Group Chief Financial Officer

Location : Hillcrest

Our client is looking for an accomplished and results-driven Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join their executive team. The ideal candidate will bring strong strategic insight, financial leadership, and operational expertise to drive business growth and ensure financial sustainability. This role requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in financial management within a manufacturing environment, who can lead finance, IT, and procurement functions while maintaining the highest standards of governance, compliance, and performance.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Financial Management :

• Manage the company's financial operations. Ensure that the financial transactions, policies, and procedures meet the organization's short and long-term business objectives and are conducted in accordance with regulations, accounting principles, and standards.
• Oversee cash flow management, liquidity, and banking relationships to ensure adequate funding for operations and strategic investments.
• Ensure effective management of working capital
• Manage and support finance, debtors, creditors, and cost accounting teams.
• Prepare and monitor weekly cash flows.
• Ensure standard costing and the related product costing model, bill of material are updated as necessary.
• Provide insight to sales department to determine selling price and price increase.
• Provide strategic financial insight and analytics to the group to facilitate responsible decision making.
• Keep up to date with IFRS standards and all accounting concept, practices, and procedures.
• Lead the development of effective financial policies, procedures, and guidelines for Group.
• Overseeing commercial contracts with suppliers, retailers, agents to ensure that they are not commercially onerous
• Review procurement and contracts prior to settlement.
• Formulate and implement required controls.
• Ensure effective management of financial systems and records to ensure that Group finances are run effectively and financial data can be supplied accurately and timeously
• Ensure accuracy of the ERP system and that products are costed correctly.
• Ensure correct calculation and allocation of overheads.
• Ensure procedure manuals are adequately prepared and maintained regularly and are at the required standard.
• Identify and alert the CEO of any irregularity, lack of compliance, lack of adherence to process and procedures, weakness in internal controls, and any actual or potential concerns arising out of the financial and operational matters of the business.
• Provide oversight on procurement and IT departments.
• Liaise with auditors, bankers, and insurers

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Financial Reporting :

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To Apply :

If you meet the above requirements and are ready to take on a strategic leadership role, we invite you to submit your detailed CV to