About the position
Partner with the business in providing finance services, insights, tactical strategy and associated delivery plans to support operational implementation and enable the business to achieve its financial objectives.
Responsibilities
- Define, develop and maintain policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to efficiently manage practice and provide thought leadership.
- Define and implement internal and external financial reporting processes and documentation requirements for both individual entities and groups according to professional financial accounting and reporting standards.
- Analyse, plan and manage costs (including product pricing or supply chain analysis) to support implementation of business strategies.
- Translate business strategy into financial targets and tactical plans, and support execution.
- Interpret and make effective management decisions using benchmarking, trends, and other planning and forecasting methods; develop and implement improvements to the planning processes.
- Establish and ensure effective and consistent modelling, planning and forecasting processes across business unit(s) and identify and implement best practices in these processes.
- Benchmark business performance internally and externally; deliver benchmark management information to specific needs to allow decision-making that pushes performance boundaries.
- Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations, financial and accounting practices.
- Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks to which the business unit(s) might be exposed.
- Assistance with monthly VAT reconciliation and quarterly tax packs.
- Manage end to end finance projects involving a segment, business unit, function or country/region from strategy articulation through to systems / programme design and implementation.
- Manage and monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk and audit guidelines. Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings.
- Apply and monitor governance to ensure that all processes and documentation on model rules and assumptions are aligned with technical committee and costing steerco guidance and methodologies.
- Manage the preparation and assessment of tax returns and issues; provide advice, particularly around technical tax issues that are non-routine and/or complex and interpret and evaluate the implications of new tax legislation and of existing legislation to new business situations.
Other Duties for this role will Include the following:
- Re-imagining costing models to benefit and promote the adoption of platform across Retail, Commercial, Broader Africa and even external users.
- Execution of costing models monthly
- Volume verification for input into costing models
- Reporting to stakeholders, and query resolution
- Responsible for running the budget and forecast costing models to charge business stakeholders
- Analyse and query incoming SLA charges for accuracy & validity
- Identification and tracking of key business KPI's for each of the different teams and for the overall business.
- Play the role of a business partner and collaborating with different teams across the group to ensure financial requirements are met.
- Prepare bespoke monthly reporting which will assist in highlighting areas of focus that enhance decision making. Includes preparation of Exco, Manco and Opsco reporting packs.
- Oversee monthly reconciliation & journal processes.
- Assist with the month end process & review thereof - includes statutory and compliance processes.
- Review and sign-off work of junior staff.
- Evaluate processes within all these teams in order to streamline them.
- Implement internal controls, policies & procedures.
- Assisting junior staff to implement processes and how to "work smarter"
- Assist with any ad-hoc projects (finance or business) that may be assigned from time to time
Qualifications and Experience
- CIMA
- Experience in managing people
- Advanced Excel knowledge and experience
- PowerPoint knowledge and experience
- SQL & PowerBI knowledge an advantage
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strong analytical and technical mind-set
- Business partnering and senior stakeholder management.
- Accountable with ability to make decisions
- Constructive problem solving
- Ability to see the big picture
- Work with large sets of data
- Innovative & able to apply "fresh" thinking
Desired Skills:
- Financial Accounting
- Technical Accounting
- Consolidated Financial
- CIMA
- Group Accounting
Desired Work Experience:
Desired Accreditations:
- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
