Assistant Manager: Finance at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Key Responsibilities: 

• Management Reporting and forecasting: Book interest computation, statement and trading month-end book, payment forecasting and analysis, for all required periods 
• Business Owner: Debtors book reconciliation process. This entails reviewing the monthly reconciliations of the Debtors Book from SAP to Vision (customer account system), which include the book, electronic payments, debit orders and recoveries recons. 
• Internal and External audit feedback and co-ordination from a TFG Credit perspective 
• Support the Credit Business Partner in extracting management reports to analyse financial performance of the division against its specific targets 
• Business Owner: Vision mapping to SAP (all system codes per product) 
• Vision Project Lead for Credit Finance: Systems and Accounting application impact on Debtor’s Book (Interest, Payments, billing, and all-else book related) - System and SAP ledger testing 
• Perform any SAP Journals, Vision adjustments to customer accounts as required by the division 
• Complete journal templates and supporting documentation (including but not limited to accruals, year-end journals, inter-company entries) 
• Prepare ad hoc or tailored financial reports and customer required by the division 
• People management and development 
• Support the Finance Business Partner for Credit  
• Maintain relationships with the Capabilities, Risk and Credit Ops Teams 
• Act as the interface between the business and the CoE/ SSC 
• Ensure the engagement with relevant internal stakeholders  
• Liaise with internal and external auditors 
• Ensure that there is optimisation of existing processes  

Qualifications and Experience: 

• 5-8 years post qualification experience in a debtors recon Finance role 
• 2 years minimum experience in people management 
• Vision system experience 
• Financial services and/or credit finance experience 
• Accounting or Finance Diploma/studies completed 
• BCom or undergraduate degree in Finance and/or Accounting advantageous 
• Debtors book recon experience between SAP and Vision advantageous