Group Finance Manager

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Group Finance Manager | Johannesburg | Permanent

A group-level finance role with real operational impact across multiple hospitality entities. Bring rigour to reporting, sharpen controls, and turn performance data into confident decisions.

This role oversees financial operations across multiple properties/entities, ensuring accurate monthly reporting, clean consolidation, strong compliance, and commercial insight that supports growth. You’ll lead the budgeting and reforecast cycles, strengthen working-capital discipline, and embed practical controls across cash handling, POS settlement, stock management, and night-audit processes. You’ll also partner closely with operational stakeholders to improve cost of sales, drive system enhancements, and support strategic initiatives.

Our client is a multi-property hospitality group operating premium resorts and lodge-style experiences. With a strong focus on guest experience and operational excellence, they’re building a finance function that is proactive, disciplined, and closely aligned to operations.

What You’ll Do

• Prepare monthly management accounts on time, with variance analysis and actionable commentary
• Maintain group chart of accounts structures and ensure accurate intercompany eliminations
• Coordinate year-end statutory accounts and audit processes across entities
• Lead annual budgets and rolling reforecasts by property/department, including Capex and Opex planning
• Consolidate group cash flow, manage liquidity, credit terms, and collections
• Manage intercompany transactions and reconciliations
• Strengthen internal controls across cash handling, POS settlement, tips/service charge distribution, stock, and night-audit reconciliations
• Oversee inventory controls, including recipe costing, yield/wastage, stock counts, and variance analysis, to reducethe  cost of sales
• Ensure compliance with IFRS/GAAP, tax, payroll, and statutory requirements
• Support insurance reviews, risk registers, and business continuity planning
• Provide financial insight for strategic decisions, including modelling, M&A support, and due diligence when required
• Drive process improvements and ERP/PMS/POS integration enhancements with cross-functional teams

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business (MBA/Master’s advantageous)
• 5–8+ years’ experience in multi-property hospitality finance or group finance roles, including consolidation and audit coordination
• Strong knowledge of IFRS/GAAP, tax compliance, and hospitality KPI frameworks
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets capability
• Hands-on exposure to PMS, POS, and ERP environments and integrations
• Strong forecasting and financial modelling skills
• Proven stakeholder management across GMs, owners, revenue, culinary, HR, and procurement
• Detail-focused with the ability to deliver under seasonal pressure
• Confident communicator with a practical, solutions-driven leadership style

What Success Looks Like

• Month-end is consistently on time, accurate, and trusted by operations and leadership
• Budgets and reforecasts are robust, well-owned, and used as real performance tools
• Working capital improves through tighter cash flow, collections, and controls
• Inventory and COS are measurably better managed through disciplined processes and collaboration
• Audit and compliance requirements are met smoothly, with reduced risk and fewer surprises
• Finance is seen as a value-adding partner, not only a reporting function