Location: Gauteng

Reporting to: Group Finance Executive / Group Head of Consolidations and Reporting

Role Purpose

The Senior Consolidation & Reporting Manager is responsible for the accurate, timely, and compliant consolidation and reporting of the Group’s financial results across budgets, forecasts, and actuals. The role combines strong technical accounting expertise with leadership, systems ownership, and strategic insight, supporting executive decision-making and contributing meaningfully to Group strategy.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring the integrity of Group financial information while providing forward-looking analysis and insights to the CFO, Executive Committee, Board, and other key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Group Consolidation & Financial Reporting

• Review and manage the monthly Group consolidation process for Budget, Forecast, and Actuals.
• Ensure ongoing hygiene and integrity of consolidation systems, including eliminations, ownership structures, special rates, and unrealised profit calculations.
• Identify errors, anomalies, or areas requiring interrogation, and work closely with finance teams to resolve root causes efficiently.
• Review Group Flash results and key movements, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and insight.
• Review reconciliations of reported results to underlying systems and supporting proofs (minimum quarterly).
• Review consolidated Annual Financial Statements (AFS) and other statutory or regulatory submissions.
• Prepare and submit special rates for foreign transactions including dividends, share capital movements, and acquisitions.
• Review liquidity, solvency, working capital, country-by-country, and material subsidiary calculations.
• Review bank covenant calculations and certificates, including ROIC, WACC, and blended tax calculations, with submission into HFM.

Management Reporting & Executive Support

• Prepare management accounts and supporting analyses for Group and Holdings.
• Prepare headlined earnings reconciliations and maintain the weighted average number of shares.
• Prepare CFO confirmation booklets for Interim, Annual, and Budget processes.
• Prepare CFO inserts for quarterly Board reporting and interim and annual results presentations.
• Deliver ALCO submissions with clear financial insights and risk considerations.
• Respond to ad hoc reporting requests from the Group Finance Executive with speed, accuracy, and commercial focus.

Strategic Input & Business Insight

• Contribute actively to Group strategy by analysing business performance, trends, and underlying drivers of results.
• Translate complex financial data into clear, decision-useful insights for senior leadership.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning cycles through robust financial analysis.
• Prepare Budget and Strategy presentations, ensuring alignment between financial outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and highlight risks and opportunities impacting Group performance.

People & Stakeholder Management

• Lead and manage the Consolidations Team, including:
  • Training and ongoing development

• Performance management and one-on-one coaching
• Leave approvals and resource planning
• Ensuring appropriate tools, systems, and processes are in place
• Manage and oversee responses to queries raised by the Group Finance Executive or Group Head of Consolidations & Reporting.
• Act as a key point of coordination between Group Finance, subsidiaries, and external advisors where required.

Key Requirements

• CA(SA) or equivalent professional qualification.
• Strong experience in group consolidations, financial reporting, and listed-company environments.
• Deep understanding of IFRS and complex group structures.
• Proven experience working with financial consolidation systems (e.g. HFM or similar).
• Demonstrated leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to provide strategic, commercially focused insights.
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to engage at executive and Board level.
• High attention to detail combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

Personal Attributes

Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen.
Proactive, solutions-driven, and resilient under pressure.
Trusted advisor mindset with a high degree of integrity.
Able to balance technical excellence with big-picture thinking

Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not hear from us within Two weeks of closing date.