Finance Internship

Finance Internship position available in Cape Town.

Are you a BCOM Accounting Graduate wanting hands-on exposure to financial budgeting, reporting, planning and analysis? An incredible opportunity to join a Leading International FMCG client based in Cape Town.

We’re looking for an ambitious, commercially curious minded individual. Must be eager to learn, gain real-world experience, and build a career in finance from the ground up.

Requirements:

• Matric, or equivalent qualification
• Strong knowledge of Excel (macro, programming), PowerPoint, multi-dimensional tools (ESSBASE, EOS, Microsoft database type) are an asset.
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Integrity and rigor are a must, as well as pro activity and team spirit.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it.

Duties and Responsibilities::

• Prepare ACTUAL monthly reports (Volume & Revenue at D+2, Variance Analysis, PnL, Mid-month forecast and Month End Forecast)
• Develop and maintain accurate & user-friendly performance tracking tools (Power BI and others)
• Aggregate reporting & insights from Clusters to identify risks & opportunities vs forecast.
• Help consolidate and analyse the LE/Budget/R&O forecasts received from markets.
• Contribute to LE/Budget/R&O forecasting for Regional Office
• Support Regional Controller in leading forecast processes for regional office and South Africa market (initial budget, revisions & landings) in coordination with HR, Marketing Managers and GM
• Build and consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse Actual vs Forecast
• Ensure full understanding of variances in labour cost, travel expense and other overheads
• Develop dynamic ways to visualize large data sets to empower Management for effective decision taking (with various tools such as Power BI etc.).
• Improve ways of working on existing internal reports to gain efficiency.
• Support the team to create pertinent presentation for Senior Executive meetings
• Ad-hoc analysis of business results for different stakeholders