Team Lead: Financial Operations

2 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa rain Full time

**Team Lead: Financial Operations**

**Job purpose**:
The purpose of the role is to provide support to both the finance team as well as the Senior Manager - Financial Operations.

This support will be in the form of:

- Supervising creditors processes
- Reviewing and approving payments
- Staff management
- Cashflow management

**Key Performance Area**

**Creditors processes**
- Ensure creditors team are processing supplier orders and invoices accurately and within deadlines
- Ensure compliance with accounting and VAT/ tax requirements

**Review and approve creditor reconciliations**
- Ensure creditor accounts are accurately reconciled
- Ensure payment amounts are correct

**Payment processes**
- Ensure supplier payments are scheduled and loaded correctly
- Approve payments

**Cashflow management**
- Reconcile upcoming supplier payments
- Forecast expected purchases
- Forecast cash requirements
- Analyse variances in actual cashflow from forecast

**Foreign currency transactions**
- Determine foreign currency requirements and execute foreign currency transactions
- Review and process foreign currency revaluations
- Forecast FEC requirements and utilize FECs
- Reconcile forex gains/ losses

**Team management**
- Supervise team members to ensure finance department objectives and deadlines are met
- Review team’s recons & reports to ensure the accuracy thereof
- Manage the performance of team members
- Plan and approve leave schedules to ensure mínimal disruption to operations
- Develop team’s skills through coaching

**General Ledger and analysis**
- Review cost accounts on a monthly basis
- Analyse expenses and provide commentary on costs
- Ensure compliance with IFRS

**Prepare reports, recons and analysis**
- Prepare ad hoc reports, recons and analysis as required

**Audit**
- Prepare recons & reports required for audit purposes
- Ensure processes and documentation meet audit requirements

**Risk management, processes & controls**
- Maintain vigilance over new operational and financial risks and implement controls to mitigate risks
- Any other ad hoc duties as may be required

**Qualification, Knowledge and Experience**
- Postgraduate accounting degree or equivalent qualification.
- 3 years’ experience in a similar role or equivalent experience.
- Good excel skills and able to perform reconciliations. Analytically minded with the ability to work on own initiative and priorities work. Deadline driven and goal oriented.
- Leadership skills and experience.

**Location**

Cape Town

**Job Type**: Permanent

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cape Town, Western Cape: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

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