Finance Business Partner

3 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Hollard Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
Hello an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Hollard Life Solutions, Finance area. We are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner.

Manage Opex reporting reprocess ensuring that all month end journals are processed to correct GL accounts and cost centre. Communicate Opex monthly results to cost centre managers and attend to queries flowing from EVR discussion.

Overall Opex management - budget and forecast management for support areas.

Balance sheet management - managing of balance sheet process ensuring all balance sheet accounts are reconciled and reconciliation queries are followed up and cleared timeously.

Provide effective risk management of balance sheet ensuing that balance sheet accounts with no movement are monitored and escalated to relevant heads of department.

Manage cash book process and ensuring smooth payment process within SLA and timely reporting of cash books.

Maintain the Life Solutions BU’s DOA as maintained by Group Procurement ensuring and support the Head: Finance Operations in establishing a robust control environment in line with the Group’s procurement standards. and

Manage Opex reporting process (and EVRs for Support Functions in particular) ensuring that all month end journals are processed to correct GL accounts and cost centre, accruals are raised appropriately on monthly basis with the full year forecasts updated accordingly.

Oversight over monthly recoveries by the rest of the Group from Life Solutions including Central Allocations as well as allocation of PFM costs across the Life Solutions departments.

Oversight over the Life Solutions BU’s recoveries from rest of the Group as well as third parties ensuring that these are settled in line with contracted terms and conditions. Support the Head: Finance Operations in delivering on the Finance Team’s responsibilities as determined by the BU and Group’s Preferential Procurement Forums and as required by the Independent BEE Verification Agency.

Manage the Life Solutions BU’s capitalisation process as the technical expert to ensure that relevant provisions of accounting standards are applied to the IT and Project Costs, in particular, in line with the Group’s accounting policies.

Support the Head: Finance Operation in managing the annual budgeting and re-forecasting process for support areas (including Central Allocations as well as allocation of PFM costs across Life Solutions department).

Support the Head: Finance Operation in ongoing management of opex and ensuring that full year forecasts are updated accordingly as a way of establishing a robust process for determining “bankable” savings.

Support the Head: Finance Operation in establishing and maintaining robust processes for tracking savings and/or benefits realized from various strategic projects and initiatives.

Support Head: Finance Operations in providing commentary and insights on opex for the BU as part of the monthly Flash Earnings and FRC processes as well the annual budgeting and reforecasting processes.

Maintain the BU’s fixed asset register (including intangible assets) together with the asset leasing process ensuring that the Life Solutions BU is billed only for assets that are utilised by the BU’s staff members.

Monitoring all BU’s Balance Sheet accounts to ensure effective reconciliations ar performed monthly either by own Team or Finance Teams responsible for the Distribution Functions.

Provide effective risk management of balance sheet ensuing that balance sheet accounts with no movement are monitored and escalated to relevant heads of department.

Manage working capital and cash flow forecast for BU and reporting to the centre

Support Head: Finance Operations in providing commentary and insights on working capital ratios and cash flow projection requirements for BU.

Champion process efficiency through use working capital results and help business to improve process of receivables collection and timely payment of suppliers

Monitoring of cash flow forecast against the actual cash flows and communicate results of cash flow analysis to the relevant heads of departments and

Support Head: Finance Operations in managing the Life Solutions BU’s VAT and Employees’ Tax considerations with both Group Tax and SARS where appropriate.

Compilation of the Life Solutions BU’s consolidation packs for all four life licences

Assist auditors in their audit by providing explanations/ supporting document

Ad hoc attendance at business meetings (as requested)

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:
Demonstrated experience in operating in a complex environment at a senior finance manager level

Financial services experience would be an advantage

Demonstrated experience in team management, building relations with senior management and driving change management

PC literate (Advanced MS Office, Great Plains an advantage)

Technical Insurance accounting, financial and management accou



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