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Senior Financial Analyst – Refinery

The Senior Financial Analyst – Refinery is a key member of the Refinery Finance Team with responsibilities for the preparation of the annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and monthly reporting of refinery’s business performance. The incumbent is also responsible for monthly financial analysis of refinery’s gross margin, performing in-depth price and volume variance analysis of actuals vs budget/forecast. This role requires close collaboration with the refinery’s gross margin planner in Business Excellence who prepares the gross margin budget/forecast. The incumbent supports special projects as they arise, performs deep-dive analysis into various focus areas, leads continuous improvement initiatives obo Finance, provides training / guidance on finance matters to the various refinery departments and is the back-up for the Refinery Finance Manager. The position interacts will all levels of staff at the Refinery and needs to be able to build collaborative relationships quickly, influence outcomes and drive for results.

Financial Perspective

Gross Margin Analysis

• Prepares monthly Gross Margin analysis of refinery production income vs business plan and reforecast expectations, including price and volume variance analysis with related commentaries.
• Ensures accuracy of refinery transfer pricing entries in SAP through comparison to gross margin calculations
• Collates Availability and Utilisation and other KPIs from Commercial department for inclusion in monthly reporting and validates explanations provided for reasonability.
• Responsible for ensuring accuracy of gross margin reporting in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) system.
• Coordinates the annual business plan and monthly reforecasting of refinery’s gross margin. Works side by side with refinery’s gross margin planner to ensure deadlines are met and validates the inputs received from the gross margin planner to ensure accuracy.
• When required, acts as interface between Oils Accounting and Refinery Commercial departments during month-end, assisting in resolving discrepancies on product yields and driving month-end to a close.

Financial and Management Reporting:

• Prepares all required monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and variance analysis of actual results vs business plan/forecast for the refinery for submission to the FP&A
• Collates, validates, and reports on various refinery Key Performance Indicators monthly.

Business Planning, Forecasting and Performance Reporting:

• Coordinates, consolidates, and prepares the presentation deck supporting the annual business plan for the refinery business unit.  Ensure the business plan is reasonable by conducting analysis and facilitating discussions with department heads and challenging their proposed business plans. 
• Coordinates, consolidates, and prepares the presentation deck supporting the monthly reforecast for the refinery business unit. 
• Responsible for the submission of the annual business plan/monthly forecast into SAP Analytics Cloud system and validation of accuracy of final product. 
• Attends monthly Business Teams’ performance meetings as Finance representative responsible for explaining gross margin and fuel cost KPIs. The role also supports Opex analysts in the team in answering queries from business and driving cost control/Opex management at the refinery.
• Prepares deck on monthly business performance and leads presentation thereof to the Refinery Leadership Team (RLT) at monthly business performance governance meeting.

CAPEX reporting

• Reviews capex reporting prepared by the Refinery Capex planner for reasonability and supports Refinery Capex planner with guidance to ensure that reporting requirements to stakeholders are met.

Customer Perspective

• Supports the reporting requirements to shareholders, EXCO, RLT and other refinery stakeholders.
• Leads the finance presentation at the monthly business performance governance meeting. 
• Represents Finance in the Extended Leadership Team at Refinery
• Will be sought out to support Refinery initiatives and priorities from a financial perspective from time to time.

Internal Processes

Special Projects

• Participate in special projects as directed by Refinery Finance Manager.  Projects may require economic/decision analysis, guidance on accounting policy, and internal control assessments and guidance. Projects are generally focused on continuous improvement initiatives.

Month-end Coordination:

Prepare, distribute, and coordinate/manage the refinery’s monthly reporting schedule to ensure all deadlines are met

Ad-hoc queries:

• Support the business in resolution of complex vendor/payment queries and act as interface between refinery business unit and Procurement and Accounts Payable departments.
• Assist the business with SAP data requests.
• Support the Refinery Finance Manager with resolving queries from CoCT, ESKOM, TNPA and other bills that are sent directly to Refinery Finance team.
• Support the Refinery Finance Manager in providing oversight over the Refinery Warehouse’s adherence to internal controls for warehouse inventory, ensuring compliance is achieved with UKCR and AE’s accounting policy.

People Management

• As senior member of the refinery finance team this role is expected to guide, coach, and support the analysts in the team and assist them with the resolution of any complex queries. 
• Actively influence the Refinery Leadership Team (RLT) and Extended Leadership Team (ELT) at the refinery on finance-related initiatives and objectives.
• Stand-in for the Refinery Finance Manager as and when required. May be required to review manual journals and account reconciliations of opex analysts on ad-hoc basis.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience required

• Fully qualified CA (SA) or CIMA
• Minimum of 3 years’ post qualification accounting experience essential. Preference will be given to candidates with 5+ years  
• External auditing experience strongly preferred
• Oil and gas industry or similar manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Ability to take initiative and grow with the business

Application deadline:04 January 2026

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Senior Manager – Financial Planning & Analysis

The Senior Manager FP&A ensures the delivery of insights through financial and commercial analysis, to support business decision-making and drive organisational performance. Partner with business units to understand drivers of financial performance and facilitate informed decision-making, ensuring financial data is translated into actionable intelligence.

