Finance Business Partner- Commercial at Orica

About the role

We are extremely excited to announce that we are on the lookout for a professional and dedicated Business Partner: Commercial Finance to be based in our offices in Johannesburg in South Africa. This role will be reporting to the Senior Manager Finance. 

The primary responsibilities include delivering commercial insights and value add, providing business support, managing reporting, and offering financial business partner analysis support to the commercial team. Additionally, occasional travel to our Africa South operations will be required for this role.

The successful candidate will be working closely with the Senior Manager Finance, Finance Analysts: direct reports, Performance Reporting team, Territory Managers (TMs), Area Business Manager (ABMs) and various other touchpoints/stakeholders to deliver commercial insight, business support and management reporting and providing financial business partner analysis support to the commercial team. 

The role will be suited for an innovative and proactive individual; highly motivated and ambitious individual with a strong desire to excel.

In return for your professional commitment, we can offer a market competitive salary, development and growth and support into leadership or engineering specialisation. 

What you will be doing

• Providing accurate, meaningful, and timely business and regional performance reports to the lead team;
• Ensuring month end, quarterly and half year reporting is compliant with corporate requirements, on time and of high quality;
• Preparing and presenting Monthly Business Reviews MBR’s) to the lead team;
• Adhering to financial control framework, generating, and ensuring accurate MBR reporting
• Business partnering to improve financial performance of the region with focus on growth. This includes financial analysis support for contracts (GQOMs financial modelling);
• Guiding, reviewing and interrogating analysis on business unit results, trends, market conditions etc;
• Performing Variance Analysis against forecast and budgets and flag any opportunities or risks;
• Providing finance support to the Area Business Manager and lead team;
• Providing accurate, meaningful, and timely business and regional performance reports to the lead team;
• Reporting on KPIs to deliver EAA goals;
• Monitoring and enabling achievement of TWC targets to optimise cash generation;
• Local statutory and tax submissions;
• Risk mitigation execution.

What you will bring

• Possession of a CA (SA), CIMA, MBA, or equivalent qualification, along with a professional accreditation, would be advantageous;
• 5-7 years of pertinent work experience in a business partnering capacity. 
• Strong financial and business acumen; 
• Robust Stakeholder engagement;
• Experience in facilitating senior management presentations;
• Advanced Excel;
• Comfortable working in a constantly changing/ambiguous environment;
• Ability to influence strategic decision makers through relevant financial analysis;
• Adept at planning and organisation; 
• Strong interpersonal skills and high EQ/self-awareness;
• Knowledge and experience in SAP, PowerBI (PBI), Budgeting and Forecasting tools;