Family Office Manager

Position Overview

This is a multifaceted role requiring an individual who can seamlessly manage financial administration, bookkeeping, investment portfolio oversight, trust and company administration, statutory compliance, governance obligations, and executive support functions. The successful candidate will act as a trusted right-hand person to the Directors, ensuring the efficient management of family wealth structures, operating entities, investment portfolios, trusts, and personal affairs while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality, professionalism, and integrity.

The position is ideally suited to a finance professional who enjoys a broad scope of responsibilities and thrives in an environment requiring initiative, ownership, discretion, and exceptional attention to detail.

• Com,
  
  B.Compt,
  
  B.Acc, Accounting Diploma or equivalent tertiary qualification.
• Additional qualifications in Taxation, Governance, Compliance, Risk Management, Investments, Trust Administration, or Payroll Administration will be advantageous.

• Minimum 7–10 years' relevant
• Experience in accounting, bookkeeping, finance administration, payroll, compliance, investments, trusts, or family office environments.
• Experience working with multiple entities including companies, trusts, and investment structures.
• Experience supporting directors, executives, or high-net-worth individuals will be advantageous.
• Experience with in a family office, accounting practice, private investment environment, trust administration environment, or multi-entity business structure will be advantageous.

• Strong accounting and financial reporting
• Experience managing full bookkeeping functions up to trial
• Sound understanding of South African tax
• Knowledge of payroll administration and statutory
• Knowledge of trust administration and corporate
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, not scared to use technology
• Experience with Pastel Partner, Intercode Payroll, Microsoft Office and com.
• Strong reporting, analytical, and reconciliation
• Excellent document management and record-keeping

• Exceptional integrity and Absolute Ability to manage highly confidential family, financial and business information with absolute discretion.
• Strong ownership
• High levels of accountability and Professional and mature

• Outstanding organisational
• Exceptional attention to
• Ability to work
• Strong multitasking
• Ability to prioritise
• High levels of
• Not scared to use

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Strong stakeholder management
• Ability to engage professionally with family members, executives, trustees, advisors, auditors, attorneys, bankers and service providers.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking
• Practical and solution-oriented
• Ability to anticipate issues and proactively implement

• Excellent planning and organisational
• Ability to manage multiple competing
• Ability to perform effectively under

• Positive and collaborative
• Flexible and
• Willingness to assist beyond defined responsibilities when

• Maintain full bookkeeping functions for multiple entities up to trial
• Process and maintain creditors and debtor’s
• Process supplier invoices and reconcile supplier
• Generate customer invoices and monitor
• Maintain accurate
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly bank
• Process general ledger
• Reconcile all balance sheet
• Maintain fixed asset
• Assist with month-end and year-end accounting
• Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting
• Prepare financial reports and analysis for
• Monitor cash flow and liquidity
• Assist with budgeting and
• Manage banking relationships and banking administration across all
• Prepare banking documentation and coordinate account openings, amendments and closures.
• Monitor liquidity requirements and cash positioning across
• Maintain accurate accounting records across all

• Process monthly payroll accurately and
• Maintain payroll records and employee
• Process leave, salary adjustments, appointments, and
• Reconcile payroll control
• Ensure payroll compliance with all applicable
• Administer employee-related…