Head of Strategic Finance

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Group Finance Full time

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply(wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, includingGuardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from allwalks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

**Role Purpose**

To facilitate and enable strategic and financial planning at group level. Further, to enable stakeholders to make informed and effective decisions by using information provided by the Strategic Finance Team.

**Requirements**:
**Minimum qualifications**:

- Degree in Actuarial Sciences, Accounting, Financial Management or Management Accounting
- Actuarial Science degree preferred but not essential

**Minimum experience**:

- 10+ years’ senior financial planning and financial analysis experience with exposure to internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

**Key skills**:

- Thorough understanding of the insurance and the financial services landscape in South Africa.
- Strong understanding of life insurance and financial services business models.
- Financial planning and analysis.
- Strong business and commercial acumen.
- Knowledge of relevant regulations and frameworks.
- Quantitative analysis and measurement skills.
- Insight into sustainability issues and their implications for business.
- Project and change management skills.

**Key qualities**:

- Team leadership and management skills with an ability to lead through influence.
- Curious and proactive to be able to identify, question and resolve gaps.
- Connective and strategic thinker with good strategic planning, judgement and decision-making skills.
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
- Able to lead change and innovation.
- Excellent abilities to engage and deal with many different complexities and people at the same time, including managing upwards.
- Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication, influencing and presentation skills.
- Self-reflective, aware and able to learn quickly.
- Assertive, resilient and able to work under pressure.
- Deadline and solution-driven, comfortable with change and able to navigate ambiguity and deal with the unexpected.

**Duties & Responsibilities**

**Strategic projects, new initiatives and business decision support**:

- Manage IFRS 17 implementation
- Manage IFRS 2 liability modelling
- Provide financial support regarding variable pay
- Manage / provide strategic input into new strategic initiatives and business decision support
- Co-ordinate CFO Forum administration Provide project management support with special focus on:

- Quarterly reporting process
- XBRL implementation
- ORSA project management
- SAM Group Return submissions
- SAM quarterly submissions
- KPI reviews

**Financial planning and business intelligence**:

- Oversee the development and implementation of performance reporting metrics to provide insights and actions aligned to strategic objectives of the group.
- Manage the delivery of performance reporting, forward looking forecasts, and statutory reporting to various stakeholders to enable decision making.
- In collaboration with the finance community, supply long term financial forecasts to inform strategic decision making.
- Provide input on business performance, business highlights and strategy updates to accurately reflect Momentum Metropolitan’s performance to a range of audiences.
- Oversee the provision of trends analysis of business performance across business units and insights based on these trends.
- Keep abreast of key, relevant industry trends and articulate potential impact on performance relative to competitors.
- Contribute to and implement strategy frameworks and methodologies focused on non-traditional competitor comparisons.
- Oversee research and analysis to build a comprehensive and integrated competitor information database including both financial and non-financial information to enable business and strategic decision making.
- Oversee the provision of competitive insights on business initiatives and ventures based on competitive and industry landscapes.
- Oversee the provision of input into investment decisions based on expert view of industry, competitors and financial insight to optimise capital return on investments.
- Work with MMH’s Remuneration team to model and analyse possible incentive structures to ultimately recommend such to the Remuneration Committee.
- Make annual recommendations on divisional incentive awards based on calculations of approved incentive plans.

**Strategic reporting**:

- Oversee internal quarterly reporting (Group FD report and Director’s valuations report).
- Oversee the preparation of monthly flash and operational reporting, the annual integrated report, SETC reporting, CDP reporting, trading updates and investor reporting.
- Manage results Q&A.
- Manage QBR process.

**Investor relations**:

- Ensure the group is appropriately and strategically positioned with an

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