FINANCE MANAGER

Our well-established client in the manufacturing sector in Cape Town is looking for a Finance Manager with proven management skills and excellent communication skills to join their team.  This is a newly created role for a leader to take the department forward and to implement and fully manage the current operations and systems in place.  Working alongside the CFO and COO, you will need to create, monitor and sustain policies and procedures within the financial and broader administrative function.

• Duties and responsibilities (include but are not limited to):
  Financial Analysis and Reporting:  Perform financial analysis, reporting and management activities, ensure that the financial reports are prepared and delivered on time, review financial data for accuracy and completeness, generate financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses, etc.
• Supervise and own all month-end procedures including variance analysis and account reconciliations, manage accounting practices across the organisation
• Oversee the overall corporate budgeting preparation, financial management and financial monitoring processes, actively monitoring and managing budgets against actuals
• Communicates data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Your communications drive critical business actions
• Management of all activities in the accounts payable and accounts receivable departments including but not limited to:  supplier invoices to statement reconciliations, producing payment batches in line with business’s terms and conditions, chasing up on missing invoices and credit notes, correct classification in accordance with company’s COA, chasing up on aged debtors, management of customer statement monthly, completeness of all sales data, importing of month end sales invoices, management of depot sales and aged accounts receivable, manage the relationship with debt collectors and lawyers for aged balances.
• Human Resources:  management of HR function for completeness and accuracy by implementing checks and controls proactively to limit potential staff payroll related queries, responsible for the disciplinary process and recording of warnings for the company assisted by the HR clerk, Including organising hearings with labour consultant, recording of the disciplinary process in both the legal and payroll systems, ensure accurate calculation and distribution of salaries, wages, and other benefits to employees, perform weekly and monthly imports from the time and attendance system on to the PaySpace Payroll system and prepare the banking EFT files for import by the CFO, including control checks to ensure all staff hours have been recorded and why any staff have short hours (unpaid sick etc), recording of all payroll information journals onto the accounting platform, complete and manage the staff loans, schedules, and reconciliations, complete the provident fund import file and reconciliation to the accounting system every month, any discrepancies are to be followed up, corrected, and raised to management, responsible to obtain information and alert the broker or the provident fund of any changes/updates to the provident fund for new or exiting members, Collate, produce, and review the EMP201 with supporting documentation for the CFO to upload onto SARS each month, responsible for the maintenance, garnishees, and union fee deductions for the staff which includes the deductions, recording thereof in the financial systems and preparing the payment file for payment each month, responsible for the HR data and systems including scanning of sick certificates, COVID vaccinations, contracts to ensure digital access of information.
• Financial management
• Legal and regulatory 
• Systems & Procedures
• Audits
• Secretarial

Minimum Requirements

Relevant qualification

5+ years in a similar role

Advanced Excel

QuickBooks/ PaySpace Payroll system advantage.

Must be willing to be subjected to a psychometric test.

Experience and applied knowledge of accounting and/or financial concepts.

Experience in conflict resolution, disciplinary processes, and workplace investigations

Ability to manipulate and analyse large volumes of numerical data accurately.

Ability to work on a range of project deliverables simultaneously

If you meet all the requirement, please email your updated CV in Word format along with a copy of your ID, Qualifications and Reference Letters or contactable referee’s to