12 Accounting Advisory jobs in South Africa

Manager - Accounting Advisory

R1200000 - R3600000 Y CrossCountry Consulting

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CrossCountry Consulting's Accounting Advisory practice is growing, and we are seeking experienced professionals to join our growing Boston market, working with multi-national public companies and fast-growing pre-IPO companies. This is an exciting opportunity to make an impact not only with our clients but within our firm. At CrossCountry Consulting we strive to provide a better experience for our premier commercial clients and our team.

What You'll Do:
  • Financial Reporting (including the design of reporting processes, restatement assistance, and traditional 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K filings)
  • Operational Accounting (addressing the need for continuous improvement and optimization of the finance and accounting functions)
  • Accounting Standard Implementation (such as ASC 606 and ASC 842 for both public and private companies)
  • Acquisitions, divestitures, and IPOs
  • Participate in providing Accounting Advisory services for commercial clients
  • Communicate effectively with clients to convey project findings, updates, and recommendations
  • Assist leadership with project administration (e.g., project setup and planning, budgeting, account management, and billing)
  • Participate in advancing the firm and Accounting Advisory practice through committees and internal initiatives such as recruiting, business development, and marketing. Taking your own initiative on any activity is encouraged
What You'll Bring:
  • 5+ years of experience working with companies in one or more of the following areas: financial reporting, operational accounting, implementing new accounting policy, complex transactions
  • Prior experience in professional services (public accounting or advisory firm), preferably with a management consulting firm or at the "Big Four"
  • Strong operational and technical accounting background, including experience researching technical accounting issues proactively
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • High energy, engagement, and flexibility
  • Great sense of humor
Education:
  • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Accounting, Business, Finance, or other technical disciplines
  • CPA, CIA, CFA, CA (SA) strongly preferred
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CrossCountry provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and believes that respect and fair treatment are critical to creating a productive, diverse, and inclusive workplace.

As an equal opportunity employer, CrossCountry is fully committed to comply with all federal, state, and local laws and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, pregnancy, genetics, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy also complies with pay transparency and labor laws and applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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SM / Director - IFRS Advisory Specialist - Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Riyadh

R2000000 - R2500000 Y ACCA Careers

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EY
At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence.

We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity
Join our Financial Accounting Advisory Services business within Assurance and you will provide technical consultation to our clients within MENA to specifically focus on the highly technical IFRS accounting challenges that our clients face. You will primarily focus on pre-transaction accounting advice, while contractual and commercial terms are being finalized.

Your Key Responsibilities
Working with our most prestigious clients on their complex, high profile projects, you will lead a team of highly skilled IFRS technical accounting advisory specialists to assist our clients in structuring their upcoming transactions. You will have access to subject matter experts working at EY globally and form working relationships with our most accomplished accounting structuring professionals, to ensure that we always provide consistent and high-quality advice to our clients.

You and your team will be a focal point for our clients, providing cutting-edge and critical IFRS accounting advice on pre-transaction structuring. You will proactively contribute to and work alongside all professional advisors and our clients' in-house transaction experts, seeking to shape the most appropriate transaction structure.

The team you lead will look to you for coaching and development in their own journey of providing IFRS technical accounting advice and developing world-class client handling skills; you will be responsible for training the next generation of such talent.

Skills And Attributes For Success
Proactive, accountable and results-driven people will flourish in this environment. Dealing with competing priorities, understanding how to manage resources and communicating effectively are key skills. This will have a huge impact on those around you and enable you and your team to deliver high quality accounting advice to our clients.

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • At least 8 years of IFRS accounting advisory experience (including at least three years as Senior Manager) at a big 4 public accounting firm
  • A current or previous technical IFRS desk role, for at least one year, or a similar demonstration of the strongest IFRS technical knowledge amongst your peers
  • CA/CPA/ACCA certification
  • A strong desire to broaden and deepen your technical skills
  • Strong verbal communication, presentation and writing skills
  • Ability and comfort in researching accounting and analysing emerging issues relating to accounting standards and industry practices
  • Excellent managerial and organizational skills
  • A dedication to teamwork and leadership
  • Integrity within a professional environment

What We Look For
We are interested in people who have the confidence to work with lawyers, commercial teams and transaction execution specialists to shape a pre-transaction framework, within IFRS accounting boundaries. You will be business savvy with a passion for innovation as well as the motivation to create your own EY journey.

What We Offer You
At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

To help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

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EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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Financial Analysis

R60000 - R100000 Y PwC

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Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals.

