Financial Manager

Hewitt Colenbrander Recruitment; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewitt Colenbrander Recruitment seeks a senior finance leader to manage the group’s financial functions, implement robust controls, and maintain IFRS for SMEs compliance. You will own statutory and management reporting, budgeting processes, and cash flow management.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a collaborative approach to drive accurate financial insights and regulatory compliance across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Lead the group's financial functions with strict internal controls, policies, and a finance risk register to ensure IFRS for SMEs, SARS, CIPC and COIDA compliance.
• Prepare annual financial statements and provide monthly management accounts (actuals vs. budgets) to guide decisions.
• Direct budgeting and quarterly forecasting, monitor spend against budget to prevent unauthorised expenditure.
• Prepare weekly cash flow requirements and review the balance sheet monthly to assess working capital and liquidity.
• Oversee general ledger integrity by reviewing reconciliations, journal entries, payroll, supplier payments, fixed assets and intercompany balances.
• Manage external audits to achieve zero repeat findings and oversee SARS tax submissions (VAT, PAYE, Income Tax, and deferred tax).

Responsibilities

• Lead financial functions and controls across the group.
• Prepare and present financial statements and management accounts.
• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and spend monitoring.
• Manage cash flow and working capital.
• Ensure accuracy of the general ledger and asset registers.
• Coordinate external audits and tax submissions.

Skills

Financial leadership

Governance

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Cash flow management

General ledger

Tax & audit management

Job description

Technical Competencies & Experience:

1. Financial Leadership & Governance: Lead the group's financial functions, establishing strict internal control systems, policies, and a finance risk register to ensure compliance with IFRS for SMEs, SARS, CIPC, and COIDA regulations.
2. Financial Reporting & Management Accounts: Own the preparation of annual financial statements and present comprehensive monthly management accounts (comparing actuals vs. budgets) to drive key business decisions.
3. Budgeting & Cost Control: Direct business units through the budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, strictly monitoring actual spend against budget to manage deviations and prevent unauthorised expenditure.
4. Cash Flow & Working Capital Management: Prepare weekly cash flow requirements and review the balance sheet monthly to analyse working capital performance and maintain a favourable liquidity position.
5. General Ledger & Asset Oversight: Oversee the accuracy of the general ledger by reviewing reconciliations, journal entries, payroll, supplier payments, fixed asset registers, and intercompany balances.
6. Tax & Audit Management: Manage external audit processes to ensure timely completion with zero repeat findings, while overseeing all SARS tax submissions (VAT, PAYE, Income Tax, and deferred tax).

Behavioural Competencies:

1. Proven team leadership
2. Highly organized
3. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
4. Strategic critical thinker
5. Collaborative team player

Please Note - Should you not hear back from us within the next 2 weeks, please consider your application as unsuccessful.