Head of Finance

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Measured Ability Group Holdings Full time

South Africa - Gauteng, Tshwane (Pretoria / Shoshanguve / Bronkhorstspruit)**
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My client, a global leader in ISO standards international certifications, is looking for a Head of Finance to join their team here in SA.

Purpose of Position
Responsible for all Financial and Controlling matters in South Africa.

Location
The role is office-based in Pretoria with some national/international travel.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

  • Accounting & Financial Control
  • Ownership and responsibility for the financial accounting and reporting of South Africa business; ensuring timely, accurate and comprehensive information to the Group and key stakeholders of the business in accordance with the Group's Finance Manual.
  • Responsible for ensuring that the control environment is in place and robust across all areas of the business. To be seen as the face of Finance in South Africa with an independent reporting responsibility on all matters relating to the control environment.
  • Collaboration with the Financial Shared Service Centre to ensure that all shared service transactional activities for South Africa are optimally executed.
  • Responsible for working with Group Tax and Treasury to ensure adequate working capital and repatriation of profits where appropriate, including preparation of monthly cashflow forecasts.
  • Responsible all tax submissions and payments.
  • To act as the Public Officer for the legal entity.
  • Coordination of year end statutory accounts and audits for South Africa ensuring timely and accurate completion.
  • Responsibility to be informed of local laws and legislation which impact on the business including tax and to take action to ensure changes are made to systems and processes as needed.
  • Leadership
  • Lead the Finance team within South Africa with responsibility for determining and organising the scope of work for all members of the team.
  • Build and drive a high performing Finance team; setting stretching objectives, creating alignment to strategy and effectively communicating, engaging and influencing the team
  • Create a great place to work for the Finance team; enable your team to fulfil their potential, build trust and confidence, challenge the status quo and maximise training and development opportunities to continually grow and improve on what we do
  • Ensure teams' objectives and priorities are set up in consultation with stream finance to ensure alignment. Where local resourcing gaps or requirements are identified, proactively discuss them with both regional and stream finance functions to ensure quick and efficient resolution.
  • Business Partnering
  • Acting as a finance business partner to the Stream business leadership team of South Africa providing insightful data and challenge to enable the business to make effective decisions aligned to the Strategic objectives.
  • Act as a finance business partner to other business leader as required
  • Responsibility for preparation and submission of budgets, forecasts and strategic plans built in consultation with business leaders, stream finance teams and the Financial Controller.
  • Support all streams, sectors and functions in South Africa
  • Providing support and services as needed to the global stream finance teams of all streams and to work collaboratively with colleagues in all countries, streams and sectors ensuring that alignment is maintained on the agreed objectives of the business and that the South Africa finance team is kept up to date with stream and sector requirements
  • Recognising that from time to time stream and sector priorities or escalation routes might be different, anticipate that certain finance tasks might require different approaches and/or inputs, therefore train and allocate resources in consultation with stream and sector finance accordingly.
  • Complete and regularly update strategic workforce plans in consultation with group, regional, sector and stream finance to help plan local resources within a matrix organisation

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

  • Confident, capable and credible with effective influencing and persuasiveness skills
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to relay financial information to the required stakeholders, solve conflicts and negotiate
  • Ability to drive a high performing team; encouraging curiosity, team spirit and a continuous improvement mindset
  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Team player with positive 'can do' attitude, solution orientated, and goal driven
  • Ability to delegate tasks to team members where appropriate
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret and interrogate data to provide business insight.
  • Knowledge of local and IFRS accounting standards as well as local taxation
  • Excellent professional ethics

For more information please contact:
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