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