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Job Summary:

• We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Head of Treasury and Corporate Finance to lead and optimize our treasury operations, manage liquidity, and ensure effective financial risk management. Acting as a strategic partner to the CFO, this role will play a pivotal part in driving operational excellence, identifying financial risks, ensuring effective cash management, and enhancing the efficiency and scalability of treasury functions. The ideal candidate will have broad expertise across treasury management, financial risk assessment, project finance structures and local banking requirements, ensuring that the finance organization operates at peak performance and meets ENGIE’s policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and Structure the department
• Hire, lead and coach team members.
• Design and review local policies and procedures, following the Group’s guidelines.
• Cash management and liquidity planning:
• Responsible for the liquidity of the South African portfolio via the management of external financing facilities, cash pooling and intercompany funding arrangements from shareholders.
• Develop and implement cash management strategies to optimize cash flow and working capital.
• Supervise and prepare short-term cash flow analysis reports (monthly and weekly), accounts receivable analysis, and treasury position.
• Assist in the development, maintenance and application of dividend policy of the South African SPVs.
• Procure and negotiate credit lines to support the liquidity of the portfolio, if applicable.

Financial Risk Management:

• Identify, assess, and manage financial risks, including interest rate, foreign exchange, and credit risks.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and action plans.
• Analyse and seek optimizations in exchange rates, plan and execute derivatives, monitor Mark-to-Market, prepare the required memorandums for auditors.
• Prepare and monitor annual risk mandates.

Treasury Operations:

• Oversee daily treasury operations, including cash positioning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Manage banking relationships and negotiate terms and conditions to optimize banking services.
• Negotiate and manage guarantees (surety bonds, letters of credit, PCGs) granted and received by the portfolio.
• Manage the portfolio’s bank accounts and handle bank reconciliation.

Investment Management:

• Develop and implement investment strategies to optimize returns on surplus cash.
• Monitor and report on investment performance and compliance with investment policies.

Compliance and Reporting:

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and present treasury reports to senior management and stakeholders.
• Supervise and control compliance with obligations to banks, including monitoring obligations to do, not do, and default events established in financing contracts.
• Supervise the completion of all debt covenant compliance in accordance with finance documents.

Key Accountabilities:

• Drive best-in-class treasury process management, ensuring that all workflows are efficient, well-documented, and compliant with relevant regulations.
• Establish and maintain an internal control environment that minimizes risk and ensures financial integrity.

Perimeter of accountability

• ENGIE activities in South Africa, including centralized and decentralized entities.

Internal and external interfaces

• Direct reporting to CFO SOUTH AFRICA
• Corporate functional lines and other finance functions, including AIFA and DCFTA
• Management of existing entities in South Africa
• Corporate Finance team in AMEA and France.
• Local and international banks.

Your Profile and Skills:

• Education: Master’s degree in finance, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 10-12+ years of experience in treasury operations, financial risk management, project financing, relationship with local banking community, ideally in a large or international organization.
• Regulatory Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of financial regulations, including SARB approval, and compliance requirements.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Proven leadership experience with the ability to manage cross-functional teams and implement change across various levels of the organization.
• Risk Management: Solid understanding of risk management principles and internal control frameworks, with experience in ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Ability to think critically and strategically, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and able to adapt to changing business needs.
• Systems and Tools: familiarity with ERP systems (SAP is a plus) and proficiency in data analysis tools.

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Job Summary:

• ENGIE South Africa is looking for a GET Implementation Project Leader. GET stands for Global Enterprise Transformation and is a key project launched by ENGIE in 2022 to standardize ERP systems and process around the world. This role involves leading the transformation of Finance and Procurement processes while identifying and addressing gaps to ensure the organization’s long-term growth and efficiency. The GET Lead will collaborate closely with functional teams, local leadership, and cross-functional departments to execute the transformation, mitigate project risks, and optimize processes. This position will report to the Country CFO and to the Regional (AMEA) GET Project Leader and is pivotal in ensuring the successful implementation of our new ERP system, allowing us to simplify and standardize our processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Global Enterprise Transformation (GET) Rollout & Implementation:

• Oversee the implementation lifecycle of S4Hana and its satellite systems in South Africa, from planning and deployment to post-go-live support.
• Coordinate with functional leads to identify critical gaps through analysis and assess whether a global update or local solutions are necessary.
• Work closely with local leadership and teams to ensure the transformation is effectively rolled out, ensuring alignment with global goals.

Gap Identification & Solution Implementation:

• Identify major and critical gaps in processes and systems, coordinating with functional leads to address them.
• Recommend solutions and drive necessary changes to meet local needs while aligning with global standards.

Testing & Quality Assurance:

• Lead and coordinate testing phases by working with local functional leads to ensure alignment with business requirements.

Change Management & Organizational Support:

• Support specific local changes, such as organizational and process adjustments, while ensuring adoption is driven by global teams.
• Collaborate with global program management on change initiatives to ensure smooth adoption and transition for local teams.

Stakeholder Management & Reporting:

• Engage with local leaders, functional teams, and global program managers to track the progress of the transformation.
• Participate in or lead governance meetings, reporting on progress, risks, and gaps, ensuring continuous communication between local and global stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with IT, Operations, and other departments outside of Finance and Procurement to ensure smooth integration and successful implementation of the transformation.

Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Sharing:

• Foster a culture of collaboration and process optimization, ensuring lessons learned are captured and shared across functions.

Financial Process Management & Optimization:

• Oversee and streamline all financial processes, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and transactional workflows to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with business objectives.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize operational efficiency across finance functions, reducing complexity and driving process standardization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify gaps or inefficiencies in current processes and implement solutions that enhance financial performance.

