Financial Controller (CA(SA), Multi-Entity, Multi-Currency)

AES Global; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

AES Global in Johannesburg seeks a Financial Controller to consolidate reporting, controls and forecasting under a growing multi‑entity group. You’ll work directly with the Group Head of Finance and the Managing Director, getting hands‑on until the team is in place and reports reach the board, auditors and funders.

You’ll design the operating model, hire and mentor the team, implement scalable processes, and ensure IFRS compliance across jurisdictions while coordinating with external partners.

Qualifications

• CA(SA) required and capable of leading a multi‑jurisdiction finance function.
• 5+ years in financial management, with team leadership experience.
• Proven multi‑entity and multi‑currency accounting capabilities.
• Strong IFRS knowledge, tax and compliance familiarity.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with Xero/Sage.

Responsibilities

• Manage the finance function across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Prepare and review monthly financial reports for management and board.
• Lead cash flow forecasting and budgeting across the group.
• Oversee intercompany transactions and multi‑currency accounting.
• Maintain internal controls and ensure statutory/regulatory reporting in all jurisdictions.
• Design the finance operating model and reporting structure for scale.
• Recruit, onboard and mentor the finance team as headcount grows.
• Implement scalable finance processes and systems.

Skills

Financial leadership

IFRS knowledge

Cash flow forecasting

Multi-entity accounting

Advanced Excel

People leadership

Education

Chartered Accountant (SA)

Tools

Xero

Sage

Job description

This is a finance function at the point where it stops being a job and starts being a structure. The group has grown across several entities and jurisdictions, and it now needs a Financial Controller who can put proper reporting, controls and forecasting underneath it — and then build the team that runs them.

You will work directly with the Group Head of Finance and the Managing Director. Expect to be hands-on with the detail yourself until that team is in place, and expect your work to reach the board, the auditors and the funders.

What you’ll do

• Manage the finance function across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Prepare and review the monthly financial reports that go to management and the board.
• Lead cash flow forecasting and budgeting across the group.
• Oversee intercompany transactions and multi-currency accounting.
• Maintain strong internal controls and accounting standards, and keep statutory and regulatory reporting on time in every jurisdiction the group operates in.
• Build a control environment — approval limits, segregation of duties, documented policies — that will hold up to audit and still work when the group is twice the size.
• Liaise with auditors, tax advisors, banks and other external partners.
• Turn financial data into insight the business can act on, and represent the finance function credibly with investors, lenders and other external stakeholders.
• Design the shape of the finance function — the operating model, the roles and the reporting lines — and hire into it as headcount is approved.
• Recruit, onboard and mentor the team, and shift progressively from doing the work yourself to reviewing, directing and developing others.
• Put in place the finance processes and systems that scale with the group rather than needing rebuilding at each stage — chart of accounts, month‑end close calendar, reporting templates.

What you’ll need

• Chartered Accountant (SA).
• At least 5 years in financial management, ideally including building, structuring or leading a finance team.
• Proven experience managing multi‑entity finances across more than one jurisdiction.
• Multi‑currency accounting experience.
• Demonstrated ability in cash flow forecasting and budgeting.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS, taxation and compliance requirements.
• Accounting software — Xero, Sage or similar — and advanced Excel.
• Real people‑leadership: you have hired, managed and developed a team, even if it has been a small one.

Nice to have

• Financial control or finance management inside a technology, engineering or infrastructure business.
• Familiarity with capital‑intensive infrastructure build programmes, and the funding and margin dynamics that go with them.
• Complex intercompany or usage‑based billing.
• Exposure to transfer pricing.
• Having stood up a finance function or team from scratch in a scale‑up or high‑growth business.

What’s on offer

• The chance to build and shape a finance function, and a team, from an early stage of the group’s growth.
• A direct reporting line to, and close partnership with, the Group Head of Finance and Managing Director.
• A dynamic, fast‑moving environment where the finance function is treated as something to build rather than something to administer.

Johannesburg. In Office. Permanent.