Financial Operations and Reporting Lead

About

Our client, a well-established and prominent group operating across multiple business sectors, is seeking to employ an experienced Financial Operations and Reporting Lead; to join their team based in Newton Park, Port Elizabeth.

A awesome career opportunity awaits!

Requirements

• CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant
• 6-8 years' experience required
• Strong grounding in IFRS / local GAAP applied at group level
• Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation
• Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits
• Group-level finance (multiple legal entities)
• Hands-on monthly and quarterly close
• Consolidations, eliminations, and intercompany management
• Operating within regulated or capital-intensive environments
• Experience supporting executive management, boards, lenders, and auditors

Responsibilities

Financial Operations and Reporting

• Ownership of group reporting and data integrity from Business Central
• Automate key financial drivers (valuations, covenants, working capital, budgets)
• Automated monitoring of debtors and cash cycles
• Standardisation of reporting packs across entities

Quarterly Consolidation

• Full group consolidation (financial + performance view)
• Alignment of intercompany, eliminations, and reporting consistency

Tax Loss Utilisation Strategy

• Develop and execute plan to optimise group tax losses
• Align legal entity performance with tax efficiency

Covenants and Working Capital

• Monitor bank covenants (system-driven)
• Drive working capital performance (debtors, creditors, cash conversion)
• Ensure integrity of valuation inputs supporting covenants

M&A / Strategic Support

• Support valuations, funding structures, and commercial analysis
• Provide technical backbone for transactions

Risk and Audit Tracking

• Consolidate high-risk items across all subsidiaries
• Track and drive resolution of audit findings
• Escalate critical risks to CEO
• Drive completion across divisions

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