About the position
Job Title:
Senior Finance Business Partner
Brief Description
The main purpose of this position is to is to provide financial insights, knowledge and expertise to the departments of the business to ensure commercially sound decisions.
Detailed Description:
- Lead and participate in stakeholder engagements (internal and external), displaying the ability to solicit information as well as deliver a coherent and convincing message.
- Represent the Financial Services Department by maintaining strategic relationships with critical stakeholders and business departments.
- Provide financial expertise to business departments to ensure accurate accounting and budgeting for departmental operational and capital projects.
- Contribute to subcommittees by offering financial expertise and analysis during commercial deliberations, with the aim of facilitating informed decision making.
- Provide financial expertise and knowledge to business departments to ensure that new international financial reporting standards are correctly applied to departmental financial transactions.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reports on capital and operational expenditures for submission to the Governors' Executive Committee (GEC) and other governance structures.
- Provide the business departments with financial expertise, knowledge and insights to support business cases, investment initiatives and operational transactions to facilitate financially sound decisions.
- Drive the adoption of new financial accounting systems and processes by providing ongoing guidance to the various business departments.
- Lead subordinates with set, achievable objectives and targets, prioritize work, and manage resource utilization and the quality of deliverables.
- Keep abreast with new developments in financial accounting standards and other relevant industry developments.
- Propose and implement the refinement and continuous improvement of systems, tools, controls, methods and processes in own area.
Job Requirements:
- A minimum of a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) (CA (SA)) qualification; and
- A minimum of 8 to 10 years’ experience, of which at least 5 years must be in a finance business partnering role.
Additional requirements are as follows:
- Industry, organizational and business awareness.
- Quality assurance.
- Continuous improvement.
- Continued learning and/or professional development.
- Finance strategy.
- Finance planning.
- Finance legislation and governance, risk and compliance.
- Finance project management.
- Financial forecasting and budgeting.
- Financial accounting.
- Cost accounting.
- Management accounting.
- Financial analysis and reporting.
- Financial reconciliation.
- Fixed and/or moveable asset management.
- Function-specific performance management.
- Function-specific information systems.
- Business continuity planning.
- Conceptual thinking.
- Effective communication, flexibility.
- Drive for results, teamwork.
- Service and stakeholder focus.
- Building and maintaining relationships.
- Judgement and decision making.
- Impact and influence.
- Analysis and problem solving.
- Managing complexity and ambiguity.
Desired Skills:
- Analysis and problem solving
- Conceptual thinking
- Flexibility
