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Finance FP&A Data Analyst

Euromonitor International
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Full-time
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Full Description

About Euromonitor

Euromonitor International leads the world in data analytics and research into markets, industries, economies and consumers. We provide truly global insight and data on thousands of products and services; we are the first destination for organisations seeking growth. With our guidance, our clients can make bold, strategic decisions with confidence.

Role Purpose

* The Finance FP&A Data Analyst plays a central role in transforming how Finance, Operations, and Commercial teams leverage data to drive decision making. This hybrid position blends deep financial expertise with analytics, data modelling, and visualisation/presentation capabilities. The role supports both structured reporting and analytical, ad hoc problem solving, ensuring that the organisation has accurate, trusted, and forward-looking insight. This position blends deep financial expertise with analytics, data modelling, and visualisation skills, ensuring that the organisation has accurate, trusted insight.

* The role will collaborate closely with FP&A, Finance, Data Engineering, Data Product Manager, HR/Reward teams, Sales Ops, Senior Business Leaders and other business partners. A key focus is to modernise financial reporting, streamline forecasting, and build scalable analytical products that enhance business understanding. This role is critical in bridging Finance with Technology and Data teams, ensuring that financial logic, controls, and definitions are correctly embedded in data products and reporting systems. The role requires a confident presenter able to communicate, collaborate and gain buy in across a wide variety of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

* Financial & Business Insight

* Deliver advanced financial analysis, modelling, and scenario planning.

* Support FP&A cycles, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews.

* Translate complex datasets into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

* Provide insight across revenue, cost, margin, headcount, and operational KPIs.

* Support people analysis to ensure we understand our cost base and are able to report/forecast/scenario plan efficiently to a high standard.

* Apply analytical thinking to solve ad hoc and strategic business challenges.

* Data Visualisation & Automation

* Develop robust Power BI dashboards using Power Query, DAX, and strong data modelling practices.

* Enhance and maintain existing dashboards including financial performance, workforce planning, sales compensation, and operations insight.

* Build automated data refresh processes and reporting pipelines.

* Translate business requirements into intuitive, high impact dashboards.

* Data Interpretation, Mapping & Governance

* Validate and map data from core systems including Dynamics 365 Finance, Salesforce, and SaaS billing platforms.

* Own and maintain finance KPI definitions, ensuring alignment across reporting tools.

* Embed reconciliation logic, audit requirements, and financial controls within data pipelines.

* Work closely with Data Engineering to ensure models are scalable, well documented, and governed.

* Ad Hoc Projects & Cross Functional PartneringFunctional Partnering

* Lead and manage analytical projects spanning FP&A, Commercial, Ops, HR/Reward, and Tech.

* Support the business with modelling for compensation, sales commissions, workforce analytics, bonus modelling, and scenario analysis.

* Collaborate with stakeholders to refine project objectives, timelines, and deliverables.

* Support monthly, quarterly, and annual modelling cycles (e.g., bonus files, salary review models, workforce dashboards).

* Contribution to Data Strategy

* Champion the evolution of finance data architecture and reporting standards.

* Identify opportunities for automation and operational efficiency.

* Promote data literacy within Finance and the wider business.

* Collaborate with the Data Product Manager to define data requirements and analytics priorities.

Key Skills & Experience

* Finance Expertise

* ACCA / CIMA / ACA qualified or part qualified strongly preferred.

* Strong understanding of forecasting, budgeting, cost/margin analysis, financial controls, and monthend processes.

* Experience in FP&A, commercial finance, operational analytics, or similar finance roles.

* Experience in producing dashboards & recommendation-led analysis covering people data/analytics including variable compensation (bonuses/commissions/annual pay reviews)

* Technical & Analytical Skills

* Advanced Power BI skills including DAX, Power Query, Mlanguage, and data modelling.

* Degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or similar.

* Certifications in analytics, Power BI, SQL, Python, AI/ML, or cloud data platforms are an advantage.

* Familiarity with data lakehouse environments and modern cloud-based data platforms.

* Proactive in using, testing and benefiting from AI both in terms of efficiency, but also proactive analysis/improvements to support business growth.

* Strong PPT/reporting skills and extensive experience in presenting dynamically to senior company leadership level.

* Soft Skills

* Excellent communication skills - able to explain & present complex data clearly to nontechnical audiences and deliver the ‘so what' to enable effective decision making.

* Strong project management, able to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines.

* High attention to detail and a logical, problem-solving mindset.

* Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and collaborate effectively with cross functional partners.

What Success Looks Like In This Role

* Delivery of high quality, timely insights that drive decision making.

* Power BI dashboards become trusted sources of truth across the organisation.

* Predictive and analytical models materially improve forecasting and operational performance.

* Finance logic and data definitions are consistently applied across systems.

* Ability to automate and reduce manual reporting to improves accuracy.

* Strong, productive relationships built across Finance, Research, Ops, Sales, Data Engineering, and HR/Reward.

* Clear, well documented data models and processes that futureproof reporting.

* Effective handling of ad hoc analytical projects with clarity, structure, and measurable impact.

Summary

* This is a high impact, forward looking role that blends financial acumen with data analytics, and business partnering. It is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous analytical problems, building scalable dashboards and models, and modernising how Finance uses data.

Benefits

Why work for Euromonitor?

Our Values:

We seek individuals who act with integrity

We look for candidates who are curious about the world

We feel that as a community, we're stronger together

We seek to enable people to feel empowered

We welcome candidates who bring strength in diversity

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we communicate across our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.

Hardworking and sociable: our staff know how to work hard and know also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of other groups to be involved with.

Committed to making a difference: We believe that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It gives all new starters a donation amount on joining us which they can give to a charity of their choice.

It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights.

Excellent benefits: we offer competitive salaries, enhanced healthcare and pensions, plus generous holiday allowances, hybrid working and, in many offices, a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.

Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our Managers and Directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.

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