Project Finance Analyst at Forvis Mazars Group

Job Description
The job involves joining the Global Infrastructure Finance (GIF) team. You will work in the Johannesburg office, but will be in daily contact with team members from the other offices within our business.

Expert tuition will be provided in the FAST financial modelling standard in MS Excel, which is a market leading methodology in the production of long-term budgeting, operational and transactional financial models.

Duties and Responsibilities

Financial modelling is key to this role and the work will involve:

• Providing model assurance service/model auditing following the shadow modelling approach, where tested templates are used to review client models;
• Reviewing project related documents like credit agreements, tax and accounting reports and payment mechanisms for assurance;
• Taking an active part in a continuous process of improving the quality and productivity of model auditing processes and procedures; and
• Interacting with the clients ranging from leading energy and infrastructure project financiers, investors, developers, government agencies and advisors.

Minimum Requirements
You should apply for this job if you are a professional who:

• can use English to communicate technical ideas clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing;
• have an excellent academic background;
• have studied accounting and/or finance;
• have basic to intermediate proficiency in working with Microsoft Excel
• possesses strong analytical skills and a critical and questioning attitude and enjoy the challenge of solving logic problems; can anticipate questions and provide the answers as part of your solution;
• is motivated by the energy and infrastructure sectors – the projects we work on involve raising finance to get real life projects off the ground that have an enormously positive societal value;
• is an innovator: able to follow a defined process but continuously looking to make improvements; and
• likes to work in a team, and willing to contribute to, as well as benefit from a continuous learning environment
• adheres to the Forvis Mazars values of integrity, responsibility, diversity and respect, technical excellence, independence and stewardship