Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

Financial Management & Reporting

• Oversee all financial operations across the assigned dealerships, ensuring timely and accurate management accounts and financial reporting.
• Review dealership performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to drive profitability and operational efficiency.
• Consolidate regional financial performance for presentation to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with group accounting policies, statutory regulations, and internal controls.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Assist with the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts for each dealership and the region as a whole.
• Provide financial insight and analysis to support strategic planning and business decision-making.
• Monitor performance against budget, investigating variances and recommending corrective action.

Governance & Controls

• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure adherence to financial and operational policies.
• Coordinate internal and external audits, ensuring timely resolution of findings.
• Safeguard company assets and ensure accurate stock, cash, and debtors management across all dealerships.
• Ensure FIC compliance.

People Development

• Lead and mentor dealership finance teams to ensure capability and performance.
• Support succession planning and training initiatives.

Duties: 

• Ensuring all Internal and Head Office deadlines are adhered to
• Be actively involved in Internal and External audit reporting and implement corrective actions
• Monitor credit, operational, and regulatory risks at dealership level
• Ensuring information and reports received from Financial Managers are accurate
• Training of Finance-staff, mostly on accounting issues, VAT and policies and procedures
• Reviewing monthly General Ledger audit files
• Assisting Dealer Principals and Financial Managers with queries
• Ensuring payments are made timeously and accurately with correct authorisations in place
• Ensuring that expenses are recognised in correct periods and disclosed correctly
• Drive cost-saving initiatives across dealerships and shared functions
• Monitor floorplan utilisation, interest costs, and inventory aging
• Manage regional cash flow and working capital efficiency
• Promote automation and standardisation of finance processes
• Ensuring completeness, validity and accuracy of provisions and accruals
• Ensuring accuracy of all Dealerships’ Monthly commissions and authorisation
• Visiting dealerships to ensure that all policies and procedures, financial controls, OEM requirements, tax, and audit standards are adhered to and that segregation of duties is adhered to
• Implementing new company policies and procedures as instructed or discussed
• Ensure that all Company assets are managed properly (vehicle stock takes weekly, daily parts perpetuals, two wall-to-wall stock takes annually, two fixed assets counts annually, NATIS & key controls)
• Oversee payroll reporting to ensure correct designations and departments are being used

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 5–7 years as a dealership Financial Manager
• CA(SA), CIMA or equivalent, advantageous
• Strong commercial awareness
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing finance teams

Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Proficient in dealership management systems (e.g., Kerridge/CDK or similar).
• Advanced Excel skills.
• High integrity and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Regional profitability and cost control.
• Maintains tight control of working capital.
• Accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.
• Compliance with financial controls and audit requirements.
• Performance development of Finance Managers.
• Achievement of budgeted financial targets and efficiency improvements.

Travel Requirements

• Gauteng-based, travel might be required to other regions across the group.
• Ability to be based at different branches for extended periods during audits, training, or investigations.