Financial Controller Johannesburg

Job Overview

To oversee the full financial function in order to ensure appropriate balance between maintenance of a solid financial accounting control framework and the appropriate partnering with and enabling of business counterparts and stakeholders. There should be an emphasis on adding value, delivering insights vs merely running a process.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Present financial reporting and potential risk areas to senior management.
• Prepare/oversee accounting, financial reporting, analysis and preparation of financial statements, including schedules for tax compliance.
• Be the main point of contact during external audit.
• Manage relationships with companies bankers.
• Prepare and present segmental and company management accounts.
• Challenge sales and operations managers based on financial performance.
• Prepare deep dive analyses into topical parts of the business both on own volition and where requested by members of management.
• Prepare budgets at segmental and company level for Board consumption.
• Ensure policies and procedures are in compliance with professional standards and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain internal controls to support the financial infrastructure.
• Ensure robust control environment maintained over company expenditure.
• Oversee the work prepared by colleagues in finance.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Read, Write and Speak English fluently.
• Minimum B Com (Acc) or equivalent with at least 5 years relevant experience.
• Experience in a number of finance environments.
• The duties and responsibilities of this role have been mastered.
• Work can be produced with minimum supervision.
• Work activities/job duties are consistently thorough and accurate.
• Volume of daily workload is consistently high, therefore productive and fast.
• Willingness to take on responsibility and to be held accountable.
• Cooperation and good interpersonal relations.
• Ability to coordinate tasks and to have the ability to organize, prioritize and schedule.
• New ideas and methods to improve quality of results.
• High morale and consistency in functioning effectively in an objective and rational manner.
• Problem-solving skills to effectively gather and organize facts, evaluate and make effective final decisions.
• Ability to deliver value to stakeholders outside of the business-as-usual confines of the role.

Package & Remuneration

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