Financial Analyst & Compiler Cape Town

We drive and influence people's behavior.  Our work within our 2 broad divisions or consulting and platform aim to drive behavior from the people working for and buying from our customers.  We help our customers drive the behavior they want with: * Design and implementation of pay and incentive programs * Design and implementation of recognition programs for staff and customers * The business tools we have designed on our platform sparkfolios.com   *Position Overview* We are looking to hire a Financial analyst and consultant in our Consulting division.  This will be a role for someone with intermediate experience who will be responsible for compiling monthly performance reports, providing meaningful insights to stakeholders and clients, converting data into motivational messages, calculating payroll amounts based on performance data and pre-set rules, and managing incentive programs. The successful candidate is expected to have strong planning skills, work comfortably under pressure, putting a premium on accuracy, deliver on tight deadlines, and have good communication skills. You will be reporting to the Head of Management Services.   This full-time position will be based in Cape Town.  Depending on the assignment, the location will be at the client’s premises or the Somerset West offices.  You will also have the opportunity to work from home/remotely once we are comfortable that this is appropriate. * *Regular reporting based on source information like staff pay, performance data, and incentive data* * Setup of calculation * Update of report (monthly, quarterly) * Provide insight and commentary * Follow a process/checklist * Perform a self-review * Send work for peer to review   * *Regular Calculations used by clients to pay staff or clients based on source information like performance data or information relevant to the program we are supporting and doing the pay calculations for* * Setup of calculation * Update of report (monthly, quarterly) * Provide insight and commentary * Follow a process/checklist * Perform a self-review * Send work for peer to review * Engage with relevant staff key role players and supply data uploads paid by client / our platform to defined staff/clients as per agreement with the client   * *Review of colleague’s work* * High-level reasonability tests * Detailed review of work like formulae * Reconcile to source data * Execute spot checks on results   * *Perform Ad-Hoc Financial Analyses with commentary* * Source data from client * Analyze results based on brief * Communicate findings and insights to stakeholders * May be required to perform presentations * Financial Modelling   * *Manage incentive programs* * Setup of voting sessions * Calculate results * Communicate the winners   * *Convert client data into a motivational message for client user* * E