- The Finance & Insights Manager is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership, analytical insight, and strong finance business partnering support to the organisation.
- The role combines financial governance, performance management, and strategic decision support to enable informed decision-making, drive sustainable business performance, and ensure compliance with statutory and corporate requirements.
How You'll Spend Your Day
People Leadership and Capability Development
- Lead, manage, coach, and develop finance team members with a focus on analytical and
- strategic capability.
- Foster a highperformance, collaborative team culture with a strong focus on accuracy,
- accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Support knowledge sharing, upskilling, and adoption of best-practice finance methodologies.
Financial Leadership and Governance
- Drive finance operations, including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes,
- ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timely reporting.
- Review and approve journals, balance sheet reconciliations, income statements, and
- supporting schedules.
- Ensure compliance with statutory, tax, and corporate reporting requirements.
- Prepare annual financial statements and manage external audit processes, including BEE
- audits where applicable.
- Maintain strong internal controls and adherence to group finance policies and accounting
- standards.
Strategic Financial Planning and Performance Management
- Lead and support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes in alignment
- with business strategy.
- Prepare and present quarterly financial results and executive-level presentations.
- Analyze financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying risks,
- opportunities, and improvement areas.
- Provide detailed variance analysis, scenario modelling, and business performance insights to
- senior stakeholders.
Business Partnering and Decision Support
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to commercial, operational, and functional leaders.
- Provide financial insight, challenge, and recommendations to support strategic initiatives and
- decision-making.
- Support pricing, product profitability, and product P&L analysis.
- Assist senior leadership with ad hoc financial analysis, strategic projects, and corporate
- finance requests.
Tax, Statutory and Regulatory Compliance
- Review VAT returns and oversee the preparation and submission of provisional and annual
- tax returns.
- Ensure compliance with SARS requirements and manage correspondence and queries.
- Oversee statutory filings, including CIPC annual returns.
- Support transfer pricing processes, including annual calculations, true-ups, and
- documentation.
Corporate and Group Reporting
- Review and submit balance sheet and income statement reporting to corporate.
- Prepare highlights memos and technical summaries for accounting and tax matters.
- Engage with corporate accounting teams on policy interpretation, implementation, and
- compliance matters.
- Support internal audits and other corporate reviews as required
Systems, Processes and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain and enhance finance systems, including account mapping and version roll-overs for
- budgeting and forecasting cycles.
- Drive process improvements and efficiencies within finance operations and reporting.
- Support finance transformation initiatives and analytics enhancements.
Your Skills and Experience
- Chartered Accountant (CA(SA))
- Minimum of five (5) years' management experience in a finance leadership role.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry (advantageous)
- Strong commercial and marketing finance experience.
- Experience in financial analysis, modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
- Experience in month-end processes and tax reporting within a multinational environment.
- Exposure to transfer pricing in an inventory-based environment (advantageous).
- Exposure to finance systems such as Sage and Cognos (advantageous).
Key Competencies and Attritubes
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
- High attention to detail with proven accuracy in reporting and compliance.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables.
- Proactive, solutions-driven mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement.