Head: Finance at Praesignis

Job Purpose:

• To direct; add value and enable business decisions through effective consolidated financial analysis; reporting and controls across a range of business functions or companies; in line with client business strategy.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary team across Financial Operations in support of the objectives of the client.
• Develop strategic goals for the team and finance operations that enables financial consolidation to reporting standards are financial consolidation principles and practise.
• Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
• Ensure accurate and timeous budgets are submitted and reviewed by ensuring that they align with key economic indicators and group strategic initiatives.
• Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations and following up on unreconciled items.
• Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting within defined timeframes by planning, organising and monitoring workflow.
• Compile Financial statements by complying with IFRS and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Stay aligned with latest technology updates and industry trends and adoption of AI to improve and optimise workflow and processes.
• Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation, mentoring, coaching and on the job skills training.
• Meet deadlines and targets through prioritising effectively, planning and communicating.
• Ensure relevant, best practice analysis and reporting by providing ongoing guidance and coaching to the team.
• Develop financial controls in conjunction with risk, ethics and IFRS to ensure that audit and regulatory requirements are established and adhered to.
• Consolidate financial reports and make value added recommendations by using information from various sources.
• Assist in the achievement of group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and synergies.
• Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through ongoing engagement.
• Comply with relevant legislation by reviewing and submitting statutory returns timeously.
• Achieve business objectives within a specific timeframe by scheduling and coordinating activities and identifying appropriate resources to perform these activities.
• Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by reviewing the clients and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Client Culture building initiatives.
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to the client.