Senior Finance Manager at BDO South Africa

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategy Development and Implementation
• Implementation of the three year business strategy, and related business concepts of BDO drive
• Developing a business plan and internal process design to support the strategy.
• Implementation of the designed strategy supported by the adequate staff, projects planning and completed projects, effective resource planning and utilisation to reach fulfilment of service and business requirements.

Financial Management

• Providing Finance transaction processing & reporting services to BDO
• Drawing up & executing a budget & operating plan for BDO Finance that achieves the goal of service delivery excellence
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of excellent relationships with stakeholders - customers, suppliers, bank, procurement, Governance Board, regulatory authorities, auditors & employees
• Responsible for the development and execution of effective control systems regarding transaction processing & reporting

Providing leadership & guidance to the BDO Finance team

• Responsibility for allocated company within BDO group
• Reviewing monthly service line management accounts
• Performing/ ensuring that year end and month end procedures are completed timeously and accurately
• Adhering to the monthly calendar deadlines
• Processing entries as required
• Reviewing and reconciling accounts as required
• Reviewing monthly reconciliations
• Responsible for external audit of Companies, Financial statements and Tax return
• Authorising payments
• Cash flow forecasting compared to cash flow results
• Reporting anomalies to Head of Finance BDO

Assuming overall responsibility for several transaction streams

• Completing provisional and final tax calculations
• Review provisional and final tax returns
• Assisting with Internal and External Reporting
• Assisting with the implementation of controls, policies and procedures relating to the above
• Ensuring information is accurate and complete
• Responsible for maintaining and developing reports for the above
• Responsible for collating and distributing the month end reports
• Reviewing payroll nationally
• Facilitating the budget process
• Overseeing the import of the budget into Maconomy
• Prepares OPSCO / EXCO packs
• Reviewing VAT reconciliations and payments
• Attending to accounting queries
• Attending to service line queries
• Assisting in ad hoc projects
• Calculating and processing Intercompany interest journals
• Reviewing WIP and debtors for reasonability
• Managing external and other audits
• Managing the trade receivables function

People Development and Management

• Responsible for administration and management of several staff members.
• Monitoring, training and development of staff.
• Knowledge sharing and upliftment of finance team skills base
• Providing Financial Management Training as required
• Providing management training and guidance for team members in a supervisory role
• Reviewing the work of colleagues when necessary to identify compliance issues and provide advice or training as deemed necessary

Personal Development

• Keeping abreast of relevant changes on own field of work i.e. law amendments, new practice notes, attend technical meetings, etc.
• Identifying personal areas of development and engaging with the Head of Finance to upskill and improve through training, formal development programs and online self-development
• Writing thought leadership commentary/ blogs and technical articles for BDO, participating in interviews and panel discussions representing BDO and Finance initiatives

Requirements    
Qualifications & Requirements:

• B.Com, B.Compt, BSc or other relevant qualification
• Registered as a CA(SA) with SAICA
• At least 6 years post-articles proven experience in Reporting/ Management accounting
• Advanced Excel skills
• Good knowledge of Financial systems environment and understanding of the interaction between different modules and functional areas
• Sound knowledge of IFRS, Tax and Companies Act
• Excellent knowledge of CI and KPI concepts and links to financial performance parameters
• Implementation of financial accounting philosophy and measurements within operational environments
• Has a well-developed knowledge of business operations
• Ability to identify key drivers and opportunities to improve business performance

Competencies
Job Competencies:

• Analytical Skills (for Finance Managers)
• Organisational skills and ability to prioritise
• Attention to detail

Closing Date: 31th, March 2022