CFO

CA Financial Appointments; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

CA Financial Appointments invites applications for an accomplished senior finance executive to assume the Group CFO role in a leading, complex financial services organisation.

This position blends strategic finance leadership with responsibility for group reporting, IFRS governance, controls and reporting integrity, and interaction with Board-level stakeholders.

You will lead a high-performing finance team and drive the organisation's financial direction with rigor and commercial insight.

Qualifications

• Extensive IFRS financial reporting experience and governance.
• Proven track record in senior finance leadership with board interactions.
• Ability to interpret complex financial information and provide strategic insight.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior financial leadership and oversight across a complex Group environment
• Oversee Group financial reporting, consolidation, technical accounting and statutory reporting
• Provide leadership across IFRS governance, accounting policies, financial controls and reporting integrity
• Ensure the quality, accuracy and credibility of financial information to senior leadership and governance forums
• Oversee executive and Board-level financial reporting and supporting analysis
• Analyse financial performance, identify trends and risks, challenge forecasts and provide meaningful commercial insight
• Maintain robust financial governance, control frameworks and reporting disciplines
• Oversee areas including capital reporting, balance sheet management and financial control
• Partner with senior executives, finance leaders, auditors, regulators and other key stakeholders
• Lead and develop a high-performing specialist finance team
• Strengthen technical reporting capability and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of finance processes
• Contribute to strategic financial decision-making and the broader direction of the finance function

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Group financial reporting

Executive leadership

Financial governance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CA(SA) or Equivalent

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished senior finance executive to join a leading, complex financial services organisation in a pivotal Group-level CFO position.

This role combines strategic finance leadership with significant responsibility for Group financial reporting, technical accounting, financial governance, controls and reporting integrity.
The successful individual will have built strong technical foundations across IFRS and financial reporting, while having progressed into a broader executive finance leadership role. This position requires someone equally comfortable interrogating complex financial information and operating strategically with senior executives and Board-level stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide senior financial leadership and oversight across a complex Group environment
• Oversee Group financial reporting, consolidation, technical accounting and statutory reporting
• Provide leadership across IFRS governance, accounting policies, financial controls and reporting integrity
• Ensure the quality, accuracy and credibility of financial information provided to senior leadership and governance forums
• Oversee executive and Board-level financial reporting and supporting analysis
• Analyse financial performance, identify trends and risks, challenge forecasts and provide meaningful commercial insight
• Maintain robust financial governance, control frameworks and reporting disciplines
• Oversee areas including capital reporting, balance sheet management and financial control
• Partner with senior executives, finance leaders, auditors, regulators and other key stakeholders
• Lead and develop a high-performing specialist finance team
• Strengthen technical reporting capability and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of finance processes
• Contribute to strategic financial decision-making and the broader direction of the finance function