Finance Manager

A global pharmaceutical company has an opportunity for a Finance Manager to join the team.

Main Purpose of Job

• To ensure accurate financial results are prepared and presented at the end of each month
• Preparing cash flow forecasts and monitoring working capital movements
• Coordinating year end audits
• Responsible for all tax and VAT calculations and submission
• Budget preparations
• Overseeing the debtors collections

Key Performance Areas

• Responsible for the full finance function of large trading entities and smaller property companies
• Preparation of the monthly management reporting pack
• Processing of all monthly journals for finalisation of monthly pack
• Monthly processing of payroll journals
• Ensure that all balance sheet reconciliations are produced on an accurate and timely basis and to include bank reconciliations, debtors, creditors, and all inter-company accounts
• Monitoring actual vs budget spend and analysing the variances
• Review of credit card pastel processing and allocations
• Responsible for system integrity checks
• Review of monthly supplier reconciliations for foreign and local suppliers
• Review and authorise of all local and foreign payments
• Responsible for loading new products on pastel
• Responsible for maintaining the chart of accounts on pastel
• Overseeing the debtors team and ensuring that collections are in line with the forecasts and debtors days are managed within the provided targets for public and tender

Company Taxes

• Follow up on SARS correspondence
• Reconciliation and completion and submission of VAT 201
• Completion and submission of EMP 201
• Reconciling and submission of EMP 501
• Attend to VAT and PAYE queries for all companies
• Income tax calculations for all companies
• Provisional tax calculations for all companies
• Drafting of letters for SARS objections, audits queries, provisional taxes
• Collation of all supporting documents for annual financial statements
• Preparation and review of annual financial statements
• Manage annual financial audits for all companies and liaising with auditors

Conducting daily huddles with staff, liaising with banks on queries where necessary, weekly and daily analysis for debtors’ collections, stringent and detailed cash flow management including weekly cash flow forecasts, and implementing, maintaining, and improving financial controls, policies and procedures and systems where necessary. Mapping processes on sweet process.

EDUCATION

• CA (SA) or CIMA

EXPERIENCE

• Post articles experience – min 5 years outside of auditing