Key Responsibilities
Key Performance Areas:
Financial Planning and Management
- Provide end-to-end financial planning support for IDD programmes, including the development of detailed budgets aligned with programme objectives and timelines.
- Provide financial support in setting up cost structures that reflect funding sources, expenditure categories, and reporting requirements.
- Monitor budget utilisation, track disbursements against milestones, and ensure timely financial close-outs.
- Maintain accurate financial records and documentation to support transparency, audit readiness, and informed decision-making.
- Track and drive the implementation of the IDD Financial Strategy aimed at providing IDD with a sustainable P&L.
- Coordinate and liaise with dedicated IDD Accountants to ensure all financial, management accounts, cost recoveries, cost charges and reports are accurate, complete and appropriately managed.
- Conduct continued mandate/programme cost analysis and investigate variance to budget.
- Identify and mitigate financial risks and develop financial risk mitigation strategies.
Business Advisory and Optimisation
- Act as a trusted financial advisor to programme and project managers by providing data-driven insights and financial guidance that support strategic and operational decisions.
- Collaborate with delivery teams to assess financial risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to optimise costs, improve efficiency, and enhance value for money.
- Support scenario planning, investment appraisals, and financial modelling to strengthen programme outcomes.
Compliance and Governance
- Ensure strict adherence to internal financial policies, donor-specific requirements, and applicable regulatory and audit standards.
- Support the preparation of financial statements, reconciliations, and audit documentation, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
- Identify and address compliance gaps and contribute to the continuous improvement of financial governance frameworks and internal controls within the IDD.
Variance Analysis and Reporting
- Perform in-depth variance analysis by comparing actual financial performance against budgets and forecasts,
- identifying key drivers of deviations.
- Prepare insightful financial commentary to support programme reviews and executive decision-making.
- Develop and maintain dynamic financial dashboards and reports tailored to the needs of internal stakeholders (e.g.,
- IDD leadership, finance teams) and external stakeholders (e.g., donors, auditors), ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timeliness.
Operational Execution and Planning
- Analyse existing workflows and processes to identify areas for improvement and implement changes that enhance productivity and reduce waste.
- Prioritise tasks and allocate resources strategically, ensuring that team members have the tools and information they need to perform their duties effectively.
- Promote best practices and continuous process improvement by driving efficiencies that result in cost savings and enhanced service delivery.
- Monitor operational performance through key metrics and adjust strategies as necessary to maintain or improve output quality and timely delivery.
People Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning to maximise individual and collective potential.
- Drive talent development initiatives, including coaching, performance management, and career pathing, to build and retain a skilled and motivated team.
- Provide direction and management to the Division, to enable strategy execution.
- Attract, retain, and develop talent and ensure succession planning and sufficient capacity and capability in all critical functions, supporting diversity strategies and initiatives as well.
- Promote DBSA values and a culture of high performance through implementing performance management in line with the planned strategic objectives, goals, quality standards and agreed key performance measures using sound performance management principles.
- Contribute to building synergies & cooperation across functions in the DBSA.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Foster strong working relationships with IDD project teams, central finance, procurement, and external partners to ensure financial alignment and shared accountability.
- Act as a financial liaison, translating complex financial information into accessible insights for non-financial stakeholders.
- Lead or support financial training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one engagements to build financial literacy and promote a culture of financial ownership across the division.
Key Measurements of Outputs:
- Quality and number of financial reports delivered per cycle
- Number of cost optimisation opportunities identified and implemented
- Compliance with donor and internal financial policies
- Stakeholder satisfaction score
- Response time to stakeholder financial queries
- Expertise & Technical Competencies
Qualifications and Experience:
Qualifications
- A CIMA qualification or a Bachelor’s degree in accounting with three articles in audit or training outside public practice
- (TOPP) as an added advantage.
Experience
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in financial and management accounting in a construction environment.
- In-depth experience in managing the finances of large-scale infrastructure, capital projects, or public sector programmes.
- Experience of setting budgets and undertaking financial forecasts/scenarios.
- Experience in supervising/managing a team within a financial services or construction environment.
- Strong advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills and PowerPoint presentation skills.
- Strong knowledge of Management Accounting, IFRS, PFMA and King IV and other applicable regulations and codes of good practice.
