Objectives Of The Role
- Provide oversight and strategic guidance for the financial activities of multiple business units within the group.
- Ensure accurate financial reporting, compliance with accounting standards, and effective financial controls.
- Support the executive team with financial planning and analysis to drive strategic decisions.
Minimum Qualification
Ideal Qualification
- BCom degree / Certificate in Accounting
Required Duties
- Financial Management
- Strategic Planning and Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Compliance and Risk Management
- Reconciling of Accounts
- Customer/supplier relationship
- Support and assist the Bookkeeper with communication with suppliers and customers
- General Ledger Accounting
- Cash flow management
- Procedural requirements load invoices
- Maintenance of financial information
- Processing of financial information
- Health and Safety
Technical Requirements
- Financial management acumen.
- Supplier and customer relationship management.
- Collection and follow-up with debtors to maintain collection terms.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Generic Attributes
- Hard working.
- Eye for details.
- Very energetic.
- Eco-friendly attitude.
- Promote positive attitude.
Technical Attributes
- Financial management acumen.
- Supplier and customer relationship management.
- Collection and follow-up with debtors to maintain collection terms.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Key Competencies
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. Negotiating and resolving account queries with customers and suppliers.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Judgement and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Service Orientation: Actively seeking ways to help people/customers/suppliers.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the audience's needs.
- Active Learning: Understanding new information's implications for current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Leadership skills - leading others, managing resources, and delegating effectively.
- Strategic agility - flexibility and 'thinking on your feet.'
- Change management skills.
- Assessing and facilitating change.
- Risk management skills.
- Understanding the sources of risk and evaluating risks and methods of control and mitigation.
Desired Skills
- Financial management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Debtors
- Strategic Planning and analysis
- Compliance Risk Management
- Health and Safety
Desired Work Experience
About The Employer
Our client is in the automotive sector. To set up the suitable candidate for success, a 3 month onboarding and skills transfer period will be run by the Group Financial Manager in Johannesburg. A subsidy for those living costs will be offered by the business.
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