Commercial Finance Lead at CBRE Excellerate

What will you bring

• Prior experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
• Experience with the SAP ERP system.
• Strong understanding of budgeting and variance analysis reporting.
• BCom degree or equivalent.
• CIMA qualification would be advantageous
• Five years hands on operational finance experience in Facilities management / manufacturing / project / contract-based environment

What will you be doing
Client Billing/Invoicing

• Follow up on outstanding invoices
• Analyze the various billing templates/schedules from FM
• Send statement (monthly) to debtors
• Ensure that billing is in line with contract/S1

 Debtors Management

• Follow up on outstanding invoices (Not Paid)
• Provide weekly feedback to debtor’s controller
• Allocate payments to invoices on SAP
• Process Withholding Tax certificates
• Clearing of debtors’ accounts

Purchase Order Management

• Run Open purchase order report regularly
• Check for long outstanding purchase orders
• Notify FM of any necessary deletions
• Ensure supplier has sufficient funds available on all PO’s issued

Expense Accruals:

• Check for supplier invoices (expenses) that aren’t GRN’d
• Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing
• Gather valid supporting material for accrual
• Raise accrual
• Analysis and recover credit card spend and/or travel spend
• Compare O1 to S1 to P&L to ensure prevention of revenue leakage

Income Accruals

• Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing –
• Gather valid supporting material for accrual –
• Raise accrual

Payroll

• Consult business unit head regarding bonuses
• Set provisions for bonuses monthly
• Ensure correctness of employee salaries
• Ensure that salary recoveries are done

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

• Prepared and reconciled on a monthly basis.
• Reconciling items are cleared timeously.
• Relevant supporting documentation forms part of the reconciliations

Income Statement Management

• Prepare monthly financial analysis and timeously resolve issues.
• Give comments and gather supporting documents on any material variances

External Audit

• Submit requested audit sample supporting documents timeously to the auditors.
• Address audit queries timeously.
• Prepare audit files in preparation for external audit.

Financial Analysis and Planning

• Preparation of respective client budgets on an annual basis.
• Quarterly preparation of updated client account forecasts
• Perform variance analysis on client P&L account on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and present financial analysis to respective Business Unit Lead on a regular basis

Month end close

• Ensure respective client accounts are closed timeously and accurately.
• Perform variance analysis and clear out issues.
• All month end checklists are completed and submitted for review timeously.
• P&L is prepared, reviewed and signed off before the finalization of results.