Finance Assistant Manager

3 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa KPMG South Africa Full time
Job title : Finance Assistant ManagerJob Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : April 05, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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Reports to (as per organogram)

  • Senior Finance Business Manager or Finance Business Manager

Overall purpose of the role

  • The role is to assist with financial reporting to business functions and client project query resolutions. Providing advice to partners and managers within offices (including over the borders), functions and business units to establish goals and drive strategies to meet evolving business needs. This includes identifying solutions for problems relating to Finance responsibilities, management accounting and information.
  • Providing insights on the financials (weekly)
  • Maintain relationships with internal clients
  • Know your client – purpose of information
  • Pre-empt results – perform follow up based on review
  • Requirement to act as a system enforcer.
  • Identify possible system improvements and report to the Senior Finance business managers

Position specifications

Educational (minimum level necessary to perform the job)

  • Professional/Tertiary
  • B. Com in Accounting or equivalent tertiary qualification and/or relevant professional qualification.

Other requirements

  • Experience in a professional services firm.
  • Experience in finance, including a deep understanding of financial management
  • Leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a high-performing team.
  • Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to interpret financial information
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel, MS Office, Word, Oracle and Power BI.
  • Analytical skills with the ability to collect and interpret complex data and make data-driven recommendations

Experience (minimum years of experience and in which fields, required to perform the job)

  • Accounting Experience, minimum 5 years.
  • Staff management experience an advantage

List of key performance areas and key performance indicators

Measurement

List the tasks underpinning the responsibility

  • (focus on the complexity of the job whilst providing the detail)
  • Business Unit knowledge

(the requirements for technical knowledge of functional work and activities)

  • The provision of sound financial information and comprehensive reporting for the allocated Business units in South and Southern Africa to support their business decision making processes
  • Administer the annual forecast process for the allocated business units in conjunction with the Senior business manager and the Business unit Leaders
  • Assist the Senior Finance business manager with monthly preparation and review of the Partner/managers Scorecards by providing relevant KPI's and financial information
  • Prepare thorough Resource-based budgets for the assigned business units and guide the budgeting team in the BU's on the budgeting process.
  • Provide financial insight throughout the budget process on costs.
  • Prepare financial reporting that highlights business results, KPI's and variances to budgets and forecasts.
  • Provide financial insight by analysing the monthly results and suggest corrective action.

Leadership

(the requirements of the job for providing leadership and guidance to others, it measures the nature and breadth of the leadership)

  • Effective leadership and team management skills to drive collaboration with other departments and lead a strong team.
  • Clearly define assigned team members goals, objectives and performance expectations.
  • Assign tasks and responsibilities to team members ensuring that tasks are distributed fairly and that everyone understands their role in achieving the team's objectives.
  • Provide guidance, support, and coaching to team members to help them develop their skills and reach their full potential.
  • Offer constructive feedback, conduct performance evaluations and identify opportunities for professional growth.

Nature of impact

(measures how the job impacts the business by measuring the overall responsibility associated with the job)

  • Support an improved spend culture and follow up on exceptions.
  • Other ad hoc requirements as requested by the Senior Finance Business managers and financial systems manager within the Finance function. Ad hoc requests will differ between functions and business units.

Area of impact

(measures how wide the impact of the job is within the organisation)

  • Project accounting – ensure that efficient practice management processes are maintained within the assigned offices, functions and business units.
  • Utilising the Power BI tool to assist the business units with lockup management to improve their efficiency and projects recoveries

Interpersonal skills

  • (the level and type of people skills required to perform this job on an ongoing basis)
  • Build and manage high-level collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
  • Maintain a high level of confidentiality and professionalism.
  • Communicate financial insight to all assigned business units to assist with decision making and support of strategy implementation
  • Collaborating and working well together with other functions and offices/regions

Problem solving

(measures the mental skills required in order to perform this job and the complexity of typical problems)

  • Work together with the senior finance managers to identify process gaps and inefficiencies that could hinder the financial management process and come up with possible solutions.
  • Apply the identified and agreed guidelines and objectives in budgeting and forecasting processes for the assigned business units
  • Strong knowledge of financial principles, accounting practices and financial analysis.
  • Conduct financial data analysis to determine current performance and forward look predictions in order to recommend improvements and/or corrective actions through the interpretation of this data.

Level of decision-making / authority

  • (the level of decision-making that is required in order to perform this job)
  • Determine key metrics and analytical tools to be used for measuring financial performance and identifying trends or focus areas.
  • Play a crucial role in the daily financial information that is distributed for decision making purposes.
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