Description:
Job Spec: Financial Manager
Key Responsibilities
Financial Management & Reporting
- Produce accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports
- Prepare and review financial reports for each branch, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and comparability
- Analyse branch performance, variances, and profitability, and report findings to management
- Track budgets and forecasts vs actuals and prepare detailed variance analyses
- Partnering with regional and branch leadership to support performance improvement
- Ensure accurate budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management at both head office and branch level
- Review and approve journals, reconciliations, and financial schedules
- Provide consolidated and branch-level financial analysis to support strategic planning
Debtors, Costing & Invoicing Management
- Oversee the debtors function to ensure accurate invoicing and timely collections
- Monitor debtor ageing reports per branch and ensure follow-up on overdue accounts
- Oversee the costing function to ensure accurate cost calculations, margin analysis, and pricing support
- Review and approve costings prior to invoicing where required
- Oversee the invoicing team to ensure accurate, complete, and timely issuance of invoices
- Resolve escalated queries and disputes related to debtors, costing, and invoicing
Team Leadership & Supervision
- Manage, support, and develop the finance, debtors, costing, and invoicing teams
- Allocate tasks, review work, and ensure deadlines and service levels are met across all branches
- Implement and maintain internal controls and best practices across all finance-related functions
- Review, update, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Identify training needs and support team development
- Continuous improvement of financial processes, controls, and systems
Compliance, Audits & Statutory Submissions
- Prepare and submit financial information required for internal and external audits
- Coordinate branch-level information required for audits and statutory submissions
- Liaise with external auditors and accountants
- Ensure compliance with SARS and other regulatory requirements
- Maintain proper financial records and audit trails
Systems & Process Improvement
- Ensure effective use of financial systems
- Review and improve financial processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and control
- Support system upgrades, implementations, and reporting improvements
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in a Finance role, with at least 2 years in a managerial or supervisory position
- Proven experience managing multi-branch financial reporting, debtors, costing, and invoicing functions
- Strong knowledge of South African financial legislation
Skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership and people-management skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems such as Sage Pastel
Personal Attributes
- Professional, ethical, and confidential in handling financial information
- Proactive and solutions-driven
- Organised and deadline-focused
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership
Requirements:
- Produce accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports
- Prepare and review financial reports for each branch, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and comparability
- Analyse branch performance, variances, and profitability, and report findings to management
- Track budgets and forecasts vs actuals and prepare detailed variance analyses
- Partnering with regional and branch leadership to support performance improvement
- Ensure accurate budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management at both head office and branch level
- Review and approve journals, reconciliations, and financial schedules
- Provide consolidated and branch-level financial analysis to support strategic planning
- Oversee the debtors function to ensure accurate invoicing and timely collections
- Monitor debtor ageing reports per branch and ensure follow-up on overdue accounts
- Oversee the costing function to ensure accurate cost calculations, margin analysis, and pricing support
- Review and approve costings prior to invoicing where required
- Oversee the invoicing team to ensure accurate, complete, and timely issuance of invoices
- Resolve escalated queries and disputes related to debtors, costing, and invoicing
- Manage, support, and develop the finance, debtors, costing, and invoicing teams
- Allocate tasks, review work, and ensure deadlines and service levels are met across all branches
- Implement and maintain internal controls and best practices across all finance-related functions
- Review, update, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Identify training needs and support team development
- Continuous improvement of financial processes, controls, and systems
- Prepare and submit financial information required for internal and external audits
- Coordinate branch-level information required for audits and statutory submissions
- Liaise with external auditors and accountants
- Ensure compliance with SARS and other regulatory requirements
- Maintain proper financial records and audit trails
- Ensure effective use of financial systems
- Review and improve financial processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and control
- Support system upgrades, implementations, and reporting improvements
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in a Finance role, with at least 2 years in a managerial or supervisory position
- Proven experience managing multi-branch financial reporting, debtors, costing, and invoicing functions
- Strong knowledge of South African financial legislation
- Strong leadership and people-management skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems such as Sage Pastel
- Professional, ethical, and confidential in handling financial information
- Proactive and solutions-driven
- Organised and deadline-focused
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership
12 Feb 2026;
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