Senior Financial Manager (CA(SA)) | logistics, supply chain, and freight forwarding

The Opportunity

🎯 Role Purpose

🔍 Key Requirements

✅ Professional Expertise

• CA(SA) (essential)
• 8–10 years’ post‑articles experience
• Minimum 3–5 years in a senior financial management or leadership role
• Proven experience within logistics, supply chain, freight forwarding, or a related sector
• Strong exposure to international finance and multi‑currency operations
• In‑depth knowledge of IFRS, taxation, compliance, and regulatory frameworks

🚚 Industry Insight

• Strong understanding of the financial and operational complexities of cross‑border trade
• Ability to manage and interpret financial data across a global logistics or freight network

💼 Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Strategic, commercially minded, and performance‑driven
• Comfortable operating under pressure in a fast‑growth environment
• Confident decision‑maker with the ability to influence at executive level
• Strong people leader with the ability to build, mentor, and lead high‑performing finance teams

🧭 Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute the group’s financial strategy, planning, budgeting, and forecasting
• Oversee financial operations, governance, compliance, and reporting across international entities
• Drive profitability, performance optimisation, and cost management
• Provide meaningful, data‑driven insights to support executive and board‑level decision‑making
• Manage cash flow, risk, capital planning, and investment analysis
• Ensure strong financial controls, processes, and system integrity
• Build and develop a high‑performing finance team aligned to business growth

🌍 Why Join This Business?

• A senior leadership role within a rapidly expanding international group
• High‑impact exposure across global operations
• Strong executive influence without full CFO accountability
• A culture that values innovation, accountability, and excellence
• Long‑term growth potential aligned to the company’s international expansion strategy