Finance Data Analyst Africa
On-site
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Finance Data Analyst Africa is responsible for leading automation, harmonization, and benchmark of CSD, Sustainability, Sourcing costs & operations across Africa. He also coordinates monthly closing, budget and forecast processes across Africa for all divisions.
KEY RESPONSABILITIES INCLUDE
- Leads the consolidation of Production, Sustainability, Sourcing costs & activity KPIs across Africa
- Coordinates costs benchmark across Africa for all divisions
- Coordinates collection of key financials for monthly closing, and collect inputs from the sites to consolidate activity KPIs (purchases, grinding, sales, stocks, etc.)
- Collects CAPEX needs for Africa and coordinates consolidation
- Leads forecast process across Africa for all divisions, and consolidation of actuals vs target
- Leads the harmonization of reporting (costs & KPIs) for all African operations
- Coordinate the implementation of the annual budget
- Drive continuous improvement of processes, systems, reports, map/define automation opportunities by sharing best practices and help identifying areas new areas to harmonize/standardize
- Drive development and deployment of standardized tools and processes using the approved solutions (e.g. PowerBI)
- Coordinate data collection of inputs from country FP&A teams regarding: Budget and forecast, Variance Analysis, Business case development, Profitability analysis
- Act as a sparring partner to the FP&A Manager Africa / FBP Africa, exchange ideas and concepts
- Transform complex data into business recommendations.
- Presenting analyses to stakeholders of varying levels of experience by developping relevant and efficient Dashboards
- Working independently with teams spread across multiple countries.
- Solution-oriented with passion for data integrity and process improvement
- Lead the implementation of benchmark across sites (SG&A, Factory costs, Sustainability & Supply chain costs, etc.)
- Exciting deep dive into the chocolate and cocoa industry as well as into the execution of a global strategy in a multinational company
- Inspiring work environment, covering the whole supply chain: from bean sourcing to cocoa product selling, via bean processing
- Scope includes financial and operational results of all our business units across Africa (grinding & export entities)
- Diverse set of tasks and wide range of involvement in local, regional and also global initiatives
- Exposure to Corporate and Regional management teams
- Master’s degree in Business Administration with a specialization in finance, accounting or a similar field
- Minimum 6-7 years of experience in: FP&A, Business Controlling, Financial Analysis, Finance Business Partnering, Data Analytics applied to finance
- Multi-country experience in Africa highly desirable.
- Knowledge of finance tools (SAP, FINANCE ERP, GROUP REPORTING TOOLS and related: BW, BOFC; Tagetik, etc.)
- High proficiency in MS Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) is a must
- VBA, PowerQuery, PowerPivot or Power BI would be an advantage
- English business proficiency
- Experience in the cocoa industry is a nice-to-have
- Strong understanding of cost accounting and financial reporting structure (important asset)
- Knowledge of the key performance indicators that drives the organization assessment (working Capital, cash management, direct profit, EBIT, ROIC...)
- Strong analytical skills; ability to effectively link the financial reporting issues with the underlying related economic and financial facts
- Knowledge of the cocoa business is an asset
- Involvement in the building up of business cases is an asset
- Coordination and organization skills, striking the right balance between pragmatism, timing and accuracy
- Ability to think strategically / see the big picture
- Agent of change for continuous improvement in reporting/controlling to enable management decision making; persuasion skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to effectively work and collaborate across functions, hierarchies and cultures
- Ability to work under pressure and managing ambiguity
- Previous exposure to team management an asset
- Self-motivation, pro-activeness, multi-tasking and excellent organizational skills
- High degree of autonomy, ability to take full lead on topics
- Solution oriented with passion for data integrity and process improvement
Source: the employer's careers page. Last checked 2026-10-12. Posted 2026-10-10.
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