Finance Manager

Edelman South Africa are looking for a new Finance Manager for a role blending client servicing, financial management and planning and people development.

Client Servicing

• Assist with identifying solutions to financial challenges in our department.
• Providing support to the PMs and the BMs under your supervision.
• Review/Manage all MTRs, unbilled receivables, debtors collection, WIP, in a timeous manner.
• Client profitability to be prepared by your team and reviewed by yourself with PMs in weekly meetings.
• Review contracts and SOWs of all projects in line with regulations and company policy.
• Ensure that contracts and SOWs in place for all clients.
• Review of all project reconciliations of all projects.
• Managing the process of preparing accurate information to shared services for billings and payments by your teams
• Provide accurate and quality customer service and information for all inquiries.
• Provide timely response to all requests and inquiries.
• Lead special projects utilizing PowerPoint/ Excel for presentations on financial data.
• Ensure timeously reporting of billings, bank, payments, wip etc. under your control at month end. This is imperative that we action everything ahead of month end.
• All finance MUST be in line with statutory legislation and generally accepted accounting standards.

Financial Management and Planning

• Assist with research of account discrepancies.
• Ensure all financial information is accurate and timely.
• Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures and instructions.
• Prepare journal entries monthly.
• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts and submit to FD by latest 15th of every month.
• Ensure approval process of all account invoices is followed.
• Ensure integrity of projects in the system. Weekly analysis with PMs.
• Ensure that we adhere to all rules and regulations within the accounting parameters

People Development

• Build a working relationship and communication with staff as well as provide the appropriate support.
• Engage in team building activities with your team to drive relationships and effective and happy team spirit

Leadership

• Live the Edelman values (quality, integrity, respect, entrepreneurial spirit, mutual benefits)
• Demonstrate professional behaviors and pursuit of excellence in all endeavors.
• Constantly strive to improve the performance of the finance department and integration with account teams.

Reports

• Weekly Meetings with Brand, Studio and SuperCorp
• Daily CE approvals
• Weekly WIP reconciliations review from team. Step in in times of overload.
• Daily worklist review for yourself and team
• IOP review at month end
• Daily review of contract and SOWs before submitting to US team.
• Monthly Balance Sheet and Income statement to be submitted by the 15th of every month
• Ensure balance sheet variance is done monthly with comments from prior year.
• Forecast updated on adaptive.
• Monthly journals update and capture.
• Review of accruals and deferrals
• Ensure accuracy of expense accruals from team.
• Weekly update of gains and losses to be sent to FD
• Weekly update of debtors/wip/forecasts as discussed in weekly BM meeting. Review and check that team has updated this.
• Email reviews daily and response thereof
• Manage the payroll process monthly.
• Respond to FD queries and any other queries are part of daily management of business.
• BEE review and management daily at all levels with help of FD and team
• Set up weekly status with FD on the status of the department and raise any issues.
• Update the forecast template with actuals at month end.
• Update the forecast template monthly with revenue update after meetings.
• Update expenses and salaries in the forecast template monthly.
• Send revenue forecasts variance against budget and prior forecasts monthly.
• ADhoc as and when needed.
• Project and activity approval daily.
• Manage the finance team daily with US and UK issues as well.
• BEE daily update and review.
• Monthly reports to Caroline for Brand, Studio, Super Corp and Kenya (in conjunction with Kenya FM)

Sent to FD monthly by the 15th, All system reports:

• Balance Sheet Local and US Gaap.
• Income Statement Local and US Gaap.
• Trail Balance Local and US Gaap.
• Trail Balance Monthly movements Local and US Gaap.
• Revenue Reports Variance, monthly and YTD against forecast and budgets.
• Balance Sheet Recons Local and US Gaap.
• Balance Sheet variance report against prior year US and Local Gaap.

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