Senior Financial Analyst - Refinery

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