Job Purpose

To manage and coordinate financial management processes for the specific business unit in alignment with operational plans and strategic objectives and to ensure financial discipline throughout the organisation.

Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification ’ Experience Required

A relevant B-Comm Degree in Accounting / Advanced Diploma in Accounting (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years’ experience in a similar financial environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at junior management level

ALTERNATIVE

Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience in a similar financial environment

Job Outputs:
Process

Ensure that information supplied to key stakeholders, allow them to make informed decisions
Prepare Annual Financial Statements, budgets, forecasts, quarterly and monthly reports based on legislator and internal requirements.
Proactively drive optimisation and integration of processes across business areas to achieve efficiency and client delivery targets.
Act as the bottom-line drivers of tactical implementation within the context of business unit excellence and performance improvement.
Direct, control, coordinate and optimise budgeted resources to meet specific objectives and deliver agreed results and productivity requirements.
Ensure the development and implementation of a practice in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
Implement tactical strategy and delivery plans through the development of operational activities, ensuring the achievement of operational targets.
Plan for handling work outputs, pull together interdependent activities ’ specify priorities, standards ’ procedures to ensure tactical implementation.
Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact, and use to develop best fit alternatives, implementing best practice solutions.
Provide regular reports on performance against plan ’ progress on short-term initiatives ’ use to realign tactical plan and objectives appropriately.
Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.
Timeously communicate top-down policy and associated single practice area modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.
Use the insights gained through integrated business reports to measure success ’ realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.
Manage, guide, develop and support a team to achieve the overall team objectives and to deliver high quality work

Governance

Implement governance, risk and compliance policy in own practice area to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability.
Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.

People

Create a positive work climate ’ culture to energise employees ’ give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
Develop ’ implement appropriate people capacity plans in line with delivery ’ efficiency targets, on budget ’ in partnership with specialised area.
Plan ’ implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements ’ providing tools for people resources.
Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems and achieve objectives.

Finance

Contribute to the development of divisional budgets to ensure expenditure is aligned with divisional plans.
Forecast financial risks and escalate as required.
Manage effective cost control of the core processes in line with targeted savings.
Draw up a budget aligned to strategic delivery plans, monitor planned vs. actual expenditure
Eliminate unnecessary spend and ensure expenditure is in line with predictions and requirements
Report on cost efficiency and give solid recommendations for improvement
Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of accountability.

Client

Deliver on service level agreements made with internal and external stakeholders, monitor feedback and adjust as required.
Make a concerted effort to understand the workings of the environment and how each area interacts within their teams as well as across the organisation
Understand what the impact of a decision/change in this environment is to the rest of the organisation
Build strong relationships and implement service level agreements that promote SARS with internal and external stakeholders.
Develop and ensure implementation of practices which build service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional client service.
Manage an integrated service excellence culture, which builds rewarding relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.

Behavioural competencies

Developing Others
Fairness and Transparency (V)
Accountability (V)
Honesty and Integrity (V)
Conceptual Ability
Championing the Mandate
Influencing Others
Mobilising Teams
Driving for Excellence
Leveraging Diversity
Accurate Understanding
Trust (V)
Respect (V)
Problem Solving and Analysis
Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

Tax Knowledge
Financial Acumen
Functional Policies and Procedures
Managerial Budgeting
Financial Analysis and Reporting
Analysis Interpretation of Financial statements (FS)
Research, Evaluate, Follow Through
Effective Business Communication
Problem Analysis and Judgement
Planning, Management and Measurement
Decisiveness
Business Acumen
Management Accounting
Financial and Performance Reporting

Compliance Competency

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