Johannesburg: Financial Controller (Retail) posted by AtripleA recruitment & temps

Our client in the Retail industry is looking for a Financial Controller for maternity relief.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Business Development
• Understands and interprets business trends (economic, competitive, etc.) and provides financial insights to help restaurants make the right decisions.
• Ensures all financial materials for areas of responsibility are consolidated for internal and external presentations.
• Assists in the preparation of the annual plan including compiling and uploading information into the reporting system.

People Training, Coaching and Development
• Assists with the selection, development and coaching of accounting staff to create the best financial talent for their country, develops them for future opportunities within the system.
• Builds strong relationships and fosters teamwork among department and staff to achieve maximum performance.
• Brief oversee and guides team to achieve the company and department goals.
• Identifies development opportunities and ways to address personal development needs.
• Provides training in areas of financial expertise to members of team and other departments.
• Acts as a coach and mentor to direct reports.

System Development
• Manages and develops the Executive Financial Accounting System (EIS) and ensure the correctness of all information provided.
• Train people to use the systems and extract relevant information to help them manage the business and respond to initiatives underway.
• To provide timely and effective reports for broadcasting to designated users.
• To calibrate with I/S and Accounting in financial system improvement and define opportunities.
• System Optimization -SAP/ QlikView /Restaurant systems

Profitability Growth
• Coordinates the preparation and presentation of the country annual financial plan for stores.
• Interprets trends and forecasts financial results of the country.
• Identifies gaps between monthly forecasted results and targets, make recommendations to ensure annual Company financial goals are achieved.
• Projects results, on time, to all relevant parties.
• Provides information to management teams on the current profit picture and areas of risk.
• Builds systems and runs reports that provide timely and accurate information with regards to GAP analysis to relevant departments.
• Brand extension support

Financial control and reporting
• Ensures that financial practices are sound and in accordance with accounting rules as well as company guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Ensures people understand and are complying with the procedures and processes.
• Establishes and maintains internal control procedures to safeguard corporate assets.
• Ensures all systems and data processing tools have integrity built into them.
• Manages the reporting systems to provide relevant information to the key stakeholders, Country and Corporate, departments and operations.
• Manage the Month-End reporting for Restaurant Accounting

Requirements
• Matric
• People Management experience
• Strong financial skills
• CA or CIMA Qualification

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