Senior Financial Analyst at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

• Supporting enterprise value chain function with value-driven analysis.
• This role provides actionable insights to enhance profitability, manage risks, optimise working capital, and improve forecast accuracy through integrated business planning (IBP), data analytics, and predictive modelling. It actively partners with various functions to support informed, data-driven decision-making in a dynamic business environment.
• Conduct in-depth financial performance analysis, leveraging market indicators and performance metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Assess the integrated value chain to uncover initiatives that protect and enhance enterprise value.
• Monitor working capital trends and cash flow drivers, offering early warnings and actionable recommendations.
• Deliver insights to leadership on margin management, cost efficiency, earnings performance, and working capital optimization.
• Partner with trading and risk teams to evaluate pricing models, hedging strategies, and exposure management.
• Support long-term strategic planning and capital investments through comprehensive financial modelling.
• Guide channel optimization, pricing, and hedging decisions to enhance value and mitigate risks across volume, revenue, margin, and profit streams.
• Provide focused financial support for monthly integrated business planning (EBM) and S&OP processes.
• Drive monthly forecasting and annual business planning activities.
• Utilize advanced analytics and predictive models to support risk-informed decision-making and outcome forecasting.
• Analyze profitability at customer, product, terminal, and value chain levels to identify improvement opportunities.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analysis and reporting aligned to business leadership priorities.
• Collaborate with business and support teams to review portfolio profitability and implement initiatives for margin, volume, and working capital enhancement.
• Evaluate performance metrics to uncover strengths, weaknesses, and threats, supporting teams in addressing performance gaps.
• Champion initiatives to enhance reporting processes, systems, and data integrity.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Tertiary Qualification (Bachelors or National Diploma) in Commerce, Accounting, Business Administration
• CA(SA)/ CIMA qualification
• Financial modelling and/or data analysis certification advantageous

Work Experience:

• 5+ years work experience in a financial or management reporting role.
• Oil and gas, agriculture, mining, manufacturing and/or FMCG experience highly advantageous.

Application deadline:

• 25 August 2025