Junior Financial Manager at Motus Holdings Limited

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Successful candidate will be responsible to oversee cashbook operations and team performance, ensuring accurate reconciliations, journal reviews, and month-end close across entities.
• Manage cashflows, payments, fixed assets, and procurement controls, while liaising with Creditors, IT, auditors, and operational teams. Assist in budgeting and lead reporting, cost analysis, and savings initiatives.
• Ensure compliance (tax, BEE, controls), support audits, drive process improvements, and guide team development while enhancing financial accuracy and efficiency.

SPECIFIC ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the Cashbook team
• Management of payment deadlines and review of payments (both internal and external) and beneficiaries
• Ensure bank administration is up to date
• Liaise with operational team (Creditors, Debtors and Collections) to streamline processes
• Fixed asset management and reconciliation
• Liaise and manage laptops and other equipment with IT
• Preparation/review journals
• Review of cashbook and relevant balance sheet reconciliations
• Analysis and presentation of costs to assist the Exco and Department Managers in decision making
• Review, analyse, distribute and present monthly departmental management accounts to the managers of various departments
• Review and reconcile expense reconciliations, ensuring all costs are accurately recorded and supported Investigate and resolve any discrepancies, follow up on missing information, and work with relevant teams to keep expense reporting complete and up to date
• Provide recommendations on cost saving measures by actively reviewing suppliers and costing on an ongoing basis
• Preparation of overhead budgets
• BEE process management across entities, reconciliation and reporting thereof
• Review and approval of procurement changes
• Provide recommendations on appropriate accounting and reporting treatment for certain transactions.
• Actively collaborate with all operational departments as well as Head Office Finance on financial and other matters. Provide support to business and finance operations departments
• Liaise with auditors (internal and external)
• Manage the company’s cashflows
• Review cashflow reporting to Group across entities
• Facilitate the month-end close across entities
• Assist the team with preparing and submitting reports, including Hyperion packs and quarterly reporting to Group
• Support the upskilling of the Cashbook team through guidance and sharing of knowledge, while identifying opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows and increase overall efficiency
• Assisting with the maintenance and review of financial controls on an ongoing basis
• Ad hoc finance duties as and when required

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• B Com degree or equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5 years finance reporting experience

SKILLS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Ability to work within a high volume / high-pressure environment
• Excellent Excel skills
• Strong technical financial skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with customers, team members and senior management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good planning and organisational skills to balance and prioritise work
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Deadline driven and strong sense of urgency
• Must be able to multi-task, adapt to change and work independently
• The ability to ensure high standards of quality and service delivery to meet and exceed client expectations
• Own and live up to the company values
• Create and engaging, enabling and productive work climate aligned to the employee value proposition
• Clearly articulate the goal and purpose to ensure alignment of team members towards the desired objective
• Ability to inspire, motivate and direct individuals to take ownership of-, and achieve desired outputs
• Proactive and takes accountability for responsibilities
• Ethical and honest
• Resilient and diligent
• Energetic and initiative-taking

Closing Date 25 May 2026