Finance Specialist: Analysis & Reporting at ConSol Limited

Job Duties/ Responsibilities/ Accountabilities

• Grow financial performance through analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends.
• Create recommendations to be presented to management and executives
• Develop financial models to support valuation, planning, and forecasting
• Aid in the capital budgeting and expenditure planning processes
• Reconcile existing transactions through cross-referencing of incoming and outgoing data
• Conduct comparable analysis and market research to support internal financial analysis
• Responsible for maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge on financial instruments, market conditions and trends.
• Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
• Analyze financial data – and create financial models for decision support
• Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting and decision support
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
• Guide cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
• Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimization
• Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
• Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation comps
• Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models.
• Cash reconciliations, payment date accounting, monthly reporting and report production, daily modelling, analysis and reporting and financial Analysis.
• Perform monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analysis
• Prepare financial reports, charts, tables and other exhibits as requested
• Provide timely, relevant and accurate reporting & analysis of the results of the division’s performance against historical, budgeted, forecasted and strategic planning results to facilitate decision-making toward the achievement of the budget and strategic plan.

Education Qualification:

• BSc/HND in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Statistics from a recognized institution
• MBA is an added advantage

Professional Qualification:

• Membership of relevant Industry/Professional Association

Experience

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in a similar position
• Proven work experience in a quantitatively-heavy role