Financial Manager

Industry: Government / Job Expires: 2024-03-11 00:00:00 / Location: Gauteng

Purpose

The role involves financial and asset management, accounts receivables and payables management, management accounting and financial reporting. The incumbent further ensures compliance with accounting policies, standards, principles, all acts, and other statutory requirements.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Accounting or Finance with articles.
• Registered with relevant Accounting professional body is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in Finance or Accounting, 5 of which must have been in a management role and at least 3 years must have been in a Senior Management role.
• Computer literacy with extensive knowledge in Caseware.

Main Duties

1. Achievement and Management of Unit's Business Plans

• Contribute to the development of the Unit’s operational plan.
• Cascade the Division operational plans to the Unit.
• Ensure the implementation and compliance to reporting templates and frameworks.
• Ensure monthly reporting in the Unit.
• Manage and monitor budget in the Unit through managing variances in actual vs. budget expenditure in all areas of accountability.
• Develop risk management strategies and risk register for the Unit.
• Develop polices, and procedures for the Unit
• Ensure clean audit results.
• Handle audit queries and ensure the availability of information for audit purposes.
• Compilation of quarterly and annual reports.
• Formulation of reporting templates.
• Continuous improvement of financial policies and practises.
• Monitoring of progress on the implementation of Auditor General’s recommendations.
• Reduction in overall audit findings.
• Delegated authority for approval procurement processes as per delegation of authority approved by board.
• Delegated authority for approval of payments on the banking system.

2. Financial Management & Reporting

• Compilation of management accounts.
• Cash flow projections.
• Compilation of annual financial statements.
• Compilation of quarterly and annual reports.
• Formulation of reporting templates.
• Departmental reporting to management monthly.
• Accurate and complete balance sheet reconciliations monthly.

3. Income & Expenditure Management

• Timeous and accurate payment of suppliers and stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate submission of SARS returns.
• Accurate recording of revenue.
• Timeous collection of outstanding debtors accounts.
• Management of working Capital Coordinate output of reports and/or approvals of request by management.

4. Payroll Administration

• Ensure processing of employee salaries and third-party payments.
• Ensure distribution of payslips Ensure accurate submission of SARS returns.

5. Product Costing & Pricing

• Ensure planning, studying and collection of data to determine costs of actual business activities such as raw material purchases, inventory, labor and overhead at the plant.
• Ensure analysis of changes in manufacturing / production configuration, raw materials or manufacturing methods to determine the effects on product costs and internal product margins.
• Ensure preparation of forecasting, budgeting and ad hoc financial analysis .
• Oversee review of standard and actual product costs for accuracy.
• Ensure reporting on margins by product and product category.
• Ensure accurate reporting and valuation of inventory vs actual physical inventory.

6. Budgeting

• Coordination of the company's budget process.
• Preparation, implementation and monitoring of the company's budget.
• Accurate, timely and high-quality financial analysis.

7. Fixed Asset Management

• Ensure that all assets bought and received are captured in the financial system and that input documents are available.
• Sign off on all input documentation.
• Direct the account and journal (if changes are required) and sign off.
• Ensure the updating of the fixed asset register.
• Ensure the depreciation and ware-and-tear run are done on a monthly basis.
• Ensure the provision of the integrity report – fixed asset register reconciled with financial system information and sign off.
• Ensure a physical check (actual vs. fixed asset register) is conducted on a bi-annual basis.
• Ensure that movements are updated on the system and that all disposals are captured and removed from system.
• Ensure calculations for any assets sold are done correctly and sign off on this.

8. People Management

• Conduct timeous recruitment and selection of staff.
• Implement the company's BEE targets in the Unit.
• Implement the company's performance management in the Unit.
• Induct and orientate direct reports.
• Provide capacity building, through training, coaching and development of direct reports
• Ensure that employees have clear work expectations and goals.
• Ensure attendance of staff · Manage the disciplinary of employees in the Unit.

9. Risk Management

• Ensure the operational Risk Register is compiled and action plans reported on quarterly.

Location

• Pretoria

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us in 4 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

To apply please send your CV to Itumeleng@heitha.co.za