Aldrich Capital - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities:

Provide upper management and PE owners with analysis and advice for most effective utilization of Company's financial resources to increase profitability and grow the company at an optimal rate

Maintain KPIs:

- Review existing set of KPIs and ensure that the senior leadership of the business is focused on a smaller subset of KPIs

-Manage reporting of KPIs forth overall business on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis as required.

- Build and manage KPI reporting for each business unit.

- Analyse current and past trends in KPIs

- Explain unexpected variances.

- Set up framework forth budgeting model.

Budgeting: Manage the budgeting on a monthly and quarterly basis:

- Ensure that budget models are critically examined.

- Create, update and maintain financial models and detailed forecasts of Company's future operations.

- Ensure financial models are tied to cash flow statements and balance sheets appropriately.

- Capital expenditures.

- Sales models

- Productivity

- Cashflow of the business

- Key financial ratio analysis

Management Reporting and Financial Analysis:

- Lead Management Reporting & Financial analysis of key business & product areas

- Product profitability

- Cost efficiency of each department

- Variance analysis: Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and explaining the difference.

- Make suggestions for improvements on the go forward.

- New product rollout strategies

Corporate Finance and Strategic Initiatives:

Provide supervision on strategic financing initiatives:

- Support acquisition of new credit and bank lending facilities, through providing supporting materials and financial projections

- Ongoing monitoring of key liquidity and bank lending metrics

- Build financial models to help evaluate &analyse potential acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships with input from senior management.

Critical Skills needed:

Reading and analysing financial statements & accounting:

- Truly be able to read and understand financial statements.

- Grasp of accounting journal entries and financial reconciliation statements

Project Management skills:

- Financial planning skills to put together 3-to-5-year financial projects.

- Cost and time management skills

- Communication skills and ability to delegate.

- Data collection and data consolidation

Financial Modelling:

- Model in excel.

- Create consolidated budgets and long-term forecasts.

- Variance analysis

- Ability to create models for new ventures or produ