• Lead and coordinate the preparation of the annual budget/ strategic business plan, Q1 reforecast, and monthly EBM (IBP) reforecasts across supported business units (EVCO, Logistics, Retail, Commercial and Lubricants) including operational and capital planning.
• Ensure accuracy, alignment and integrity of forecasts and assumptions with business and macroeconomic drivers.
• Partner with business units to challenge historical performance and assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Provide input into the development of the long-term valuations and business plans, supporting strategic decision-making.
• Lead the monthly performance reporting process, ensuring timely accurate, insightful, and actionable analysis and reporting of financial and operational performance for supported BUs.
• Develop meaningful dashboards and metrics that highlight key performance drivers, variances and trends.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to the CFO, EXCO and business unit GMs to drive informed decision-making.
• Continuously improve reporting packs, tools and processes for effectiveness, clarity and relevance.
• Facilitate alignment between finance and business operations, ensuring shared accountability for performance outcomes and resolution of misalignment between business and the broader finance group (e.g. credit, treasury, accounting and tax).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and prioritise strategic initiatives, investment cases and commercial opportunities.
• Act as first approver (prior to CFO submission) of business cases for capital projects, commercial opportunities, pricing decisions, partnerships and acquisitions (organic and inorganic growth).
• Set hurdle rates (e.g. WACC and IRR) and ensure all relevant KPIs, financial metrics and strategic considerations are assessed in each commercial evaluation, seeking appropriate approvals from shareholder and EXCO as required.
• Support commercial negotiations with external parties on commercial opportunities and investments as CFO representative.
• Partner with the cross-functional teams to maintain financial discipline, consistency and transparency in business case development and investment decision-making.
• Lead a financial modelling centre of excellence that builds, reviews and maintains complex financial models and tools used by business in the evaluation of commercial and investment decisions.
• Identify and lead opportunities for process simplification, automation and digital transformation within FP&A and broader finance and business processes to enable enterprise-wide efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support the design, implementation, and rollout of enterprise-wide budgeting and performance management tools and enhancements (e.g., SAP Analytics Cloud).
• Enhance data quality, accuracy and accessibility through system improvements, data governance and leveraging available tools and systems (e.g. PowerBI, SAC).
• Challenge the status quo and support change initiatives that improve efficiency, insights and alignment with enterprise value creation objectives.
• Support the CFO and BU GMs in the development and updates of enterprise and BU strategies ensuring financial impact and value drivers are clearly articulated and linked to enterprise strategic objectives.
• Champion and embed a value creation mindset across the business through understanding of enterprise value, performance and value-driven decision-making.
• Identify and evaluate Enterprise and BU specific risks and opportunities, providing quantitative support to Strategy function in assessing risks and opportunities for inclusion in Enterprise risk registers.
• Lead and contribute to cross-functional/ transformation projects that drive enterprise performance, cost optimisation and long-term sustainability.

People Management:

• Provide direction and define objectives to be achieved in department.
• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals and measuring performance against agreed goals and addressing non-performance issues.
• Deploy people management processes effectively, in line with Company policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Drive operational excellence through area of supervision.
• Oversee resource deployment to ensure adequate cover and resilience in the team.
• Promote, support, and encourage team members to live the Company values.

Financial Management:

• Lead and coordinate the preparation of the annual budget/ strategic business plan, Q1 reforecast, and monthly EBM (IBP) reforecasts across supported business units (EVCO, Logistics, Retail, Commercial and Lubricants) including operational and capital planning.
• Ensure accuracy, alignment and integrity of forecasts and assumptions with business and macroeconomic drivers.
• Partner with business units to challenge historical performance and assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Provide input into the development of the long-term valuations and business plans, supporting strategic decision-making.
• Presentation of annual budget and business plan to CFO, CEO and Shareholder for approval.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

• Identify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Qualified CA(SA)

Work Experience:

• 8 years’ experience:
• Relevant senior level experience preferably in a similar role in a large, complex commercially focused business

Knowledge and skills:

• Proven track record in analysis of customer profitability models
• Understanding of Internal transfer pricing methodologies and Regulatory Accounting System Pricing requirements
• Ability to build strong relationships throughout the business and drive improvement in financial and operational KPIs
• Strong commercial acumen and financial planning experience
• Advanced data analysis and interpretation skills
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• High proficiency in reporting tools and advanced Excel skills.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex information

Application deadline:04 January 2026

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FP&A Analyst

Supporting business teams with value-driven analysis. This role provides actionable insights to enhance profitability, manage risks, optimise working capital, and improve forecast accuracy through integrated business planning (IBP), data analytics, and predictive modelling. It actively partners with various functions to support informed, data-driven decision-making in a dynamic business environment.

