R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS
Our client is a multi-specialist investment company with operations in African countries and business partners
in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As one of the largest investment managers in South Africa, the company employs a wide range of professional and specialist investment and technical staff. Staff compliment countrywide is nearly 600. They have a diverse investment offering designed to deliver on their investment promise to their clients.
JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
- You will be required to develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. financial management methodology, governance and delivery objectives;
- You will be required to communicate a meaningful tactical context that guides and directs best practice integration and process alignment with service delivery objectives;
- You will be required to partner with next level managers and specialists to ensure effective practice management through multiple process design and integration;
- You will be required to drive the implementation of tactical strategy to realise business results, in adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures;
- You will be required to manage and ensure the effective preparation of accurate budgets and monitoring of performance against actual outcomes;
- You will be required to provide accurate management accounts to relevant stakeholders to inform cost saving and other decision making purposes;
- You will be required to develop and align area related operational tactics in order to contribute to efficient cash flow management, ensuring business liquidity;
- You will be required to coordinate the sourcing, analyses and interpretation of financial information in order to review the financial performance of the business;
- You will be required to carry out continuous reviews of working accounting practices, procedures and processes to ensure efficient and cost effective operations;
- You will be responsible for strategy implementation through the integration and optimisation of operational activities to practices and systems across an internal value chain;
- You will be required to proactively identify interconnected tactical problems, determine the impact, patterns and trends to identify alternatives and best practice solutions, anticipating future challenges;
- You will be required to plan for the management of work outputs across various functional activities, integrating interdependent practices, processes or systems and addressing and balancing the demands of different priorities to optimise efficiency;
- Finance :
- You will be required to compile an operational or business area budget aligned with the delivery plans and ensure the implementation and monitoring of financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance to optimise cost savings and/or profit margins;
- Governance:
- You will be required to implement the governance management model, framework and policy in own practice and/or tactical areas to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability pro-actively.
CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
- You have financial and accounting control experience (advanced);
- You have financial management (proficient) skills;
- You have continuous process improvement (advanced) skills;
- You have risk awareness (proficient) skills;
- You have conflict resolution (proficient) skills;
- You have financial accounting (proficient) skills;
- You have financial planning (proficient) skills;
- You have business interaction (proficient) skills;
- You have efficiency improvement (proficient) skills;·
- You have financial acumen (proficient) skills;
- You have policy implementation (proficient) skills;
- You have functional policies and procedures (proficient) skills;
- You have operations management (proficient) skills;
- You have budgeting and expenditure control (proficient) skills;
- You have people management and empowerment (proficient) skills;
- You have interpersonal effectiveness (proficient) skills;
- You have problem solving and analysis (proficient) skills;
- You have strategic insight and capability (proficient) skills;
- You have teamwork and cooperation (proficient) skills;
- You have judgment and decision making (proficient) skills;
- You are able to communicate with impact (proficient);
- You have relationship management and networking (proficient) skills;
- You are customer orientated (proficient).
CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- You are a CA (SA); with clients ideally in FS at audit;
- You have a minimum of 8 years current, relevant experience in a similar environment, of which 3 – 4 years at management level. This is a very important role to the business. You must be emotionally mature; lead by example; be self-managed and proud of the work you produce. You are not just able to produce numbers but ensure they make sense and guide business’ decisions. You are able to motivate a team of three to reach their fullest potential. You are someone who is always looking at how to work smarter and find solutions for problems. You are an inspirational person in a business. The rewards on performance are significant and the career opportunity has superb progression in place for a top performer.