Purpose of the Role:

• To manage and co-ordinate site-based financial support to the Business.
• To drive and consolidate regional sites financial management and reporting, ensuring that the information is correct and reconciled.
• To provide regular and ad hoc analytics and performance dashboards that act as an early warning system; provide insight into the Operation; and facilitate decision-making.
• To ensure corporate governance compliance across the regional sites.
• To be responsible for capacity building efforts of regional finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Contribution

• Ensure regional implementation of the financial strategic plan and key objectives that serves as a framework for making decisions.
• Provide financial insight to the region’s leadership teams and ensure long term operational sustainability.
• Ensure that assigned and agreed strategic targets are operationalised and achieved.
• Perform comprehensive reviews of regional financial reports and identify and implement preventative and corrective actions to address issues found during the reviews.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Lead the inputs for the formulation of the regional budget.
• Consolidate the regional annual budget inputs, conduct reasonableness checks and submit to the Group Finance Manager.
• Liaise with regional sites regarding capex budget submissions and collate the capex budgets for the region.
• Closely monitor regional budget vs actuals and drive corrective initiatives where necessary.

Weekly, Monthly and Annual Financial Reporting

• Coordinate the weekly and monthly financial reporting from regional sites to ensure that it is accurate and on-time.
• Coordinate the region’s weekly, monthly and yearly financial close and take responsibility for accurate reporting within the defined deadlines, including stock takes and debtors’ invoicing.
• Perform comparative analyses on the financial system to assess the results to budget, forecasts and last year to test accuracy and reasonableness.
• Consolidate commentary from regional sites and submit to the Group Finance Manager on the weekly and monthly financial results being reported.
• Perform a weekly debtors’ analysis and in-depth interrogation of any debtor over terms.
• Prepare the regional sites debtors’ reports with associated explanations for status.
• Conduct inventory analyses relating to purchases and usage of different product items.
• Oversee the monthly regional sites petty cash, credit card and petrol card reconciliations.
• Through regular review, ensure that there are no high risk audit exceptions.
• Analyse month-end reconciliations and related analysis of all regional site accounts.
• Prepare the submission and monthly reconciliation of any statutory returns including VAT, Income Tax and payroll taxes for all regional sites.
• Perform comprehensive reviews of regional financial reports and identify and implement preventative and corrective actions to address issues found during the reviews.

Technical Expertise and Commercial Insight

• Conduct training and development for regional site-based staff involved in financial management and administration.
• Provide commercial insight in the implementation of regional projects.
• Plan and develop best practice, systems, processes and procedures to enable continued improvement that meets the needs of the Business in times of change.

Governance Compliance

• Ensure compliance with in-country financial legislation and Business-wide operational procedures and internal controls.
• Ensure international compliance with capex application and procure to payment processes.

Asset Management

• Ensure the assets of IFS are fairly reported through periodic asset verifications and compliance with IFRS principles.
• Ensure appropriate wear and tear and depreciation rates are applied consistently and in line with IFRS principals and current in-country tax legislation.
• Manage asset movements, additions, transfers and disposals.
• Review fixed asset reconciliations.
• Ensure sales of assets are fully transacted before closing month end.

Additional Financial Management

• Assure timely and accurate invoicing.
• Make recommendations to improve the quality of invoicing and collection procedures.
• Ensure all internal and external stakeholders are receiving the correct level of finance services in accordance with agreed service levels and contractual requirements.

Capacity Building

• Conduct training and coaching for the site financial controllers to ensure that they maintain the same standard across the board.
• Identify the needs and support in the development of the finance teams on site to increase their competence in preparation of financial reports in line with Company standards.
• Participate in the recruitment process and selection of finance staff for regional sites.

Education and Experience:

• Ideally a CA/ACCA qualification or a similar professional qualification in finance or accounting.
• At least 7 years’ relevant experience in similar environment.
• Experience in managing multiple business units/ sites/ operations.
• Experience in Mining, Oil & Gas, Construction, and Facilities Management sectors would be preferred.

• Manage and co-ordinate site-based financial support to the Business.
• Drive and consolidate regional sites financial management and reporting, ensuring that the information is correct and reconciled.
• Provide regular and ad hoc analytics and performance dashboards that act as an early warning system; provide insight into the Operation; and facilitate decision-making.
• Ensure corporate governance compliance across the regional sites.
• Responsible for capacity building efforts of regional finance teams.
• Ensure regional implementation of the financial strategic plan and key objectives that serves as a framework for making decisions.
• Provide financial insight to the region’s leadership teams and ensure long term operational sustainability.
• Ensure that assigned and agreed strategic targets are operationalised and achieved.
• Perform comprehensive reviews of regional financial reports and identify and implement preventative and corrective actions to address issues found during the reviews.
• Lead the inputs for the formulation of the regional budget.
• Consolidate the regional annual budget inputs, conduct reasonableness checks and submit to the Group Finance Manager.
• Liaise with regional sites regarding capex budget submissions and collate the capex budgets for the region.
• Closely monitor regional budget vs actuals and drive corrective initiatives where necessary.
• Coordinate the weekly and monthly financial reporting from regional sites to ensure that it is accurate and on-time.
• Coordinate the region’s weekly, monthly and yearly financial close and take responsibility for accurate reporting within the defined deadlines, including stock takes and debtors’ invoicing.
• Perform comparative analyses on the financial system to assess the results to budget, forecasts and last year to test accuracy and reasonableness.
• Consolidate commentary from regional sites and submit to the Group Finance Manager on the weekly and monthly financial results being reported.
• Perform a weekly debtors’ analysis and in-depth interrogation of any debtor over terms.
• Prepare the regional sites debtors’ reports with associated explanations for status.
• Conduct inventory analyses relating to purchases and usage of different product items.
• Oversee the monthly regional sites petty cash, credit card and petrol card reconciliations.
• Through regular review, ensure that there are no high risk audit exceptions.
• Analyse month-end reconciliations and related analysis of all regional site accounts.
• Prepare the submission and monthly reconciliation of any statutory returns including VAT, Income Tax and payroll taxes for all regional sites.
• Conduct training and development for regional site-based staff involved in financial management and administration.
• Provide commercial insight in the implementation of regional projects.
• Plan and develop best practice, systems, processes and procedures to enable continued improvement that meets the needs of the Business in times of change.
• Ensure compliance with in-country financial legislation and Business-wide operational procedures and internal controls.
• Ensure international compliance with capex application and procure to payment processes.
• Ensure the assets of IFS are fairly reported through periodic asset verifications and compliance with IFRS principles.
• Ensure appropriate wear and tear and depreciation rates are applied consistently and in line with IFRS principals and current in-country tax legislation.
• Manage asset movements, additions, transfers and disposals.
• Review fixed asset reconciliations.
• Ensure sales of assets are fully transacted before closing month end.
• Assure timely and accurate invoicing.
• Make recommendations to improve the quality of invoicing and collection procedures.
• Ensure all internal and external stakeholders are receiving the correct level of finance services in accordance with agreed service levels and contractual requirements.
• Conduct training and coaching for the site financial controllers to ensure that they maintain the same standard across the board.
• Identify the needs and support in the development of the finance teams on site to increase their competence in preparation of financial reports in line with Company standards.
• Participate in the recruitment process and selection of finance staff for regional sites.

• Financial management
• Financial reporting
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Data analysis
• Corporate governance compliance
• Capacity building
• Commercial insight
• Asset management
• Invoicing and collection procedures
• Stakeholder management
• Training and coaching
• Recruitment and selection

• CA/ACCA qualification or a similar professional qualification in finance or accounting.