Senior Financial Manager

Written By Trish Lee
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Role
Senior Financial Manager

Location
Cape Town, JHB, London

Industry
Financial Services

Our client develops and operates software to enable shipping professionals to make the right decisions quickly. Backed by the world’s leading software investors they now have thousands of users worldwide using the software to power their most important work - and it’s the people that make that happen.


Our client is looking for a Senior Financial Manager to join their finance team in Cape Town, JHB or London (either in office or remote). This is a management level role, reporting directly to the CFO and is best suited to someone who combines technical skills, drive, problem-solving, ownership, humility, curiosity and good interpersonal skills.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with company leadership and the CFO to manage the company’s global accounting, tax, financial operations and compliance functions.

  • Lead the team that is responsible for our global financial operations and the record to report process

  • Be part of integrating new businesses, product lines and international offices

  • Ensure effective and compliant financial operations and close processes

  • Be responsible for global tax processes, including indirect taxes and transfer pricing

  • Improve our financial controls and processes

  • Prepare and implement technical accounting matters under IFRS

  • Manage key stakeholder relationships and remittances including government remittances, insurance and compliance partners.

  • Manage external audits including international and group audits

  • Be a trusted business partner and advisor to other departments

  • Design, implement and maintain improvements to the company’s financial reporting systems including software implementations

  • Prepare and review key internal and external financial reports

  • Be responsible for and drive key finance projects to completion

    Requirements

  • Professional qualification such as CA(SA), ACA ICAEW or similar

  • 5+ years post-articles experience

  • Big 4 background or similar experience

  • Be hands-on, able to mix driving projects through to completion

  • Prior experience with multi-entity financial audits in software, retail, manufacturing or similar

  • Experience working with IFRS or US GAAP

  • Ambitious, intellectually curious and motivated to be part of building and scaling a global software company

  • Humble, low-ego and able to build trusted working relationships cross-functional

 

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