Financial Manager (Contract)

CONTRACT POSITION 

Minimum requirements:

• CA SA
• BSC Honours/or related
• 5-7 years FM/financial experience post qualification (Intermediate to Senior)
• Experience in managing people
• Advanced Excel knowledge and experience
• PowerPoint knowledge and experience
• SQL & PowerBI knowledge an advantage
• Financial & Value Management

Responsibilities:

• Define, develop and maintain policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to efficiently manage practice and provide thought leadership.
• Define and implement internal and external financial reporting processes and documentation requirements for both individual entities and groups according to professional financial accounting and reporting standards.
• Analyse, plan and manage costs (including product pricing or supply chain analysis) to support implementation of business strategies.
• Translate business strategy into financial targets and tactical plans, and support execution.
• Interpret and make effective management decisions using benchmarking, trends, and other planning and forecasting methods; develop and implement improvements to the planning processes.
• Establish and ensure effective and consistent modelling, planning and forecasting processes across business unit(s) and identify and implement best practices in these processes.
• Benchmark business performance internally and externally; deliver benchmark management information to specific needs to allow decision-making that pushes performance boundaries.
• Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations, financial and accounting practices.
• Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks to which the business unit(s) might be exposed.
• Assistance with monthly VAT reconciliation and quarterly tax packs.
• Manage end to end finance projects involving a segment, business unit, function or country/region from strategy articulation through to systems / programme design and implementation.
• Manage and monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk and audit guidelines. 
• Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings.
• Apply and monitor governance to ensure that all processes and documentation on model rules and assumptions are aligned with technical committee and costing steerco guidance and methodologies.
• Manage the preparation and assessment of tax returns and issues; provide advice, particularly around technical tax issues that are non-routine and/or complex and interpret and evaluate the implications of new tax legislation and of existing legislation to new business situations.
• Re-imagining costing models to benefit and promote the adoption of platform across Retail, Commercial, Broader Africa and even external users.
• Construction of notional income statements that articulate the benefit of running on the platform.
• Identification and tracking of key business KPIs for each of the different teams and for the overall business.
• Play the role of a business partner and collaborating with different teams across the group to ensure financial requirements are met.
• Prepare bespoke monthly reporting which will assist in highlighting areas of focus that enhance decision making. 
• Includes preparation of Exco, Manco and Opsco reporting packs.
• Responsible for preparation and tracking of business cases.
• Analyse incoming charges monthly and ensure accuracy and validity.
• Oversee monthly reconciliation processes.
• Manage the yearly budget and rolling forecast process.
• Assist with the month end process & review thereof includes statutory and compliance processes.
• Review and sign-off work of staff.
• Provide support to the Finance Head and stand-in where necessary
• Evaluate processes within all these teams in order to streamline them.
• Implement internal controls, policies & procedures.
• Assisting junior staff to implement processes and how to work smarter
• Assist with any ad-hoc projects (finance or business) that may be assigned from time to time