Port Elizabeth: Financial Operations & Reporting Lead posted by Abantu Staffing Solutions

Experience Required:

Group-level finance (multiple legal entities)

Hands-on monthly and quarterly close

Consolidations, eliminations, and intercompany management

Operating within regulated or capital-intensive environments

Experience supporting executive management, boards, lenders, and auditors

Qualifications:

CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant

Strong grounding in IFRS / local GAAP applied at group level

Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation

Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Operations & Lead reporting

Quarterly Consolidation

Tax Loss Utilisation Strategies

Covenants & Working Capital

M&A / Strategic Support

Risk & Audit Tracking

Financial Operations & Lead reporting:

Ownership of group reporting and data integrity from Business Central

– Establish a reliable, system-driven monthly reporting cycle (?57 days)

Automate key financial drivers (valuations, covenants, working capital, budgets)

– Implement quarterly automated valuations, covenant tracking, and working capital dashboards

Automated monitoring of debtors and cash cycles

– Flag long-outstanding debtors and cash flow risks proactively

Standardisation of reporting packs across entities

– Ensure consistent, decision-useful reporting across the group

Quarterly Consolidation:

Full group consolidation (financial + performance view)

– Deliver accurate quarterly consolidated financials

Alignment of intercompany, eliminations, and reporting consistency

– Ensure clean consolidation with no intercompany mismatches

Tax Loss Utilisation Strategy:

Develop and execute plan to optimise group tax losses

– Maximise utilisation of assessed tax losses

Align legal entity performance with tax efficiency

– Improve group effective tax position

Covenants & Working Capital

Monitor bank covenants (system-driven)

– Ensure zero breaches through automated tracking and early warnings

Drive working capital performance (debtors, creditors, cash conversion)

– Improve debtor days, cash conversion cycle, and liquidity

Ensure integrity of valuation inputs supporting covenants

– Maintain credible, supportable inputs for funding and compliance

M&A / Strategic Support:

Support valuations, funding structures, and commercial analysis

– Deliver robust valuations (strategic + covenant-linked)

Provide technical backbone for transactions

– Support due diligence, execution, and integration

Risk & Audit Tracking:

Consolidate high-risk items across all subsidiaries

– Provide monthly group risk dashboard

Track and drive resolution of audit findings

– Ensure closure of internal & external audit issues

Escalate critical risks to CEO

– Provide early warning and accountability tracking

Drive completion across divisions

– Ensure execution, not just reporting

Minimum Qualifications:

CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professionally qualified accountant

Strong grounding in IFRS / local GAAP applied at group level

Solid understanding of tax legislation, deferred tax, and loss utilisation

Proven exposure to banking covenants, funding structures, and audits

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Independent Self-Starter

Hands-On Operator

Execution-Focused (Finisher Mindset)

Commercially Aware & Business-Oriented

Technically Strong & Detail-Oriented