Hybrid Finance Business Partner – 12 Month FTC

at Anthesis Group

• Job title: Finance Business Partner – 12 Month FTC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cape Town, South Africa

About the role

• Finance Business Partner supporting financial management and strategy for sustainability projects at Anthesis Group. Collaborating with leadership to drive performance monitoring and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and track financial and KPI performance, providing variance analysis and commentary, identifying discrepancies and appropriate actions in response.
• Work closely with the Group finance function and business to develop efficient reporting tools and KPIs that support strategic goals.
• Work closely with the finance team to ensure accuracy of financial data used and reported by the business.
• Consolidate and check the consistency of data used.
• Oversee and review monthly revenue recognition calculations and project performance/status reviews.
• Compile monthly management reporting packs, providing analysis and commentary on results and outlook.
• Support and monitor company working capital objectives and reporting requirements.
• Use all management information platforms to provide management with insights into business performance.
• Support the business in cost control.
• Coordinate the planning of the annual and quarterly budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Provide input and insight into assumptions for budgeting and forecasting.
• Collaborate with business leads and operations to gather inputs, consolidate data, and present reports and analysis for review to the Commercial Financial Director and responsible business leads.
• Give feedback on budgets and forecasts and advise the Commercial Finance Director on budget decisions.
• Support the development of strategic initiatives and investments.
• Contribute to the process of developing and monitoring annual pricing calculations and pricing strategies.
• Work closely with the business to provide financial and commercial input into proposals and project scoping.
• Monitor and support adherence to financial policies, regulatory requirements, work procedures, and maintenance of financial and operational data integrity.
• Monitor current financial and operational processes and systems to identify areas for improvement and share best practices to enhance process efficiency and data accuracy.
• Support, monitor and actively manage internal control requirements related to bidding, recruitment, approvals, and reporting.
• Support acquisition activities and business integrations.

Requirements

• Experience working in a Finance Business Partner role highly desirable
• Leadership and management skills.
• Conceptual thinker with the ability to understand the key operational processes of Anthesis and the main drivers of cost and quality.
• Strong understanding of operational processes and the ability to discuss operations with Business and Service Leaders.
• Extensive experience and expertise with IT reporting systems, including Netsuite.
• Outstanding communication skills, enabling effective representation of the controlling entity to the Business Line Lead/Management and the Commercial and Financial Director.
• Strong awareness of internal client needs and the ability to meet them effectively.
• Ability to work in a demanding and rapidly changing internal environment.

Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients
• Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME’s who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis
• Competitive salary in line with education, experience and skills
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.