Group Finance Business Partner - East Rand - CA (SA)

The purpose of the role is to lead the function in the planning, implementation and running of all finance activities at a overarching financial management level including Consolidation, Business Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Treasury, Tax, Audit, M&A and Stakeholder Management.

Duties and responsibilities :

Participate as a member of the Finance Committee and contribute to the development of group financial strategy, methodologies, technologies, practices, policies, and processes and ensure that adequate Internal controls are implemented and adhered to

Align Finance teams within structure to the overall business plan, ways of work and expected performance standards to ensure that business objectives are achieved, financial direction and needs are filled whilst adhering to shareholder, legislative and regulatory requirements.

Optimise and lead teams with clear plans to improve processes, reporting quality and timelines to support business decisions making and delivery of financial practices

Adopt a Finance Business partnering mind-set that supports areas of responsibility to drive the business plan and outcomes for the business in line with the agreed strategy as signed off at Group level.

Prepare, review and interpret daily, weekly and monthly dashboards, reports and management accounts that provide insight and management information to the CFO incorporating Divisional and Group Services divisions.

Apply technical expertise to ensure that the Group and Divisions adhere to IRS accounting standards at that all times all Statutory and Legal requirements are met.

Manage Cash Flow and all cash management activities on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to ensure that the Group can meet its financial obligations through collaboration with Credit Management and Accounts payable.

Identify and drive cost containment principles across the Group ensuring that margins are optimised and support the FBPs in driving a cost down mindset in the divisions.

Manage and collate all Budgeting and Forecasting activities to ensure that methodologies, assumptions and results are accurate and variance analysis with Waterfalls are accurate and reflect the current business and economic activity.

Manage and drive a deadline driven culture that continuously ensures that all daily, weekly, monthly and annual deadlines for reporting are adhered to and improved upon.

Prepare the month Group reporting pack and ensure that all submissions are timeous, accurate and relevant with all variances and analyses adequately document and explained.

Ensure that monthly and annual Consolidated AFS and Management accounts are prepared and presented for review to the CFO for compilation and presentation to the Board and Audit Committee.

Collate and prepare the monthly Group services reporting pack, meet with Group services heads and discuss variances against budget and forecast.

Perform a monthly review of all Balance Sheet reconciliations across the Group to ensure accurate and timely balance sheet reporting.

Drive an automation mindset that ensures that manual processes and risks are identified and eliminated to speed up processing and management of overall Divisional and Group Finance.

Prepare monthly consolidations and annual reporting pack as well as all Statutory Financial statements for all group companies within 3 months of year end.

Manage and drive all external and internal audit activities timeously to deliver on all Group and Audit requirements including tax and statutory requirements for the Group.

Support the CFO fully all M& A requirements to ensure successful transactions.

Influence peers and support team as a "finance centre of expertise" on ways of work to optimise the finance function and its outputs.

Qualifications and experience :

Chartered Accountant (SA)

5-10 years Financial Management experience in a company of 1500 - 3000 employees

Experience at Middle to Senior management level

Operational Financial management experience with some experience in strategic management.

Required Knowledge

Treasury management

Financial accounting

Internal control

Asset management

Good corporate governance

Auditing

Balance sheet management

ROI / ROA

Cost control

Financial reporting

Financial planning

IFRS

GAAP

Budgeting and forecasting

Buy / Lease comparison

Required Skills

Ability to communicate effectively at all levels

Doing and Delivering

Business acumen

Technical Financial skills

Analysing skills

Communication and collaboration at all levels

Collaboration skills

Relationship building

Report writing

Strategic management

Networking

Information technology and systems management

Salary - R1.4 mill - R1.8 mill pa CTC