Financial Planning & Reporting (Temporary Cover)

Company: Finchoice

Department: Finance, FP&A

Contract: Temporary, 6 to 12 months

Start date: November / December 2026

Reports to: Jacques Ferreira

Purpose of the role

Cover the financial planning and reporting function for Finchoice. The role owns month-end cost monitoring, P&L reporting, budgeting and forecasting support, and communication with cost centre (CC) owners.

Key responsibilities

• 1) Profitability and cost control
• Review month-end entries, investigate discrepancies with CC owners and accountants, and send action mails for corrections.
• Maintain the vendor-level OPEX monitoring file that allows tracking actuals by supplier and flagging missing entries.
• Prepare the P&L check file (Revenue, OPEX, Debtors Costs) with explanations for major cost deviations vs LE and the preliminary P&L view within the agreed close timeline.
• Send cost reports to cost centre owners with explanations for material variances, and hold regular meetings with them to agree on actions.
• 2) Month-end reporting
• Prepare and submit the Weaver Consolidation / Intercompany journal ahead of hardclose and perform final cost checks.
• Prepare the Flash Pack, the cost view for StratPlan update, the Consumer Lending Report, the Weaver PayStretch Report and the Felicity Pack, each by its deadline.
• Prepare the detailed KPA pack for review, with variance commentary.
• 3) Budgeting and forecasting
• Send OPEX and CAPEX templates and vendor-level cost detail to CC owners.
• Support review sessions with CC owners and management, consolidate inputs, document drivers of significant changes, and prepare the view for the StratPlan update.
• Issue the monthly vendor-level OPEX files to CC owners for them to agree on baseline before the forecast sessions.
• Assist with further OPEX unpacking when required.
• Provide a clean OPEX file for Hyperion upload.
• 4) File maintenance
• Keep the P&L check file, Flash file and supporting files up to date and accurate.

Qualifications and experience

• Newly qualified CA (or equivalent accounting qualification).
• Some exposure to month-end close, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and variance analysis

Skills

• Proficient in Excel (advanced formulas, lookups, pivot tables and structured file building).
• Advantageous: AX and Hyperion experience.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work to tight month-end deadlines and manage several recurring deliverables.
• Confident engaging with CC owners.

Personal attributes

• Proactive and organised, takes ownership of deliverables.
• Quick learner who can pick up the existing files and processes with a short handover.
• Collaborative team player who builds good working relationships with finance colleagues and business stakeholders.