Group Finance Business Partner: Retail

at Communicate Recruitment
Location Midrand, South Africa
Date Posted August 30, 2020
Category Retail
Job Type Full-time
Currency ZAR

Description

Key Performance Areas:

  • Monitor and analyses performance of offerings (KPI’s)
  • Develop business performance “exception” based reporting and commentary
  • Develop sales, margin and inventory forecasting/planning, including understanding major business and economic drivers
  • Work with Business Unit Heads to develop optimal service, pricing and promotions strategies, including complex regression analysis to understand impacts of actions being contemplated
  • Proactively provide Business leaders with sound financial analysis and guidance in order to grow the business profitably, including competitive reviews, strategic analysis, and other required ad-hoc work.
  • Help carry out long-term financial modelling and scenario planning.
  • Manage large scale strategic initiatives for the Business Unit.
  • Participate, review, maintain and support the financial strategy of the Business Unit to ensure it matches the Company’s initiatives and goals.
  • Assist in implementing strategies approved by the board.
  • Ensure that the financial impact and effect of strategic changes are taken fully into account in the development of the Business Unit’s financial plan and in the reporting of current results
  • Monitors Net Working Capital (NWC) and Cost Controlling
  • Drives the gathering, monitoring and analysing of market trends
  • Drives the gathering, monitoring and analysing of competition (offerings, go-to-market strategies, Products & Services)
  • Profit and Loss (P&L) responsibility for projects and products within the Business Unit

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting
  • Master's degree or CA (SA) a plus
  • 8 to 10 years' experience in related work with retail experience a plus
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