The successful candidate will be responsible for driving and delivering the streamlining and automation of the finance reporting landscape across the Group. The role requires a strong knowledge of finance, including finance operations, frameworks and regulatory requirements, together with an aptitude for technology. You will be responsible for identifying opportunities to improve reporting processes, digitise reports (management accounts, budgets, and forecasts) in a way that creates value for the stakeholders, working closely with the Group's IT teams as well as core business finance functions.

This role will help to implement a new and ambitious digital roadmap within the organization through the delivery of a strategic digital programme of change, with scope to make positive changes to processes and ways of working.

Responsibilities include:

Driving digital transformation initiatives across the organisation, leveraging technology to enhance business strategy and processes
Deep diving into the finance processes within the Group's business units to identify streamlining and automation requirements
Identifying opportunities for improvement of data accessibility, limiting manual processes, adopting best-practice, and ensuring alignment across the organisation
Unlocking value from reporting systems and improving customer experience
Digitising management reports, planning and forecasting processes and the underlying processes supporting these functions ensuring accuracy and relevance
Translating and documenting the finance related digital needs of the business
Creating structured end-to-end roadmaps for implementation, including milestones and dependencies, and ensuring cohesive stakeholder management across the business
Being part of the project team, implementing new digital tools and platforms including the overall change management process of communication, adoption and support of these new technologies
Managing the governance of the finance master data hierarchies (profit centre and general ledger), access control and system packages
Performing impact analysis on reports for master data changes, testing and implementing reports
Documenting and driving the alignment of finance data definitions and data sets to be agreed with internal stakeholders
Communicating complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating innovation and transformation across the organisation
Promoting a culture of continuous improvement
Keeping abreast of new trends and best practice

Requirements:

CA (SA) with IT / computer science advantageous
1-3 years post qualification experience and proven track record in the implementation of digitisation initiatives and streamlining
Problem solving and analytical skills
Project Management
Data analysis and interpretation i.e., the ability to collect, analyse and interpret financial data
Strong understanding of financial systems and reporting tools
Technology knowledge, e.g. SharePoint, Power BI, Power automate, Tableau, Excel/VBA advantageous
Retail industry knowledge

Desired Skills:

Digital Transformation
Automation
Project Management
Analysis
Data Analysis
Power BI

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