Head of Finance (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description
Overview:

Operational Management

• Support strategic and operational decision making (Financial analysis to Board, maintain and update business cases, deliver pro-actively on potential profitability improvement opportunities and monitor delivery)
• Provision of financial insight to support decision making (Establish, monitor and report financial KPIs and targets, and hold SA OPS colleagues to account against agreed targets.)
• Ownership of risk and opportunities management within SA OPS collating, quantifying and monitoring; working with colleagues to determine mitigating actions; and to report to Group on risk management.
• Assessment of financial performance of customers, products and CMO contracts, including maximizing performance terms.

Financial Management & Reporting

• Manage the planning cycle (Annual Budget, forecasts, longer term planning) and monthly financial cycles.
• Determine actual performance, monitor financial progress vs prior year, budget and forecasts.
• Implementation and monitoring of working capital and cash management improvement and supporting the change in approach relating to cash.

Financial Control & Accounting

• Deliver strong financial control of SA Operations and ensure IFRS compliant
• Improve usage of systems and processes in order to generate information and reports in a standardized way; and ensuring that processes and systems are correct and in line with control requirements.
• Delivering the year end financials and Audit.

Audit & Risk Management

• Review, assess and guide mitigation of all concerns and risks raised.
• Set-up effective processes to ensure optimum risk assessment, feasibility assessment and planning are implemented.
• Manage the legal / economic implication of financial and procurement activities.
• Assess and mitigate risks associated with finance, procurement and legal functions.
• Oversee and guide internal and external audits, advising on integration of external team and Aspen team.

Procurement

• Drive a procurement strategy aimed at optimizing cost and material availability/ supplier reliability.
• Review supplier base on a continual basis to enable identification of risk to supply and to introduce mitigation plans
• Lead procurement benchmarking process to ensure best price across all categories. 

Legal

• Ensure that all new contracts are commercially sound, optimally costed, effectively resourced and in line with the latest organizational strategy.

Planning, Policies and Systems

• Develop a framework and provide guidance on planning, budgeting & forecasting to various functions & adherence to corporate guideline.
• Review and manage the implementation of aligned and compliant financial policies and procedures.
• Delegate, control and review authorization levels and system access

Requirements
Skills Required

Background/experience

• Chartered Accountant with 10 years of progressive finance & procurement experience-leadership incorporating business planning, finance business partnering, controlling and accounting.
• Strong knowledge and experience of IFRS and internal controls.
• Experience in a manufacturing pharmaceutical environment.
• Change management experience and affinity with the Commercial and Operations aspects of the business, demonstrating a strong business acumen.

Competencies

• Strong computer skills for presentation and analysis of data.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively interact with personnel at all levels of the company.
• Project management skills.
• Supervisory/mentor experience.
• Develop financial vision and road map.
• Strong strategic planning and budgeting expertise
• Strong sense of urgency, and personal commitment
• Translating strategy
• Pro-active, persuasive, business and result orientated & independentv