Job Description

LOCATION: Cape Town or Johannesberg.R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS to attract a candidate of calibre and credibilityOur client is a multi-specialist investment company in more than 10 African countries with business partnersin North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As one of the largest investment managers in South Africa, the company employs a wide range of professional and specialist investment and technical staff. Staff compliment countrywide is nearly 600. They have a diverse investment offering designed to deliver on their investment promise to their clients.They now seek a head: finance to join their team. You will report to the CFO. You will have significant interaction with the board and CEO, too.JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• You will be required to develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. financial management methodology, governance and delivery objectives;
• You will be required to communicate a meaningful tactical context that guides and directs best practice integration and process alignment with service delivery objectives;
• You will be required to partner with next level managers and specialists to ensure effective practice management through multiple process design and integration;
• You will be required to drive the implementation of tactical strategy to realise business results, in adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures;
• You will be required to manage and ensure the effective preparation of accurate budgets and monitoring of performance against actual outcomes;
• You will be required to provide accurate management accounts to relevant stakeholders to inform cost saving and other decision-making purposes;
• You will be required to develop and align area related operational tactics in order to contribute to efficient cash flow management, ensuring business liquidity;
• You will be required to coordinate the sourcing, analyses and interpretation of financial information in order to review the financial performance of the business;
• You will be required to carry out continuous reviews of working accounting practices, procedures and processes to ensure efficient and cost effective operations;
• You will be responsible for strategy implementation through the integration and optimisation of operational activities to practices and systems across an internal value chain;
• You will be required to proactively identify interconnected tactical problems, determine the impact, patterns and trends to identify alternatives and best practice solutions, anticipating future challenges;
• You will be required to plan for the management of work outputs across various functional activities, integrating interdependent practices, processes or systems and addressing and balancing the demands of different priorities to optimise efficiency;
• Finance:

• You will be required to compile an operational or business area budget aligned with the delivery plans and ensure the implementation and monitoring of financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance to optimise cost savings and / or profit margins;
• Governance:

• You will be required to implement the governance management model, framework and policy in own practice and / or tactical areas to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability proactively.

CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• You have financial and accounting control (advanced);
• You have financial management skills (proficient);
• You have continuous process improvement (advanced);
• You have risk awareness (proficient);
• You have conflict resolution (proficient);
• You have financial accounting skills (proficient);
• You have financial planning skills (proficient);
• You have business interaction skills (proficient);
• You have efficiency improvement skills (proficient);
• You have sound financial acumen (proficient);
• You have policy implementation (proficient);
• You have functional policies and procedures (proficient);
• You have operations management skills (proficient);
• You have budgeting and expenditure control (proficient);
• You have people management and empowerment (proficient);
• You have interpersonal effectiveness (proficient);
• You have problem solving and analysis skills (proficient);
• You have strategic insight and capability (proficient);
• You have teamwork and cooperation skills (proficient);
• You have judgement and decision-making skills (proficient);
• You have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in English with impact (proficient);
• You have relationship management and networking skills (proficient);
• You are customer orientated (proficient).

CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You are a CA (SA); with clients at articles in FS.
• You have a minimum of 5 8 years current, relevant experience in a similar environment, of which 3 4 years at management level. You are technically astute and have industry subject matter experience - asset management is a distinct advantage. You take people on a journey and ensure there is greater success every year! You have superior stake holder management and can operate at the top end of the market with highly skilled colleagues. Great exposure. Newly crafted role and structure!

Claire Bourquin Recruitment Consultants