Financial Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Management & Oversight: Take overall responsibility for the day-to-day financial management function, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely processing of all financial transactions.
  

• Management Accounts: Prepare and review monthly management accounts, including income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow reports, and supporting schedules.
  

• Month-End Close: Manage the month-end close process, including accruals, prepayments, provisions, depreciation, journals, balance sheet reconciliations, and suspense account clearance.
  

• Cash Flow Management: Monitor daily and weekly cash flow, prepare cash-flow forecasts, identify upcoming funding requirements, and ensure sufficient working capital for operational requirements.
  

• Creditors & Debtors: Oversee the full creditors and debtors functions, including supplier reconciliations, customer accounts, payment runs, collections, and resolution of outstanding queries.
  

• Bank & Cash Reconciliations: Ensure accurate and timely reconciliation of all bank accounts, petty cash, corporate cards, and other cash-related transactions.
  

• Financial Controls: Maintain and strengthen financial controls, processes, and approval procedures to minimise errors, financial risk, and potential fraud.
  

• VAT & SARS Compliance: Ensure correct VAT treatment and tax coding across transactions, prepare and reconcile VAT201 returns, and maintain accurate supporting documentation for SARS compliance and audit purposes.
  

• Financial Reporting: Produce accurate monthly financial reports and provide management with meaningful commentary on financial performance, variances, costs, and trends.
  

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Assist with annual budgeting, financial forecasting, and monitoring of actual expenditure against approved budgets.
  

• Payroll Oversight: Review and support monthly payroll processing, ensuring payroll-related accounting entries and reconciliations are accurate and complete.
  

• Year-End & Audit Preparation: Prepare and review year-end working papers, schedules, and supporting documentation, and liaise with external accountants, auditors, and other financial stakeholders as required.
  

• Supplier & Payment Management: Review supplier invoices and payment requirements, ensuring appropriate approvals, supporting documentation, and accurate accounting treatment before payment.
  

• Process Improvement: Identify financial and operational inefficiencies and implement practical improvements to accounting processes, reporting structures, and internal controls.
  

• Management Support: Provide financial guidance and insight to management, highlighting risks, opportunities, variances, and areas requiring corrective action.
  

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• Matric coupled with a recognised Accounting, Financial Management, or Bookkeeping qualification.
  

• Minimum 5–10 years' relevant accounting/financial management experience, with proven experience taking ownership of the finance function.
  

• Proven experience preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports.
  

• Strong knowledge of balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, provisions, prepayments, and month-end processes.
  

• Demonstrable experience with cash-flow management, budgeting, and financial forecasting.
  

• Strong knowledge of South African VAT legislation, tax coding, and SARS compliance requirements.
  

• Experience managing or overseeing creditors, debtors, banking, and payment processes.
  

• Previous experience within the hospitality, food service, entertainment, retail, or other high-volume transactional environment is highly advantageous.
  

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify discrepancies and financial risks.
  

• High level of accuracy, integrity, and attention to detail.
  

• Ability to work independently and take full ownership of the finance function.
  

• Cape Town-based, with availability to attend weekly in-person meetings.
  

• Fully functional, dedicated remote-working infrastructure, including a reliable personal computer, high-speed internet connection, and an operational load-shedding contingency plan
  

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Desirable Requirements

• Experience in a small-to-medium-sized business where the Financial Manager is hands-on across the full finance function.
  

• Experience implementing or improving financial controls and accounting processes.
  

• Experience working with external accountants, auditors, and SARS.
  

• Experience within a multi-site or multi-channel food, hospitality, or entertainment environment.
  

Required Software Skills

• Dext
  

• Google Sheets
  

• Microsoft Excel
  

• Xero Accounting
  

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Benefits

Work Arrangement

• Predominantly Remote / Work from Home (Cape Town-based with weekly in-person meetings).
  

Employment Type

• Fixed Term (6-Month Contract)