Financial Manager

Financial Manager

Your purpose is to assist in the completion and review of accurate & timely financial accounting and reporting for all group entities up to consolidated level. To assist with ensuring that relevant processes & internal controls are in place to facilitate Clickatell’s compliance with statutory, tax & legal requirements across the group.

• Manage the completion of accurate and timely financial reporting for all group entities up to consolidated level.
• Manage the entire month-end and year-end processes and timelines including the revaluations and consolidation process.
• Perform monthly Trial Balance checks to ensure all month end processes have been completed.
• Manage the external Financial Reporting and year-end Audit process.
• Prepare the Audit Committee packs and keeping of minutes & action points.
• Assist with the review of Flash and completion of Management Accounts with variance analysis.
• Manage and provide leadership to the accounting processing/ finance operations teams and procedures; expenditure cycle (incl. A/P function) and cash management.
• Oversee the approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, ledger and account maintenance.
• Manage the corporate cash and capital deployment.
• Approval of large and out of budget purchase orders requiring significant cash outflows
• Responsible for cash planning, cash flow forecast and treasury management to ensure sufficient cash is always available in the regions/subsidiaries as the business requires and to ensure that all financial obligations are met.
• Review and approve the monthly payroll and quarterly KPO, plus calculate company financial KPO results.
• Review & approve payment of all payroll related deductions.
• Manage the financial accounting system (NAV) team to ensure financial system alignment with monthly finance needs such as reporting periods, adding of new GL accounts and cost centres.

• CIMA or CA(SA) qualified.

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in financial operations, reporting and treasury
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics (NAV) and IBM Cognos TM1 preferable.
• Technology industry/ SAAS experience would be advantageous.

• Ability to collect and analyse information, problem-solve, identify decisions / options and communicate them with partners around the business.
• Use data analysis to identify issues, spark thinking and propose solutions or options for solving complex problems.
• The ability to take a ‘big picture’ view of a situation, to weigh it up quickly, make a logical, sound decision confidently in order to have a positive impact towards achieving the objectives of the organisation.
• Able to work quickly and accurately when creating and reviewing pieces of work and identify errors or inconsistencies.
• Convey information verbally and in writing to others in a simple and clear way