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New York, New York, United States

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

• Manage and oversee the financial operations of the company• Financial Planning & Analysis:• Develop and manage the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with company objectives.• Conduct variance analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide actionable insights to senior management• Financial Reporting:• Prepare and present financial reports, dashboards, and presentations to senior leadership, enabling informed decision-making.• Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and controls• Monitor and manage cash flow, budgeting, and forecasting• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and reporting requirements• Cross-functional Collaboration:• Collaborate with various departments to understand business drivers, validate assumptions, and foster cross-functional alignment.• Participate in cross-functional projects that have a financial impact on the organization• Team Leadership:• Cultivate a collaborative and high-performance team culture that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.• Collaborate with other departments to optimize financial performance and mitigate risks• Stay up to date with industry trends and changes in financial regulations• Participate in automation projects for internal financial systems• Lead and mentor a team of finance professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and support to ensure their professional growth and success.• Management of Financial Operations Team Responsible for:• Maintaining the general ledger accounts • Reconciling balance sheet items• Preparing audit files for annual audits and statutory valuations• Preparing and confirming monthly financial reports• Responding to audit requirements and queries, and ensure audit and valuation recommendations are implemented

Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa

• Managing reconciliation team• Formulate, update and implement industry standard reconciliation processes and procedures• Critically evaluate current financial and reconciliation systems for areas of improvement • Investigate, develop and implement improvements within the internal and external reconciliation processes• Internal stakeholder reconciliations - Assess and report on balance sheet non-current asset accounts- Reporting and analysis of General Ledger and internal management accounts- Review overall General Ledger accounts for executive management team- Using reconciliation data and figures to analyse and manage company cash flow requirements• External stakeholder reconciliations:- Manage team who look after the national branch reconciliation processes of a major bank- Review overall reconciliation quality and accuracy at branch level for external stakeholders- Build daily, and monthly, management reports consolidating reconciliation data• Staff Training and Development- Continually train and encourage reconciliation best practice and procedures- Identify and nominate top performers for company subsidised training by conducting bi-annual performance reviews• Managing customer payments team of 3 staff members- Ensuring payment processes comply with payment industry standards- Liquidity planning and forecasting- Design and implementation of bespoke customer payment solutions- Creating reports for executive management

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

• Management of client payment processes • Responsible for leading client payment team• Development and automation of settlement / payment processes • Final approval of daily client payment transfers • Cash flow management and projection for payment process • Reporting of internal payment operations • Client engagement with regards to specialised payment processes • Management of cash processing for client payment procedures • General Ledger reconciliations

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

• Payment of client accounts• Bank transfers using business banking for all major banks• Reconciliation of client’s daily payments• Client liaison with regards to payments• Management of company cash flow for payment purposes

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

• Reconciliation of operational finance accounts• Liaising with clients• General ledger reconciliations• Processing of month end journals• Bank reconciliation• Daily reporting on cash operations

Bachelor Of Commerce, Economics

Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting