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Senior Finance manager
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Closing Date 2025/09/05
Reference Number HOL250829-1
Job Title Senior Finance manager
Business Unit Group Finance & Assurance
Department Hollard Life Solutions
Job Family Finance
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Head of Reporting
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
Job Purpose
Lead the finance function for the Direct and Intermediated Insurance Business Units within Hollard Life Solutions. Ensure financial integrity, strategic alignment, and operational excellence across budgeting, reporting, governance, and stakeholder engagement
Manage Opex reporting process, ensuring that all month-end journals are processed to correct GL accounts and cost center.
Key Responsibilities * Business Partnering & Strategic Insight

• Act as a strategic finance advisor to senior leadership, providing financial insight, scenario analysis, and recommendations to support business growth and profitability
• Challenge and influence business leaders to drive operational efficiency, sustainable growth, and return on capital
• Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations, and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
• Support the achievement of business strategy and transformation goals by ensuring finance processes, reporting, and outputs are aligned to business unit and group priorities.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning

• Ensure accurate and timeous budgets are submitted, reviewed, and aligned with key economic indicators and group strategic initiatives.
• Lead forecasting and long-term planning processes, ensuring robust assumptions and alignment with business growth objectives.
• Achieve business objectives within specified timeframes by scheduling, coordinating, and allocating appropriate resources.
• Reporting & Performance Management

• Consolidate financial reports across Direct & Intermediated channels, delivering value-added insights and recommendations from multiple data sources.
• Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations, monitoring unreconciled items, and strengthening internal controls.
• Develop and monitor KPIs, including revenue, expense ratios etc
• Translate complex financial outcomes into clear insights for senior stakeholders.
• Working Capital and Cash Flow Forecast

• Manage BUs working capital and cash flow forecasts.
• Provide insights on ratios and projections.
• Champion process efficiency and receivables collection.
• Monitor actual vs forecast and communicate results.
• Governance, Risk & Audit

• Manage defined risks in the finance function by adhering to internal and external guidelines, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS 17, tax, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Obtain buy-in for new or enhanced processes that improve operational and financial effectiveness.
• Contribute to Debt Review Committee and other ad hoc committees
• Lead internal and external audit processes for Direct and Intermediated Insurance Business Units
• Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering

• Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through continuous engagement, proactive insights, and decision support.
• Partner with distribution, product, operations, actuarial, and risk teams to drive sustainable financial outcomes.
• Assist in achieving group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities for partnerships and synergies across Hollard.
• Leadership & Team Development

• As a core member of the Finance MANCO team, expected to actively contribute to setting short-term and medium-term term goals for the team
• Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting by planning, organising, and monitoring workflow to meet deadlines.
• Provide ongoing guidance, mentoring, and coaching to the finance team, ensuring best-practice analysis and reporting.
• Contribute to intellectual capital development by motivating and training team members, enabling on-the-job skills transfer.
• Share industry knowledge and trends with stakeholders during formal and informal interactions.

Required Knowledge and Experience
Experience

• A minimum of 4 years in a finance environment, and experience in operating at a senior manager level as a senior finance business partner or FP&A role.
• Life insurance experience essential, with knowledge of IFRS 17
• Experience in building relations with senior management and driving change management
• Demonstrated expertise in budgeting and forecasting.

Knowledge and Skills

• PC literate (Advanced MS Office, Great Plains an advantage)
• Technical Insurance accounting, financial and management accounting
• Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls including budgeting, understanding of Line of business systems and their integration into the accounting system
• Financial and management accounting (IFRS)
• Some knowledge of regulatory and related insurance industry general informatio
• Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and a deep understanding of insurance value drivers.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capability.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence across business units.
• High integrity, governance-oriented, and risk-aware.
• Collaborative and resilient, with ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Commitment to continuous learning, coaching, and personal development.
• Analytical with strong attention to detail.

Educational Requirements

• CA qualification

All Hollard appointments are made in line with our DEI policy.
Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating and enabling a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of care, dignity and inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including, but not limited to disability, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language and social origin , gender diversity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity). These grounds enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.
We proudly promote the "Hollard Way we work," which is a combination hybrid work environment at this time. We offer flexibility in our work as far as possible, dependent on the nature of the role. Even if you don't meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply!
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
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