Commercial Finance Lead

Cbre Excellerate; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 100 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Commercial Finance Lead. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial planning, extensive experience with the SAP ERP system, and the ability to manage complex budgeting processes. You will ensure the accuracy of financial reports and oversee invoicing, debtor management, and expense accruals. A BCom degree is required, with a CIMA qualification being an advantage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operational finance experience in Facilities management or manufacturing.
• CIMA qualification advantageous.
• Strong budgeting and variance analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Follow up on outstanding invoices.
• Prepare monthly financial analysis and resolve issues.
• Ensure correctness of employee salaries.

Skills

Prior experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Experience with the SAP ERP system

Strong understanding of budgeting and variance analysis reporting

CIMA qualification would be advantageous

Five years hands on operational finance experience

Education

BCom degree or equivalent

Job description

Job title: Commercial Finance Lead

Job Location: Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline: December 06, 2025

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What will you bring

• Prior experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
• Experience with the SAP ERP system.
• Strong understanding of budgeting and variance analysis reporting.
• BCom degree or equivalent.
• CIMA qualification would be advantageous.
• Five years hands on operational finance experience in Facilities management / manufacturing / project / contract-based environment.

What will you be doing

Client Billing / Invoicing

• Follow up on outstanding invoices.
• Analyze the various billing templates / schedules from FM.
• Send statement (monthly) to debtors.
• Ensure that billing is in line with contract / S1.

Debtors Management

• Follow up on outstanding invoices (Not Paid).
• Provide weekly feedback to debtor’s controller.
• Allocate payments to invoices on SAP.
• Process Withholding Tax certificates.
• Clearing of debtors’ accounts.

Purchase Order Management

• Run Open purchase order report regularly.
• Check for long outstanding purchase orders.
• Notify FM of any necessary deletions.
• Ensure supplier has sufficient funds available on all PO’s issued.

Expense Accruals

• Check for supplier invoices (expenses) that aren’t GRN’d.
• Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing.
• Gather valid supporting material for accrual.
• Raise accrual.
• Analysis and recover credit card spend and / or travel spend.
• Compare O1 to S1 to P&L to ensure prevention of revenue leakage.

Income Accruals

• Check with FM on site regarding lack of GRN’ing.
• Gather valid supporting material for accrual.
• Raise accrual.

Payroll

• Consult business unit head regarding bonuses.
• Set provisions for bonuses monthly.
• Ensure correctness of employee salaries.
• Ensure that salary recoveries are done.

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

• Prepared and reconciled on a monthly basis.
• Reconciling items are cleared timeously.
• Relevant supporting documentation forms part of the reconciliations.

Income Statement Management

• Prepare monthly financial analysis and timeously resolve issues.
• Give comments and gather supporting documents on any material variances.

External Audit

• Submit requested audit sample supporting documents timeously to the auditors.
• Address audit queries timeously.
• Prepare audit files in preparation for external audit.

Financial Analysis and Planning

• Preparation of respective client budgets on an annual basis.
• Quarterly preparation of updated client account forecasts.
• Perform variance analysis on client P&L account on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and present financial analysis to respective Business Unit Lead on a regular basis.

Month end close

• Ensure respective client accounts are closed timeously and accurately.
• Perform variance analysis and clear out issues.
• All month end checklists are completed and submitted for review timeously.
• P&L is prepared, reviewed and signed off before the finalization of results.