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Senior Financial Analyst - Refinery

Astron Energy South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  • 🇿🇦 South Africa
  • Senior
  • 1 day ago
  • CFA
  • Excel
  • SQL
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As Senior Financial Analyst – Refinery, you will play a core role in building and maintaining the analytical foundation that supports decision-making across Astron Energy Refinery. This is a highly analytical role focused on developing robust financial forecasting tools and reports, performing strategic insightful analysis (including ad-hoc scenario planning). You will be responsible for analysing business performance versus forecast, identifying key variances, trends, and drivers, and ensuring leadership has a clear, accurate view of how the refinery is performing financially.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop, maintain, and improve robust financial tools / models used for forecasting and strategic decision-making.
  • Support rolling forecasts, annual planning, and long-range planning, ensuring models and assumptions remain accurate and up to date.
  • Run and continuously improve the monthly reporting cycle through the FP&A platform, working closely with Enterprise FP&A and Refinery teams to ensure accurate, consistent, and timely reporting across actuals, forecasts, and plans.
  • Analyse business performance versus forecast and budget as part of the monthly reporting cycle, identifying key variances, trends, and underlying drivers, and flagging emerging risks and opportunities.
  • Conduct analytical deep dives across gross margin, costs, unit economics, and operational metrics.
  • Produce dashboards, reports, and performance trackers used by Refinery leadership team.
  • Drive improvements and automation across FP&A processes, models, and systems, and document assumptions and workflows to support scalability.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience required

  • 3-4+ years’ experience in FP&A, Investment Banking, Management Consulting, or a similarly analytical role.
  • CA(SA), CFA, or equivalent qualification is an advantage.
  • Strong financial modelling and analytical capability, with intermediate data analytics skills (e.g. Excel, BI tools, SQL or similar) and an ability to keep complex analysis simple and decision-oriented.
  • Solid understanding of corporate finance and accounting fundamentals.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesise analysis into clear insights for both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally and rolling up your sleeves to get hands-on across multiple teams.
  • Experience in petrochemical or FCMG industry preferred.
  • You are passionate, humble, and motivated by shared success, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Application deadline:

18 October 2026

Senior Financial Analyst - Refinery · Astron Energy South Africa (Pty) Ltd

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