Western Cape: Financial Manager and Head of Creditors posted by Conova (PTY) LTD

About the Role

Conova (PTY) LTD is seeking an experienced Financial Manager and Head of Creditors to lead our group-wide creditors and accounts payable function. The ideal candidate will have a strong financial background, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely supplier and subcontractor payments, reconciliations, and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the group-wide creditors and accounts payable function, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely supplier and subcontractor payments, reconciliations, and documentation, while strengthening controls, procurement compliance, and fraud prevention processes.
• Manage and develop the creditors team to improve accuracy, accountability, and performance, while maintaining strong supplier relationships and resolving escalated queries.
• Oversee invoice processing, payment batches, supplier master data, and creditor reconciliations, ensuring discrepancies are cleared and reporting (including age analysis and KPIs) is accurate and timely.
• Take ownership of financial reporting and month-end close processes, including financial statements, management accounts, reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany balances, ensuring IFRS and internal compliance.
• Manage cash flow forecasting, liquidity, and working capital, with focus on supplier payment cycles and improving cash conversion efficiency, while supporting treasury and banking relationships.
• Partner with operational teams to analyse profitability, margins, costs, and supplier spend, providing insights for decision-making and supporting budgeting, forecasting, procurement, and tender processes.
• Ensure VAT compliance, audit readiness, and broader financial governance, supporting both internal and external audits with accurate and complete financial records.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive financial insight, process improvement, automation, and system enhancements, while supporting strategic initiatives such as restructures, acquisitions, and financial modelling.

Requirements

• CA(SA) preferred but not essential
• CIMA or Bcom Accounting/Finance/Financial Management or relevant with strong experience post qualification
• 4 or more years’ creditors / accounts payable experience, including strong high-volume creditors exposure
• 1 or more years’ team management or creditors supervision experience
• Demonstrable experience owning the financial statements of an entity end to end, with strong reconciliations capability
• Exposure to multi-entity group structures; experience supporting consolidations advantageous
• Experience managing management accounts and reporting processes
• IFRS knowledge and technical accounting expertise
• Sage Evolution experience
• Advanced Excel skills
• Power Query, Power BI or similar reporting tools

Qualifications

None mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Not specified in the original job description.