Parktown: Chief Financial Officer (CFO – Wits Health Consortium) posted by AJ Personnel

About the Role

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will provide strategic and operational leadership across the organisation’s financial, compliance, risk management, grants management, and legal functions, with overall responsibility for ensuring financial sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership across financial management, compliance, risk management, grants management, and legal oversight, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives
• Holds overall accountability for financial sustainability and the effective stewardship of organisational resources
• Ensures robust financial governance through regulatory compliance, sound internal controls, and proactive risk management
• Oversees the development and consistent application of finance policies, procedures, and governance frameworks
• Provides executive oversight of donor and grant funding to ensure compliant use of funds and accurate financial reporting
• Ensures effective organisational risk management and compliance oversight
• Provides executive oversight of audit processes, including internal, external, and donor audits, ensuring readiness, timely resolution of findings, and strengthened assurance outcomes
• Ensures business continuity and organisational resilience for finance related functions, including continuity planning, disaster recovery oversight, and post incident review and improvement
• Provides executive legal and contractual oversight, ensuring legally sound agreements and fulfilment of fiduciary responsibilities
• Leads and manages senior finance leadership to ensure performance, ethical conduct, accountability, and succession readiness

Requirements

Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) qualification

Master’s Degree in business administration or leadership will be advantageous

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not provided

TO APPLY:

• Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV plus a cover letter (One pager) that clearly states why you are applying as well as a Certified copy of ID (within the last 3 months)
• Note: Candidates will be subject to criminal clearance, verification of qualifications, credit and reference checks
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration via our website to enable and protect you as a candidate, and to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions
• This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL
• However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
• Closing date: 30 April 2026
• Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date