Financial Manager: Shared Services
Vacancy at a glance
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Overview
This role involves providing consolidated financial management, analysis and operational support to the Finance Executive: Corporate Services across Shared Services and the functions supported by it.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
- Professional qualification such as CA(SA), CIMA or an equivalent qualification (advantageous)
- 3-5 years’ of proven financial management experience, preferably in a shared services environment
- 3-5 years’ of leadership or team-coordination experience
Responsibilities
- Prepare, maintain and consolidate short-, medium- and long-term cash flow forecasts for Shared Services
- Monitor actual cash flows against forecast, investigate material variances and provide timely explanations and corrective recommendations
- Assess the reliability of assumptions, service volumes, allocation drivers and departmental inputs used in forecasts
- Support cash flow improvement through disciplined management of creditors, payment timing, commitments, accruals, provisions and recoveries
- Oversee the monitoring of Shared Services debtors and intercompany recoveries
- Support the Finance Executive: Corporate Services with liquidity planning, funding requirements and prioritisation of payments
- Support ERP implementation, master-data and financial-data clean-up, system testing, user readiness and improvement of finance processes
- Maintain sound working knowledge of the financial systems used across Shared Services
- Support the Finance Executive: Corporate Services with the consolidation, review and monitoring of financial plans and budgets
- Coordinate the financial evaluation and monitoring of capital expenditure across Shared Services
- Monitor and analyse financial performance against budget and forecast
- Oversee working capital and control indicators relevant to Shared Services
- Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of cost-control measures
- Ensure that internal cost allocations and service recharges are complete and supportable
- Oversee the financial governance of fixed assets, leases and other Shared Services resources
- Review consolidated monthly financial statements, management reports and supporting analyses
- Provide technical accounting and IFRS support
- Coordinate the identification, monitoring and escalation of material financial, control, tax and compliance risks
- Continuously improve the integrity, accuracy, relevance and timeliness of financial reporting
- Support the Finance Executive: Corporate Services and Group Insurance in maintaining adequate insurance cover
- Provide additional financial reporting, analysis and related support as required
- Coordinate and support the Shared Services finance team to achieve consistent deadlines and reporting standards
- Promote knowledge sharing, technical development, service orientation and standardisation across the Shared Services finance team
How to apply
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