Head of Finance

3 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Good Help Recruitment Full time

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
Finance:

- Be a Finance Business Partner to CMP, LHs and to other Services Business Partners
- Help implement Firms Finance, Risk & Compliance Policies and Standards
- Oversee the country Finance team in Johannesburg supporting business growth, monitoring working capital & performance and managing pricing & profitability
- Oversee general accounting duties, local statutory accounts, local to group report, financial analysis, reporting, treasury, billing & collection management
- Ensure that statutory audits and trust account audit is completed timeously for each financial year
- Responsibility for compliance with financial controls, local accounting reporting requirements, tax regulations
- Review the ways of working impacting the office financial performance and propose improvements / changes, where necessary, to existing processes to maximize productivity and revenue potential
- On behalf of the CMP have oversight of the budget process for Johannesburg, working closely with key stakeholders (Regional Head of Finance, MEA, Location Heads and CMP), with the aim of setting ambitious, consistent and achievable targets
- Contribute to the financial success of the country and achievement of KPIs by recommending and implementing remedies, innovations and improvements, including recruitment, restructuring and service delivery
- Provide commercial and financial support to the CMP on the existing business and new opportunities to ensure the optimal return for the business
- Identify savings and areas of improvement for the Johannesburg office.

Strategy:

- Measure and report on the overall performance of the country and individual local groups against budgets and forecasts, recommending any necessary corrective actions to ensure delivery against them
- Work with leaders of the Johannesburg office to ensure that all stakeholders understand the local and international strategic plans, priorities and objectives, and to ensure they are operating in a manner consistent with them
- Manage the strategic/business planning process for Johannesburg at country and local practice group level, including analysis, design and implementation
- Work with international group leadership to ensure implementation of any International Practice Group strategic plans as they relate to Johannesburg.

Alignment:

- Collaborate with the CMP on aligning strategic and operational initiatives with International Practice Groups
- Ensure collaboration across all practice groups, particularly in relation to ways of working, priorities, the referral of client matters, etc.
- Ensure any service areas interacting with the country are aligned to deliver the operational priorities of the firm and the country.

People:

- Advise and support the CMP in setting partner performance and remuneration proposals
- Coach partners on a broad range of business, commercial, strategic and internal policy issues
- Collaborate with local HR regarding any strategic employee-related issue, including remuneration, promotion and succession, secondments etc., which arise within South Africa
- Help structure and also deliver Finance training / impart Finance awareness to new joiners
- In collaboration with other stakeholders, including the relevant practice group HOO, Head of Partner Recruitment and Head of HR, contribute to the recruitment and integration of lateral partners (coordination, support, financial analysis & strategic note for the Board, integration plan)
- Work with the CMP, international group leadership and HR team to drive the partner promotions process In collaboration with OGC, HR and the Partnership Accounting team support partner exits and associated finance activities
- Role model the firms values and support and mentor others to do the same.

Operational management:

- Supervision and management of P&W employees
- Preparation of the annual Property & Workplace budget, including monthly monitoring and quarterly reforecasting
- Supervise sourcing, approve and monitor important / critical suppliers
- Review and approval of office supplier contracts, invoices, including the monthly rental invoice
- Ensuring the efficient and cost effective provision of services in the Johannesburg office including front of house, health safety and environmental compliance
- Include responsibility for expansion of office space / locations.

Implementation:

- Be a point of escalation for any complex financial and operational issues relating to Johannesburg
- Have an understanding of what we need to do in order to achieve objectives and support the CMP in identifying measures to achieve and track progress
- Have influence over key decisions that impact the direction of the country relating to financials, key strategic hiring decisions, and new investment
- Provide a project management overview of all major and strategic projects in South Africa
- Compile and present regular management reporting information
- Provide local project managemen

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