Finance Manager

The Finance Manager leads the financial reporting function, ensuring that the internal and external requirements of financial reporting are fully met, while ensuring overall integrity.

Job Summary

The Finance Manager leads the financial reporting function, ensuring that the internal and external requirements of financial reporting are fully met, while ensuring overall integrity. The Manager is responsible for ensuring that the financial analysis statements are provided to the Chief Financial Officer, or other parties as required. 

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensure the financial integrity of financial plans and forecasts.

2. Develop and maintain financial models for key business driver analysis and forecasting.

3. Review and analyse quarterly and annual financial statements and management reports.

4. Provide financial guidance and support to senior staff to ensure effective financial management.

5. Keep current on financial reporting developments.

6. Lead the financial reporting function, ensuring that internal and external financial reporting requirements are fully met.

7. Ensure staff results are achieved by communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

8. Develop financial and business processes to support month end close and internal controls.

9. Develop and maintain financial information systems.

10. Ensure accurate and timely preparation of external financial reporting.

11. Perform all duties in conformance to appropriate health, safety, security and environmental policies and procedures.

12. Perform any other job duties as required by the job function.

Minimum Education and Qualifications 

1. ACCA Professional Qualification, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), CMA OR equivalent.

Experience

1. At least five (5) years progressive accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.

2. Exposure to local and international accounting standards will be an asset.

3. Experience in using computerized accounting packages.

Or any equivalent combination of qualification and experience

Knowledge 

• Financial Modelling (Intermediate)
 
• Financial Software (Intermediate)
 
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) (Intermediate)
 
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) (Intermediate)
 
• Microsoft Office Suite (Intermediate)
 
• Oracle Hyperion (Intermediate)
 
• SAP (Intermediate)

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) (Intermediate)

Competencies

1. Must be able to analyse and synthesize information to understand issues to make recommendations.

2. Collaborative with the ability to be a key team player and possess good interpersonal skills.

3. Ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas clearly using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills.

 4. Resilient and the ability to work effectively under pressure without becoming flustered.

 5. Ability to organise work so that tasks each to complete work on time, prioritize projects and communicate progress to supervisors and colleagues.

 6. Ability to display a high level of integrity by keeping good on promises; holding self-accountable; and being honest and truthful.

7. Ability to supervise and provide constructive feedback to the finance team members to do their best work

8. Ability to facilitate and show meticulous, strong attention to detail in work