In deal recovery management at PwC, you will focus on helping clients navigate financial distress and recover from challenging business situations. You will be responsible for providing strategic advice and solutions to optimise recovery outcomes.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn't clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

  • Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
  • Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
  • Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
  • Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
  • Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
  • Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
  • Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
  • Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

A career within Deals Business Recovery Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our clients survive an imminent crisis or simply fix gaps in their organisation. We help clients, reduce balance sheet stress, generate cash and reduce costs or refinance to find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. Whatever the solution, we help them manage challenges until the job is done.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

  • Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
  • Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
  • Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
  • Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
  • Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
  • Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
  • Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
  • Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
  • Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

We believe that challenges are better solved together. That's why you'll join a diverse, global community of solvers - an unexpected mix of people that come together to build trust in society and solve important problems. In a place where you are encouraged to lead with your heart and values. And where your unique skills are developed and put to work in unexpected and exciting ways, superpowered by technology.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

  • Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Accounting

  • Bachelor of Business Science with Honours in Finance / CA (SA); or

  • Engineer or relevant professional qualification (e.g. MBA, APICS, CPIM); or

  • CFA, CIMA or other relevant related degree / professional designation.

Responsibilities of role:

As a member of the PwC CARS team, the candidate will be involved in a variety of financial advisory and restructuring projects across a diverse range of industries and will gain exposure to a wide range of clients. PwC CARS services a wide spectrum of clients ranging from large, listed multinationals through to entrepreneurial, owner managed businesses, covering both domestic and cross Africa border work.

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our growing team to work on high-profile clients experiencing stress / distress to their business model and who require turnaround or transformation with a financial or operational restructuring lens, spanning a broad range of industry sectors. You'll provide analysis and business assessment support to the team for restructuring and/or turnaround projects.

Typically, you will work with our clients information to help our teams identify and implement rapid, tactical and sustainable financial and operational restructuring measures, for example you will be part of the team advising on:

In addition to these services you'll be expected to:

You will also be expected to take an active part in our team and practice development and will typically:

Skill sets required:

To be successful in this role, financial analysis skills and a curious commercial business mindset are critical. You will be able to demonstrate a high level of agility in a demanding environment and be able to effectively communicate with a broad range of stakeholders. Project management skills are considered fundamental together with critical thinking and a motivated and commercially astute approach to business restructuring needs.

Candidates will display the following competencies:

  • Experience with data analysis;
  • Experience with data analytics tools e.g. Power BI, Alteryx;
  • Experience of operational or financial improvement from a management consultancy, corporate finance advisory firm or as an 'internal consultant' in a corporate;
  • Operations experience, across sectors: engineering, financial services, retail, industrial, consumer, high tech, utilities, logistics, telecoms and energy;
  • Competent with spreadsheets, financial and operational analysis.
  • Financial restructuring and exit strategies,
  • Financing and debt advisory related services,
  • Turnaround strategy,
  • Independent business reviews,
  • Strategic options analysis,
  • Contingency planning reviews,
  • Short-term cash flow reviews and forecasting, helping clients see and control their cash positions
  • Cash levers to smooth cash flow/conserve cash
  • Cost out and EBITDA optimisation initiatives
  • Working capital improvement plans;
  • Restructuring Office services - helping client management develop and implement turnaround programs
  • Take on a "hands-on" role to manage stakeholders and inspire change
  • Provide robust data analysis and baselining support for change programmes
  • Interface directly with client teams to collect, analyse and develop insights into their business
  • Prepare presentations and/or reports to key stakeholders (e.g. Board, Private Equity investor, lenders, etc.)
  • Work alongside other PwC teams, including specialist lines of service and sector experts.
  • Support with one or two areas of internal team management
  • Work with team members in areas of business development and origination efforts
  • Supporting the needs of the go-to-market strategy
  • Possesses a high degree of self-motivation and energy, agility and the ability to drive for high quality, meeting of deadlines and track record of setting and achieving goals;
  • Good interpersonal and client relationship skills and the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organisation;
  • A highly motivated, confident individual with presence;
  • A proactive and dynamic team player;
  • Problem solving capabilities / skills with the ability to think strategically, innovatively and "out the box";
  • Ability to demonstrate a high level of agility in a demanding environment;
  • An interest in and knowledge of the financial markets and the significant turnaround opportunity across SMA and Africa;
  • A desire to build on commercial and industry knowledge;
  • A desire and motivation to build interest in and knowledge for proactive origination and account targeting;
  • Financial analysis and/or modelling skills;
  • Negotiation skills;
  • Conflict management skills;
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, including the ability to input into storyboarding solutions for clients including on projects and proposals - be able to contribute to succinct, well-structured reports and client communications;
  • Highly rated with good academic credentials; and

Proven ability to multitask and ensure effective delivery of the priorities to meet targets and objectives and who works effectively under pressure.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

September 28, 2025

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Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

Worcester, Western Cape R540000 - R720000 Y Sagen Advisory

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Large, integrated and well-established group in the agriculture sector is looking to employ a Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist. This role will have a strong focus on finance and data analysis. The group has interests across the country and this role will be situated in Paarl, Western Cape.

