Group Finance Executive

Boardroom Appointments; Middelburg; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in financial services seeks an experienced professional for a Board-level position. You will prepare financial models, manage projects, and ensure compliance with tax regulations. The ideal candidate has 15-20 years of board experience, strong interpersonal and leadership skills, and a solid systems background. This role is based in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Qualifications

• 15 to 20 years experience at Board level.
• Confidently able to offer recommendations and advice to the business.
• Strong systems background.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial models for presentation at Board level and to predict outcomes.
• Budgeting.
• Ongoing exploration of automation opportunities, scalability and efficiency.
• Project management.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory and tax legislation.

Skills

Cross-border experience

Strong interpersonal skills

Data and computer literacy

Ability to manage a team

Leadership presence

Job description

• Must have cross-border experience (SADC)
• 15 to 20 years experience at Board level
• Confidently able to offer recommendations and advice to the business
  
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Data and computer literacy
• Strong systems background.
• Ability to manage a team
• Leadership presence

Responsibilities:

• Prepare financial models for presentation at Board level and to predict outcomes
• Budgeting
• Ongoing exploration of automation opportunities, scalability and efficiency
• Project management
• Develop new finance processes where required and create capacity within respective teams to support new processes
• Ensure compliance with all statutory and tax legislation (VAT, Income tax and transfer pricing legislation)
• Work with the Group CFO and key business partners to agree on base set of reporting analytics
• Treasury and Risk Management
• Ability to analyse performance of the operation and to determine areas of potential cost reduction, improvement and policy and process change