Senior Manager – Business Enterprise Reporting at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Job Summary

Senior Manager – Business Enterprise Reporting is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of an organisation's enterprise-wide reporting processes and systems. This position involves managing a team of reporting analysts and collaborating with various stakeholders, including executives, department heads, and IT professionals. This finance leader will add value by creating and implementing actionable data analytics and reporting for AE. Reporting to the CFO AE, this role is responsible for assisting in management of the annual financial plan and long -range planning, with reporting and analysis on enterprise-wide performance. This individual will provide executive management with insights on the business through enhanced analyses and reporting.

Financial Perspective

• Timely and accurate completion of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
• Timely and accurate completion of monthly forecast and annual budget
• Implement systems solutions on time
• Provide insightful financial analysis to drive actions

Customer Perspective

• Collaborating with stakeholders to define reporting requirements, designing and generating reports, and performing data analysis to extract actionable insights. This includes creating interactive dashboards, visualisations, and executive-level reports to facilitate decision-making.
• Continuously evaluating and improving reporting processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness. This may involve identifying automation opportunities, streamlining data workflows, and implementing best practices in data governance.
• Collaborating with executives, department heads, and business partners to understand their reporting needs, ensuring timely and relevant information delivery, and providing guidance on data-driven decision-making. This requires effective communication, presentation skills, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.

Internal Processes

• Developing and implementing a comprehensive reporting strategy aligned with the organization's goals and objectives. This involves understanding business requirements, identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), and designing reporting frameworks to provide meaningful insights
• Reporting System Management: Overseeing the selection, implementation, and enhancement of reporting tools and systems to support data collection, analysis, and visualization. This may involve evaluating and recommending software solutions, coordinating with IT teams, and ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations, security protocols, and reporting standards. This includes establishing data governance frameworks, implementing data quality controls, and maintaining documentation for audits and regulatory purposes.

People Management

• Team Leadership: Managing a team of reporting analysts or data professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance management. This includes assigning tasks, setting goals, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Drive AE leadership shifts and culture rollout, focusing on values and applying to daily activities
• Develop commercial business knowledge within team

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Qualified CA or Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree preferred with significant post qualification experience (+10 years) and experience of operating preferably in a similar role at a senior level in a large complex commercially focused business.

Experience and skillset required:

• Prepare the monthly reporting package of the company’s financial performance versus budget and forecast including updating the 24 month forecast on a monthly basis.
• Perform analysis of actual results versus plan and forecast and prior year; prepare variance reporting an identify opportunities for improvements.
• Coordinate and leads the company forecasting activities and annual budgeting process.
• Lead the development, design and implementation of new processes, tools, and systems, offering subject matter expertise and understanding across the financial planning & analysis function
• Demonstrate strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills while managing multiple tasks concurrently to meet stringent deadlines.
• Take responsibility for financial and profitability modelling, including the development of functionality and accountability for data management and integration. Also, oversee model governance, controls, and documentation.
• Provide decision support in terms of key financial analysis to support Exco.
• Drive the technology roadmap for FPA to ensure cutting edge technology in terms of financial modelling is available for decision support and plan processes.
• Contribute to the financial evaluation of Capital Expenditure (Capex) and Operating Expenditure (Opex) projects.
• Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• Highly motivated, driven individual who relishes a challenge, and can contribute effectively to a high quality, fast-paced finance leadership team
• Strong commercial acumen with the gravitas and confidence to lead change in a transforming organisation
• Highly collaborative, with an ability to build strong relationships throughout the business and drive improvement in financial and operational KPIs
• Confident, effective communicator and influencer with senior stakeholders inside and outside of finance team
• Expert use of Excel, proven financial modelling skills, and an ability to use data to ‘tell a story’ to finance and non-finance personnel
• Excellent report writing skills with the ability to express financial results articulated at levels up to Executive Committee, Board, and Shareholders
• Experience of financial systems such as SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud, and other analytics tools (eg Tableau/Spotfire) desired
• Experience of other MS suite of applications in particular Powerpoint

Desirable Experience:

Candidates should also demonstrate experience and/or awareness of the following:

Astron Energy value drivers

• Crude and refined products supply and pricing basis
• Crude oil refining KPIs
• South African Fuels pricing
• Lubricants pricing
• Retail
• Commercial
• Liquid fuels industry in South Africa & Botswana
• Analysis of Customer profitability models
• Internal transfer pricing methodologies
• Regulatory Accounting System Pricing requirements
• Implementation and oversight of cost savings initiatives