Organizational Structure & Change Management:

• Support the design  of the organizational structure of the finance department and other stakeholder to ensure processes meet future business needs.
• Collaborate closely with the CFO to manage change management initiatives, aligning the finance team's roles and responsibilities with process improvements and system enhancements.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the finance team, providing leadership and mentorship to ensure effective execution of responsibilities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Successful Rollout: Ensuring the timely and efficient rollout of S4Hana and its satellite systems in South Africa.
• Effective Gap Resolution: Identifying critical gaps and leading the effort to implement global or local solutions as needed.
• Testing Leadership: Coordinating and leading successful testing phases.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Maintaining clear communication with stakeholders at the local and global levels.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identifying and addressing project risks.
• Systems Leadership: Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of financial systems, ensuring that technology is leveraged to improve finance operations and reporting capabilities.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Ensure the finance department is optimally structured to meet business needs, with clear accountability and a strong culture of performance.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure finance processes and systems are aligned with broader business objectives and can scale with growth.

Your Profile:

• Education: Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in enterprise transformation programs, ERP implementations (preferably S4Hana), or Finance/Procurement process optimization.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of SAP and S4Hana is a significant advantage. Expertise in Finance and Procurement processes is critical. Knowledge of process automation and digital transformation initiatives is a plus.
• Project Management: Certification in project management is a plus.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders effectively.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Ability to lead in a fast-paced, evolving project environment.
• Risk Management: Experience with identifying and mitigating risks in large-scale projects.

Type of Contract:

• Fixed term contract. The mission is expected to last 18-24 months.
• After such period, there may be opportunity to participate in similar projects in other countries, depending on performance and relocation conditions.

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Job Summary:

• We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Head of Internal Control, Risk and Insurance to lead and optimize the financial processes, be in charge of internal control matters, follow-up on insurance coverages and drive the risk assessment exercise at country level. Acting as a strategic partner to the CFO, this role will play a pivotal part in driving operational excellence, identifying risks, ensuring effective internal controls, and enhancing the efficiency and scalability of finance functions. The ideal candidate will have a broad expertise across internal controls reviews, risks, process improvement and insurance, ensuring that the finance organization operates at peak performance and meets ENGIE’s policies.

Financial processes:

• In the Target Finance Operating model, the financial processes and some other transactional processes are run in expertise centres at different levels of the organization, either directly or with shared service centres.  All the Finance management line is responsible for delivering to GBUs the corresponding outcome with the appropriate level of internal control. While the Head of Internal Control, Risk and Insurance in South Africa will focus on Finance & Accounting related topics, he/she will also work on other domains throughout ENGIE (for instance Health and Safety, Sapin 2, ethics,etc.)

Operational and strategic processes:

• GBU entities together with Corporate functional lines are responsible for running these processes and ensuring the relevant internal control attached. In the Target Finance Operating model, the regional Hub provides to GBU entities the assistance and support to steer the Group internal control program in their activities.
• Internal controllers are part of the Finance team of the various entities. In this context, the Head of Internal Control, Risk and Insurance South Africa provides the services listed below, reporting to South Africa CFO and supervised by the Internal Control Officer AMEA and in cooperation with other members of the Internal Control Line in the entities and in the Group IC Department.

Key Responsibilities:

Insurance

• Working with the Regional Risk and Insurance Manager and other areas likes business development and operations, ensure the placement and management of adequate, appropriate, and cost-efficient insurance covers for assets in operations and under construction.
• Management of insurance risk engineering surveys and claims management.
• Assist with the implementation of group rules in terms of loss prevention (fire and machinery breakdown notably) in liaison with the AMEA regional insurance team as well as Global Care and other internal functions.

Internal Control & Compliance:

• Establish and maintain a robust internal control framework to ensure compliance with both internal policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Partner with risk management teams to assess and mitigate financial risks, ensuring all processes and systems are safeguarded against potential fraud or inefficiencies.
• Regularly audit and review financial processes and systems to ensure continued adherence to control frameworks and industry best practices.
• Coordinate the annual self-assessment exercise at country level, interacting with BPOs and finance managers in the different entities. As a result of that, follow-up on action plans to improve the level of control.

Risk Management:

• Develop and update risk management policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure that they are aligned with industry best practice, and Group and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and analyse potential risks that may affect the organisation's operations, including financial, operational, strategic, compliance, and reputational risks.
• Maintain a comprehensive risk register and regularly update it with new risks and their assessments.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and action plans to reduce the organisation's exposure to identified risks.
• Communicate risk-related information to relevant stakeholders, fostering a risk-aware culture.

Key Accountabilities:

• Process Excellence: Drive best-in-class financial process management, ensuring that all workflows are efficient, well-documented, and compliant with relevant regulations.
• Internal Controls: Establish and maintain an internal control environment that minimizes risk and ensures financial integrity.

Perimeter of accountability

• ENGIE activities in South Africa, potential testing missions in AMEA or in the other regions of the Group

Internal interfaces

• Direct reporting to CFO SOUTH AFRICA and Internal Control Officer AMEA
• Corporate functional lines (Procurement, Ethics, HR,etc.)
• Group Internal Audit teams
• GBU MDs
• Management of existing entities in south Africa
• South Africa Country Manager

Your Profile:

• Education: Master’s degree in finance, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 8-10+ years of experience in finance operations, internal controls and process optimization, ideally in a large or international organization.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Proven leadership experience with the ability to manage cross-functional teams and implement change across various levels of the organization.
• Risk Management: Solid understanding of risk management principles and internal control frameworks, with experience in ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Ability to think critically and strategically, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and able to adapt to changing business needs.