Financial Planning Analyst

Derivco Group is looking for a Financial Planning Analyst to join our Finance team. In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering accurate, well-structured financial insights that build strong business partnering relationships with senior stakeholders across the Group. You'll support evidence-based decision-making and contribute to the timely, high-quality delivery of our FP&A function's reporting cycle — all within an established Group financial planning framework.

You'll work across budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting for assigned business areas, translating financial and operational data into commentary that's clear, actionable, and accessible to both finance and non-finance audiences.

What You'll Do

• Prepare financial performance reports and variance analyses that give management and business unit stakeholders timely, accurate visibility of financial results, trends, and emerging performance drivers.


• Partner with business unit stakeholders and senior managers, providing financial analysis and explaining results to build shared financial understanding.


• Build and maintain financial models — including budget templates, forecasts, and scenario analyses — to support business planning and management decision-making.


• Translate financial and operational data into clear, structured commentary highlighting trends, key drivers, and variance factors.


• Conduct variance, trend, and scenario analyses to strengthen forecast accuracy and flag emerging risks, opportunities, and performance deviations.


• Contribute financial analysis and commentary to business reviews and planning meetings.


• Identify inconsistencies in financial data, planning inputs, and model assumptions, and work with relevant teams to resolve them.


• Support cross-functional planning activities and business case reviews with financial analysis and model-based inputs.


• Help drive continuous improvement in financial modelling templates, reporting processes, and analytical workflows.

What You'll Bring

Education:

• Completed Grade 12


• Completed Tertiary qualification in finance

Experience:

• 4–6 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, or a business finance role


• Demonstrated experience producing financial reports that support management decision-making across business unit environments


• Practical experience partnering with senior business stakeholders to explain financial results, challenge planning assumptions, and translate data into clear commentary


• Proficiency with business intelligence platforms, spreadsheet analytics, and financial reporting systems


• Working knowledge of financial planning cycles, including budget coordination, rolling forecasts, and scenario analysis, ideally within structured FP&A team environments

Skills:

• Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Financial Planning, Economics, Corporate Finance


• Internal Controls, Process Improvement, Decision Support Systems


• Data Visualization, Business Intelligence, Business Acumen


• Accounting Software, Analytical Skills, Critical Thinking


• Report Writing, Influencing Skills

Why Join Us

At Derivco, you'll be part of a global Finance team with reach across multiple countries, continents, and business units. You'll develop effective cross-functional partnerships with business unit teams and finance colleagues, build your capability alongside a collaborative FP&A team, and contribute directly to the quality, speed, and strategic value of financial insight across the business.

This is a great opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys turning numbers into narratives, wants to deepen their commercial and analytical skillset, and is looking to grow within a structured, high-performing FP&A function.

Closing Date: 17 August 2026