The ideal candidate will have a relevant tertiary degree with at least 2 years experience in a management accounting and financial analysis role. A professional qualification, especially a CIMA designation, would be highly valued, though other designations are also acceptable given the appropriate job and industry experience.

The purpose of the role is to collect and analyse financial data to determine the gross profits of food projects and product lines, while preparing budgets and cost reports for management with a focus on gross profit and stock control. This role involves identifying areas for cost optimisation, recommending strategies, and working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate cost allocation and the development of enhanced financial models.

This is an excellent opportunity for personal growth as well as growth within this fast expanding business.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Financial Analysis:

  • Analyse key financial data to determine gross profits of various projects and product lines.
  • Identify gross profit losses, recommend turnaround strategies, and highlight focus areas to maximise profitability.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes for improved efficiency.

Data Collection & Management & reporting :

  • Extract and manage data from multiple sources, including ERP systems and external databases.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive datasets for analysis using platforms such as Power BI and Mercur.
  • Develop and maintain dashboards and automated reports tracking KPIs, sales metrics, market forecasts, pricing trends, procurement, and operational data for real-time monitoring.
  • Improve reporting systems by reviewing current practices and implementing enhancements.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

  • Prepare budgets and cost reports with a strong focus on gross profit and stock control.
  • Identify opportunities for cost reduction and improved stock management.
  • Provide insights to support strategic financial planning and decision-making.

Costings:

  • Develop and implement cost-effective financial procedures and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Review new costings for accuracy and ensure product line profitability.

Process Optimisation:

  • Conduct research to support the development and enhancement of financial models.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Cost Accounting, Management Accounting, Financial Management, Agricultural Economics, or similar.
  • Professional qualification - CIMA (ACMA, CGMA) preferred but will consider other qualifications along with the relevant experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience.
  • Working knowledge in Power BI and Mercur would be highly advantageous.
  • Experience as a Management Accountant and Data Analytics in an agricultural, food production, manufacturing, or related environment.
  • Advanced MS Excel skills.

Key competencies:

  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Communicate in a professional manner.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Ability to function independently.
  • Innovative thinker.
  • Organisational skills.
  • Deadline driven.
  • Ability to build credible relationships with internal and external clients.

Remuneration:

  • R540,000 to R720,000 per annum cost to company, depending on experience.
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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

R960000 - R1200000 Y Snatch | Accounting & Finance Headhunters

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An innovative company in the financial services sector is seeking a
FP&A Manager
to join their team in
Johannesburg
.

As FP&A Manager, you will design and own the reporting ecosystem that powers smarter, faster, and more informed decisions. This role sits at the intersection of data, finance, and strategy - perfect for a professional fluent in Power BI, SQL and IFRS, who thrives in fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build scalable, intuitive dashboards (e.g., in Power BI) tracking KPIs, financial health, and performance.
  • Design and maintain automated reporting workflows for self-service analytics.
  • Lead preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in line with IFRS and regulatory requirements.
  • Ensure compliance and accuracy in reporting for regulated entities.
  • Provide proactive financial insights and commercial decision support through data-driven dashboards.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (actuarial, risk, commercial, and technology) to translate complex results into clear business intelligence.
  • Oversee reconciliations, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and process improvements.
  • Support regulatory submissions and external audits, embedding evolving IFRS standards into reporting.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • CA (SA)
    qualification is required.
  • 3+ years of experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, or business intelligence within financial services.
  • Strong expertise in Power BI and SQL, with proven experience in automation and dashboard building.
  • Knowledge of IFRS (insurance exposure advantageous).
  • Strong data modelling and systems fluency (e.g., Xero, Syft, or similar).
  • A commercially aware, analytical communicator who bridges finance and data to deliver clear, strategic insights.

