Rsa - Financial Controller - Corporate & Accounting

**Job no**: 513981

**Brand**: Flight Centre

**Work type**: Full time

**Location**: Johannesburg West

**Categories**: Finance & Strategy

**Role Details**:
**Job Title**:
Financial Controller - Corporate & Accounting Operations

**Date:
1 September 22

**Reports to**:
CFO - South Africa

**Agreed by**:
CFO & HR

**Job Purpose**

To provide commercial expertise, business support, financial control and strategic advice to the Corporate divisions FCTG (FCM, Corporate Traveller) to ensure all goals are met, opportunities realised and risks mitigated.

Working closely with the CFO, Corporate Traveller and FCM SWOT (Exco team) Leaders and team as follows
- Delivering timely and accurate management information to aid strategic and tactical decision making by and with the business
- Responsible for leadership of approx. 30 finance team members with 5 direct reports
- Responsible for the financial control of the Corporate brands, ensuring robust controls are in place and appropriate monitoring tools are used to ensure adherence to such controls
- Responsible for providing both routine and ad hoc analysis to CT and FCM SWOT teams and Operational Leaders
- Ensuring risks are identified and mitigated through appropriate, robust controls around the creditors and debtors departments that make up the Accounting Operations team
- Ownership of ongoing process improvement in the Accounting Operations team
- Set, maintain and drive achievement of appropriate KPI targets for teams and individuals in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for the functions across the business
- Care take the off-shore, outsourced teams providing specified roles and functions to the business. Setting of minimum expectations and ensuring these are met whilst maintaining a seamless integration with local teams and business participants
- Take ownership of the mid-back office system (Protas), ensuring its key functionality, integration set ups and optimised performance is maintained and delivered to all stakeholders and users across the business
- Grow, guide and develop the leadership teams of the Corporate and Accounting Operations finance teams
- Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and suppliers in order to play a key part delivering on brand expectations to both aforementioned stakeholders
- Identify and drive opportunities for procedural efficiencies, embracing technology integrations as part of the solutions

**Skills and Capabilities**:
**Skills / Capabilities**

**Description**:
Problem solving and analysis
- Develop structured approach and framework for resolving problems
- Able to develop alternative solutions to problems

Technical skills
- Conversant with technical accounting standards i.e. IFRS

Financial Management
- Able to interpret complex financial reports
- Develop budgets and financial targets

Negotiating and Relationship building skills
- Develop and effectively present well-structured negotiating positions
- Build long term relationships with negotiating partners

Communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to provide high level written and verbal information to key stakeholders
- Can create relationships at all levels including suppliers, staff and customers

**Qualifications**:
**Skills / Capabilities**

**Description**:
Degree Qualified

BCom Hons essential, CA(SA) or CIMA preferable

Management experience

5 years of relevant experience at a managerial level

**Persons Profile**:
**Competency**

**Description**:
Commercial Acumen
- Analysis of data and the preparation of complex business cases
- Proven ability to negotiate ideal business outcomes
- Influences business performance to achieve targets
- Deep level of commercial understanding of product and marketing drivers and levers

Strong Leadership
- A leader that can motivate, inspire and develop their team
- A leader that can influence decisions to support business strategy
- Ability to set, monitor and influence expectations
- A leader that provides direction and vision for the team while building a strong social community that works and plays together.

Planning and time management
- Monitors performance against timelines

Clear analytical thinking
- Breaks information into parts, patterns and relationships
- Produces workable solutions
- Probes for further information on a problem

Excellent Communicator
- Listens actively
- Fosters open communication

Upholds company philosophies and culture
- Takes ownership for success or failures
- Belief in the company philosophies

**Accountabilities**:
**Weighting**

**Objective**

**Outcomes**

**Commercial Acumen and Business Support**:
Assist Corporate SWOT Leaders with understanding the financial implications of a business decision through commercial awareness, production of ad hoc analysis and ongoing tracking of business performance

20%

Identify consumer trends in advance and provide strategic input to ensure correct product strategy

Provide appropriate levels of challenge to the business wit