Job Description

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Wexe2x80x99re looking for a Finance Manager to join an Africa-focused neobank with a presence in various African countries. Our client is a FinTech company that provides financial services and credit products through an AI-powered and data-driven platform, giving the African market a complete neobank experience. This is your chance to make a life-changing career move!

Position Overview:

Our client is looking for a Finance Manager to join a dynamic and ever-growing team with ample opportunity for growth in its South African operations. The Finance Manager will formulate and implement the companyxe2x80x99s South Africa finance strategy. The role will have a dual reporting line to the Country MD and the Group CFO.

Your daily adventures include:

• Oversee the implementation of financial policies and procedures, including financial reporting, forecasting budgeting and related aspects.

• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements (Tax, Statutory Annual Financial Statements, NCR, FSCA).

• Taking the lead in preparing financial management information and providing insights on the organisation's financial health.

• Ensuring credibility of the Finance function by providing timely and accurate reports, including detailed analysis of the budget, financial trends and forecasts.

• Managing and coordinating monthly reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes.

• Profit planning and control, including taking a hands-on lead position in developing, implementing and maintaining a comprehensive product cost and profitability analysis system.

• Monitoring cash flows and liquidity positions.

• Working capital management.

• Ensuring the business meets all its statutory and compliance obligations.

• Overseeing accounts payable, receivable, tax, treasury, payroll, and accounting functions.

• Providing staff training on good financial practices and efficiency improvement.

• Consolidation of South African subgroup

• Treasury management on the South African subgroup

• Financial reports:

• Timely preparation of bank and cash reconciliations.

• Timely preparation of monthly management accounts.

• Timely preparation of monthly performance reports.

• Timely preparation of weekly cash flow forecasting.

• Preparing financial reports and ensuring they comply with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

• Other reports:

• Timely preparation of monthly audit reports.

• Annual preparation of the draft statutory financial statements for purposes of external audit.

• Provide lead in the provision of timely governance reports.

• Any other reports requested by the Group CFO or Country MD.

• Tertiary education in Finance: Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field

• Must be a CA (SA)

• 3 - 5 years of experience in a senior finance position

• Knowledge of Sage accounting systems will be beneficial.

• Experience in the financial services sector is required.

• Strategic thinker with solid financial and commercial acumen.

• Dynamic, analytical and self-driven individual with the ability to work in a highly deadline-driven environment.

• Ability to analyse and monitor the various risks that face the business.

• Ability to develop good working relationships with all stakeholders, executive management and other levels of staff for smooth running of the business.

• Advanced computer literacy

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