Financial Business Partner

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business unit leaders to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Deliver accurate financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
• Support audit readiness by maintaining complete working papers, technical logs, and statutory schedules.
• Responsible for ensuring that Annual Financial Statement are compiled accurately and submitted in-line with deadlines.
• Build forward‑looking insight through rolling cashflow forecasting and covenant monitoring.
• Partner with BI teams to optimise reporting systems (Sage Intacc, Power BI).
• Collaborate with Heads of Department to interpret results, identify drivers, and agree corrective actions.
• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting improvements, evolving static budgets into dynamic models.
• Provide commercial insights to improve profitability and operational efficiency
• Develop and monitor KPIs and financial performance metrics
• Support month-end and year-end reporting processes
• Drive financial planning and forecasting cycles
• Conduct variance analysis and present recommendations to management
• Assist with business cases, investment appraisals, and scenario modelling
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, governance, and internal controls
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, sales, procurement, and executive leadership
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation

Minimum Requirements

• Qualified CA(SA) – non-negotiabe
• Experience: 2–5 years post articles (industry or audit/consulting with commercial exposure)
• Knowledge: month-end close, controls/recons, MI, variance analysis, cashflow; audit working papers; IFRS exposure
• Computer literacy: Excel (advanced), PowerPoint; ERP/reporting tools (Sage Intacc or similar); Power BI advantageous