Financial Analyst

Gcn

Role Description

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Prepare and enhance monthly performance packs, board materials, ExCo updates, and CFO analysis with concise commentary, clear drivers, and actionable messages.
• Translate complex financial movements into simple business narratives covering revenue, GPADE, EBITDA, net profit, cash flow, capex, working capital, and country-level performance.
• Review actual results versus budget, forecast, prior year, and run-rate expectations across countries, products, customers, and business lines.
• Identify the real reasons behind performance movements, including volume, price, mix, standard cost, sourcing, distribution, utilization, and overhead drivers.
• Challenge country and business unit forecasts by testing assumptions, reconciling movements to operational drivers, and highlighting gaps versus targets.
• Build and maintain scenario analysis for inflation, pricing, volume shifts, customer/product profitability, capex phasing, and margin sensitivity.
• Analyze price realization, cost pass-through, customer profitability, product margins, and market segment performance to support commercial decisions.
• Highlight where margin movement is structural versus temporary, and recommend areas for management focus.
• Review standard cost versus actual cost trends, production cost movements, logistics impact, plant utilization, sourcing changes, and operational inefficiencies.
• Partner with finance, operations, and commercial teams to convert cost variances into practical actions and follow-up items.
• Work with OneStream, Power BI, D365, Excel, Power Query, and large datasets to improve reporting accuracy, consistency, and speed.
• Support the shift from manual reporting to structured, repeatable analysis where dashboards and models become tools for insight, not static output.
• Engage with country finance, commercial, operations, and corporate teams to understand performance drivers and challenge assumptions professionally.
• Help create a culture where numbers are not only reported, but questioned, explained, and used to drive better decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor degree in Accounting or Encomic. Advanced degree will be considered an advantage.
• Minimum 2-4 years of work experience in similar position
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial gases, chemicals, distribution, logistics, or any asset-heavy environment with cost, production, and margin complexity.
• Exposure to group reporting, consolidation, board packs, management presentations, investment cases, IPO readiness, or strategic business planning.
• Hands-on experience improving reporting processes, automating recurring analysis, or building dynamic dashboards and models that reduce manual work.

Required Skills

• Strong FP&A mindset with the ability to move beyond reporting into analysis, interpretation, and business challenge.
• Comfortable working with P&L, EBITDA, gross margin, standard cost, capex, working capital, cash flow, and forecast assumptions.
• Able to convert large volumes of data into clear insights, short executive commentary, and practical management actions.
• Strong Excel and analytical modelling skills; Power Query, Power BI, DAX, SQL, Python, OneStream, or D365 exposure would be a strong advantage.
• Naturally curious, detail-oriented, and willing to investigate why numbers moved rather than accepting surface-level explanations.
• Confident communicator who can work with senior stakeholders, ask the right questions, and challenge inputs without creating friction.
• Interested candidates matches criteria to send their CVs with reference to [email protected] not later than 10th July 2026.