Sandton: Financial Controller (Retial) posted by AtripleA recruitment & temps

About the Role

Our client in the Retail industry is seeking a Financial Controller for maternity relief to provide strategic financial leadership and support to their business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 oversees 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.

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.

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.

Requirements

• Matric

• People Management experience

• Strong financial skills

• CA or CIMA Qualification

Salary & Benefits

Not specified in the original job description.