Senior Finance Manager

Job purpose

Play an active part in creating a sustainable future by joining Climate Fund Managers' Finance team based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Climate Fund Managers (CFM) is a leading blended finance fund manager dedicated to securing a sustainable future by investing across global emerging markets. CFM has a long-term vision to structure cutting edge financing facilities around thematic areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation, including renewable energy, water, sanitation, and oceans. CFM is established as a joint venture between the Dutch development bank FMO and Sanlam InfraWorks – part of the Sanlam Group of South Africa.

We provide financing solutions across the entire project lifecycle (development, construction, and operational stages). With our offices in The Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and Latin America we believe in a world where sustainable investing and profitability are not mutually exclusive.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Financial Management

The primary responsibility of the position is to manage the finance team to ensure efficient interim and annual audits and accurate and timely reporting for the CFM group, this includes but is not limited to:

• Manage the finance team members and provide guidance and training

• Organise resources to meet objectives and optimise workload within teams

• Refine and enhance existing accounting systems and processes and provide guidance and assistance on complex reporting items

• Assist with the preparation of memo’s / detail accounting analysis for transactions setting out the accounting principles to be applied.

• Communicate and co-ordinate monthly deadline and deliverable dates to meet reporting deadline date commitments

• Preparation of reporting packs, annual financial statements, and governance reports and management information

• deep dive analysis and timely compilation of the monthly management information, including ensuring all entries processed and accounts reconciled using financial and non-financial information from various data sources;

• assist CFM team with special ad-hoc reporting requirements and requests.

• Compare actual performance to budget and prior year and explain variances;

• Preparation of business plans and forecasts

• Efficient, accurate & timely budget preparation and review (including analysis and preparation of budget overview presentation)

• Management/execution of ad hoc projects including:

• implement efficiencies and enhance control environment to managing financial and business risk.

• Stress test results to assess the impact of potential risk scenarios

• Regulatory reporting

• Enhance control environment to manage financial and business risk

• Co-ordinate successful annual audit process and preparation of audit and annual and interim financial statements:

• prepare the consolidated audit pack

• ensure processes in place to ensure consistent treatment across the group;

• prepare reporting packs, annual integrated report and annual financial statements in terms of IFRS;

• prepare documentation for the auditors: impairment reviews, impact of future accounting policies,

• VAT/Corporate Tax compliance

• Keeping abreast of industry development/technologies

Qualifications & Experience

• CA(SA) qualification with 5 years plus post article, relevant experience in the financial services sector

• Strong knowledge of complex accounting standards

• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Advanced Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

• Advanced knowledge of accounting systems (Microsoft dynamics) and financial reporting skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, performance driven environment

Competencies

• Devotion to quality: Demanding a high quality of provided services, and acting accordingly
• Performing under pressure: maintaining an effective performance under pressure, or when faced with setbacks and disappointment
• Structuring: applying, implementing and maintaining work structure in day-to-day business
• Results oriented: being focused on achieving objectives and results, persevering in the face of adversity
• Providing Feedback: giving perspective to others by sharing one’s views on their performance
• Analysing and forming opinions: being focused on examining matters in a systematic way
• Situational Awareness: demonstrate being well informed about development in one’s environment and effectively using this information for one’s own organization
• Results Orientation: being focused on achieving objectives and results, persevering in the face of adversity