Financial Operations & Reporting Lead

SUMMARY:
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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