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Commercial Finance Lead

Commercial Finance Lead

CBRE ExcellerateJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
3 days ago
Job description

Job title : Commercial Finance Lead

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : December 06, 2025

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What will you bring

  • Prior experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
  • Experience with the SAP ERP system.
  • Strong understanding of budgeting and variance analysis reporting.
  • BCom degree or equivalent.
  • CIMA qualification would be advantageous.
  • Five years hands on operational finance experience in Facilities management / manufacturing / project / contract-based environment.

    • What will you be doing

    Client Billing / Invoicing

  • Follow up on outstanding invoices.
  • Analyze the various billing templates / schedules from FM.
  • Send statement (monthly) to debtors.
  • Ensure that billing is in line with contract / S1.

    • Debtors Management

  • Follow up on outstanding invoices (Not Paid).
  • Provide weekly feedback to debtor’s controller.
  • Allocate payments to invoices on SAP.
  • Process Withholding Tax certificates.
  • Clearing of debtors’ accounts.

    • Purchase Order Management

  • Run Open purchase order report regularly.
  • Check for long outstanding purchase orders.
  • Notify FM of any necessary deletions.
  • Ensure supplier has sufficient funds available on all PO’s issued.

    • Expense Accruals

  • Check for supplier invoices (expenses) that aren’t GRN’d.
  • Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing.
  • Gather valid supporting material for accrual.
  • Raise accrual.
  • Analysis and recover credit card spend and / or travel spend.
  • Compare O1 to S1 to P&L to ensure prevention of revenue leakage.

    • Income Accruals

  • Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing.
  • Gather valid supporting material for accrual.
  • Raise accrual.

    • Payroll

  • Consult business unit head regarding bonuses.
  • Set provisions for bonuses monthly.
  • Ensure correctness of employee salaries.
  • Ensure that salary recoveries are done.

    • Balance Sheet Reconciliations

  • Prepared and reconciled on a monthly basis.
  • Reconciling items are cleared timeously.
  • Relevant supporting documentation forms part of the reconciliations.

    • Income Statement Management

  • Prepare monthly financial analysis and timeously resolve issues.
  • Give comments and gather supporting documents on any material variances.

    • External Audit

  • Submit requested audit sample supporting documents timeously to the auditors.
  • Address audit queries timeously.
  • Prepare audit files in preparation for external audit.

    • Financial Analysis and Planning

  • Preparation of respective client budgets on an annual basis.
  • Quarterly preparation of updated client account forecasts.
  • Perform variance analysis on client P&L account on a monthly basis.
  • Prepare and present financial analysis to respective Business Unit Lead on a regular basis.

    • Month end close

  • Ensure respective client accounts are closed timeously and accurately.
  • Perform variance analysis and clear out issues.
  • All month end checklists are completed and submitted for review timeously.
  • P&L is prepared, reviewed and signed off before the finalization of results.

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