Strategic Analyst at Virgin Active South Africa

Your Purpose

• To make exercise irresistible through targeted reporting and forecasting.

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

• To always do your bit towards achieving our Vision of being The World’s Most Loved Exercise Brand; to live and role-model our Values of Insatiable Curiosity, Delightfully Surprising, Heartfelt Service, Red Hot Relevance, Smart Disruption and Straight Up; and to bring to life our People Promise of Be Yourself and Go Together, Work Hard and Dream Big.

Regular reporting and analysis on various aspects of the business.

• Monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of actual performance vs forecast and vs budget
• Reporting on various sections of the P/L e.g. Employment, Sales costs, IT costs, Property costs & Utilities.
• Assisting with the maintenance of our 5 year forecasting model and the development of this model.

Financial appraisals of investment opportunities including:

• Financial modelling and scenarios analysis;
• Analysis of member and other business information in support of this investment
• Preparing relevant, concise and accurate reports supporting the model for Management.

Operational business case analysis for new clubs using historical and external data to analyse and test, including the development of business case forecast model and scenario analysis.

Value-adding analysis requested by VA Management. This would include but not limited to:

• Appraisal of membership contract changes; bad debt (bad debt asset) and collections strategies; sales efficiencies and other income generating opportunities;
• Evaluating of operating costs which will include the allocation of employed resources; structure amendments; utility efficiencies; rental costs and any other cost saving opportunities;
• Developing and maintaining Best in Class (BIC) models for the business and implementing these in other areas;
• Performing any other ad-hoc analysis as and when required.

Identification and analysis of trends and performance in the business.

• Monthly reporting requirements to support decision-making processes above.
• Assisting with and preparing Board Submission files in conjunction with the live forecasts and Budgets.
• Budget preparation and analysis to support strategic direction of the business.
• Assisting Management with ad-hoc analysis and report preparation.
• Being the finance business partner to various departments (e.g. Maintenance, People department) by providing the HOD’s with the relevant financial information to assist with budget preparation, budget adherence and evaluating ad-hoc projects (pre & post).

Our Minimum Requirements...

We can’t live without…

• CA (SA) with 2-4 years post-qualification experience.
• Analytical thinker.
• Accuracy of reporting and attention to detail.
• Ability to drill down into detail while retaining the big picture.
• Excellent MS-Excel abilities.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Have initiative and be well-organised.
• Ability to work independently and see tasks through to completion.
• Good writing and reporting skills using MS PowerPoint.
• Commitment to deadlines.