Job Summary:

The Senior Financial Analyst is a critical analytical and technical role within the Department of Finance and Planning, responsible for leading and executing the Corporation’s Capital Budgeting, Investment Appraisal, and Financial Analysis Functions. This role serves as the primary analytical engine for evaluating the financial viability of long-term investment projects, capital expenditure proposals, and strategic initiatives, ensuring that the Corporation’s capital resources are deployed to generate maximum value. The Officer is tasked with building and maintaining advanced financial models, conducting investment appraisals, supporting due diligence processes, and producing high-quality financial analyses and recommendations for the Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors, Financiers and other Strategic Stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

(1) Functional Responsibilities

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for the development, execution, and continuous refinement of the Corporation’s capital budgeting processes, investment analysis frameworks, financial models, and valuation methodologies, ensuring analytical integrity and alignment with corporate objectives.

1.1 Capital Budgeting and Investment Appraisal:

Lead the evaluation of long-term investment projects, capital expenditure proposals, and strategic acquisitions using robust financial appraisal techniques, including Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period, Profitability Index, and Economic Value Added (EVA) analyses. Develop and maintain comprehensive capital budgeting models that align investment decisions with the Corporation’s strategic priorities, risk appetite, and available funding sources, ensuring the most efficient deployment of capital resources. Prepare detailed investment cases, feasibility studies, and financial due diligence reports for major corporate projects, joint ventures, and partnership opportunities, presenting clear recommendations. Coordinate the annual capital expenditure (CapEx) planning and prioritization process across all departments, consolidating departmental CapEx requests and evaluating them against established financial hurdles and strategic alignment criteria. Monitor and track the financial performance of approved capital projects post-implementation, conducting post-investment reviews to assess actual returns against projected outcomes and documenting lessons learned.

1.2 Financial Modelling and Valuation:

Build, maintain, and continuously refine financial models to support capital allocation and strategic decision-making. Conduct sensitivity analyses, scenario planning (base case, upside, downside), and Monte Carlo simulations to stress-test investment assumptions, quantify risks, and inform executive decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Develop and maintain standardized financial modelling templates and methodologies to ensure consistency, auditability, and analytical rigour across all investment evaluations produced by the Unit.

1.3 Financial Analysis and Decision Support:

Conduct in-depth financial analyses, including profitability assessments, cost-benefit analyses, return on investment (ROI) evaluations, working capital analyses, and break-even analyses for departmental initiatives, operational improvement projects, and cross-functional programs. Analyze the Corporation’s financial statements and key financial ratios (liquidity, solvency, efficiency, profitability) to identify trends, flag emerging risks, and provide actionable insights. Support the development of product costing models and unit economics analyses in collaboration with the Cost Engineering and Estimation Unit within the Department of Product Development.

1.4 Financial Reporting and Executive Presentations:

Prepare and present detailed financial analyses, investment appraisal reports, capital budget performance reviews, and project feasibility studies. Develop compelling executive presentations that articulate complex financial data, investment recommendations, risk-return profiles, and capital allocation trade-offs with clarity and precision. Ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of all financial analyses and reports with applicable regulatory frameworks, including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) requirements, and corporate governance best practices.

1.5 Resource Mobilization:

Support the Corporation’s resource mobilization efforts by preparing financial models, project feasibility analyses, investment memoranda, and financial due diligence packages for submission to Finance Institutions and potential investors. Assist in the structuring and financial analysis of debt facilities, concessional financing instruments, grant agreements, and blended finance arrangements, ensuring alignment with the Corporation’s capital structure objectives and debt service capacity. Prepare financial projections, debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) analyses, and loan covenant compliance models to support ongoing lender reporting and relationship management.

1.6 Risk Analysis and Financial Risk Assessment:

Develop and maintain dynamic financial risk assessment models to evaluate foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, commodity price risk, and project-specific financial risks associated with major capital investments and strategic initiatives.

1.7 Cross-Functional Coordination and Stakeholder Support:

Act as the primary capital budgeting and financial analysis liaison between the Department of Finance and Planning and all other departments, ensuring that investment proposals are supported by robust financial analyses and aligned with the Corporation’s approved capital allocation framework. Coordinate data collection, validation, and consolidation from all departments to support the timely preparation of capital budgets, investment cases, and financial analyses. Collaborate with the Planning, Strategy and Budgeting Unit and the Integrated Financial Reporting Unit within the Division to ensure coherence between capital budgeting decisions, corporate budgets, and financial reporting.

1.8 QHSE Financial Analysis and Sustainability Stewardship:

Lead the financial evaluation of the Corporation’s Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) initiatives, conducting cost-benefit analyses and Return on Investment (ROI) assessments for sustainability projects, waste-to-energy programs, and green technology acquisitions. Collaborate with the QHSE team to quantify financial exposures related to environmental liabilities, occupational hazards, and carbon footprints. Support the integration of "Natural Capital" and "Human Capital" metrics into the Corporation’s investment appraisal framework and provide validated financial data for the ESG components of the Integrated Annual Report.

