Finance Business Partner

In brief

Overview The Finance Business Partner at Vector Logistics serves as a trusted advisor to designated business units. The role focuses on providing commercial insight, financial analysis, and strategic support to drive performance, profitability, and operational excellence. This position is responsible for translating financial information into actionable business intelligence, ensuring leaders make data-driven, financially sound decisions, and delivering high-quality financial insights, forecasting, and business performance analysis. It also involves challenging and supporting operational and commercial decisions to optimize cost, margin, and revenue outcomes, strengthening financial controls, governance, and compliance, and partnering with business leaders to co-develop budgets, strategic plans, and improvement initiatives. What you will do * **Strategic Business Partnering:** * Act as primary finance partner to operations and functional leadership for the assigned portfolio. * Translate business unit strategies into financial implications, KPIs, and improvement plans. * Support profitability enhancement through pricing insight, cost optimisation, and margin analysis. * Participate in strategic planning discussions and provide financial challenge and guidance. * Identify commercial risks and opportunities to support proactive decision-making. * **Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning:** * Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes for the designated business area. * Review and challenge business submissions for accuracy, reasonableness, and alignment to strategy. * Develop forward‑looking financial models to aid decision-making. * Support capex and investment decision evaluations ROI, payback, sensitivity analysis. * **Performance Reporting & Insight:** * Support compliance with IFRS, tax guidelines, internal policies, and procurement frameworks. * Strengthen financial controls within business operations. * Support and engage with internal and external audit requirements. * Identify and escalate financial risks and ensure mitigation plans are in place. * **Stakeholder & Relationship Management:** * Build strong relationships with business leaders, operational heads, commercial teams, and shared services. * Provide clear, concise communication of financial matters to non‑financial stakeholders. * Partner with cross-functional teams to support strategic and operational initiatives. * **Continuous Improvement & Digital Enablement:** * Promote best practice in analytics, modelling, and financial reporting. * Leverage digital tools BI, dashboards, automation to improve efficiency and insight quality. * Share knowledge and contribute to capability building within the FBP team. * Ensure compliance with stock count procedures. Requirements (from the original advert) * BCom Finance / Accounting or equivalent * Professional certification advantageous CIMA, CASA – optional based on level * Minimum 5+ years financial and analytical experience, preferably in a commercial or operational finance role * Experience in business partnering highly advantageous * SAP or similar ERP experience beneficial * Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes * Advanced Excel and financial modelling * Analytical and numerical proficiency * Report writing and presentation * Business case development and feasibility assessment * Communication and stakeholder engagement * Logical problem solving and decision-making * Ability to interpret complex financial information * Ability to leverage technology and BI tools * Financial accounting principles and practices * Tax, VAT, legislation working knowledge * Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning * Business operations, commercial processes, and systems * KPIs, cost drivers, and business levers Who should apply The ideal candidate is a trusted advisor who can translate complex financial information into actionable business intelligence for non-financial stakeholders, influencing decision-making at all levels. This individual should be detail-oriented yet a strategic thinker, resilient under pressure, proactive, curious, and solution-driven. They should possess strong planning and prioritisation skills, along with a high level of integrity, diplomacy, and professionalism. Deadline Not specified Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/finance-business-partner-vector-logistics Source: myjobmag

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• At least 5 years of experience.

• Microsoft Excel
• SAP
• IFRS

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