Strategic Accounting Manager: Lending

2 months ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Milford Blake Executive Search Full time
Job Description

At Milford Blake Executive Search, we seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager: Secured Lending to join our team. This pivotal role requires a strategic thinker who can provide insightful, timely, and value-added input to the business.

Key Responsibilities
  • Challenge the status quo and support the business in achieving its objectives and generating value.
  • Assist in bringing consistency across business units regarding decision support presentations.
  • Enable improved decision-making and drive corrective actions.
  • Analyze actual results to proactively drive sustainable value through informed decision-making.
  • Evaluate secured lending performance and conduct post-implementation reviews.
  • Develop accounting strategies and analyze the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
  • Assess the accounting impact of new services and contracts and identify operational activities affecting accounting.
  • Determine IFRS guidance and international benchmarks impacting accounting policies.
Requirements
  • Strategic Decision Support:
    • Develop credibility with management to provide value-added insights and support consistent decision-making.
    • Enable improved decision-making and identify corrective actions through analysis of actual results.
    • Evaluate secured lending performance and conduct post-implementation reviews.
  • Accounting Strategy and Compliance:
    • Develop and implement accounting strategies.
    • Analyze IFRS and Group strategies to assess their impact on the business.
    • Evaluate the accounting impact of new products, services, and contracts.
    • Identify finance operational activities affecting Group accounting and determine relevant IFRS guidance and benchmarks.
  • Audit Management:
    • Prepare and agree on the annual audit schedule with business units and external auditors.
    • Define audit objectives, deliverables, and timelines in accordance with IFRS requirements.
    • Schedule and coordinate the audit process, ensuring timely completion.
    • Compile documentation, manage follow-up actions, and ensure audit findings are addressed within the allocated time frame.
  • Statutory Compliance:
    • Identify and interpret statutory requirements, guidelines, and IFRS.
    • Manage and review changes or amendments to ensure compliance with IFRS.
    • Monitor compliance to achieve statutory requirements within the allocated time frame.
  • Financial Management and Reporting:
    • Oversee the record-to-report process and develop accounting policies and operational procedures.
    • Manage balance sheet accounts and inter-company processes.
    • Support FP&A with the budgeting process.
    • Help oversee treasury and cash management, foreign currency management, and cash flow forecasting.
    • Review and approve purchase requisitions/orders in line with Fraxion approval limits.
    • Ensure business decisions adhere to the governance framework.
    • Establish and manage a strategic working capital function.
    • Monitor and manage operating expenses within budget guidelines.

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