About the job

• We are looking for a reliable Financial Manager that will analyse every day financial activities and subsequently provide advice and guidance to upper management on future financial plans.
• The goal is to enable the company’s leaders to make sound business decisions and meet the company’s objectives.

Responsibilities Will Include But Are Not Limited To

Day-to-Day processing and financial processes

• Responsible for building, implementing and ongoing communication of accounting and finance processes, models and procedures to finance and operations.
• Responsible for new systems as well as changes to systems implementation and building of processes around new systems.
• Responsible for the successful implementation and on-going monitoring of daily and monthly controls and processes.
• Responsible for timeous identification and reporting of control weaknesses to the Senior Finance Manager.
• Responsible for setting up of systems, daily and monthly processes and controls for all new dealerships in line with current processes for current dealerships.
• Responsible for setting up reconciliations for all new dealerships.
• Review of all key financial reconciliations and ensuring that reconciliations are of a high quality and submitted timeously.
• Accountable for relevant Income statement and Balance sheet analytics and commentary.
• Responsible for branch accounting and inter-branch reconciliations.
• Responsible for ensuring all reporting deadlines are met.
• Accountable for day-to-day financial operations.
• Responsible for ensuring that all payments are processed accurately, timeously and meet tax obligations.
• Accountable for ensuring financial record management are complete and saved on servers.

Financial analysis and reconciliations

• Responsible for preparing financial reporting information in line with IFRS for all companies.
• Responsible for preparing monthly Income statement and Balance sheet analysis to understand dealership performance and improvement areas.
• Responsible for producing high quality reconciliations within your team.
• Responsible for preparing KPI reporting packs and presentations on performance.
• Accountable for working capital management and cashflow management for all dealerships.

Finance team management

• Responsible for managing the finance team including capacity management, team morale and skills development of the team
• Responsible for coaching and training junior leaders within the team i.e., Senior accountant and Accountants with the relevant leaderships skills to perform their role successfully.
• Responsible for guiding the team with prioritization of tasks, time management and quality of deliverables.
• Responsible for offering training to operations and finance team members on processes where necessary.
• Responsible for communicating clearly and respectfully with line manager, team members and operational teams. Responsible for treating all team members fairly.
• Responsible for all team members having a ramp up plan and clear expectations of their role.

Audit

• Responsible for managing mid-year and full-year audit processes of all entities.
• Responsible for implementing controls and processes to mitigate and reduce risk.

Other

• Responsible for ad-hoc finance related functions and queries that may arise.
• Responsible for providing guidance and oversight to team.
• Responsible for assisting the senior finance manager with ad-hoc projects and acquisitions that may arise.
• Responsible for assisting other finance managers and being on stand-by when they are on leave.
• Responsible for taking accountability of the team and all team deliverables and ramp ups.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance or related field
• 5 – 10 years in a financial position
• ACA and/or ACTI is essential
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Analytical and forecasting skills
• Experience in people management and building new processes