Purpose of the Role:

The role is critical for ensuring the financial success and sustainability of the company in a competitive market.

• Assist the GM: Finance in providing finance support to the Operations and Functional Heads. The role holder is expected to become an invaluable partner to the Hygiene and Cleaning General Managers and will be their contact for all matters concerning financial performance and analysis; continuously seeking opportunities for improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations.
• Provide commercial decision support for Operations and Functions across the business including providing accurate financial information to guide senior executives in their decision making on an operational level, with responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, business planning and financial modelling.
• Develop a Teamwork culture that fosters application competence, service excellence, customer focus and business process knowledge.

Education:

• Minimum - Bachelor’s degree in finance, or >12 Years relevant and sufficient experience.
• Ideal - CIMA

Key Performance Area:
Financial Accounting in line with IFRS
Performance reporting and analytics (to be reviewed by the Manager):

• Month end financial review to ensure that revenue and costs are aligned for the month of reporting.
• Review performance with the General Managers of Operations and Finance prior to and after closing off.
• Providing the region with all the accurate reporting required to help them manage their areas including monthly summaries of actual performance by the 6th working day.
• Implement cost control measures to enhance profitability without compromising service quality.
• Analysis of sector contracts and/or regional profitability with clear indications of once off vs recurring additional expenditure vs costed and establishing turnaround plans (PA report). Aid in finding issues with costings.
• Balance sheet reconciliations – to be signed off by the 15th of each month on the shared drive for the regions under your sphere of control.

Financial Accounting in line with IFRS
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (to be reviewed by the Financial Manager)

• Develop and manage financial plans and forecasts to support the companys strategic goals.
• Lead the annual budgeting process, including preparing, reviewing, and finalizing budgets across all departments under sphere of responsibility.
• Support capital planning / resource allocation via inputs into the AIC approval model (Capex).
• Prepare periodic forecasting (Monthly, identify shortfalls to budget, and recommend corrective actions. Engage with GM operations to put together a plan to mitigate the gap to budget – report on the achievement of these plans monthly.

Billing and Credit Control:

Billing:

• Ensure Active Contracts for the regions are ALL billed. Where discrepancies – resolve.
• Ensure data integrity.

Cash Flow Management:

• Manage the companys cash flow to ensure adequate liquidity for operations and investments.
• Forecast cash flow requirements and optimize working capital management.

Overdue Debt:

• Ensure that the average debtors days targets are met monthly
• Have active involvement in the resolution of overdue debt to maintain 60 days plus below target.
• Partner with divisions to ensure debt exposure is kept to a minimum within the region.
• Maintain good relationships with customers and deal with queries proactively – ensure courteous and diplomatic handling of queries and that all queries are responded to within 24 hours.