Financial Manager

Introduction

We are looking for our first full-time Financial Manager. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to own a finance function outright and who is genuinely interested in what work costs and what it should be priced at.

You will own the finance function day to day and report to the Chief Operating Officer. Roughly half the job is running a tight, reliable finance operation. The other half — and the more interesting half — is costing and margin.

Duties & Responsibilities

Finance operations

• Monthly management accounts, cash flow forecasting and the reporting pack.

• Debtors, creditors, banking and payment controls.

• Payroll oversight and statutory submissions, working with our external accounting support.

• Owning the accounting system and the integrity of what goes into it.

Costing, margin and pricing

• Building job-level costing across labour, materials, callout and travel, so we know what each job actually earns.

• Margin analysis by branch, work type and technical team, and turning the differences you find into action.

• Rebuilding our pricing model for insurer work, and supporting rate negotiations with evidence.

• Vehicle fleet cost management on a cost-per-kilometre and cost-per-job basis.

• Building the seasonal budget and capacity model for a business whose volumes vary substantially through the year.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• CIMA qualified. A CA(SA) with real commercial costing experience will also be considered; a purely audit background will not suit this role.

• 3 to 5 years post-qualification, with at least 1 in a services, field services, construction, engineering or manufacturing environment.

• Demonstrable experience building a job or product costing model from scratch — not maintaining someone else's.

• Strong Excel. Experience with Xero, or with a migration to it, is an advantage.

• Comfortable spending time in the operation rather than only at a desk. You will need to understand how a job runs before you can cost it.

Package & Remuneration

●    A finance function you build rather than inherit, with direct access to the owner and the executive team.

●    Real influence on pricing and margin decisions, not just reporting on them after the fact.

●    Remuneration in the region of R40,000 to R60,000 per month cost to company, depending on experience and qualification.