Finance Manager

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The Job

As a Finance Manager, your role is to ensure the financial integrity of the business operations for 3 legal entities located in 3 different countries (Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and South Africa). Core responsibilities of a Finance Manager include managing the finance function, monitoring, and

supporting finance department’s performance and adherence to the group policies and statutory requirements – including full accounting and tax compliance in line with local regulations. The role requires in depth knowledge of local accounting principles and tax law, with a great deal of hands-on experience in managing key processes.

Responsibilities

Financial Reporting and Analysis

• Support the Finance Manager during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities; prepare accruals, reclassifications, reallocations, etc., as necessary
• Support the Finance Manager in all reporting activities, including priority items, Contract Assets and Liabilities, etc.
• Review and correct purchase orders and goods receipts to ensure smooth booking of supplier invoices
• Ensure the coding of supplier invoices is in line with local accounting principles and tax regulations
• Review of costs in accordance with the master chart of accounts and dimensional structure of the Group
• Properly account for differences in accounting principles to ensure compliance with local tax regulations and facilitate statutory compliance
• Work closely with all relevant teams to implement and keep up to date the e-invoicing processes from an accounting perspective, and achieve full compliance with applicable local regulations

• Review of intercompany and related party transactions, ensuring all intercompany transactions are recorded and netted off in accordance with group instructions
• Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and review of significant accounting judgements
• Relationship with the shared service centre (SSC): act as the primary point of contact for key finance processes such as Record to Report, Purchase to Pay and Invoice to Cash ; review the deliverables, such as reconciliations (BS, AR, AP, FA) ; ensure the service delivered is fully in line with local regulatory and statutory requirements ; participate in reviews (e.g., BS review calls, cash collections calls) and make recommendations, follow-up on the implementation of action plans ; assist in processing non-standard transactions

Tax

• Ensure compliance with all statutory tax requirements but not limited to,reconciliation and monthly, quarterly, and annual returns for all taxes, including CIT, VAT, WHT, regional and communal taxes
• Participate in the implementation of new developments (tools, processes) to ensure continuous compliance with the ever-changing statutory requirements in South Africa
• Support the Finance Manager for the preparation and submission of Transfer Pricing local files, in conjunction with external service providers (e.g., Deloitte)

Treasury

• Prepare and review the weekly cashflow and cash forecast with the Finance Manager; submit funding requests/loans to Group Treasury as required
• Review the payment proposal, including payments to suppliers and to employees (expense claims), and make recommendations before it is submitted to the Finance Manager for approval

Compliance

• Ensuring compliance with the Group’s minimum internal control framework, and enhancing those controls where necessary
• Preparation for internal audit and responding to requests
• Lead External audit liaison and compliance
• Support the Finance Manager and the external service provider in the drafting of the statutory audited financial statements
• Support B-BBEE verification process
• Ensure full compliance with statutory requirements in terms of e-archiving, safekeeping of accounting records, and filing of expense claim receipts

Projects

• Take part in the timely and successful execution of projects, from a finance perspective (e.g., LERP, Concur, Oracle)
• Ensure all local accounting, statutory, and tax requirements are fully met and implemented during all projects

Other

• Support Sales in providing key financial metrics and tax certificates during supplier onboarding and updating of the customers’ records
• Support the Finance Manager in managing the Corporate Credit Card program

Skills & Qualifications

Ideal skills

• Graduation or post-graduation degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Proven several years of work experience in Finance with 3-5 years as a Financial Manager or similar role.
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment.
• Advanced level of written and spoken Arabic and English.
• You will have strong communication skills in all forms.
• You must be: detailed oriented, very meticulous, able to prioritize and open to learning.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and Powerpoint.
• Good understanding of finance and ERP systems - knowledge of Oracle Financial Applications and HFM would be a plus.

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment.  Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws,  include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.
 
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