Finance Manger

Job Title: Finance Manager

Business Unit: Finance

Supervisors Title: Finance Manager

The Finance Manager will be required to attend to and perform on all levels of finance, from bookkeeping to senior management levels.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Financial Management:

• Manage daily financial operations, ensuring consistency across the organisation.
• Analyse and validate financial data to better understand potential risks, concerns, and outcomes of decisions.
• Perform Daily Bank imports and allocate payments to relevant suppliers and customers.
• Monitor and enforce compliance-related policies, procedures, guidelines, and best practices.
• Monitor the expenditures on an on-going basis; ensuring that expenditures are in accordance with the approved annual budget.
• Drive the implementation and management of risk and finance management protocols and prescripts.
• Collaborate with and provide support to the CEO, Technical team and other key decision-making bodies.
• Implement budgetary controls and ensure effective internal control systems in the accounting and reporting cycles.
• Accurately accrue unprocessed invoices and receivers, prioritising the timely reconciliation on all accounts and following up on outstanding invoices each month (debtors management).
• Investigate the financial situation of Franchisee and usually provide recommendations as to how to improve, and train franchisees on finance.
• Oversee annual group audit.

Stakeholder Engagements:

• Arrange and attend stakeholder meetings and ensured feedback of stakeholder responses and requests are responded to within agreed timescales.
• Nurture, grow and further develop a portfolio of long-term stakeholder relationships, whilst considering how these relationships can be amplified to reap greater benefits across the company.

Report Management:

• Create and deliver informative reporting and results analysis on financial objectives, ensuring continuous visibility of plans and progress
• Produce monthly management reports and complete Sustainability Report to the Holding Company.
• Create draft AFSs for all companies under the Holding Company.

Data Management:

• Maintain a data management repository and respond to ad hoc data requests from stakeholders as required.

Strategic Development:

• Support the development of financial management strategies that support business priorities and overall objectives.
• Analyse existing strategies for efficacy and evaluate how these can be optimised in future.

Performance/Resource Optimisation

• Manage performance and continuously identify opportunities to improve processes.
• Prioritise strategic alignment of resources to maximise deliverable outputs.
• Engage and assist in ongoing business optimisation exercises across the Group to maximise shareholder value.
• Support the development (and review) of economic models, capturing all technical and commercial.

Requirements necessary for the job:

• Honours Degree in Accounting
• 5+ years' experience in accounting within a commercial environment.

Knowledge

• Has excellent understanding of the structure and functions within Zimele Group of Companies and knows the organisation's products and services.
• Excellent understanding of ZGC's financial governance policies and regulations.
• In—depth knowledge of general accounting bookkeeping theories and practices.
• Knowledge of customer service standards and procedures within Zimele and how to provide good services to all customers within the organisation.
• Knowledge of effective time management, prioritizing and forward planning practices.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication (both written and oral) skills, demonstrating outstanding ability to correspond with colleagues, internal and external customers.
• Excellent organizational skills, with experience of planning own workload to meet deadlines;
• Experience of producing reliable and accurate work in a busy, pressured environment.
• Apperception of the need for tact and diplomacy as appropriate.
• Displays absolute honesty and maintains unquestionable ethical standards in all dealings;
• Is highly numerate and displays expert abilities in general accounting bookkeeping practices;
• Good communication skills and can give, receive, and analyse information in both written and verbal formats;
• Applies sound financial formats;
• Brings about improvement and innovations to the processes to improve or ensure effective operations.
• Uses information and logic to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
• Use information and logic to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
• Display effective judgement by applying commonsense, measured reasoning knowledge and experience to come to a conclusion.
• Delivers service and completes tasks according to specified and agreed deadlines.
• Displays absolute honesty and maintains unquestionable ethical standards in all dealings.
• Deals effectively with pressure, remains focused, optimistic and persistent, even under adversity.

Abilities/Attributes

• Ability to work in fast-paced, constant changing environment.
• Ability to manage many tasks at once, work against short deadlines and remain calm and focused.
• Able to handle responsibilities independently and achieve work outputs with a minimum of supervision.
• Excellent ability to utilise accounting computer software programs to acquire, organize, analyse, and communicate information.
• Displays exemplary personal integrity and maintains absolute respect of confidentiality.
• Is a self-motivated and proactive individual with ability to work with minimum direction, able to use own initiative in assessing priorities.
• The ability to implement and maintain accurate record-keeping systems.
• The ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team when appropriate.
• Ability to sustain output quality even when under pressure and flexibility of input to key deadlines.
• Should be able to learn and optimize the accounting tools we use