24 Financial Analysts jobs in Gauteng

Are you a highly skilled and experienced Financial Planning Associate looking to join an independent financial planning business that sets the industry standard?

This role is the engine room of our advice process, offering you a unique opportunity to work on complex financial strategies and ensure legal compliance within a highly professional environment.

Responsibilities:

Financial Needs Analysis (FNA): Prepare comprehensive FNAs across Risk, Pre-retirement, and Post-retirement planning.
Portfolio Strategy: Prepare investment proposal documents, review existing client portfolios, and create detailed review files.
Compliance & Administration: Ensure all client files adhere to POPI, FICA, and FAIS legislation requirements. You will also perform quality control on quotations, submissions, and oversee the implementation process.
Client & Advisor Support: Manage client relationships , set up review appointments , and act as the liaison with product providers to follow up on submitted instructions and research new and existing products.

Qualifications and Experience:

A minimum of 5 years in a similar Para-planning role.

Are you an expert Financial Planning Support Specialist ready to leverage your technical mastery to elevate a top-tier financial planning practice?

A leading independent financial services firm is seeking a highly skilled Financial Planning Support Specialist to join their team, reporting directly to the Head of Financial Planning. This role is vital: your mission is to assist and serve our financial planners in such a way that they can spend more time in front of clients, while also mentoring the next generation of technical specialists.

If you are an Expert in financial planning, project management, and administration, and thrive on technical problem-solving, this is your opportunity to become a core strategic resource.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Excellence: Prepare all client presentations, financial planning data, calculations, and comprehensive financial planning reports. You will apply expert technical knowledge using client relations management (CRM) systems and advanced financial planning software, including Xplan, Xtools, Integrated Wealth Planner, and Asset Map.
• Workflow Leadership: Assist in the coordination, prioritization, and monitoring of the paraplanning workflow. You will be critical in meeting service standards and deadlines.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Review the work of less experienced paraplanners and assist in the coaching and mentoring of team members as required. You may also assist with the induction of new team members.
• Process Improvement: Assist in the development and review of paraplanning policies and procedures, and participate in assigned projects.
• Client Interface: Communicate directly with relevant Insurance and Investment companies on behalf of financial planners and clients. You may also accompany financial planners to initial and review client meetings as required.

• Education (Preferred): Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning (or studying towards) , complemented by a BCom, LLB, or Advanced Certificate in Financial Planning.
• Regulatory Status (Desirable): Regulatory Examinations (RE5) and the Professional Competency Examination (PCE).

Technical Knowledge:

• A thorough understanding of compliance issues associated with financial advice and intermediary services.
• A strong desire to learn and grow, with critical skills in Computer Literacy, IT systems use, Planning, Admin, Project Management, Writing, and Presentation.

About the Company

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in our Finance department. We are looking for a talented individual with relevant skills and experience as a Country Lead: Financial Planning and Analysis, based in CCBSA Midrand. The successful candidate will report directly to the Financial Director.

About the Role

The Country Lead: FP&A will play a crucial role in overseeing financial planning and analysis for the organization.

Key Outcomes

Drive Compliance and Close-Out of Audit Findings

Ensure full compliance with ERP (MSD) financial protocols and internal control standards by monitoring adherence and facilitating timely closure of all internal and external audit findings (e.g., Deloitte, Internal Audit), meeting deadlines agreed upon with auditors and stakeholders.

Maintain Up-to-Date Finance Governance Documents

Lead the review and drafting of finance policies and procedures, ensuring they are current, accessible on the shared drive, and aligned with internal control frameworks and group finance requirements.

Deliver Accurate and Insightful Financial Reporting

Oversee the timely preparation and delivery of monthly internal financial reports, management packs, budget packs, and board pack inputs—ensuring accuracy, alignment to business performance, and actionable insight for decision-making.

Lead Budgeting and Forecasting Cycles

Coordinate the end-to-end annual budgeting and forecasting processes, including income statement budgeting for assigned cost centers and tactical balance sheet planning, ensuring timely submissions and alignment with strategic financial objectives.

Enhance Financial Planning and Analysis Capability

Improve FP&A processes by refining scorecards, enabling cross-functional performance tracking, delivering meaningful variance analysis, and supporting operational leaders with financial advice and performance commentary.

Ensure Strategic Alignment with CCBA Financial Objectives

Actively engage with CCBA Group finance functions to align country-level reporting, planning, and performance tracking with group-wide FP&A objectives, ensuring country contributions are consistent with strategic targets.

Champion Business Partnering and Decision Support

Deliver a customer-centric finance function that acts as a strategic business partner—constructively challenging assumptions, supporting key initiatives, and enabling informed decision-making through robust analysis and financial insight.

Build Finance Capability and Data Ownership

Support capability development across the finance team through coaching, training, and technical support (e.g., use of Tableau, EDW, and HFM), while owning and overseeing the execution of country-specific tasks across these platforms to ensure data integrity and reporting accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Professional qualification: CPA (K)/ACCA (A), CIMA.
• Added advantage: Certified Accreditation (e.g., CA(SA), MBA).

