Senior Finance manager
- Parktown, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as a strategic finance advisor to senior leadership, providing financial insight, scenario analysis, and recommendations to support business growth and profitability
- Challenge and influence business leaders to drive operational efficiency, sustainable growth, and return on capital
- Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations, and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
- Support the achievement of business strategy and transformation goals by ensuring finance processes, reporting, and outputs are aligned to business unit and group priorities.
- Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning
- Ensure accurate and timeous budgets are submitted, reviewed, and aligned with key economic indicators and group strategic initiatives.
- Lead forecasting and long-term planning processes, ensuring robust assumptions and alignment with business growth objectives.
- Achieve business objectives within specified timeframes by scheduling, coordinating, and allocating appropriate resources.
- Reporting & Performance Management
- Consolidate financial reports across Direct & Intermediated channels, delivering value-added insights and recommendations from multiple data sources.
- Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations, monitoring unreconciled items, and strengthening internal controls.
- Develop and monitor KPIs, including revenue, expense ratios etc
- Translate complex financial outcomes into clear insights for senior stakeholders.
- Working Capital and Cash Flow Forecast
- Manage BUs working capital and cash flow forecasts.
- Provide insights on ratios and projections.
- Champion process efficiency and receivables collection.
- Monitor actual vs forecast and communicate results.
- Governance, Risk & Audit
- Manage defined risks in the finance function by adhering to internal and external guidelines, policies, and governance frameworks.
- Ensure compliance with IFRS 17, tax, regulatory, and audit requirements.
- Obtain buy-in for new or enhanced processes that improve operational and financial effectiveness.
- Contribute to Debt Review Committee and other ad hoc committees
- Lead internal and external audit processes for Direct and Intermediated Insurance Business Units
- Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering
- Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through continuous engagement, proactive insights, and decision support.
- Partner with distribution, product, operations, actuarial, and risk teams to drive sustainable financial outcomes.
- Assist in achieving group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities for partnerships and synergies across Hollard.
- Leadership & Team Development
- As a core member of the Finance MANCO team, expected to actively contribute to setting short-term and medium-term term goals for the team
- Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting by planning, organising, and monitoring workflow to meet deadlines.
- Provide ongoing guidance, mentoring, and coaching to the finance team, ensuring best-practice analysis and reporting.
- Contribute to intellectual capital development by motivating and training team members, enabling on-the-job skills transfer.
- Share industry knowledge and trends with stakeholders during formal and informal interactions.