Financial Manager

Our client is recruiting a Financial Manager that thrives in a high-paced, deadline-driven environment which is a service department to the rest of the business. This position is for an experienced Finance manager who will work with the Finance Team and report to the Head of Finance.

Responsibilities

• ERP System Maintenance.
• Management Accounts Preparation and Distribution.
• Forecast budget maintenance and revisions.
• Accounting Journal approvals and corrections.
• Bank Reconciliations.
• Cash Management and Treasury including Forex.
• Inventory transaction approvals.
• BI reporting and development.
• Relationships with 3rd party integrators.
• Financial Audits.
• Custodian of Finance Processes and Governance.
• Monthly PNL reviews per Cost centre with HOD's.
• Cost savings initiatives.
• Payments Review and Expense Allocations.
• Resolving Supplier and Customer issues.
• Commerciality reporting on Marketing Spend.
• International reporting and Maintenance.
• Weekly Finance Critical Success factor dashboard.
• Payroll Checking and Commission calculations.
• Ad Hoc reporting and tasks.
• Margin control.
• Weekly Critical Success factor dashboard.
• Monthly Business Review Contribution.
• SARS, E-filing compliance.
• Scalable process design and successful implementation.
• Change Management.
• Contract Negotiation/ Supplier Negotiations.
• Forex.
• Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow projections.
• Sales targets and monitoring.
• Team management.
• Business Modelling.

Key Skills

• Planning is essential for this role.
• Deadline driven (We need to deliver on our deadlines).
• Process and system driven (As there is no allowance on deadlines, designing processes and monitoring them with fixes as needed is imperative to meeting our deadlines).
• Team motivation and alignment (Although we have strict deadlines, how we manage the team is critical to motivate and maintain the company culture).
• High performance mind set.
• Solution Driven.
• Good team player and able to work within a team to deliver output.
• Lead and gain respect and prominence through actions and culture rather than by position.
• Operationally inclined.
• Agile Mind.
• In service to the rest of the business.

Qualifications

• 10 years in an Finance position in Corporate.
• 5 Years in financial management position with a successful track record.
• Retail background and experience.
• CA(SA) / GCMA or similar (Preferable).
• Syspro (Preferable).
• EXCEL (advanced) and Microsoft suite.
• BI experience (Cognos, Power BI, ODBC).
• Hedging Forex (Accounting treatment and practical booking/redeeming/surrendering.