Financial Manager Ct

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


Well established company in the lighting industry needs an experienced SAICA articled FM to lead their finance department.

JOB PURPOSE
To optimize the companys operating capabilities, employ strategies to maximize customer satisfaction through leading and managing all the financial aspects of the company, including managing strategic financial planning, financial statements, cash flow, support the CEO in setting and tracking financial goals, objectives and budgets, providing management reports and overall financial team management and
related expertise.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. FINANCE
- Treasury: manage the cashflow of the organization whilst maintaining appropriate levels of control to ensure the risk fraud is at a manageable level
- Fixed Assets: ensure the company assets are safe guarded and valued correctly
- Inventory: ensure that the stock is accurate, sellable and valued correctly; monitoring the flows of transactions between the applications to ensure accurate recording keeping to assist procurement and stock forecasting.
- Accounts Receivable: ensure that the debtors book is current with no long outstanding collectables; oversee the maintenance of the customer Masterfile and ensure that revenue is valid and accurate; ensuring that the sales team has adequate support in furthering their own objectives whilst maintaining a robust internal control environment.
- Accounts Payable: ensuring our creditors are paid the correct amounts at the correct time but overseeing the reconciliation process
- Reporting: prepare the monthly management accounts and present to the executive and ownership providing insights to better enable decision making; ensure the monthly management accounts are on time, accurate and relevant; actuals vs budget variance analysis
- Budgeting: lead the budgeting process each year
- Tax: work with the outsourced agency to ensure all the taxation elements of the group are submitted correctly and on time.
- Statutory: ensure the statutory records of the group are up to date and accurate.
- Payroll: review payroll each month and present to the executive for release
- Other: coach the finance team to up skill their abilities in terms of process and reconciliation whilst supporting the business to be shared service champion; lead the MANCO team by arranging meetings and setting agendas by liaising with the executive

2. HUMAN RESOURCES
- Champion existing and in need of improvement HR processes
- Compliance and submission of all HR relevant requirements
- Maintain current employee information which complies with relevant legislation
- Facilitate the quarterly measurement key performance indicators

3. ERP
- Lead the in-progress migration from Pastel to the cloud suite of applications (Xero, Cin7 and Prospect)
- Champion the migration and be the primary point of contact
- Maintaining the ERPs to ensure that the information produced is valid, accurate and complete
- Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and take advantage of the extensive functionality available
- Drive the increase of automation within the business to drive efficiency whilst maintaining a robust internal control environment

4. OTHER
- Risk: ensure the all the items are
- Compliance: ensure all the laws and regulations are being complied to or have a plan in place to ensure future compliance
- BEE: champion the compliance process and facilitate the requirements to ensure
- IT Infrastructure: be the point of contact for all IT infrastructure related issues and upgrades; work with the outsourced provider to ensure business continuity

Qualifications, Educational Requirements and Skills
- Completed finance degree (Honors preferred)
- Completed SAICA articles
- 8 + years post qualification experience
- At least 5+ years in a leadership role with exposure to operations specifically inventory related
- Experience with Human Resources and working knowledge of BCEA
- Able to demonstrate examples of excelling within an environment with conflict
- Excellent ability to problem solve, motivate and train team members at various levels
- Attention to detail as well as the ability to zoom out and appreciate the bigger picture
- Excellent ability to multitask whilst managing various stakeholder engagements
- Displays the natural ability to understand the ERP landscape and continually improve upon it
- Experience with cloud suite products like Xero, Cin7 Core (Dear Inventory) & Prospect

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1293379
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned