Senior Financial Manager Johannesburg

BA Personnel • Other • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa • $300 - $400 / year • 2h ago

Introduction

BA Personal is a specialist in our field of expertise with extensive experience in placing niche and specialized roles both nationally and globally, known for attracting and representing high caliber candidates. Our clients are diverse leaders in their respective industries and representatives across all business sectors.

Excellent opportunity for a highly experienced SENIOR FINANCIAL MANAGER , IFRS experience is essential - this role is within the Insurance sector.

Duties & Responsibilities

Undertake strategic and tactical financial analysis, modeling, and evaluation to support business leaders in their decision making. Aiding business in structuring new commercial deals taking into account optimal TIH profit requirements whilst satisfying new partner relationships and expectations. Post project implementation tracking/reporting. Raise post project flags with relevant stakeholders and assist with implementation of corrective action measures within the agreed SLA. Manage the project review process; provide accurate and relevant information and recommendations to stakeholders to enable progress evaluation and agreement of change. Act as a custodian of existing STI business cases financial modelling to evaluate ability/feasibility using applicable financial management tools i.e., NPV, IRR etc. and provide recommendations to senior management. Lead ad-hoc analytical/modelling work to provide insights into critical decision factors. Timely hand-over of new business reports.

Financial Management and Control

Manage a significant portion of the organisation's financial management and/or control processes including strategic investment areas. Management of the legal entities within the organisation's compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and other regulatory requirements such as the Companies Act and identify areas of improvement. Ensure that each legal entity’s financial records are accurate and up-to-date and that all financial transactions are correctly recorded and documented. Detailed review of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements to ensure compliance with IFRS.

Management and submission of quarterly and annual returns to ensure regulatory compliance with the Prudential Authority (PA) and other regulatory bodies. Management and submission of organisational entity budgets used for capital forecasting and group capital management.

Financial Policies, Guidelines, and Protocols

Develop and deliver financial guidelines and protocols to ensure the company complies with regulations and good financial practice. Lead and coordinate the development and delivery of financial policies, guidelines, and protocols in own area of specialisation to ensure compliance with regulations and good financial practice. Keep abreast of international reporting standards and all regulatory and legal frameworks. Ensure that all finance practices align to the regulatory and legal frameworks.

Leadership and Direction

Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.

Performance Management

Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives. Advise on corrective action measures where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives. Responsible for all aspects of staff resourcing, succession planning, management and development ensuring the right people are in place to support service delivery, achieving the goals of the finance function.

Audit

Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of audit control with guidance from senior colleagues. End to end management of the organisation's external audit process, including planning and overseeing audit strategy and timelines; communication with external auditors on significant changes within the business; managing sign-off of technical position papers; managing collaboration of finance, audit, and business team to ensure audit internal and external deliverables are met; management of response to audit findings.

Insights and Reporting

Set and lead execution of the data and analytics reporting plan, creating strategies and templates to report data in a meaningful way. Create, present, and communicate high-impact data and analytics insights and recommendations to critical internal and external stakeholders. Provide STI level FP&A insights. Assist the head of FP&A in updating reports with the latest results and variances; forming supporting commentary; and meeting corporate deadlines. Work closely with the Finance Operations and Systems team to build and enhance current processes and tools to facilitate the right level of management reporting/KPI reporting in the group to senior leadership. Provide high quality ad-hoc analysis as required.