Experience Required:
· Group-level finance (multiple legal entities)
· Hands-on monthly and quarterly close
· Consolidations, eliminations, and intercompany management
· Operating within regulated or capital-intensive environments
· Experience supporting executive management, boards, lenders, and auditors
Qualifications:
· CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant
· Strong grounding in IFRS / local GAAP applied at group level
· Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation
· Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits
Key Responsibilities:
· Financial Operations & Lead reporting
· Quarterly Consolidation
· Tax Loss Utilisation Strategies
· Covenants & Working Capital
· M&A / Strategic Support
· Risk & Audit Tracking
Financial Operations & Lead reporting:
· Ownership of group reporting and data integrity from Business Central
- Establish a reliable, system-driven monthly reporting cycle (?5–7 days)
· Automate key financial drivers (valuations, covenants, working capital, budgets)
- Implement quarterly automated valuations, covenant tracking, and working capital dashboards
· Automated monitoring of debtors and cash cycles
- Flag long-outstanding debtors and cash flow risks proactively
· Standardisation of reporting packs across entities
- Ensure consistent, decision-useful reporting across the group
Quarterly Consolidation:
· Full group consolidation (financial + performance view)
- Deliver accurate quarterly consolidated financials
· Alignment of intercompany, eliminations, and reporting consistency
- Ensure clean consolidation with no intercompany mismatches
Tax Loss Utilisation Strategy:
· Develop and execute plan to optimise group tax losses
- Maximise utilisation of assessed tax losses
· Align legal entity performance with tax efficiency
- Improve group effective tax position
Covenants & Working Capital
· Monitor bank covenants (system-driven)
- Ensure zero breaches through automated tracking and early warnings
· Drive working capital performance (debtors, creditors, cash conversion)
- Improve debtor days, cash conversion cycle, and liquidity
· Ensure integrity of valuation inputs supporting covenants
- Maintain credible, supportable inputs for funding and compliance
M&A / Strategic Support:
· Support valuations, funding structures, and commercial analysis
- Deliver robust valuations (strategic + covenant-linked)
· Provide technical backbone for transactions
- Support due diligence, execution, and integration
Risk & Audit Tracking:
· Consolidate high-risk items across all subsidiaries
- Provide monthly group risk dashboard
· Track and drive resolution of audit findings
- Ensure closure of internal & external audit issues
· Escalate critical risks to CEO
- Provide early warning and accountability tracking
· Drive completion across divisions
- Ensure execution, not just reporting
Minimum Qualifications:
· CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant
· Strong grounding in IFRS / local GAAP applied at group level
· Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation
· Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits
Ideal Candidate Profile:
· Independent Self-Starter
· Hands-On Operator
· Execution-Focused (Finisher Mindset)
· Commercially Aware & Business-Oriented
· Technically Strong & Detail-Oriented
