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.

Financial Planning & Reporting (Temporary Cover)

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