Finance Executive at Recruitment Matters Africa

The role

• The Finance Executive owns the numbers the CEO relies on to run and grow the business. This is a hands-on executive seat: you build the models, stand behind the forecasts, manage cash and funding, and partner with the rest of the executive team to solve business problems, not only finance problems.

Key responsibilities

• Own financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting and reporting, with clear performance insights for the CEO and executive team
• Deliver EBIT and profitability against plan
• Build and maintain reliable financial models for growth and new store investment, and make and hold decisions based on them
• Manage cash flow and funding: forecast accuracy, liquidity and funding headroom
• Partner closely with the Merchandise Executive on stock investment and open-to-buy (OTB)
• Work across the executive team to solve problems holistically, seeing links between finance, merchandise and operations
• Own financial governance and controls
• Lead and develop the finance team (Financial Manager, accountant, AP and credit)
• Stay close to the detail and understand how the finance mechanics work, from receivables upward

How success is measured

• Financial performance: EBIT and profitability against plan
• Modelling and investment: accuracy and reliability of financial models
• Cash flow and funding: forecast accuracy, liquidity and funding headroom
• Governance
• People management

What you bring

• CA(SA)
• Retail finance experience, including stock, OTB and high-volume trading
• Strong financial modelling and cash-flow management
• Experience as a Finance Executive, Financial Director, or senior Financial Manager leading a sizeable team, and ready for an executive seat
• High EQ: you debate in a healthy way, hold your ground with data, and know when to pause a conversation
• A hands-on, practical and commercially pragmatic approach
• Adaptability and fresh thinking; open to doing things differently
• A solutions mindset in a tough retail market
• Genuine interest in retail, the product and the customer

What's on offer

• An executive seat with real influence in a growing business
• A competitive package with a strong performance bonus, and room to grow your earnings over time
• Flexible hybrid working in Cape Town