Head of Finance Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Head of Finance to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Income tax and VAT compliance and submissions, month end reviews and variance reports;
- Preparation of key business drivers for group management reporting;
- Assets, Procurement, Commercial contracts and Insurance management;
- Preparation and review of consolidated monthly reports and commentary for financial results;
- Preparation of budgets, forecasts and co-ordinate annual audits;
- Oversee debtors, creditors and cashbook management;
- Analyse and report on balance sheet recons and costs;
- People management;
- Dealing with Stakeholders;
- IFRS implementation;
- Improvement and implementation of controls and processes across the business to improve operational and financial efficiency;
- Prepare annual company budgets, monthly management account packs and year end accounts;
- Manage relationship with third party advisors including bookkeepers, auditors and tax advisors;
- Manage cash flow and banking including overseeing all payments and international transfers (eg SARB approvals);
- Overall responsibility for Founders Factory Africa finances and reporting.
Requirements:
- SAM;
- Embedded Value Reporting;
- 5 Years post article experience (Commercial Expperience);
- Experience of financial control, forecasting and accounting ideally under both South African and UK standards;
- Willing and able to be hands-on, with a focus on doing the work rather than overseeing it;
- Amenable to an early morning schedule (5am or 6am);
- Experience managing the financial department of a company with 1000 employees is an advantage;
- Must be amenable to work Mondays to Fridays in Pasig City;
- Ability and confidence to present complex information in a clear and concise way to our board directors and corporate investors;
- Significant experience of leading a Finance function;
- Experience of corporate tax regimes (specifically corporation tax, VAT and transfer pricing) in South Africa and UK;
- Ambitious, entrepreneurial, pragmatic, commercial, highly analytical, clear communicator, comfortable with ambiguity;
- Financial Analysis;
- Able to understand and utilize financial reports and legal documents to conduct business;
- CPA or a Master’s Degree in Financial Management an advantage.