The posting
CONTRACT POSITION
Minimum requirements:
- CA SA
- BSC Honours/or related
- 5-7 years FM/financial experience post qualification (Intermediate to Senior)
- Experience in managing people
- Advanced Excel knowledge and experience
- PowerPoint knowledge and experience
- SQL & PowerBI knowledge an advantage
- Financial & Value Management
Responsibilities:
- Define, develop and maintain policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to efficiently manage practice and provide thought leadership.
- Define and implement internal and external financial reporting processes and documentation requirements for both individual entities and groups according to professional financial accounting and reporting standards.
- Analyse, plan and manage costs (including product pricing or supply chain analysis) to support implementation of business strategies.
- Translate business strategy into financial targets and tactical plans, and support execution.
- Interpret and make effective management decisions using benchmarking, trends, and other planning and forecasting methods; develop and implement improvements to the planning processes.
- Establish and ensure effective and consistent modelling, planning and forecasting processes across business unit(s) and identify and implement best practices in these processes.
- Benchmark business performance internally and externally; deliver benchmark management information to specific needs to allow decision-making that pushes performance boundaries.
- Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations, financial and accounting practices.
- Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks to which the business unit(s) might be exposed.
- Assistance with monthly VAT reconciliation and quarterly tax packs.
- Manage end to end finance projects involving a segment, business unit, function or country/region from strategy articulation through to systems / programme design and implementation.
- Manage and monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk and audit guidelines.
- Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings.
- Apply and monitor governance to ensure that all processes and documentation on model rules and assumptions are aligned with technical committee and costing steerco guidance and methodologies.
- Manage the preparation and assessment of tax returns and issues; provide advice, particularly around technical tax issues that are non-routine and/or complex and interpret and evaluate the implications of new tax legislation and of existing legislation to new business situations.
- Re-imagining costing models to benefit and promote the adoption of platform across Retail, Commercial, Broader Africa and even external users.
- Construction of notional income statements that articulate the benefit of running on the platform.
- Identification and tracking of key business KPIs for each of the different teams and for the overall business.
- Play the role of a business partner and collaborating with different teams across the group to ensure financial requirements are met.
- Prepare bespoke monthly reporting which will assist in highlighting areas of focus that enhance decision making.
- Includes preparation of Exco, Manco and Opsco reporting packs.
- Responsible for preparation and tracking of business cases.
- Analyse incoming charges monthly and ensure accuracy and validity.
- Oversee monthly reconciliation processes.
- Manage the yearly budget and rolling forecast process.
- Assist with the month end process & review thereof includes statutory and compliance processes.
- Review and sign-off work of staff.
- Provide support to the Finance Head and stand-in where necessary
- Evaluate processes within all these teams in order to streamline them.
- Implement internal controls, policies & procedures.
- Assisting junior staff to implement processes and how to work smarter
- Assist with any ad-hoc projects (finance or business) that may be assigned from time to time
