Finance Manager at Wunderman Thompson

The role

• Reporting directly into the FD. The FM is responsible for the co-creation and implementation of the organisation’s strategic financial management and reporting, business analysis, budgeting, controls, and forecasting. To ensure ongoing viability and secure financial future in line with the organisation’s business objective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic financial support and guidance to the organisation.
• Ensure financial controls are designed, implemented, and managed within the organisation based on overall company guidelines.
• Analyse, report and review on organisational profitability, trends, and balance sheet
• Prepare and communicate Board Reports
• Manage the budget process including CAPEX in line with group processes and guidelines.
• Deliver capital management of projects to determine and guide activities that produce attractive rate of return.
• Provide actionable, relevant and time sensitive insight and information to business leaders to enable key business and strategic decisions.
• Provide Finance leadership on Process Efficiency, Business Performance Measures and Management, Analytical Support and Predictive Analysis
• Integrate internal business information with market events and industry knowledge to identify new opportunities and formulate strategy.
• Be responsible and report on the overall business risk assessment and management process of the organisation, ensuring with the CFO, adequately assess and document risks faced by the organisation.
• Financial systems designed, implemented, and maintained.
• Accounting policy and developments, staying abreast and implementation.
• Responsible for the management of the agency’s Tax Risk and relationship with SARS
• Responsible for integrated planning process
• Management of Group Finance team
• Primary relationship with Groups Auditors, and reporting to management and statutory financial reporting

Experience/Qualifications

• CA (SA)
• 5 -7 years post article experience
• Articles completed at one of the big 4 firms.
• International Group Reporting experience
• Exposure to SOX controls
• BBEEE/Compliance and Audit experience