Key Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• Conduct in-depth financial performance analysis, leveraging market indicators and performance metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Assess the integrated value chain to uncover initiatives that protect and enhance enterprise value.
• Monitor working capital trends and cash flow drivers, offering early warnings and actionable recommendations.
• Deliver insights to leadership on margin management, cost efficiency, earnings performance, and working capital optimization.
• Partner with business unit teams to evaluate business decisions and options.
• Support long-term strategic planning and capital investments through comprehensive financial modelling.
• Guide decision-making to enhance value and mitigate risks across volume, revenue, margin, and profit streams.
• Provide focused financial support for monthly integrated business planning (EBM) and S&OP processes.
• Drive monthly forecasting and annual business planning activities.
• Utilize advanced analytics and predictive models to support risk-informed decision-making and outcome forecasting.
• Analyze profitability at customer, product, terminal, and value chain levels to identify improvement opportunities.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analysis and reporting aligned to business leadership priorities.
• Collaborate with business and support teams to review portfolio profitability and implement initiatives for margin, volume, and working capital enhancement.
• Evaluate performance metrics to uncover strengths, weaknesses, and threats, supporting teams in addressing performance gaps.
• Champion initiatives to enhance reporting processes, systems, and data integrity.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

Tertiary Qualification (Bachelors or National Diploma) in Commerce, Accounting, Business Administration

CA(SA)/ CIMA qualification

Financial modelling and/or data analysis certification advantageous

Work Experience:

3+ years work experience in a financial or management reporting role.

Oil and gas, agriculture, mining, supply chain, manufacturing and/or FMCG experience highly advantageous.

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong financial and analytical skills, commercial acumen
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Understanding of commercial business performance and value drivers
• Understanding of the industry, preferably manufacturing and/or FMCG
• Attention to detail
• Business writing and communication (including presentations)
• Experience relevant to this position will be an advantage.
• Ability to produce high quality, insightful analysis and recommendations
• Ability to work with large data sets and complex variables
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and Power Point
• SAP, SAC and PowerBI knowledge advantageous

Personal attributes:

• Flexible, resilient and adaptable in a dynamic environment

Application deadline:04 January 2026

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Terminal Manager – East London

Accountable for terminal and fleet operations, focusing on incident free operations, cost efficient network and asset utilization resulting in an
industry leading position in terminal network efficiency, fleet utilization/efficiency aligned with our customer facing strategy. Full accountability
for the safe, reliable and efficient storage and distribution of products including delivering financial performance metrics; joint accountability for
achievement of target performance for OEAT (NOI). Accountable for Service Delivery Reliability to Customers.
Manage day to day operational activities including product receipts, transfers, loading rack operations, marine operations, tank field operations, quality control, routine maintenance, SHEQ, stock control and reconciliation consistent with safe, reliable and efficient operations.
· Ensure daily execution and to Inventory management in compliance with the Stock Control SOPs, SAP, EDI and FuelFACS policies and procedures.
· Direct execution of terminal strategy and provides interface with external stakeholders including government and regulatory bodies, Transnet Port Authorities (TNPA), as well as all internal stakeholders, Sales channels, Supply Trading & Optimization, Security, Finance, Procurement, IT and HR
· Accountable and manage all internal and external customer queries, demands, expectations etc.
· Ensure compliance with SHEQ standards, Managing Safe Work (MSW) and standard operating procedures (SOP) by all personnel under his or her supervision. · Perform frequent OE walkabouts (facility and work-related). Drive the safety meeting content.
· Contribute towards capital requirements, tank, piping, rotating equipment, manage maintenance and inspection plans
· Coordinates training and development of the personnel under supervision in line with the Training Curriculum.
· Perform personnel evaluations (Performance Management) for direct reports.
· Responsible for execution of routine maintenance activities including the prioritization of work on a daily basis in support of reliability and cost management efforts.
Professional Qualification:

• Grade 12 and Tertiary Qualification in Operations / Logistics Management/ Engineering / Supply Chain Management
• Completion of an Advanced Leadership Programme advantageous

Work Experience:

· Five or more years of managerial experience ( terminal operations management, financial management & knowledge in managing OPEX and ability to manage external relationships)

· Understanding of Supply Chain cost versus Terminal revenue earned as well as the ability to do profitability analysis to ensure efficient operations.

Knowledge and skills:
· Strong leadership skills and being customer focused · Strong knowledge of Terminal Operations Management, quality control standards, and logistics management
· Proven track record of successfully implementing process improvements and driving operational excellence
· Strong drive for results and ability to lead change
· Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
· Solid understanding of health and safety regulations and compliance requirements
· Strong communication skills
· Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
· Fluency in Microsoft Office, SAP system & FuelFACS or similar system knowledge
· Ability to work well under pressure and prioritize tasks effectively
Application deadline:

30 December 2025

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