About the position
Financial Manager
Are you ready to take your accounting career to the next level?
As our Financial Manager, you will move far beyond routine data entry to coordinate, control, and execute our full-set accounting infrastructure, financial reporting, and end-to-end tax compliance pipelines! You will be the technical anchor for accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, budgets, and automated ERP processing while managing the comprehensive compilation of monthly and annual financial statements (including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements). You will implement rigorous general ledger audits, assist with organizational forecasting, and direct external audit preparations—actively de-risking the company's statutory exposure, eliminating financial code variances, and safeguarding enterprise value!
• Key responsibilities:
Full-Set Financial Reporting & General Ledger Management:
• You will manage the complete end-to-end monthly and annual general ledger closing processes inside the Microsoft Navision ERP database, driving a strict 5-day close window.
• You will generate, analyse, and compile complete draft financial reporting packages (including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements), highlighting variance lines for management evaluation.
• You will formulate, calculate, and post complex month-end adjustment journals, including depreciation schedules, prepaid expense amortizations, and intricate multi-departmental expense accruals.
• You will partner with the Managing Director and Commercial Director to prepare structured, data-driven annual organisational budgets and rolling operational financial forecasts.
Advanced Accounts Receivable & Revenue Governance:
• You will oversee the full-cycle Accounts Receivable (AR) framework, driving the processing of complex client invoices, payment tracking, and systematic debtors sub-ledger reconciliations.
• You will investigate, isolate, and resolve deep customer payment discrepancies, cross-checking client inventory logs to eliminate misallocated revenues.
• You will analyse debtor ageing profiles systematically, flagging credit risks early and coordinating with internal credit control channels to optimize collection speed.
Cash Book Optimisation & Bank Reconciliation:
• You will reconcile corporate bank statements against internal ledger accounts with zero backlog, implementing advanced cross-checking protocols to identify and resolve transaction variances immediately.
• You will manage the conversion of legacy manual bank statement inputs into automated import configurations inside Navision to drive data entry optimization.
• You will audit and stage bulk accounts payable payment batches (discount trade creditors, subcontractors, and CODs), ensuring full compliance with corporate internal control criteria.
Multi-Tier Payroll Processing & Bargaining Council Compliance:
• You will execute full weekly and monthly payroll information tracking on the Payday system, computing precise wages, statutory taxes, benefits, and voluntary deductions for the permanent workforce.
• You will enforce timekeeping data validation rules by cross-checking biometric face-scan logs against supervisor timesheets, correcting double-clocking or missing stamp variances.
• You will direct the submission of employee hours and financial files to the Furniture Bargaining Council, ensuring perfect compliance with holiday funds, bonus funds, funeral funds, and council levies.
Tax Compliance, Audit Management & Internal Control Guardrails:
• You will take full operational custody of statutory tax workflows, ensuring impeccable record-keeping and precise completion of VAT, PAYE, UIF, and corresponding corporate tax filings.
• You will lead the structural preparation for annual external financial audits, serving as the main operational contact to provide clear ledgers, reconciliations, and clean transaction trails.
• You will audit internal financial workflows regularly across processing desks to prevent double-billing, unmonitored cost code leakage, or inventory valuation shifts.
• You will meticulously maintain, audit, and secure all digital and hard-copy financial ledgers, salary data, tax records, and audit files in absolute compliance with POPIA guidelines and statutory storage laws.
• You will coordinate closely with the HR and H&S Manager to ensure that budgets for mandatory worker medical screenings, factory safety compliance certificates, and shopfloor testing protocols are funded and coded accurately inside the ledger—recognising that clean compliance records represent an essential commercial gatekeeper for high-yield shopfitting contracts.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
To ensure a balanced blend of operational bookkeeping coordination and payroll administration capability, the requirements are:
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Financial Management, or formal Senior Accounting Certification from a recognized professional institution.
Relevant Experience: Minimum of 5 to 8 years of progressive accounting and full-set bookkeeping experience, with a strict requirement of at least 3 years operating within a fast-paced industrial manufacturing, joinery, or engineering corporate infrastructure.
Essential Skills: Full-Set Financial Statement Compilation (Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flows); Advanced Microsoft Navision ERP Navigation; Accounts Receivable & Debtors Ledger Management; Multi-Tier Payday Payroll Processing; SARS Tax and VAT Compliance Filing.
Desired Skills:
- Full-Set Accounting
- Budgeting
- Microsoft Navision ERP
- General Ledger Audit
- Bargaining Council Compliance
- POPIA Compliance
- SARS Tax Compliance
