Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting and Control

• Oversee the month-end close process, ensuring timely, complete, and accurate management accounts.
  
• Maintain integrity of the General Ledger and ensure alignment with sub-ledgers.
  
• Lead preparation of balance sheet reconciliations and monthly review packs for management.
  
• Prepare annual financial statements and coordinate external audits to deliver clean outcomes.
  
• Enforce internal controls across journal entries, user access, approvals, and system integrity.
  
• Ensure accounting policies and procedures are properly documented, communicated, and adhered to.
  

Tax, Compliance and Statutory Reporting

• Oversee compliance with VAT, PAYE, and corporate income tax requirements.
  
• Maintain readiness for audit and support all compliance and statutory reporting cycles.
  

Operational Finance Oversight

• Supervise Accounts Payable, Bank & Cash, and Expense Control teams to ensure process efficiency and adherence to policy.
  
• Govern the ERP finance environment, ensuring accurate configuration, posting controls, and audit trails.
  
• Maintain 13-week cash inflow forecasting, track Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) performance and coordinate rebate cash-out timing with Finance and FP&A teams to optimise cash flow.
  

Business Partnering and Process Improvement

• Partner with the CFO and FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting (input-level involvement).
  
• Drive initiatives to strengthen financial discipline, automation, and reporting accuracy.
  
• Support ongoing finance transformation, systems upgrades, and process documentation projects.
  

Key Outcomes / Success Measures

• Accurate and compliant management accounts and financial statements.
  
• Clean annual audits and on-time statutory submissions.
  
• Efficient and controlled payables and cash management processes.
  
• Strengthened control environment and ERP governance.
  

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• CA(SA) or equivalent professional qualification.
  
• 5–8 years’ post-articles experience in financial control, audit, or corporate accounting.
  
• Proven experience managing financial close, tax compliance, and audit processes.
  
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and South African regulatory frameworks.
  
• ERP experience essential; Syspro or equivalent preferred.
  
• FMCG, retail, or distribution sector experience advantageous.
  

Competencies

• Detail-oriented, disciplined, and control-focused.
  
• Strong technical accounting and analytical skills.
  
• High level of integrity and professional accountability.
  
• Effective communicator and team leader.
  
• Proactive problem solver with continuous improvement mindset.
  

Benefits