📍 Fully Remote
[US-based working hours EST. 11h00 - 20h00]
💰 Up to R1,350,000 CTC per annum
[depending on qualification and experience]
🚀 An opportunity to partner directly with the group’s CEO’s, shaping strategy and delivering financial insights that drive decisions across the whole business.
A rapidly expanding, owner-led US company is looking for a
Group Finance Lead to join its team
remotely from South Africa.
As the owner’s financial partner across multiple entities, you’ll turn financial data into forecasts, analysis and clear insights that shape business decisions. You’ll also play a key role in building and maintaining banking relationships, supporting funding discussions and presenting the financial story to lenders.
This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who enjoys building financial models themselves and can confidently explain the numbers, assumptions and opportunities behind them.
This is a full-time position operating on an independent contract arrangement with the client.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain rolling 13-week cash flow forecasts and 12–24-month financial models covering distribution working capital, import and duty timing, and real estate cash needs.
- Explain monthly forecast variances and model cash, working capital and funding requirements for sales, inventory and growth scenarios.
- Support the owner’s banking relationships through credit packages, virtual lender meetings and negotiations on credit lines, renewals and covenants.
- Supervise in-house bookkeepers, establish month-end close processes, review reconciliations and reporting, and coordinate with the external CPA as needed.
- Analyse landed costs, product-line margins and inventory performance, including the cash impact of freight, duties and tariffs.
- Consolidate monthly reporting across the operating company, real estate holdings and investment portfolio, with clear periodic summaries of portfolio performance and cash position for the owner. Real estate scope covers cash modelling and reporting only, excluding deal-level involvement.
Qualification and Experience:
- A recognised affiliation with a professional accounting body such as: CA(SA), CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent.
- A minimum of five years’ post-qualification experience in a financial reporting, management accounting, or finance transformation role.
- Proven track record in cash flow forecasting and financial modelling.
- Hands-on experience working with inventory and/or stock.
Salary:
- R900,000 CTC per annum - R1,350,000 CTC per annum [depending on qualification and experience]
