Finance Manager

Job Title: FINANCIAL MANAGER / ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

Location: Ogies, MP

Job Type: Permanent

Availability: Immediate

Applications: alosit@alos.co.za

Closing Date: 6 December 2024

The ideal candidate will reside in Ogies / 20 KM Surrounding Radius / Or be willing to relocate.

Role description:

Tasked with supporting the General Manager by overseeing daily business activities, improving overall business functions, managing budgets, developing strategic plans and communicating business goals. Hiring and training employees, Monitoring and motivating staff, support staff development, increasing staff productivity.

Managing operational costs, enhance efficiency, ensuring good customer service, drive indirect sales, improve revenue, improving administration processes, engaging with vendors, identifying business opportunities, and monitoring financial activities. Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, generating new business, improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business objectives.

Required skills and Minimum Requirements:

- B Com Financial Qualification / Commercial / Business Management degree

- Completed Articles with financial accounting skills and understanding of IFRS

- Minimum 5 Years’ Financial with Operation Management experience in FMCG or manufacturing environment

- Risk Analysis & Management Reporting

- Financial and Operational Management

- Stock Management and Balancing

- Effective interpersonal and communication skills

- Detailed understanding of management systems

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent personal organization and business administration skills

- Ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively with initiative and drive under timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality

- Willingness to learn, improve and adapt

- Managing of subordinates with the necessary motivational and leadership skills

- Proficient in Excel advance

- Maintain control systems and adherence to Corporate Governance

- Exposure to annual budget processes and managing thereof

Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Driving the financial and operational value chain improvement and reporting through:-

- Streamlined, system driven, accurate, on-time, reporting based on operational value drivers. This will include budget and/or target tracking.

- Supporting Management Team in prioritizing and taking remedial actions where operational value drivers are not met through enquiry root cause analysis, action planning and implementation

- Ensure that customer requirements are consistently met through constant monitoring the operational value chain and implementation of cost effective, productive improvements and other remedial actions based.

- Driving innovation to ensure continuous improvement in operations and removal of the root causes of operational inefficiencies

- Optimized and extended useful life of fixed assets

- Drive long term, sustainable improvements in energy (electricity/water/fuel) efficiency and reliability

The successful candidate will report to the General Manager. Remuneration will be determined based on industry standards and experience. The company offers the normal benefits of a large company. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.