1.9 Any Other Duties:

Any other duties assigned by your Supervisor.

(2) Social Responsibilities

The Senior Financial Analyst serves as a collaborative and trusted analytical partner, fostering evidence-based investment decision-making, building cross-functional relationships, and contributing to a culture of financial discipline and capital stewardship across the Corporation.

2.1 Analytical Partnership and Advisory:

Serve as a trusted analytical resource to departmental managers and project leads, providing timely and accessible financial guidance on capital expenditure proposals, project feasibility assessments, and investment structuring options that enable informed decision-making at all operational levels.

2.2 Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Proactively build and maintain strong working relationships with officers and managers across all

• Lead the evaluation of long-term investment projects, capital expenditure proposals, and strategic acquisitions using robust financial appraisal techniques, including Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period, Profitability Index, and Economic Value Added (EVA) analyses.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive capital budgeting models that align investment decisions with the Corporation’s strategic priorities, risk appetite, and available funding sources, ensuring the most efficient deployment of capital resources.
• Prepare detailed investment cases, feasibility studies, and financial due diligence reports for major corporate projects, joint ventures, and partnership opportunities, presenting clear recommendations.
• Coordinate the annual capital expenditure (CapEx) planning and prioritization process across all departments, consolidating departmental CapEx requests and evaluating them against established financial hurdles and strategic alignment criteria.
• Monitor and track the financial performance of approved capital projects post-implementation, conducting post-investment reviews to assess actual returns against projected outcomes and documenting lessons learned.
• Build, maintain, and continuously refine financial models to support capital allocation and strategic decision-making.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses, scenario planning (base case, upside, downside), and Monte Carlo simulations to stress-test investment assumptions, quantify risks, and inform executive decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.
• Develop and maintain standardized financial modelling templates and methodologies to ensure consistency, auditability, and analytical rigour across all investment evaluations produced by the Unit.
• Conduct in-depth financial analyses, including profitability assessments, cost-benefit analyses, return on investment (ROI) evaluations, working capital analyses, and break-even analyses for departmental initiatives, operational improvement projects, and cross-functional programs.
• Analyze the Corporation’s financial statements and key financial ratios (liquidity, solvency, efficiency, profitability) to identify trends, flag emerging risks, and provide actionable insights.
• Support the development of product costing models and unit economics analyses in collaboration with the Cost Engineering and Estimation Unit within the Department of Product Development.
• Prepare and present detailed financial analyses, investment appraisal reports, capital budget performance reviews, and project feasibility studies.
• Develop compelling executive presentations that articulate complex financial data, investment recommendations, risk-return profiles, and capital allocation trade-offs with clarity and precision.
• Ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of all financial analyses and reports with applicable regulatory frameworks, including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) requirements, and corporate governance best practices.
• Support the Corporation’s resource mobilization efforts by preparing financial models, project feasibility analyses, investment memoranda, and financial due diligence packages for submission to Finance Institutions and potential investors.
• Assist in the structuring and financial analysis of debt facilities, concessional financing instruments, grant agreements, and blended finance arrangements, ensuring alignment with the Corporation’s capital structure objectives and debt service capacity.
• Prepare financial projections, debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) analyses, and loan covenant compliance models to support ongoing lender reporting and relationship management.
• Develop and maintain dynamic financial risk assessment models to evaluate foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, commodity price risk, and project-specific financial risks associated with major capital investments and strategic initiatives.
• Act as the primary capital budgeting and financial analysis liaison between the Department of Finance and Planning and all other departments, ensuring that investment proposals are supported by robust financial analyses and aligned with the Corporation’s approved capital allocation framework.
• Coordinate data collection, validation, and consolidation from all departments to support the timely preparation of capital budgets, investment cases, and financial analyses.
• Collaborate with the Planning, Strategy and Budgeting Unit and the Integrated Financial Reporting Unit within the Division to ensure coherence between capital budgeting decisions, corporate budgets, and financial reporting.
• Lead the financial evaluation of the Corporation’s Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) initiatives, conducting cost-benefit analyses and Return on Investment (ROI) assessments for sustainability projects, waste-to-energy programs, and green technology acquisitions.
• Collaborate with the QHSE team to quantify financial exposures related to environmental liabilities, occupational hazards, and carbon footprints.
• Support the integration of "Natural Capital" and "Human Capital" metrics into the Corporation’s investment appraisal framework and provide validated financial data for the ESG components of the Integrated Annual Report.
• Any other duties assigned by your Supervisor.
• Serve as a trusted analytical resource to departmental managers and project leads, providing timely and accessible financial guidance on capital expenditure proposals, project feasibility assessments, and investment structuring options that enable informed decision-making at all operational levels.
• Proactively build and maintain strong working relationships with officers and managers across all