FP&A Analyst – Cape Town (SA)

Role Overview

The FP&A Analyst will help build and maintain the finance function, own core reporting, and be the finance partner to Regional Directors. The role requires commercial curiosity, attention to detail, analytical rigour, clear communication, proactive ownership, and enthusiasm for systems and efficiency.

What You Will Do

The FP&A Analyst will own a core set of weekly and monthly management reports, take reports that are manual today and make them faster, more consistent, and more automated each cycle, and write commentary to explain what moved, why it moved, and what to do about it. They will also play a central role in annual budget and termly reforecasts, build and maintain driver-based models, run variance analysis, and support investment and pricing decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a genuine interest in the core drivers of the business, a strong analytical mindset, and the ability to turn analysis into a short, confident message for a non-finance audience. They will also be proactive, enthusiastic about systems and efficiency, and have experience in a high-growth, fast-paced organisation.

Requirements

• 2+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, business analysis, or other analytical role with exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and month-end management reporting
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including building integrated models from scratch
• A degree in a numerate subject, or an accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), complete or in progress
• Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced organisation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days of holiday, plus UK bank holidays
• Meaningful work
• 1-1 coaching to keep you growing personally and professionally
• Matching Provident Fund, Group Risk Benefits, and health insurance contributions

Tagged as: Excel, Forecasting