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Senior FP&A Consultant

Blue Pearl HQ

Senior FP&A Consultant

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF

In-Office

Senior level

Information Technology • Pet • Professional Services

The Role

Lead client implementations of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solutions. Gather requirements, design solution blueprints, configure and optimize FP&A models, develop integrations, perform testing, and create technical and training documentation. Use data modeling, Excel, and SQL to build reporting tools. Coordinate with project managers, resolve client issues, ensure governance and quality, and mentor junior consultants while owning project delivery.

Summary Generated by Built In

Key Responsibility:

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The Senior FP&A Consultant partners with the client to define both functional and technical requirements, ensuring the design and delivery of planning models that align with their strategic financial goals.

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Facilitate client workshops to gather functional requirements, translate these into technical designs, and develop a comprehensive solution blueprint.

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Define and develop system integration processes, ensuring seamless data flow from various source systems as per client requirements.

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Implement, test, and optimize FP&A models to support business planning, budgeting, and reporting in line with the agreed solution design.

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Compile all relevant documentation, including functional and technical specifications, blueprints, test cases (Unit and UAT), functional and technical design specifications, and training materials for the implemented solution.

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Conduct quality assurance testing on solutions developed by other consultants to ensure adherence to project governance and standards.

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Communicate effectively with technology and service managers, keeping them informed of key client issues, and working to identify and resolve potential problems.

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Collaborate with project management to create project plans, track project status, identify issues, and assess risks and benefits.

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Utilize your expertise in data modelling and structures to create effective financial reporting and analysis tools that address client KPIs.

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Lead the setup, configuration, prototyping, and testing of FP&A systems, ensuring they meet the defined solution design.

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Manage and mentor junior team members, providing technical guidance and ensuring high-quality delivery as both a technology expert and solution owner.

Requirements

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A bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Informatics, Computer Science, or a related technology field.

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Leadership and Ownership: A proactive leader with a keen interest in managing teams and taking full ownership of project delivery.

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FP&A Expertise: Minimum of 7 years of experience in FP&A or EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) systems with multiple full lifecycle implementations of planning and budgeting solutions.

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Technical and Functional Knowledge: Strong understanding of FP&A systems from both the functional and technical perspectives, with experience in data modelling, structures, and database objects.

Advanced Excel Skills: Proficiency in Excel, with VBA experience being an advantage.

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SQL Skills: Experience with SQL for data manipulation and modeling is beneficial.

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Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Strong logical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with sound judgment.

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Communication and Relationship Building: Excellent communication skills, especially in working with financial professionals to understand their budgeting and forecasting needs.

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Mentorship: A desire and ability to mentor junior staff and explain complex technical concepts.

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Ability to Learn: A quick learner, eager to grasp and apply new concepts and technologies.

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Work Under Pressure: Ability to thrive in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment.

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Experience in FP&A Systems: Relevant experience in implementing and optimizing FP&A or planning solutions.

Skills Required

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, informatics, computer science, or a related technology field
At least 7 years of experience in FP&A or EPM systems
Multiple full-lifecycle implementations of planning and budgeting solutions
Strong functional and technical knowledge of FP&A systems
Experience with data modeling, data structures, and database objects
Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency
Experience implementing and optimizing FP&A or planning solutions
Leadership, team management, and ownership of project delivery
Strong analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with financial professionals
Ability to mentor junior staff and explain complex technical concepts
Ability to work effectively under pressure in deadline-driven environments
VBA experience
SQL experience for data manipulation and modeling

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The Company

22 Employees

Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client. We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation. Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.