takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Finance Analyst (Projects) to join our team in Cape Town.
We're a vibrant, rapidly expanding company seeking intelligent, imaginative, and industrious individuals with a strong ethical foundation. Our market related Total Remuneration Package is tailored to your individual needs, ensuring a stimulating work atmosphere. Here, boredom is banished, provided you're up for a challenge and eager to craft something extraordinary.
This role is pivotal and reports directly to the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conduct thorough investigations into our current end-to-end processes to fully comprehend financial interactions, proposing strategic enhancements
- Seek out opportunities for automation through review and redesign of existing processes
- Automate existing processes, drive technological improvements and build future fit efficiencies around cost optimization.
- Meticulously document business processes, pinpointing and implementing improvements by understanding interdependencies, system intricacies, and potential automation risks within the finance framework.
- Spearhead and contribute to projects aimed at advancing finance/business processes, serving as the finance team's lead representative.
- Forge strong partnerships with IT, Tech, Product and BI departments to ensure delivery of finance projects.
- Gain a deep understanding of the data points and data flow throughout the business that affect the accuracy, completeness and validity of financial reporting
- Facilitate the building of BI reports through working with the BI team to include the relevant data points within the correct cubes for reporting purposes
Attributes required:
- Proficiency in financial modelling and data analysis tools
- A collaborative spirit with a proactive mindset.
- A hands-on approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- A quick learner with a high capacity for mastering new systems.
- Keen attention to detail coupled with robust analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Clear and concise communication skills, both written and verbal.
- A versatile learner, eager to gain knowledge through practical experience.
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
- Adaptability to frequent changes with ease
Qualifications and Experience:
- A BCom or equivalent tertiary qualification in Finance/Accounting.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in a finance/BI role.
- Proficient understanding of accounting, financial reporting, and analysis gained through practical experience.
- Experience in E-Commerce, Retail, or Tech industries is a plus.
- Advanced skills in Excel.
- Basic knowledge of SQL.
- Familiarity with systems like TM1, Looker, Sage, and Board is beneficial.
The Environment:
- takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve
- We are short on ego and high on output
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all
- We love what we do and what we are creating
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
- If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind, come and join us!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
