Cape Town City Centre: Treasury, Cash and Contract Execution Lead

About the Role

Our client, a leading sterile vaccine manufacturer rooted in Africa, is seeking a dynamic and passionate Treasury, Cash and Contract Execution Lead to join their goal-oriented team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing cash flow, executing contracts, and providing financial leadership to the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively manage cash flow via cash flow forecasting: prepare and update a rolling 12-month cash flow forecast, incorporating base business income, expenditure, material purchasing and capital expenditure, as well as project funding and budgets, and any other cash flow considerations.
• Liaise closely with Project Managers and Financial Planning & Analysis team to ensure that all updates are incorporated into the cash flow forecast.
• Monitor cash usage and balances for the company’s base business, funded projects, and unfunded projects.
• Track the cash and deferred income balances for grant funding received in advance.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and reporting decks.
• Report on Financial Accounting deliverables and metrics relating to cash flow in Monthly meetings.
• Prepare cash flow statements for the Annual financial statement for all companies.
• Validate line items to bank statement.
• Ensure that excess funds are invested to maximise interest earned.
• Maintain the cash flow forecasting principles document.
• Train staff throughout the business on Cash Flow Forecasting principles where required.
• Coach graduates and other team members on the preparation of cash flow statements and report Balance Sheet forecasting: participate in budgeting cycle by preparing the budgeted balance sheet, working capital estimations and forecasted cash balances.
• Audit assistance relating to bank and cash Contracts Execution:
• Assess all contracts to identify and track deliverables required from the finance team.
• Maintain a contract summary to ensure visibility of all deliverables, covenants and other requirements relevant to the finance department.
• Develop dashboards to monitor and present funder covenant rations.
• Track execution costs of agreements: due diligence fees, credit applications, portfolio monitoring, bank charges for approvals, guarantees and other services, finance costs for loan terms, as well as all other costs relating to funding agreements.
• Ensure that costs are accounted for in the correct SAP cost centres.
• Maintain audit readiness and documentation for all executed contracts.
• Assist with internal and external audits and attend to funder audits where required.
• Collaborate with legal and procurement teams to ensure contract alignment with financial policies.
• Monitor and report on funding covenants, attend to all Funder reporting requests and ensure that internal processes meet the requirements of loan and grant agreements.
• Funding due diligence exercises ensure that all Financial Accounting deliverables are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Financial Accounting or equivalent.
• Completed Articles Preferred: CA(SA).
• 3 years of recent experience in a similar role.
• Proven experience in cash flow management and forecasting.
• Exposure to foreign creditors and international payments.
• Experience with foreign exchange rates in major currencies.
• Solid understanding of cross-border imports and exports processes.
• Proficiency in Ms Excel and data analysis.
• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

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Salary & Benefits

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