Position: Senior Specialist – Budgeting, Performance and Management Reporting

Location: Johannesburg
Salary: R45,000 – R50,000 per month (Negotiable)
Benefits: Car, Fuel
Job Type: Permanent
AA/EE: Yes
Sectors: Automotive/Financial
Closing Date: 7 June 2019

A world-renowned automotive company is seeking a Senior Specialist in Finance who will provide support in the budgeting, performance and management reporting processes, ensuring thorough analysis, accurate and on-time reporting.
The incumbent will have excellent numeracy skills and the ability to understand, analyse, interpret and present financial data to various stakeholders including at executive management level.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:

Process and Governance
- Identify and develop solutions for challenges in the relevant business area.
- Obtain, analyse and report on practices related to a value chain function to identify initiatives that will improve performance and compliance.
- Provide specialist advice and support in the analysis, development and implementation of best practices across multiple and/or single value chain(s).
- Provide, specialist advice and support towards the achievement of identified goals and targets.
- Compile and provide reports on performance related information to support decision making processes.
- Coordinate planning, performance and management reporting to determine quality improvement capacity building for all levels of business.
- Develop and submit reports to relevant internal and external stakeholders and reporting structures to ensure statutory and legal compliance.
- Ensure compliance to general recognised accounting practices and relevant international practices.
- Identify, define and monitor enterprise wide performance metrics and supplying the enterprise with necessary information for decision making.
- Investigate, analyse and develop organisational best practices, and ensure adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures.
Finance
- Extract, consolidate and analyse data, and produce reports to enable the optimal interrogation thereof to provide reliable management information.
- Manage high risk and problematic financial issues in area of accountability and contribute to the development of policy.
- Drive the preparation and measurement of performance against the annual Budget and updated Forecasts.
Client/Customer Service
- Obtain and analyse client and/or service related information to identify practice optimisation initiatives.
- Plan and deliver services that create a culture which aims to exceed customer expectations in the business

Behavioural Competencies:
• Client Focus
• Improvement Orientation
• Interpersonal Effectiveness
• Judgement
• Persistence and Tenacity
• Personal Courage
• Planning and Organising
• Results Orientation

Technical Competencies:
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Financial and Performance Reporting
• Excellent Presentation skills
• Organisational excellence and productivity culture
• Planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Technical Learning
• Uphold Ethics and Values

Minimum Requirements:
• 3 to 5 years’ relevant financial experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Additional qualifications could include CA(SA), Completed SAICA Articles or CIMA (Management Level)