Business Finance Head
Finance
KwaZulu Natal – South Africa
Our client, a chemical manufacturing company based in Durban, has an opportunity available for a Business Finance Head to provide financial & operational analysis to the Business Head & Leadership Team, as well as to ensure optimized reporting to all stakeholders, payments to suppliers, collection of cash & internal controls surrounding these for the Region.
Requirements:
- CA (SA)
- 5 years’ experience in finance post articles
- Knowledge & understanding of the agricultural and/or chemical industry
- Ability to communicate fluently in Afrikaans (read & write)
- Experience interacting with Commercial & Key customers
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the timely and accurate delivery of results, management information and financial reporting.
- Monitor, review and interrogate gross margin and expenses for the company, with various stakeholders.
- Debtor management review and overview.
- Ensure the correct recording and protection of all assets of the Company.
- Ensure that creditors are recorded correctly and paid timeously.
- Sign off credit applications/credit limits etc. and mitigate any financial risk
- Accountable for cost/profit centre breakdowns.
- Contribute strategic financial expertise and information that ensures Sub Regional Business Head is able to take sound and informed decisions. All local asset insurance negotiations and cover.
- Planning and negotiation of cash loans and overdrafts with banks and Intercompany subject to global authorisation table.
- Ensure the implementation/monitoring/maintenance of an effective internal control and risk management environment.
- Planning of yearly internal audits where applicable and designing and improving on weaknesses of controls from a financial perspective.
- Ensuring that cash is managed in accordance with business requirements and cash forecast.
- Bank liaison and negations in rates and facilities.
- Ensure timeous statutory payments.
- Ensure that statutory statements are completed and compiled and audited.
- Monitor and manage the different audits, interim, annual audit and internal, ensuring timeous sign off by auditors as per Group/Statutory requirements.
- Ensure that tax for the group is completed and compliant as well as optimised
- Ensure the various Finance Departments are fully staffed with appropriately experienced employees.
- Train and develop employees based on identified training needs in accordance with the Workplace Skills Plan.
- Carry out adhoc projects for Sub Regional Business Head, including minority valuations etc, participate in negotiations with minority acquisitions including business case.
- Carry out adhoc projects and queries from commercial and supply chain