Auto Finance & Compliance Lead - Profit & Cashflow

Bonafide Human Capital; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonafide Human Capital is seeking a Senior Financial Manager to provide financial leadership across the group in Gauteng, South Africa. You will lead the finance function, deliver monthly management accounts and executive reporting, and provide the MD with weekly dashboards on revenue, margins, WIP and cash flow.

You will drive profitability analyses, manage cash forecasts, and ensure strong financial controls while mentoring the finance team and supporting technology-enabled governance.

Responsibilities

• Leading the finance function and delivering accurate, insightful monthly management accounts and executive reporting.
• Providing the MD with weekly dashboards covering revenue, gross profit, WIP, debtors, insurer recoveries, productivity, margins and cash flow.
• Driving branch-level profitability analysis, identifying underperformance and recommending corrective action.
• Managing rolling cash-flow forecasts, working capital and cash discipline across the group.
• Monitoring and improving WIP, job cards, invoicing delays and completed-but-not-invoiced work.
• Taking ownership of debtor collections, insurer recoveries, short payments and aged balances.
• Analysing labour recovery, productive hours, efficiency and overtime to identify opportunities to improve branch performance.
• Protecting margins through monitoring of parts, paint, consumables, supplier pricing, credits and write-offs.
• Identifying margin leakage, cost risks and operational inefficiencies and partnering with branch and workshop managers to address them.
• Leading budgeting, forecasting, business cases, supplier reviews, capex proposals and branch performance reviews.
• Maintaining strong financial controls across banking, creditors, debtors, payroll, stock, approvals and financial processes.
• Ensuring audit, tax, statutory, POPIA, insurer and internal policy compliance.
• Leading, developing and mentoring the finance team, creating a culture of accuracy, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Supporting the implementation and governance of technology, workflow, reporting and AI-enabled tools that improve operational and financial visibility.

Job description

Bonafide Human Capital is seeking a Senior Financial Manager to provide financial leadership across the group in Gauteng, South Africa. You will lead the finance function, deliver monthly management accounts and executive reporting, and provide the MD with weekly dashboards on revenue, margins, WIP and cash flow.

You will drive profitability analyses, manage cash forecasts, and ensure strong financial controls while mentoring the finance team and supporting technology-enabled governance.