Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing

About the role

The Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing will provide financial data, forecasts and analysis to support day‑to‑day managerial decisions and strategic planning within a manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate and consolidate annual departmental operating budgets and analyze actual expenditure versus plan.
• Prepare daily and weekly production statistics and assess performance against targets, efficiency, usage, rate and output.
• Conduct profitability and viability analysis on products, markets and initiatives.
• Ensure price reviews and system price updates are accurately maintained.
• Track and analyze periodic sales volume and value.
• Provide analytical and statistical support to sales and marketing, including weekly sales tracking, distributor discounts and sales commissions analysis.
• Prepare monthly management reports, variance analysis, reconciliations, management load files and cost files.
• Draft approval documents (CARs) for new projects, create projects in the ERP system and monitor expenditures against budget.
• Assist in the preparation of annual financial plans and periodic forecasts.

Required profile

• Minimum five years of relevant costing experience in manufacturing.
• University degree in BCom or BSc Statistics.
• Professional qualification such as CPA or equivalent.
• At least five years of experience with Oracle EBS.
• Professional‑level proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Required skills

• Oracle EBS
• Microsoft Excel (advanced)