SUMMARY:
The Senior Finance Specialist will play a pivotal role in managing the end-to-end financial administration, reporting, and analysis processes across the business. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with strong finance acumen, advanced Excel capability, and hands-on experience in Netsuite. The incumbent will ensure accurate contract ...
POSITION INFO:
The Senior Finance Specialist will play a pivotal role in managing the end-to-end financial administration, reporting, and analysis processes across the business. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with strong finance acumen, advanced Excel capability, and hands-on experience in Netsuite. The incumbent will ensure accurate contract administration, billing, forecasting, and revenue reporting, supporting both operational and strategic decision-making.
What you'll do:
- Contract Revenue Administration
- Manage contract input, filing, and tracking in Netsuite.
- Oversee contract invoicing, including proforma invoices, purchase orders (POs), and deferred maintenance processing (monthly) in Netsuite.
- Conduct billing reconciliations and adjustments to ensure accuracy.
- Administer new product setups in Netsuite and maintain contract data integrity.
- Manage client procurement portals, ensuring compliance with client requirements
- Financial Planning Analysis
- Lead budget preparation and coordination annually, including forward-load planning
- Prepare monthly revenue forecasts and compare against actual performance.
- Generate and analyze revenue forecast vs actual reports and create monthly graphs for management review.
- Produce monthly and annual revenue reports, including annual revenue statistics
reports slides for executive review.
- Support Business Unit (BU) management through financial reporting and insights.
- Audit Compliance
- Coordinate and support audit processes, ensuring timely submission of required
documentation and reconciliations.
- Maintain compliance with internal financial controls and processes.
- Systems Process Management
- Act as Netsuite super-user for finance-related processes, continuously seeking ways to optimize system usage.
- Identify process improvement opportunities to increase efficiency in billing, forecasting, and reporting cycles.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of experience in a senior finance or FPA role.
- Strong experience working with Netsuite or similar ERP platforms.
- Strong understanding of IFRS standards with the ability to apply them in financial reporting and analysis.
- Proven track record in budget preparation, forecasting, and revenue management.
- Experience managing audit processes and interacting with external auditors.
- Deep Finance Acumen – strong understanding of accounting principles, revenue recognition, and financial management.
- Advanced Excel Skills – ability to create complex models, automate calculations, and build insightful reports.
- Systems Proficiency – experience with Netsuite (or similar ERP systems) essential.
- Analytical Mindset – ability to interpret data, spot trends, and provide actionable insights.
- Attention to Detail – ensures high levels of accuracy in contract input, billing, and reporting.
- Communication Skills – capable of presenting financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Time Management – able to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field (BCom or equivalent).
- Professional qualification (CA(SA), CIMA, ACCA) advantageous.
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Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Permanent position
- Location: Johannesburg
Why work for us?
If the daily grind makes you wonder if there's more to life than work, get ready to discover a professional journey that embraces excellence without compromise.
You've arrived at iOCO Infrastructure Services (iOCO IS), where we are all about delivering outstanding client experiences through sustainable, innovative IT infrastructure solutions that tackle business challenges head-on. Here you get to partner with clients, helping them conquer their business Goliaths while they focus on scaling their empires.
At our core, we're challengers, disruptors, and innovators. We're a community of skilled professionals with an ambitious spirit dedicated to providing for our clients while finding joy in the process. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Their satisfaction fuels our fire and propels us forward. We're talking about brainstorming sessions that sound like TED talks and spontaneous celebrations for achievements, big and small.
iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups.
