Financial Manager (Projects) - Cape Town - Market Related Salary

Financial Manager (Projects) - Cape Town - Market Related Salary

Seeking to appoint a Financial Manager to focus on various special projects and implementations. The position is based at our Cape Town office, reporting to the Financial Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for projects aimed at improving the company’s financial performance in key areas by applying accounting principles and specific business management practices. The role and duties include, but are not limited to:

• • Working to improve working capital cycles, with specific focus on invoicing and cash collection
• • procedures
• • Implementation of improved stock control procedures
• • Working with Financial Director on implementation of new time and attendance systems
• • Working with the current finance team on costing efficiencies on large ongoing projects, including negotiating best pricing and payment terms with suppliers and subcontractors
• • Work with the current finance team to improve reporting times of branch accounts.
• • General oversight and administration management of the Cape Town office
• • Management of labor brokers relations and pricing
• • Any further tasks of strategic nature as required by the Company’s Directors.

REQUIREMENTS

• • Minimum a CIMA or CA (SA) qualification
• • Experience in an operational and business environment, with international exposure seen as
• • an advantage
• • ERP experience (SAP/Syspro/Sage/Infor/JDE/Microsoft)
• • Strong skills in management of teams and projects
• • Candidate must be willing to travel to company’s business units if required
• • High integrity levels
• • Strong leadership and strategic thinking skills
• • Sound verbal and written communication skills
• • Require a really strong candidate personality-wise, as it is not a regular “accounting” environment.

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