Financial Manager / Assistant General Manager

Top Talent Recruitment; Ogies; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Financial Manager/Assistant General Manager in Ogies, South Africa. This role involves overseeing daily business activities, managing budgets, enhancing operational efficiency, and supporting staff development. Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years of financial and operational management experience in FMCG or manufacturing environments and possess strong analytical, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Proficiency in Excel is essential. The position necessitates driving improvements and ensuring customer requirements are consistently met.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of financial and operational management experience in FMCG or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn, improve, and adapt.
• Stock Management and Balancing experience required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills essential.
• Excellent personal organization and business administration skills.
• Ability to work under timescales and pressure with attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn, improve and adapt.
• Experience in managing subordinates and leadership responsibilities.
• Proficiency in Excel (advanced) required.
• Experience with governance controls and corporate governance adherence.
• Exposure to annual budget processes and management thereof.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily business activities, improve business functions, and manage budgets.
• Support Management Team in prioritizing and taking remedial actions.
• Drive innovation to ensure continuous improvement in operations.
• Implement cost-effective, productive improvements and remedial actions.
• Extend useful life of fixed assets and optimize asset management.
• Pursue long-term energy efficiency and reliability improvements.

Skills

Financial accounting skills

Operational management experience

Stock management

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Proficient in Excel

Leadership skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Education

Completed Articles

Understanding of IFRS

Job description

Financial Manager / Assistant General Manager

About the job Financial Manager / Assistant General Manager

CAREER OPPORTUNITY - OGIES

FINANCIAL MANAGER / ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

Tasked with supporting the General Manager by overseeing daily business activities, improving overall business functions, managing budgets, developing strategic plans and communicating business goals. Hiring and training employees, Monitoring and motivating staff, support staff development, increasing staff productivity.

Managing operational costs, enhance efficiency, ensuring good customer service, drive indirect sales, improve revenue, improving administration processes, engaging with vendors, identifying business opportunities, and monitoring financial activities. Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, generating new business, improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business objectives.

Required skills and Minimum Requirements:

• Completed Articles with financial accounting skills and understanding of IFRS
• Minimum 5 Years Financial with Operation Management experience in FMCG or manufacturing environment
• Financial and Operational Management
• Stock Management and Balancing
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Detailed understanding of management systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent personal organization and business administration skills
• Ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively with initiative and drive under timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality
• Willingness to learn, improve and adapt
• Managing of subordinates with the necessary motivational and leadership skills
• Proficient in Excel advance
• Maintain control systems and adherence to Corporate Governance
• Exposure to annual budget processes and managing thereof

Responsibilities will include but not limited to: Driving the financial and operational value chain improvement and reporting through:-

• Streamlined, system driven, accurate, on-time, reporting based on operational value drivers. This will include budget and/or target tracking.
• Supporting Management Team in prioritizing and taking remedial actions where operational value drivers are not met through enquiry root cause analysis, action planning and implementation
• Ensure that customer requirements are consistently met through constant monitoring the operational value chain and implementation of cost effective, productive improvements and other remedial actions based.
• Driving innovation to ensure continuous improvement in operations and removal of the root causes of operational inefficiencies
• Optimized and extended useful life of fixed assets
• Drive long term, sustainable improvements in energy (electricity/water/fuel) efficiency and reliability