Finance Manager

Zimele Technologies; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in South Africa is seeking a Finance Manager. This role involves managing financial operations, analyzing financial data, and ensuring compliance with governance policies. The ideal candidate has an Honours Degree in Accounting and at least 5 years of relevant experience, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to handle multiple responsibilities. The position offers opportunities for strategic development and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in accounting within a commercial environment.
• Excellent understanding of financial governance policies.
• In-depth knowledge of bookkeeping theories and practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily financial operations across the organization.
• Analyse and validate financial data for decision-making.
• Monitor expenditures in accordance with the budget.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Excellent organizational skills

Experience in producing reliable and accurate work

Ability to work independently

Good judgment and reasoning

Education

Honours Degree in Accounting

Tools

Accounting software

Job description

Job Title: Finance Manager

Business Unit: Finance

Supervisor 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, organise, 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 optimise the accounting tools we use.