Financial Operations & Reporting Lead

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POSITION INFO:
Experience Required: · Group-level finance (multiple legal entities) · Hands-on monthly and quarterly close · Consolidations, eliminations, and intercompany management · Operating within regulated or capital-intensive environments · Experience supporting executive management, boards, lenders, and auditors Qualifications: · CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant · Strong grounding in IFRS \/ local GAAP applied at group level · Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation · Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits   Key Responsibilities: · Financial Operations & Lead reporting · Quarterly Consolidation · Tax Loss Utilisation Strategies · Covenants & Working Capital · M&A \/ Strategic Support · Risk & Audit Tracking Financial Operations & Lead reporting: · Ownership of group reporting and data integrity from Business Central - Establish a reliable, system-driven monthly reporting cycle (?5–7 days) · Automate key financial drivers (valuations, covenants, working capital, budgets) - Implement quarterly automated valuations, covenant tracking, and working capital dashboards · Automated monitoring of debtors and cash cycles - Flag long-outstanding debtors and cash flow risks proactively · Standardisation of reporting packs across entities - Ensure consistent, decision-useful reporting across the group Quarterly Consolidation: · Full group consolidation (financial + performance view) - Deliver accurate quarterly consolidated financials · Alignment of intercompany, eliminations, and reporting consistency - Ensure clean consolidation with no intercompany mismatches Tax Loss Utilisation Strategy: · Develop and execute plan to optimise group tax losses - Maximise utilisation of assessed tax losses · Align legal entity performance with tax efficiency - Improve group effective tax position Covenants & Working Capital · Monitor bank covenants (system-driven) - Ensure zero breaches through automated tracking and early warnings · Drive working capital performance (debtors, creditors, cash conversion) - Improve debtor days, cash conversion cycle, and liquidity · Ensure integrity of valuation inputs supporting covenants - Maintain credible, supportable inputs for funding and compliance M&A \/ Strategic Support: · Support valuations, funding structures, and commercial analysis - Deliver robust valuations (strategic + covenant-linked) · Provide technical backbone for transactions - Support due diligence, execution, and integration Risk & Audit Tracking: · Consolidate high-risk items across all subsidiaries - Provide monthly group risk dashboard · Track and drive resolution of audit findings - Ensure closure of internal & external audit issues · Escalate critical risks to CEO - Provide early warning and accountability tracking · Drive completion across divisions - Ensure execution, not just reporting Minimum Qualifications: · CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant · Strong grounding in IFRS \/ local GAAP applied at group level · Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation · Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits Ideal Candidate Profile: · Independent Self-Starter · Hands-On Operator · Execution-Focused (Finisher Mindset) · Commercially Aware & Business-Oriented · Technically Strong & Detail-Oriented