Our client in Johannesburg wants to appoint a Business Controller to be responsible for Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis of the BU. The successful candidate would have to ensure that the company is planning and tracking its performance regularly, through monthly forecasting and monitoring of the business activity and of its financials, and ongoing assessment of risks, opportunities and gap to targets.

The following will be required under Financial Planning and reporting:
Coordination of CBU and CBS finance teams on monthly financial processes (rolling forecast and closing):
• establish and communicates the monthly planning in accordance with CBU GPS plan, and Africa SBU reporting deadlines
• consolidate all inputs from the controlling team (Topline, Operations, Fixed costs, OIE, Cash) to produce AR1 and AR3.

The following will be required under Financial Analysis:
• Preparation of CO bridge, ROP variance, FCF and WK bridge (forecast and actual), through consolidation of the controlling team analysis.
• Consolidation of risks and opportunities affecting Topline, bottom line and free cash flow.
• With these analysis, explain the main drivers of the BU performance, and alert on any gap to target.
• Supervision of all analysis related to Sales Force and Head office overheads (yearly evolution, costs by nature, productivity initiatives, etc.)
• Preparation of the "GM dashboard" after each forecast update and closing, and all ad'hoc analysis related to P&L evolution.

The candidate should have a Bachelor of Commerce Accounting Degree, while At least 4 – 6 years relevant working experience as a Business Partner role for a Fast-Honours and CIMA would be an advantage. Moving Consumer Goods company; should ideally have worked for a multinational company and must have must have budget building and controlling experience.