Head: Finance (Contract)

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 950,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group seeks a results-driven finance leader to guide an experienced team within Financial Operations, driving consolidation to reporting standards and strategic budgeting across the Group Finance function.

You will analyse financial information, provide insights, and align activities with group initiatives while adopting new technologies and AI to optimise workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary team across Financial Operations in support of the Group Business Services Centre of Excellence.
• Develop strategic goals for the team and finance operations that enable financial consolidation to reporting standards.
• Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
• Ensure accurate and timely budgets aligned with key economic indicators and group initiatives.
• Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations and following up on unreconciled items.
• Compile Financial statements by complying with IFRS and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Stay aligned with latest technology updates and industry trends and adoption of AI to improve and optimise workflow and processes.
• Develop financial controls in conjunction with risk, ethics and IFRS to ensure that audit and regulatory requirements are established and adhered to.
• Comply with relevant legislation by reviewing and submitting statutory returns timeously.
• Consolidate financial reports and make value added recommendations by using information from various sources.
• Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through ongoing engagement.
• Assist in the achievement of group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and synergies.
• Ensure relevant, best practice analysis and reporting by providing ongoing guidance and coaching to the team.
• Meet deadlines and targets through prioritising effectively, planning and communicating.
• Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting within defined timeframes by planning, organising and monitoring workflow.
• Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation, mentoring, coaching and on the job skills training.
• Achieve business objectives within a specific timeframe by scheduling and coordinating activities and identifying appropriate resources to perform these activities.
• Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by reviewing organization and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to organization

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary team across Financial Operations in support of the objectives of the Group Business Services Centre of Excellence, Group Finance.




• Develop strategic goals for the team and finance operations that enables financial consolidation to reporting standards are financial consolidation principles and practise.




• Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.




• Ensure accurate and timeous budgets are submitted and reviewed by ensuring that they align with key economic indicators and group strategic initiatives.




• Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations and following up on unreconciled items.




• Compile Financial statements by complying with IFRS and relevant regulatory frameworks.




• Stay aligned with latest technology updates and industry trends and adoption of AI to improve and optimise workflow and processes.




• Develop financial controls in conjunction with risk, ethics and IFRS to ensure that audit and regulatory requirements are established and adhered to.




• Comply with relevant legislation by reviewing and submitting statutory returns timeously.




• Consolidate financial reports and make value added recommendations by using information from various sources.




• Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through ongoing engagement.




• Assist in the achievement of group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and synergies.




• Ensure relevant, best practice analysis and reporting by providing ongoing guidance and coaching to the team.




• Meet deadlines and targets through prioritising effectively, planning and communicating.




• Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting within defined timeframes by planning, organising and monitoring workflow.




• Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation, mentoring, coaching and on the job skills training.




• Achieve business objectives within a specific timeframe by scheduling and coordinating activities and identifying appropriate resources to perform these activities.




• Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.




• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by reviewing organization and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.




• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.




• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.




• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.




• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.




• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).




• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.




• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to organization