Salary:

  • R960,000 – R1,200,000 CTC / year, depending on experience.
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Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

R900000 - R1200000 Y SERITI

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The Role

The FP&A Specialist is integral to the Group Finance function, providing comprehensive financial analysis, strategic insights, and decision-support to senior leadership. This role ensures alignment between financial performance and corporate strategy, facilitating effective planning, forecasting, and performance management across the group.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Develop and maintain financial models, forecasts, and budgets to evaluate business scenarios and support decision-making.
  • Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods providing explanations for variances and recommending corrective actions.
  • Provide management reporting with clear insights and recommendations.
  • Analyse business performance trends, KPIs, and drivers of profitability.
  • Partner with business units to support strategic initiatives and resource allocation.
  • Prepare scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate risks and opportunities.
  • Consolidate financial information across entities/projects for group reporting.
  • Develop and deliver presentations and reports for senior management, highlighting key financial metrics and trends
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the FP&A function to enhance reporting accuracy and timeliness.

KEY COMPETENCIES

  • Strong ability to interpret and present complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
  • Advanced skills in financial modelling and proficiency with financial software and ERP systems.
  • Solid understanding of management reporting and business performance metrics.
  • Analytical, detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving ability.
  • Strong business acumen and commercial awareness.
  • Ability to identify issues, analyse root causes, and implement effective solutions.
  • Effective communication and collaboration across departments.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (essential).
  • Professional qualification (e.g., CIMA, CFA, CA(SA), SAIPA, ACCA) advantageous.
  • 5–7 years' experience in financial planning and analysis or related roles, with experience in group-level reporting and analysis.
  • Proven track record in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling.
  • Experience in the renewable energy sector or other capital-intensive industries.

CHARACTER & ATTRIBUTES

  • High integrity, confidentiality and professionalism.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
  • Works effectively within cross-functional teams and builds strong relationships with stakeholders.
  • Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and takes ownership of initiatives.
  • Strong organisational and time management skills.

Employment Package Outline:

Salary:

Market-Related

Benefits:

Medical aid

Retirement contribution

Employee assistant programme

Professional development opportunities

Rewards:

Performance bonus

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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

R1800000 - R2500000 Y Network Recruitment

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About the Role:

An exciting opportunity exists for a seasoned
FP&A Manager
to join a prominent mining group. This role is central to strengthening financial planning, analysis, and reporting to enable data-driven decisions across diverse operations. In alignment with the board's transformation strategy, preference will be given to suitably qualified female candidates.

Role Overview:

  • Oversee and manage the full FP&A function across multiple mining sites.
  • Design and refine financial models that drive both strategic initiatives and operational performance.
  • Deliver accurate and insightful budgets, forecasts, and performance reports to leadership.
  • Collaborate closely with operational teams and site stakeholders to ensure transparent and reliable reporting.
  • Champion process enhancements and embed best practices in financial planning and analysis.
  • Utilise tools such as HFM, TM1, SAP, and Power BI to provide meaningful reporting and insights.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, offering strategic financial input to guide key decisions.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Chartered Accountant (CA), CIMA, MBA, or Master's Degree in Economics/ Finance.
  • 10+ years' experience
    in finance, with a minimum of experience at
    more than one mining operation
    .
  • Proven track record of building strong stakeholder relationships in a mining environment.
  • Advanced proficiency in HFM, TM1, SAP, and Power BI.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • A strategic thinker with a hands-on approach.
  • Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable working in a complex mining environment.
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels.

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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

R250000 - R500000 Y Beyond Elevation

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Company Description

Beyond Elevation is a small startup, it provides high priority consulting to innovative companies in the UK, US and South Africa. This is a unique chance for someone to join a small company, learn all the tricks and grow quickly within the company ranks.

We are looking for someone who can wear different hats but loves doing financial modelling, excel spreadsheets and business analysis.

Role Description

Working directly with the CEO this is a unique role and a golden opportunity to get in front of world's best innovative, tech companies and be part of a growing startup.

These are a musts for you to qualify for the role:

  • You have to be hungry and pro-active.
  • Great at MS Excel. You can build financial models using complex formulas.
  • Financial analysis, creating and managing KPIs
  • Can create Financial Models for businesses with Revenue models, P&L, CF and BS
  • Understand accounting principles and able to reconcile accounts
  • Create financial reports, presentation and analysis
  • Be able to make sense of a lot of data
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or business administration
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a related certification is a bonus

Looking forward to having you on board

We are a small company, salary is startup level at the begining, however, this will change in the very near future.

Apply only if you have all skills mentioned above.

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Consultant: Financial Planning and Analysis

R900000 - R1200000 Y TransUnion

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What We'll Bring
Dynamics of the Role

TransUnion Africa is currently recruiting for a dynamic and figures orientated individual to be responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis for specific lines of businesses within the company to achieve all planning, and forecasting objectives for the assigned areas. This goal orientated, driven and innovative individual will navigate a multicultural and highly competitive environment while partnering with a number of internal and external customers such as the CFO and the TU Executive team to ensure that the Financial Planning and Analysis is managed in a way that exceeds expectations.

