The Role

The core responsibilities of the Financial Controller is to oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the Group, including treasury, accounts payable, cash flow management, and financial close processes, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timely completion of financial records and operational reporting readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close process
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of trial balances, reconciliations and underlying financial records
• Oversee transactional finance activities, including cash, payroll, creditors, debtors, fixed assets and revenue accounting
• Manage treasury operations, including liquidity monitoring, payment cycles, banking administration and short-term cash flow management
• Review and approve payments, beneficiaries and banking transactions in line with delegated authority
• Prepare financial reporting inputs, analysis and operational KPIs for management, Board and committee reporting
• Ensure compliance with approved accounting policies, IFRS requirements and internal financial controls
• Maintain integrity of financial data, master data and transactional controls within ERP and related systems
• Review intercompany transactions and recharges in line with transfer pricing policies and intercompany agreements
• Perform consolidations, journal entries and budget-to-actual variance analysis across Group entities
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes through provision of actual financial data and operational insights
• Execute statutory, tax and regulatory filing requirements and maintain supporting documentation and audit trails
• Act as primary operational contact for external auditors and coordinate audit deliverables, reconciliations and working papers
• Identify operational finance risks, control gaps and process improvement opportunities, escalating where appropriate
• Support finance-related aspects of projects, tenders and operational initiatives
• Maintain effective finance filing, reporting and document management processes

Key Competencies

• Strong financial and analytical capability
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong problem-solving and process improvement mindset
• Ability to manage finance processes and deadlines effectively
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and jurisdictions
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and financial systems/ERP environments
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (essential).
• Completed SAICA or SAIPA articles with minimum 3-years post article experience in a similar role.
• 3-5 years team management experience
• Professional designation advantageous (e.g. CA(SA), AGA(SA), Professional Accountant (SA))
• Relevant experience in doing business in South Africa and multiple jurisdictions in East Africa
• Prior experience in project development, construction, complex intercompany environments.

Character & Attributes

• High integrity, confidentiality and professionalism.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Works effectively within cross-functional teams and builds strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and takes ownership of initiatives.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• High attention to accuracy; cost conscious
• The capacity and willingness to perform hands-on tasks
• Self-motivated with the ability to work both individually and as a part of a small, skilled, and highly focused team, with a “can-do” attitude and willingness to take ownership of delivering on their goals and responsibilities
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and comfortable to make recommendations around resolving challenges
• Strong commercial acumen and an ability to think and act strategically in order to maximize opportunities for the business
• Flexible working style, able to work at a variety of differently levels both inside and outside the organisation and with members of the team being in different locations
• Comfortable, available and willing to travel and do business within Africa at times
• Ability to learn quickly and meet deadlines

System experience (advantageous)

• Oracle NetSuite
• Microsoft D365
• SARS e-filing