Finance Manager - CA(SA) at talentCRU Proprietary Limited

An exciting opportunity within a JSE listed organisation for an experienced Finance Manager. 

The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring the successful management of the largest segments finances, providing support in regards to financial decisions, reviewing profit margins and ensuring the accurate completion of financial statements 

Duties: 

• Provide accurate and timely financial information, reports and analysis.
• Work collaboratively with Group Finance, to ensure financial information fits business needs and maintains high quality/integrity.
• Perform periodic and year-end closing, in coordination with the concerned departments/divisions, including periodic IFRS financial statements for external and internal reporting including the processes supporting these.
• Manage the production of monthly management accounts pack and ad hoc reports to internal customers.
• Manage the preparation of financial information to segment leadership.
• Provide input into the data model design to ensure cost allocation is possible for all required dimensions and levels of granularity.
• Validate, check and reconcile planning, budgeting and forecasting data.
• Highlight trends and flag potential issues.
• Ensure the validation of budget data.
• Review budget submissions by business units.
• Perform financial and cost/benefit analysis of current or anticipated programs or initiatives.
• Review inputs into monthly management packs.
• Review budget and variance analysis/ Review of financial data.
• Provide input into the data model design to ensure cost allocation is possible for all required dimensions and levels of granularity.
• Work collaboratively with auditors to resolve findings.
• Managing the day to day running of the segment.
• Report on and analyse segment financial performance against budget providing forecasts on performance.
• Identify trends, highlight risks, provide mitigation and provide support to business decisions.
• Provide executive management within the Business Units with advice on the financial implications of business activities, and provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendations.

Leadership

• Talent management for direct reports in terms of recruitment, retention, and development.
• Ensure adherence to Group Business Services performance management requirements, ensuring continuous performance feedback to and development of direct reports.
• Ensure that all staff are motivated, developed, and appraised so that individual and collective performance meets the needs of the customers.

Relationship

• Work collaboratively within the segment to ensure compliance with all policies and procedures.
• Work closely with the Group Tax team to ensure compliance with legislation.
• Work with Group Business Services to ensure the production of accurate and timely information related to the segment.
• Work collaboratively within the segment and provide support to the segment team.
• Work collaboratively with other finance teams across the business and with Group Business Services to ensure that the Group Business Services SLA's are met.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Masters degree in Accounting, MBA, CA, CIMA qualification or NQF equivalent.
• 2 – 3 years’ post qualification experience in finance.
• Experience in financial forecasting and management reporting.
• 2+ years experience in a managerial role.