Planning Analyst
City of Johannesburg, South Africa (No Local)
To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.
Job Description
The Meetinghouse Facilities Department (MFD) seeks a detail-oriented Planning Analyst to support data-driven decision-making by conducting financial and business analyses on departmental projects and initiatives. The incumbent will evaluate trends, costs, and operational data related to facilities, inventory, and budgets. This role includes resolving customer inquiries and system-related issues, maintaining critical data within the management system database, and providing accurate reports and insights to internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for assigned projects, completes detail analysis and research, identifies options, prepares reports, and recommends action or change.
- Communicates with headquarters and field personnel concerning daily customer issues and reporting.
- Assists in the administration of annual plans for other Church departments.
- Conducts analysis and research in such areas as, financial, expenses, performance, depreciation, systems, and capacity.
- Prepare forecasts and analyze trends, general business conditions, and other business-related areas.
- Perform tasks assigned by senior managers.
- Facilitate improvements in business systems that will enable better customer service.
- Create reports & presentations, analyze data, attend meetings, etc.
- Creates queries and provides data to customers in an understandable format.
- Resolves system questions and issues for users in various divisions and departments (Planning, Project Management, Real Estate, Finance, Regional Facilities Managers, DTA's, etc.).
- Updates key information in the database.
- Reconcile financial data between multiple sources.
- Bachelors degree in related field
- Four years appliable experience, or any combination of related education and experience
- Proficiency with Access, Power Point, Excel and Word is required.
- Capable of performing detailed, technical data analysis along with the use of business processes is essential.
- Must be able to communicate effectively, both written and orally.
- Must be able to keep confidences and deal with sensitive data and documents appropriately.
- Job Identification 370248
- Job Category FC - Facilities, Construction & Real Estate
- Posting Date 08/18/2025, 01:25 PM
- Locations 5 A Jubilie Rd, Parktown, 2193, ZA (No Local)
- Apply Before 09/05/2025, 09:55 AM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Regular or Temporary Regular
- Worker Type Employee
- Number of Openings 1
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