Operations Finance Manager

Outsourced CFO; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Fintech space is seeking a finance manager to support their finance team during a restructuring phase. This full-time, fixed-term role involves overseeing financial systems, cash flow management, and team support, requiring a Bachelor’s degree and relevant finance management experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of finance management experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial systems operate effectively across all entities.
• Manage daily cash flow and reporting.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to team members.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Team management

Education

Bachelor of Accounting

Bachelor of Accounting Science

Job description

We are recruiting on behalf of our client who is in the Fintech space.

They need assistance within their finance team to support them during a restructuring phase.

This will be a full time fixed term contract role for 3 - 6 months requiring 3-4 days in office and possibly 1 day remote work.

Key Responsibilities

Systems and Process Management

• Ensuring that the Financial systems (ERP and Reporting) are operating effectively across all entities in the appropriate area of responsibility
• Investigate and recommend solutions to improve operational efficiencies in the team (i.e. better use of data imports etc)
• Liaise with BI to ensure that the transactional data received is relevant, accurate, complete and received on time.
• Review reporting to ensure that all the relevant dimensions are posted.
• Ensure that appropriate processes are in place in order to identify potential problems and escalate when required.
• Attend weekly Ops meetings to ensure that all issues and queries are being addressed and escalated based on priority.
• Ensure appropriate processes are in place to ensure that the team operates efficiently and meets group deadlines.

Cash Flow Management Support

• Various Cash flow forecasting
• Analysis of actual performance versus forecasts
• Daily cash flow management and reporting
• Weekly and monthly cash flow reporting to various stakeholders
• Ad hoc projects identified by Management

Team Management

• Communicate clearly and effectively at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Openly communicate with managers and team members to ensure that all key deliverables are met on time and accurately and any queries are resolved timeously.
• Effectively feed information to required members of the team to ensure all important updates are understood and adhered to.
• Manage othersʼ expectations appropriately and proactively communicate any potential problems.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and support to all direct reports to ensure that each team is working efficiently and cohesively.
• Daily team management and assistance.
• Bi-annual KPI setting of objectives with teams.
• Bi-annual appraisals of team members

Requirements

• Bachelor of Accounting / Bachelor of Accounting Science or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years finance management experience

Further skills required

• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to think critically
• Ability to collaborate with various departments
• Willingness and ability to motivate and guide junior colleagues