Finance Manager

• Manage daily functions to ensure the financial infrastructure is stable and supports the future demands of the organisation.
• Manage daily operations by:

• Verifying the accuracy and quality of all financial information ensuring it is maintained in terms of international financial reporting standards and generally accepted accounting practices.
• Ensuring that performance measures and monitoring systems are in place that support the organisation’s strategic direction.
• Managing and overseeing that reporting, monitoring, and recording systems attain the highest standard of financial integrity.
• Ensuring that procedures and policies are implemented in line with best industry practices.
• Ensuring that the designed core cost structure and basis of recovery is implement monthly for the project.
• Ensuring cash flow management of the project by monitoring cash balances and cash forecasts and tracking cash flow to ensure it is appropriate and sustainable.
• Reviewing creditor reconciliations and ensuring they a submitted monthly, as per finance timetable.
• Reviewing and authorising EFT payments and supporting documentation.
• Overseeing the issuance of financial information
• Champion excellent management of financial resources, promoting efficiency, high performance, and overall value for money.
• Promote the review of financial policy, systems, and practices to deliver continual improvement, automation and self-service and explore systems full benefits.
• Analyse, interpret and communicate financial and performance data, provide financial advice, and influence decision making where appropriate to achieve budget, targets, and strategies.
• Monitor budget expenditure ensuring that expenditure is in line with what is required.
• Ensure the timely preparation of robust budgets from a financial perspective, testing the underlying assumptions and quality assuring the cost, benefits, and mitigating risks.
• Prepare, and when necessary, present, various reports including monthly management packs and current reports ad-hoc reports to meet reporting requirements and ad-hoc requests.
• Responsible for collating and consolidating monthly top suppliers each month with all relevant BBBEE information.
• Track spending of suppliers.
• Ensure vendor registration information is consolidated in collaboration with Procurement to meet procurement requirements.

• Manage staff (in line with policies, procedures, and standards) by:

• Partnering with HR on recruitment and induction of new team members.
• Managing the performance review process.
• Identifying training needs or staff support needs and ensuring that such training or support is provided.
• Mentoring and guiding staff by facilitating regular meetings.

• Develop relationships with relevant financial institutions, internal, external and funder auditors and stakeholders to ensure good working relations.
• Manage and retain relationships with various vendors to meet the requirements of the organisation.

• Understand and mitigate key elements of the company's risk profile and support in identifying and reporting financial risks to the DCFO to ensure implementation of corrective measures and/or risks identified are mitigated to an acceptable residual risk. Ensure that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies.

• Compt / BCom Hons.
• At least 8 to 10 years’ progressively responsible experience in a financial management role.
• Solid staff managerial and supervisory experience working in cross functional teams.
• Solid knowledge of financial accounting policies and procedures.
• Understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Enterprise resource planning /systems experience.

• CA or B.Compt / BCom Hons with articles.
• Knowledge of donor grants and the non-profit sector.

• Excellent communications and presentation skills in English.
• Strategic thinking.
• Analytical.
• Problem solving.
• Purposeful.

• Solid MS Office skills (especially Excel).
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

• Will be agreed based on qualifications, applicable experience, and previous earnings.

Specd Recruitment