The Team's Focus

The Finance Team operates in a vibrant, fast-paced, and demanding performance-based environment where the internal and external customer drives results. With multiple reporting lines within the headquarters based in Chicago as well as locally, deadlines are highly pressurized and non-negotiable. This team has a strong customer focus and aims to become a strategic partner with the business, enabling better business decisions and a brighter future for TransUnion. The team considers external factors which will influence the work environment as well as future conditions to ensure effective strategies.

What You'll Bring

  • A BCom in Accounting or a related finance degree, combined with 2–3 years of experience in a commercial financial environment.
  • A proven track record in change implementation and process improvement is essential.
  • Ability and willingness to work in an unstructured environment with fluid change processes.
  • Prior FP&A experience and advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills would be advantageous.

In addition to the above requirements, the successful candidate will have the following competencies:

Functional Competencies

  • Knowledge of financial systems, such as People Soft and One Stream (on a technical level) and financial system configuration.
  • Operational finance.

Behavioral Competencies

  • Ability to work independently and proactively.
  • Speed and accuracy with figures as well as attention to detail.
  • Ability to effectively partner with business and drive insights.
  • Planning and organizing skills with the ability to be proactive and to plan ahead.
  • Leadership.
  • Ability to prioritize work deliverables in a creative environment in order to meet multiple, tight and highly pressurized deadlines.
  • Ability to think and move quickly in a dynamic fast-moving environment.
  • Business acumen.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills- upward, downward and lateral.
  • Conflict management.
  • Problem solving.
  • Systematic and analytical.

Personal Qualities

  • A strong participative team member, diplomatic, tough, and assertive, prepared to stand his/her ground, yet flexible and adaptable to a dynamic and demanding environment.
  • Quick learner.
  • Integrity and trust - Absolute integrity and ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information.
  • Mature, well-balanced, and confident personality who is self-driven, highly motivated and energetic.
  • Personable, decisive, and confident bearing with the versatility to associate and communicate at all levels.
  • Negotiating skills and entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Prepared to work long hours.
  • Drive for results.
  • Disciplined.
  • Action orientated.
  • Practical.
  • Innovative/ Creative.
  • Determined.
  • Interpersonal savvy.

Impact You'll Make

  • Responsible for executing all planning, forecasting and managerial reporting objectives of the divisions assigned.
  • Develop analysis based on metrics to evaluate financial and operational performance for the divisions or enterprise-wide cross functional projects and initiatives as assigned.
  • Identification and investigation of potential inefficiencies and risks encountered by the business based on financial and operational performance metrics.
  • Partner in leading the executive management team through all forecasting and budgeting exercises.
  • Analysis of financial and operational information to identify trends and interpret trends for senior management.
  • Partner in the development and implementation of the annual operating budget and resource plan.
  • Analysis of historical and forecasted business segment results including a review of major trends within each segment in terms of revenue, major cost categories and profitability.
  • Coordination with all levels of management and staff to gather, analyze, summarize and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans and business planning.
  • Responsible for coordinating monthly reporting and forecasting activities for the Group, covering Expected, Mid-Month, and Walks submissions.
  • Responsible for co-coordinating reports required by TU Africa and International.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Consultant, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

R420000 - R840000 Y Salt

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Salary:
R 50 000,00 - R 70 000,00 CTC per month (depending on experience)

Location:
This role is based in Cape Town. It's currently remote, with a future goal of building a local office and moving to a hybrid working model.

Are you a fully qualified
CA(SA) or CGMA
who loves using financial data to provide strategic guidance? We're hiring a proactive FP&A Analyst for a fast-growing, global company. This is a new role where you'll be a key part of the team, influencing important business decisions.

Responsibilities

As the FP&A Analyst, you'll be a trusted finance partner to various teams, including commercial and operations. Your main duties will include:

  • Providing insightful financial analysis on key performance indicators and trading performance.
  • Supporting the biannual budgeting process, long-term planning, and monthly reporting.
  • Developing and maintaining key financial models.
  • Delivering clear, actionable insights on revenue, margin, and costs.
  • Assisting with business cases and investment decisions.

Requirements

We're looking for a curious, analytical finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

  • You must be a
    fully qualified CA(SA) or CGMA
    with proven experience in a financial planning or analysis role.
  • You should have strong Excel and modeling skills, and be able to confidently explain financial information to non-finance colleagues.
  • A proactive and questioning mindset is essential.
  • Experience with SQL, NetSuite, or a background in e-commerce is a bonus.
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