The Assistant Financial Manager role is split between two positions as follows and periodic rotation between the two positions is preferred to enable growth and skills development:
ASSISTANT FINANCIAL MANAGER 1:
Operational Entity
Responsible for Property, plant and equipment reporting including:
- Fixed asset reconciliation and update of asset register for monthly movements.
- Preparation of internal reports.
- Liaise with the business to determine status of capital/construction projects and ensure capitalisation occurs timeously.
- Prepare all supporting calculations and assist with annual insurance renewal.
- Facilitate technical opinion of treatment of various assets that are acquired or disposed off in the business.
Taxation
Reporting
- Reconciliation of TB to QlikView platform for completeness and sense checks.
- Preparation of monthly management accounts and consolidation
- Preparation of monthly capex in board report formats
- Preparation of reporting packs for Bankers & submission of Statistical returns.
- Preparation of quarterly board reports
- Preparation of group annual financial statements
- Preparation and submission of monthly, quarterly, annual results and budget in specific formats as may be required by shareholder group for operational and holding companies.
Subsidiary and Holding Companies
- Review of monthly reconciliations.
- Quarterly reports for board pack submission.
- Financial statements at year-end.
- Year-end reviews of tax and deferred tax computations.
- Full accounting function of investment holding company
General
- Review and release of payments for the operating entity as and when required
- Approval of creditor invoices for processing and payment.
- Preparation and maintenance of the prepayment and other ad hoc GL and cash book reconciliations.
- Assist with annual budgetary process.
ASSISTANT FINANCIAL MANAGER 2:
Oil Procurement
- Directly responsible for management and oversight of oil procurement team and function including (but not limited to) the following responsibilities:
- Review product costings and monthly mass balance for accuracy and completeness
- Follow up and escalate on stock losses identified
- Review check and authorise Supplier invoices for Oil purchases prior to payments
- Review of Supplier reconciliations and accrual accounts and ensure queries and disputes resolved timeously.
- Forex exposure management on a deal-by-deal basis
- Provide management and supervision of team
Assist with Treasury and Cash Management including:
- Prepare reserve bank applications for foreign payments and transactions
- Prepare weekly cash flow forecast
- Prepare LC applications and other General Short Term Banking facility utilisations on Standard Bank Portal and resolve queries with supplier and bank
Assist with System Development as follows:
- Assist with implementation changes to Software (inhouse and Syspro)
- Manage system Admin team
BOTH POSITIONS
- Ad hoc assignments as and when required by management
- Provide technical opinion on business imperatives/strategies as and when required
Qualifications and Experience:
Essential: CA (SA); Articles at one of the major audit firms; 3 or more years post-qualification experience
Other Attributes
- Highly ethical, consistent, fair, trustworthy, energetic, dedicated, accurate.
- Business orientated with strong technical ability and a logical thinker.
- A good team player with good communication and prioritisation skills.
- Able to function optimally with minimal direct supervision or support.
- Able to work under pressure. Good interaction with management (internal & external).
- Some extra time required to meet reporting deadlines.
- ERP systems and software knowledge and interest.
CLOSING DATE: 15 May 2026
