Business Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Description

Ready to bring structure, insight, and financial rigour to a large-scale operations environment where your numbers genuinely shape the decisions that get made?

 

This is an opportunity to join the finance team of a major downstream oil operation, taking ownership of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance measurement across a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. You’ll work closely with engineering, project administration, and joint venture partners, and report directly into the Head of Finance for the division. It’s a role for someone who wants their financial analysis to drive real operational decisions – not just report on them after the fact.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the development, consolidation, and alignment of the division’s business plans, ensuring budgets are congruent with strategy and Group guidelines and timelines.
• Determining OPEX and CAPEX forecast requirements and managing the division’s OPEX and CAPEX plans end-to-end.
• Consolidating, analysing, and reporting financial and management results, using data and reporting systems to enable sound business decisions and manage profitability.
• Interpreting OPEX and CAPEX performance, identifying problem areas, and recommending corrective action to management.
• Managing the monthly capital expenditure process with Engineering and project administration teams, including asset capitalisation and Asset Register integrity.
• Maintaining the integrity of balance sheet accounts through regular analysis and reconciliation of balance sheet movements.
• Overseeing OPEX and CAPEX for joint ventures, ensuring financial plans align with JV partners and are executed within agreed budgets, timelines, and governance frameworks.
• Acting as a key finance point of contact for internal stakeholders, service providers, and contractors, ensuring deliverables are met.
• Contributing to talent, performance, and resource management within the finance team to build capability and engagement.

What we’re looking for

• A relevant BComm Accounting degree minimum; CA(SA) or CIMA advantageous.
• Around 7 years’ finance experience, ideally in business planning or performance measurement, within an operations or industrial environment.
• Solid grounding in financial principles, budgeting, and forecasting for both OPEX and CAPEX.
• Comfortable working with balance sheet reconciliations, asset registers, and capital project accounting.
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable insight for non-finance stakeholders.
• Confident engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including joint venture partners, contractors, and service providers.

What’s in it for you

• A high-visibility role at the heart of a large, complex operations finance function.
• Direct exposure to capital planning, joint venture finance, and cross-functional business partnering.
• The chance to work alongside engineering and project teams, and to genuinely influence operational decision-making.
• A structured, corporate environment with clear governance and career development pathways.

Apply now and bring your planning, analysis, and business partnering skills into a role where your work has real operational impact.

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