Finance Manager

If you have product experience within a global office and are immediately available please apply. The role is based in Paarl and is a 6 month contract.

Responsibilities:

• Consult and educate on complex financial and operational matters to all department leaders
• Liaise with General Manager and Senior Management explain results, make improvements, manage projects, identify inefficiencies, understand operations
• Manage the accounting daily activities, ensure control is in place, manage team performance and development
• Manage accounting operations Billing, A/R, A/P, G/L, Inventory/Cost Accounting and Revenue Recognition
• Lead month-end closing, prepare monthly financial statements and operational reports
• Analyse variances (Material/Labour/Overheads) and communicate explanations to management with proposed actions
• Calculate Activity Based Costing, Standard Costing and Pricing
• Prepare forecasts of income statement, balance sheets, and statement of cash flows for the region
• Work across organisation boundaries and all levels of the company to achieve regional and corporate objectives
• Trains new staff and existing staff
• Share best practices across global finance/plant controller, i.e. process improvements, financial modelling and procedure changes
• Implement and maintain plant internal controls necessary to ensure reporting integrity
• Responsible for working capital management, cash forecasting and liaising with suppliers and customers to improve working capital management, cash collections, stretched payments etc.
• Lead year end Audit activities

Requirements:

• CA (SA) / Professionally Registered Accountant / CIMA with completed articles
• 10 years experience in a multinational organisation Financial Manager / Finance Controller within the manufacturing environment
• MS Office and ORACLE/SAGE/IFS financial software skills, experience with OneStream and Power BI systems
• Excellent financial control and reporting skills and ensuring that all statutory and corporate obligations are met
• Effectively communicate with management, public groups, colleagues
• Excellent communication skills, internally and with clients
• Ability to build relationships with colleagues, clients and staff in charge

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