Financial Operations & Reporting Lead

Recruiter

Abantu Staffing Solutions

Job Ref

228178510

Date posted

Monday, June 1, 2026

Location

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

SUMMARY

POSITION INFO

Experience Required

• 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

Qualifications

• CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant
• 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

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Operations & Lead reporting
• Quarterly Consolidation
• Tax Loss Utilisation Strategies
• Covenants & Working Capital
• M&A / Strategic Support
• Risk & Audit Tracking

Financial Operations & Lead reporting

• Ownership of group reporting and data integrity from Business Central
• Establish a reliable, system-driven monthly reporting cycle (?5–7 days)
• Automate key financial drivers (valuations, covenants, working capital, budgets)
• Implement quarterly automated valuations, covenant tracking, and working capital dashboards
• Automated monitoring of debtors and cash cycles
• Flag long-outstanding debtors and cash flow risks proactively
• Standardisation of reporting packs across entities
• Ensure consistent, decision-useful reporting across the group

Quarterly Consolidation

• Full group consolidation (financial + performance view)
• Deliver accurate quarterly consolidated financials
• Alignment of intercompany, eliminations, and reporting consistency
• Ensure clean consolidation with no intercompany mismatches

Tax Loss Utilisation Strategy

• Develop and execute plan to optimise group tax losses
• Maximise utilisation of assessed tax losses
• Align legal entity performance with tax efficiency
• Improve group effective tax position

Covenants & Working Capital

• Monitor bank covenants (system-driven)
• Ensure zero breaches through automated tracking and early warnings
• Drive working capital performance (debtors, creditors, cash conversion)
• Improve debtor days, cash conversion cycle, and liquidity
• Ensure integrity of valuation inputs supporting covenants
• Maintain credible, supportable inputs for funding and compliance

M&A / Strategic Support

• Support valuations, funding structures, and commercial analysis
• Deliver robust valuations (strategic + covenant-linked)
• Provide technical backbone for transactions
• Support due diligence, execution, and integration

Risk & Audit Tracking

• Consolidate high-risk items across all subsidiaries
• Provide monthly group risk dashboard
• Track and drive resolution of audit findings
• Ensure closure of internal & external audit issues
• Escalate critical risks to CEO
• Provide early warning and accountability tracking
• Drive completion across divisions
• Ensure execution, not just reporting

Minimum Qualifications

• CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant
• 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

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Independent Self-Starter
• Hands-On Operator
• Execution-Focused (Finisher Mindset)
• Commercially Aware & Business-Oriented
• Technically Strong & Detail-Oriented