Financial Controller

Armstrong Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 350 000 - 650 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a skilled Financial Controller to enhance their dynamic automotive team. This role involves reviewing financial data, identifying trends, and ensuring accurate reporting. The ideal candidate will have experience in budgeting, forecasting, and problem-solving, with a focus on optimizing financial performance across the organization. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, and contribute to driving growth and efficiency in a fast-paced environment. If you're ready to make a significant impact and advance your career in finance, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial analysis and budgeting is essential.
• CA (SA) qualification is advantageous for this role.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze financial information for accuracy and trends.
• Develop budgets and monitor performance against them.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Problem Solving

Communication

Accounting

Education

CA (SA)

Tools

Evolve

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Financial Controller to join a dynamic and progressive team within the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

• Review all financial information, taking time to analyse numbers.
• Identify drivers of certain transactions and dependencies of transactions on other numbers within a set of financial information.
• Identify areas of over and under spend and translate this data into presentable figures for senior management to understand.
• Review key financial indicators on a day-to-day basis based on information recorded and produced by the various finance teams at each location within the group.
• Ensure the accurate recording of financial information, accurate reporting from Evolve, and accurate stock information is provided to all levels of management.
• Review deal sheets to ensure accuracy and provide comments and feedback on areas for improvement in terms of creating more GP for the business.
• Create templates for monitoring monthly performance of each business unit within the group against budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure all accruals, provisions, and cost of sales are accurately recorded for month-end reporting.
• Analyse and report on month-end balance sheet and income statement performance for each department within the group.
• In collaboration with each department's sales team and the executive team, develop realistic budgets that push the business to grow.
• Use these budgets to monitor performance, identify variances, and report on the reasons behind them, suggesting improvements to get back to budget.
• Update budgets every quarter to ensure the most realistic full-year views are available for all financial information.
• In conjunction with the financial director, identify areas for cost-saving, cost optimization, and implement processes to achieve set outcomes within the cost structure.

Qualifications

CA (SA) will be advantageous.

Experience / Criteria

• Must have auditing firm article experience.
• Proven experience in dealing with different levels of staff within an organization.
• Proven experience in dealing with complex accounting topics.
• Proven experience in analysing financial information.
• Proven experience in forecasting and budgeting.
• Must be a problem solver and able to work independently to obtain the correct information needed for decision making.

A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.