Experience

• 5–7 years of financial experience, with at least 5 years in management roles.
• Proven track record in finance leadership roles with responsibility for decision-making and strategic oversight.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the beverage or FMCG industry.
• Proficiency with ERP systems, especially MSD, is highly beneficial.

Pay range and compensation package

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices.

Purpose of the role

Enhancement of the Financial Management systems, business performance analysis and insights, building reporting models to support the decision making of the finance management team for South Africa and the African countries. Liaise with colleagues in reviewing, analysing and advise on financial reporting in order to improve profitability, efficiency and productivity within South Africa and the designated regional countries.

Key deliverables and outputs

Operational

Financial Modelling

• Develop statistical and automation models supporting decision making as required
• Develop and maintain a dynamic Financial Management model for South Africa and the African countries
• Generate, validate and analyse the data and present findings on regional/business trends and profitability to inform business decisions
• Full automation within Financial Management and Reporting to safeguard control measures and validation processes
• Creation of synchronised finance and reporting database that will aid the team in making informed decisions
• Profitability assessments new business/products supporting GO/No Go decisions
• Evaluate demand for new products and the implication thereof.
• Liaise with business stakeholders to determine optimal financial management and communicate findings to all relevant stakeholders
• Liaise with department heads to implement efficient operating costs tracking models and provide productivity improvements
• Identify risks, opportunities, and initiatives to optimise revenue, productivity and reduce costs.
• Conduct market and competitor analysis within the rental and leasing industry for benchmarking to guide strategic decisions
• Contributing to the successful implementation of projects to achieve the business outcome.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning with financial insights.
• Analyse sales, margin, pricing, customer, and product data to inform commercial strategies.

Projects and additional revenue opportunities

• Action project plan as per steps identified, report on progress and maintain special projects database with record of key learnings

Reporting

• Document and report on Financial Management and Reporting trends, as well as changes thereof
• Report on progression and performance of projects, financial management models and system changes
• Provide ad hoc reports as requested
• Provide monthly reports to General Manager: Finance and Management

Meetings

• Attend and participate in daily huddles and monthly team meetings
• Attend Operations team meetings to provide demand insight and understand their challenges

Stakeholders (internal & external customers, suppliers, shareholders, communities)

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with key segment and Operations managers
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Finance and IT teams
• Share technical knowledge and insight with internal customers to enhance decision making

Academic qualifications

Essential:

• BCom: Accounting or Finance related qualification
• Driver's License

Work experience

Essential:

• 0 - 1 years' experience in business financial performance

This job requires that the employee maintains the highest level of Honesty and Integrity as he /she will have access to company assets, cash handling and confidential record storage areas. This requires that a formal personal background check is undertaken.

Applications closing date: 10 October 2025

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The
key purpose
of this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the BSC operational excellence and customer service objectives are achieved; to ensure accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained in the balance sheet. This position reviews daily activities related to the balance sheet transactional processes ensuring accuracy and validity and reporting.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing the health of all VOPS balance sheet accounts in terms of risk, ageing, validity of transactions within the accounts
• Preparation of monthly and annual General Accounting activities.
• Preparation of General Accounting, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in Jean.
• Drive the reduction of manual journal entries (MJE) and maintain Jean tool sustainability.
• Manage payment of strategic suppliers through the FI payments process.
• Timely issue of sundry debtor invoices & statements to customers and following up with customers for payment within signed payment term.
• Responsible for payment allocation on payment receipts as well as matching & clearing of payments and invoices.
• Preparation of commentary on weekly and monthly age analysis on sundry debtors.
• Maintaining the master data of sundry debtors.
• Responsible for resolving customer queries through business escalation process.
• Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
• Perform quality balance sheet reconciliations and reporting risks identified.
• Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues.
• Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance with management requirements.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities housed in working capital.
• Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA's and KPI's.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
• Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit and adherence and proper documentation for MICS and SOX.
• Provide visibility of balance sheet key challenges, risk and insights as well as journal risk items to senior management.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
• To ensure accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet.
• Support the Fixed Assets, Intercompany and General accounting teams to ensure compliance with agreed SLA.
• Prepare functional monthly balance sheet deck for presentation to senior management.
• Support external audit queries and AFS reporting as required.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work including performing ad hoc requests and projects.
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally with excellent stakeholder management within the business
• Strong interpersonal / business skills and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical and good problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to uphold confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work including performing ad hoc requests and projects.
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively with effective planning and organizing while meeting deadlines.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
• Strong Business knowledge and commercial acumen
• Understanding of Agile Methodology and Stakeholder Ways of Working
• Aligned to Ab-Inbev 10 Principles and leadership capabilities and lives the company's values

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in accounting or related field
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years in FMCG environment and managing financial performance and working capital
• End-to-End SAP knowledge/understanding of finance related modules
• Strong process knowledge and understand general finance processes relating to balance sheet transactions
• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel and reconciliation skills

Additional Information:
Band:
VIII
SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.