Finance Manager – Renewable Energy

  • Permanent
  • Cape Town
  • Applications have closed

SFG Engineering

Job Overview

As the Financial Manager you are responsible for creating financial reports, direct investments, and maintaining the organisation’s key accounting records and creating plans and strategies for the long-term financial benefit of the company. Your day-to-day activities include financial planning to determine how to pay off liabilities and grow the business, reviewing financial documents to ensure tax-compliance and collaboration with other departments to achieve monetary goals.

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Prepare business activity reports, financial statements, and forecasts
  • Make sure financial legal requirements are met
  • Develop financial reporting systems
  • Find ways to reduce or maintain costs by studying financial reports and business processes
  • Aid management in financial decisions
  • Collecting, interpreting and reviewing financial information
  • Reporting to management and stakeholders and providing advice how the company and future business decisions might be impacted
  • Reviewing, monitoring and managing budgets
  • Developing strategies that work to minimize financial risk
  • Supervising and assisting finance team
  • Collaborate with accounting team to support various accounting projects and activities on a daily basis.
  • Provide assistance to prepare financial statements according to company policies.
  • Prepare financial status and analysis reports for Board of Directors.

Ensure financial team follows the institutions policies and regulations

Assist in account payable and receivable activities.

Prepare the financial system for internal audit. Prepare the financial system for the external annual audit.

 

Knowledge, skills and abilities

  • Organised
  • Time management
  • Numerate and analytical
  • A genuine passion for accounting
  • Accountable and reliable
  • High level of integrity and trustworthiness
  • Deadline focused
  • Ability to work in high pressure environment with minimal supervision
  • Good command of written and spoken English
  • Communicator & motivator with ability to communicate across all levels.
  • Knowledge of Buildsmart advantageous

Qualifications:

  • A minimum qualification of a B.COM or other accounting qualification.
  • CA(SA) status would be a distinct advantage
  • Ideally Qualified SAIPA Accountant