Senior Seafreight Export Controller: Lead & Compliance

Röhlig & Co; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis South Africa is seeking a high-impact finance leader to partner with the Managing Director and SA leadership. You will own financial planning, forecasting and performance management, translating complex data into actionable business insight to propel growth and risk management.

Lead and coach the SA finance team in a controlled governance environment. You will champion data-driven decision making, collaborate across functions, and ensure strong financial integrity while supporting

Qualifications

• Strong financial judgement with the ability to influence strategy.
• Experience as strategic commercial partner to senior leaders.
• Strong planning, forecasting and performance management capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex financial data into clear business insights.
• Commercial acumen with growth, profitability, investment evaluation.
• Leadership, coaching and team development skills.
• Excellent communication with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Governance, risk management and compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted strategic and commercial partner to the MD and SA leadership team.
• Lead financial planning, forecasting and performance-management processes.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions.
• Identify drivers of revenue, margin, cost and cash performance and address risks.
• Lead, develop and coach the SA finance team with strong business partnering.
• Ensure financial controls, governance and risk-management processes.
• Champion data, technology and AI to improve finance effectiveness and decisions.

Skills

Strategic partnership

Financial planning

Forecasting

Business analytics

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Governance & risk

Tools

ERP systems

Excel

BI tools

Job description

What Senior Seafreight Export Controller Lead ...

Chief Financial Office, LexisNexis South Africa

Johannesburg
Durban_SA
Full time
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Are you a commercially minded finance leader who can translate financial insight into strategic business impact? Do you thrive in partnering with senior leaders to shape business performance, drive growth, and influence key decisions?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX ( a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles ( the Role

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted strategic and commercial partner to the Managing Director and South Africa leadership team.
• Contribute actively to the development and execution of the South Africa business strategy and long-term priorities.
• Lead the financial planning, forecasting and performance-management processes for the South Africa business.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions for the Managing Director and leadership team.
• Identify the underlying drivers of revenue, margin, cost and cash performance and work with business leaders to address risks and opportunities.
• Lead, develop and coach the South Africa finance team, building strong commercial, analytical and business-partnering capability.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls, governance and risk-management processes are maintained in accordance with LexisNexis and RELX requirements.
• Champion the use of data, technology and AI to improve Finance effectiveness, business insight and decision-making.

Requirements

• Strong financial judgement with the ability to influence business strategy and performance.
• Experience acting as a strategic and commercial business partner to senior leadership teams.
• Strong financial planning, forecasting and performance management capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear business insights and actions.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen with experience evaluating growth, profitability, investment and resource-allocation opportunities.
• Strong leadership, coaching and team development skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage finance and non-finance stakeholders effectively.
• Experience working within a controlled governance environment with accountability for financial integrity, risk management and compliance.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and the long‑term goals.

Working Pattern
Working flexible hours – flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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