Senior Finance Manager

SUMMARY:
Our client, a well established electrical contractor who services the industrial, commercial and residential industry, requires a Senior Finance Manager to motivate and lead their finance team.  The group has a centalised finance, debtors, creditors, HR, contracts and tenders function at their HO, located in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:
Requirements:

• CA(SA) or BComm articles
• 7 years post-article industry experience
• 4 years experience in the construction/contracting industry
• Computer literate - full finance / payroll / network / BI Tools / cyber security
• Self motivated
• Problem solver

• Detailed weekly, monthly, quarterly cash flow planning & management
• Contract costing and profitability management
• Ensuring all revenue is timeously billed and cash collected as due
• Ensuring the costs per contract are accurate, reliable and provide early warning of losses
• Ensuring that there are adequate banking facilities available to fund the business
• Consolidated financial reporting (monthly / year end)
• Profit control – monthly budget vs actual vs prior year variance reporting
• Full Tax, VAT / EMP 201& 501 / dividends / Import duties / etc management
• Foreign transaction / Forward cover / Excon management
• Ensuring that all expenditure is minimised, authorised, received, allocated correctly
• Oversee the debtor’s department, deal with credit problems, ensure cash collected when due
• Ensuring the integrity of financial systems / data bases / financial & management reports / history
• Ensuring adequate internal controls within the business
• Keep Senior Managment Team regularly informed on business / finance / cash flow and contract issues
• Ensuring that the standard operating procedures are simple / documented / relevant
• Projects (Budgets / Insurance program / audits / bank facility / annual audits / etc)