Finance Manager Operations: EMECA

The Weir Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company in Johannesburg is seeking a Finance Manager Operations to ensure financial integrity and operational efficiency across its various sectors. This role requires strong analytical skills, extensive manufacturing experience, and proficiency in finance systems. The ideal candidate will have a BCom Honours in Management Accounting and significant experience in financial management. The position offers the opportunity to shape strategic decisions and contribute to a sustainable future.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant experience in a financial or analytical role.
• Extensive experience in the manufacturing sector, particularly heavy industrial.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret financial reports and technical documents.

Responsibilities

• Champion a zero-harm safety culture.
• Provide financial insights as a business partner.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting processes.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Office skills

Statistical analysis

Problem-solving

Financial report analysis

Communication

Education

BCom Honours in Management Accounting

CIMA, CA, or ACCA

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Finance Manager Operations: EMECA

Weir Minerals

Alrode

Purpose of Role

The Finance Manager – Operations plays a critical role in ensuring financial integrity, strategic alignment, and operational efficiency across manufacturing, service, engineering, and supply chain functions. This role serves as a key business partner to local and regional teams, providing financial insights and modelling to support strategic decision‑making.

Why choose Weir

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way

Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor‑make their own career and do the best work of our lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong

Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety First: Champion a zero-harm culture by consistently demonstrating commitment to world‑class safety standards.
• Ensure full compliance with Weir Group policies, divisional guidelines, and the Code of Conduct.
• Act as a business partner to operations and supply chain teams, providing financial insight and support.
• Maintain integrity of overhead costs, monthly hours, and hourly rates across cost centers.
• Report and analyze purchase price variances and production variances.
• Lead the forecasting and budgeting of direct costs and logistics.
• Monitor and improve forecast accuracy and budget cycle completion rates.
• Drive product costing reviews across multiple sites.
• Collaborate with planning teams on inventory SLOB (slow‑moving and obsolete) provisions.
• Analyze inventory and supply chain data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Manage product master data and SAP condition tables.
• Support the sales team with pricing decisions and margin analysis.
• Assist engineering and operations teams in cost efficiency reviews.
• Contribute to CAPEX investment appraisals and financial modelling.
• Support working capital improvement initiatives through data‑driven analysis and recommendations.

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications

• BCom Honours in Management Accounting
• CIMA, CA, or ACCA
• You should have 5–8 years of relevant experience in a financial or analytical role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience in the manufacturing sector, particularly within heavy industrial environments such as steel, foundry, or related industries. The ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of complex production processes and capital‑intensive operations.
• Strong ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports, legal documents, and technical journals.
• Experience with ERP systems / Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools / Familiarity with finance systems and tools.
• Confident in responding to customer and regulatory inquiries, and presenting insights to senior leadership.
• Proficient in advanced mathematics, including exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Skilled in statistical techniques such as frequency distribution, variance analysis, correlation, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills: able to define problems, collect and analyze data, and draw valid conclusions.
• Comfortable working with abstract and complex variables, including interpreting technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low‑carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.