Job Description
- A renewable energy organisation is seeking a Financial Controller to oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the Group. This position ensures the integrity, accuracy, and timely completion of financial records alongside operational reporting readiness. The role plays a vital part in maintaining robust financial controls and supporting the broader business through insightful operational reporting and analysis.
- Collaborating across multiple jurisdictions, the successful candidate will manage core transactional activities, treasury functions, and financial close processes. This opportunity is well-suited for a hands-on, self-motivated professional who is comfortable operating within a structured yet evolving environment.
- This role offers a hybrid model with 2 days work from home per week, unless required to be in the office for additional days as requested by the reporting manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Close Management: Manage and coordinate the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes to ensure the accuracy and integrity of trial balances, reconciliations, and underlying financial records.
- Transactional Oversight: Oversee everyday transactional finance activities encompassing cash, payroll, creditors, debtors, fixed assets, and revenue accounting.
- Treasury and Cash Management: Manage treasury operations including liquidity monitoring, payment cycles, banking administration, and short-term cash flow management.
- Authorisations and Approvals: Review and approve payments, beneficiaries, and banking transactions in strict accordance with delegated authority limits.
- Reporting and Analytics: Prepare comprehensive financial reporting inputs, analysis, and operational KPIs for management, Board, and committee reporting.
- Compliance and Internal Controls: Ensure complete compliance with approved accounting policies, IFRS requirements, and internal financial controls.
- System Integrity: Maintain the integrity of financial data, master data, and transactional controls within the ERP and related business systems.
- Intercompany Governance: Review intercompany transactions and recharges in line with established transfer pricing policies and intercompany agreements.
- Consolidations and Variance Analysis: Perform consolidations, journal entries, and budget-to-actual variance analysis across Group entities.
- Budgeting Support: Support budgeting and forecasting processes through the provision of actual financial data and operational insights.
- Tax and Regulatory Compliance: Execute statutory, tax, and regulatory filing requirements while maintaining robust supporting documentation and audit trails.
- Audit Coordination: Act as the primary operational contact for external auditors and coordinate audit deliverables, reconciliations, and working papers.
- Risk Mitigation: Identify operational finance risks, control gaps, and process improvement opportunities, escalating matters where appropriate.
- Project Involvement: Support finance-related aspects of projects, tenders, and operational initiatives.
- Document Control: Maintain effective finance filing, reporting, and document management processes.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Articles: Completed SAICA or SAIPA articles.
- Post-Article Experience: Minimum of 3 years of post-article experience in a similar financial management or control role.
- Team Leadership: 3 to 5 years of experience managing a team.
- Jurisdictional Experience: Relevant experience doing business in South Africa.
- Core Competencies: Strong financial, analytical, problem-solving, and process-improvement capabilities, alongside excellent stakeholder engagement and time management skills.
- Travel Availability: Comfortable, available, and willing to travel and conduct business within Africa when required.
Desirable Requirements
- Professional Designation: Professional designation such as CASA, AGASA, or Professional Accountant SA is highly advantageous.
- Regional Exposure: Experience doing business across multiple jurisdictions in East Africa.
- Sector & Complex Environments: Prior experience in project development, construction, and complex intercompany environments.
Required Software Skills
- SARS e-filing
- Oracle NetSuite Advantageous
- Microsoft D365 Advantageous
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and financial systems/ERP environments
