Finance Manager - Springbok at Aveng

Minimum Requirements    

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Com – Accounting, Financial Management or similar degree in cost management.
• CA (SA) or CIMA will be beneficial.

EXPERIENCE:

• At least 5 years’ relevant experience in a Supervisory level financial role, preferably gained within the opencast mining industry.
• Comprehensive experience and high level of capability in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, specifically Advanced Microsoft Excel).

Duties & Responsibilities    

Asset Management

• Manage the control environment of stock and report on stock levels and control failures to the responsible parties.
• Continuously monitor stock levels to ensure that they are optimal for business continuity and working capital management.
• Ensure that the stores are staffed by competently skilled resources.

Cost Management

• Act as a cheque signatory (if applicable) for and authorize expenditure up to predetermined limits.
• Evaluate data pertaining to costs in order to plan budgets and forecasts.
• Oversee the procurement process and interface with centralised procurement.
• Ensure execution of plant repair/maintenance projects is within the allowable and flag overruns timeously.
• Ensure that costs are constantly scrutinised, optimised and communicated to relevant people.

Financial Reporting and Financial Management

• Ensure all financial reporting obligations are met within the communicated deadlines.
• Ensure that all information requested by internal and external auditors are supplied within the communicated deadlines.
• Ensure that appropriate financial regulations and controls are in place and that all control deficiencies are reported immediately.
• Prepare the Support Office financial plans, financial budgets and forecasts and periodic updates including component expenditure and / or plant rebuilds.
• Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting procedures and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets, and other financial control functions.
• Prepare financial and other ad-hoc reports for OPCO and EXCO.
• Prepare operational and risk reports for management analysis.
• Assist Johannesburg Support Office creditors department in ensuring supplier account are up-to-date.
• Responsible for the monitoring of cash flow and prediction of financial trends.

People Management

• Advise and administer the proper allocation of correctly skilled resources.
• Assist with the development and improvement of all SOP’s relating to finance.
• Training of personnel involved in financial activities, including stores, receipting and issuing.

Operations Management

• Be a business partner to the GM / Executive Operations.
• Drive the reduction in open orders by ensuring timely receipting and issuing of items as well as monitoring long outstanding open orders on site.

Risk Management

• Plan, direct, and co-ordinate risk and implement controls to lower to control risks and losses.

Stakeholder Management

• Oversee a good relationship with Business Partners (including Suppliers and Internal Clients).

Knowledge Skills & Abilities    

• Excellent knowledge: Sage accounting software
• Change Management
• Financial reporting, budgeting, cost accounting and stock control
• Must have excellent knowledge of stock control, stores management and earthmoving equipment fleet cost management

Behavioural Competencies    

• Developing Strategies - Is focused on developing strategies; thinks in the longer term and anticipates trends; envisages the future and adopts a visionary approach.
• Providing Insights - Is focused on continuously improving things; provides insights by identifying key issues; makes intuitive judgments.
• Interpreting Data - Interprets data rationally by quantifying issues; applies technology as a means to evaluating data; evaluates information objectively.
• Exploring Possibilities - Is conceptual when developing ideas; applies theories to problem solving; prefers to learn by thinking and identifying underlying principles.
• Challenging Ideas - Prepared to disagree and question assumptions; challenges ideas and established views; comfortable arguing own perspective.
• Upholding Standards - Behaves ethically and justly; is discreet and maintains confidentiality; meets commitments by acting with integrity.
• Meeting Timescales - Is target focused and meets deadlines; is punctual and keeps to schedule; is reliable in finishing tasks.