Desireable Requirements
Strong understanding of the construction/infrastructure industry
Technical Competencies:
- Financial Analysis
- Interprets, analyses and/or evaluates compliance with applicable legislation, sound regulatory practices and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and other such rules and regulations.
- Analyses or interprets financial records and develops program procedures, financial models, and databases.
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, rules, entity/company practices, concepts, and industry issues.
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge or experience working with legal and regulatory issues in their subject area.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with regulated industries, government officials, administrators, and civic leaders.
- Demonstrates strong understanding of accounting standards and IFRS standards.
Business Acumen
- Understanding of DBSA mandate and economic priorities of South Africa and Africa, and how they can be implemented to meet the organisation’s strategic objectives. Takes actions to fit business strategy and assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or
- perspectives.
- Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives and understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
- Actively develop short and long-term strategies and think and plan in future-oriented terms.
- Uses methodical problem-solving approach as foundation for effective decision making, considering importance, urgency & risk and can obtain essential information, focus on key objectives and be able to recognise options available for solving strategic and operational problems.
- Be able to select the right approach to overcome those obstacles and be able to set in motion the plan that gets things done.
- Focus, understanding consequences and affinity for problem solving and making sound decisions by combining a lot of factors whilst balancing the
- various stakeholder needs and building relationships by doing the right thing.
- Prepares annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems, or opportunities.
- Develops and establishes broad-scale, longerterm objectives, goals, or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).
Strategic Planning
- Ability to analyse business trends, implications, and options to devise holistic and long-term strategic plans as well as execute the required change is essential to meet an organisation's objectives and future goals.
- Looks to the future with a broad perspective.
- Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
Financial Acumen
- Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation,partner agencies, and community.
- Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability.
- Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise sustainable development outcomes, revenues, and control costs.
Reporting and Communication
- Designs, reviews, and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
- Manages report preparation, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
- Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs. Is able to determine which aspects of this
- knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals.
- Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
- Able to communicate complex problems or concepts by making them simple and understandable for others.
- Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
- Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high-level audiences.
Negotiation Skills
- Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
- Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
- Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
- Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.
- Understands and can apply basic negotiating skills and techniques, e.g. obtaining a full understanding of the other party's agenda and needs before disclosing own perspectives.
- Possesses an understanding of various unspoken communications from other parties and can decipher hidden agendas.
- Is able to successfully conclude negotiations which require the development of an emotional as well as factual argument.
- Is able to develop mutually beneficial potential solutions.
Project Management
- Defines, plans, and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity.
- Assembles multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
- Successfully manages project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
- Identifies complex issues that need escalation
Planning & Organising
- Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills.
- Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
- Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
- Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties.
Required Personal Attributes
Leadership/Behavioural Competencies:
Empowering Others
- Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour, acts on values and beliefs.
- Inspiring teams to achieve results based on integrity, accountability, empathy, and humility.
- Motivate and inspire others to work towards a common goal.
Managing Change
- Re-engineers processes and practices to support and sustain the desired change.
- Generates and implements new and innovative ideas/approaches to improve business outcomes.
- Embraces managing change, providing guidance and support to teams during implementation.
Strategic & Innovative Thinking
- Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices
- Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions.
- Ability to come up with new and novel approaches to problems
- Problem solver to make the world a better place and inspire teams to get unstuck.
Teamwork & Cooperation
- Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
- Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
- Communicates ideas, information, and business objectives effectively and persuasively, resulting in desired actions/ outcomes.
- Promotes collaboration, information sharing and learning within and across business boundaries.
- Focuses on ensuring stakeholder satisfaction by building mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders. These include the Board,
- Executive team, Management team, staff, and other key stakeholders.
- Inspiring teams to continue to perform at the highest level.
Driving delivery of results
- Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image).
- Monitor progress and adapt the plan if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
- Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs, and makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost-benefit analysis.
- Based on the cost-benefit analysis, make decisions of an entrepreneurial risk nature.
- Acts consistently with honesty and integrity and in accordance with the standards for right conduct
- Works through teams to be able to deliver the required results consistently and efficiently. Translates business objectives into practical, prioritised & organised action plans, ensuring plans are safely & successfully implemented. Makes effective use of resources when executing, ensuring processes are in place to achieve outcomes aligned to operational excellence standards.
Decisiveness (High Performance, Service Orientation)
- Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing.
- Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular. Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions.
Closing Date
2026/03/20
Gmail
Yahoomail