Financial Manager

• Month end processes and reconciliations
• Maintenance and updating of the reconciliation files
• Processing of month end journals
• Ensuring relevant reconciliations are balanced
• Balancing of inter-company loan accounts and suspense account
• Reviewing correct processing of all ISAs
• Adjusting month end accruals
• Processing monthly revenue and cost of sales journals
• Overseeing entire month end process
• Overseeing monthly billing processes to ensure invoices are raised to clients based on the billing information received from the business units and through their established billing procedures.
• Management of the accounting system (e.g. creating new products and charts).
• Overseeing monthly debit order collections process (both regular and ad hoc debit orders).
• Responsible for daily, weekly and monthly working capital management.
• Assess funding requirements: Ensure proper measures are in place to meet working capital needs and future funding needs for growth i.e. ensure a strong balance sheet; Manage loan guarantees and facilities.
• Monthly VAT reconciliations and SARS e-filing submissions
• Tax and regulatory compliance calculations and submissions.
• Review and responsibility over Fixed Asset Register, ensuring this is appropriately maintained in line with businesss requirements.
• Continuously look to improve and enhance financial and relevant business processes for optimal efficiency and productivity.
• Annual Audit (Internal & External).
• Assisting with audit preparation and in assisting auditors along with the rest of the finance team in order to meet set deadlines for external audit.
• Provide support in ongoing internal control and risk management.
• Monitoring and evaluating financial information systems and suggesting improvements.
• Driver of cost efficiencies within the finance team and across the business.
• Ensuring that meticulous financial documents, records and files are maintained in line with statutory requirements.
• Continuously and consistently monitoring to ensure that all financial records, including revenue, expenditure, assets, liabilities, equities and cash flows are accurate, up to date and processed efficiently effectively and in a timely manner.
• Promote awareness of cost and control throughout the business.
• Implementation of financial and payroll policies and ensure all statutory requirements are fulfilled (returns compiled) and those third-party payments made.
• Setting up reporting structures, considering corporate governance and financial hygiene.
• Management of cash flow: Oversee to ensure debtors payments are collected in terms of SLA and credit terms adhered to, ensuring invoices sent timeously and correct charges reflected.
• Building relationships.
• Oversee banking: Overdraft limits adhered to, sufficient funds to pay creditors and invest monies accordingly.
• Onboard of new regions: Acquire customer base from merger and acquisition of new business and ensure smooth take on of the client (Fee modelling, invoice requirements) and inducting new accounting staff into the process.
• Management: Allocate work to finance team and ensure proper segregation of duties, monitor and measure performance. Liaise with team leaders directly in terms of quality standards. Conduct performance planning sessions (KPAs).
• Monitor the functioning of the department and continuously provide feedback, coaching and training.
• Continuously monitoring existing and reviewing new reporting principles to ensure they align with IFRS.
• Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers.
• Various other responsibilities incumbent on this role.
• Provide direction and leadership to the finance team.
• Motivating and fostering a fantastic team culture.
• Drive business change by developing performance measures that support the companys strategic direction.

• Working knowledge of IFRS
• Advanced excel skills i.e. VLOOKUPs, Sumifs, Pivot Tables (Not negotiable)

• B.Com. Accounting degree
• Member of an accounting body beneficia
• (SAIPA/CA(SA)/PFA)
• Minimum of 3 years in similar role
• Management experience essential
• Tax and treasury experience beneficial

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Good written and spoken communication skills
• Vision orientated and purposeful individual
• Articulate and great communicator
• Meticulous with regards to attention to detail in both processing and reporting
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Ability to work autonomously and with little / no supervision
• Ability to operate under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Great attitude and interpersonal skills
• People orientated, team player
• Service delivery orientated
• Takes pride in his / her output

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