Identify key performance indicators in Sales and Operations and provide relevant and timely reporting thereof.
• Provide input into development and maintenance of management reporting systems.
• Support the monitoring, reviewing, reporting and tracking of financial achievement against budget on a timely basis and report deviances for corrective action in order to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase financial efficiency.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of reporting on customer and product profitability.

Financial Analysis
• Conduct Capex investment, evaluation / planning / prioritization.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis e.g. Analyze sales, marketing and operational areas to support strategy development in these areas to improve efficiency and drive profitability.
• Recognise patterns, trends and potential risks and opportunities and recommend what, when and how to address.
• Perform accurate product costing’s and analyse variances.
• Support purchase and sales price formulation based on financial analysis.
• Serve as Finance support to Sales and Marketing and operational areas.
• Partner with Sales team to obtain and maintain an in-depth knowledge of customer and channel strategies, risks and opportunities, promotional activities and financial metrics. Recommends how to optimally deploy the sales specific resources to best meet the needs of the business.

Functional Competencies:
• Financial Analysis and Reporting
• /Strategic Planning and Execution
• Financial Control
• Excel advanced level

Personal Competencies:
• Action oriented
• Comfort around higher management
• Planning
• Approachability
• Drive for results