Chartered Accountant (SA)

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POSITION INFO:

Job Overview: 

Seeking a dynamic and detail?oriented Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. This role is critical in driving credible financial reporting, strengthening governance and controls, and enabling performance insight through improved processes and systems.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: CA(SA)
• Experience: 2–5 years post articles (industry or audit/consulting with commercial exposure)
• Knowledge: month-end close, controls/recons, MI, variance analysis, cashflow; audit working papers; IFRS exposure.
• Computer literacy: Excel (advanced), PowerPoint; ERP/reporting tools (Sage Intacc or similar); Power BI advantageous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the month?end close timetable, ensuring reconciliations, journals, and sign?offs are completed on time.
• Deliver high?quality management reporting packs with clear variance commentary and consolidated insights.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining complete working papers, technical logs, and statutory schedules.
• Responsible for ensuring that Annual Financial Statement are compiled accurately and submitted in-line with deadlines.
• Build forward?looking insight through rolling cashflow forecasting and covenant monitoring.
• Partner with BI teams to optimize reporting systems (Sage Intacc, Power BI).
• Collaborate with Heads of Department to interpret results, identify drivers, and agree corrective actions.
• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting improvements, evolving static budgets into dynamic models.
• Enable the finance & governance operating rhythm, contribute to cycle mapping and root-cause analysis, standardize processes/checklists/templates.

Key Competencies: 

• High integrity and accountability.
• Clear, proactive communication with finance and non?finance stakeholders.
• Strong problem?solving and root?cause analysis skills.
• Collaborative, hands?on approach to teamwork.
• Decision?making supported by clear analysis and actionable insights.
• Contribution to team capability through SOPs, templates, and documentation.
• Cultural awareness and adaptability across diverse teams.