Manager: Finance (Accounts Payable & Accruals)
• Prepare annual budgets, forecasts and cashflows, and monthly ad hoc costing exercise as required. • Manage the full creditors process, accruals, and overhead expenditure control. • Prepare audit related schedules required. • Drive process automation and efficiency improvements within the creditors function, including invoice processing and approval workflows. • Ensure a robust cost control environment, working capital discipline and accurate accruals. • Provide leadership by acting as a resource, coach, and mentor, while setting clear team goals aligned with business objectives. • Drive accountability and high performance by monitoring outputs, enforcing deadlines, and supporting continuous adherence to finance policies. • Lead by example to foster a collaborative, disciplined and results-oriented work environment that recognises and rewards success. • Support team members in overcoming barriers to productivity and goal achievement. • Handle sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment. • Manage the team responsible for creditors processing, accruals, and overhead allocations. • Produce accurate monthly and quarterly financial reports, ensuring reconciliations are complete and aligned with IFRS and company policies. • Report on creditor balances, accruals, overhead expenditure and cost control. • Manage the relationship between auditors and the Finance Department, ensuring all audit queries are resolved efficiently and accurately. • Review and approve audit schedules, maintaining completeness, accuracy, and full compliance with IFRS and company policies. • Assist the Senior Manager: Finance in the annual audit process by coordinating information and deliverables from team members and other departments. • Engage with internal stakeholders to ensure timely invoice approvals, accurate cost allocations, and compliance with procurement processes. • Build relationships with suppliers to resolve disputes and maintain strong payment discipline. • Support negotiations or reviews of financial terms by providing accurate data, reconciliations, and variance explanations. • Ensure the accuracy of accounting records and alignment with IFRS requirements. • Drive adherence to finance policies and procedures across departments, escalating instances of non-compliance to the Senior Manager: Finance. • Maintain compliance with all relevant legislation and regulatory requirements. • Apply a thorough understanding of contractual agreements and regulatory charges to ensure precise billing, accruals, and allocations. • Grade 12 or Equivalent (Essential); • BCom degree in Finance or Accounting (Essential); • BCom Honours in Finance or Accounting OR 6 years Aviation experience (Essential); • Professional certification such as SAIPA, SAICA or relevant (Essential); • Chartered Accountant CA (SA) (Advantageous); • 10 years’ Finance experience in a mid-sized organisation, of which, 3 years’ must have been in a management role (Essential); • Must have completed articles (Essential); • Experience in budget preparation and reporting (Essential); • Experience in the preparing and finalising accounts in accordance with current South African regulations (Essential); • Exposure to working across multiple systems and ensuring reconciliations between finance and operational systems (Essential); • Experience in an accounting software package (Advantageous); • Strong financial acumen; • Knowledge of automated Financial and Accounting reporting systems; • Knowledge of financial regulations; • Relevant theoretical knowledge, accounting principles and practices. Personal Attributes • Professional; • High integrity; • High degree of patience and assertiveness; • Must have a passion for costing/accounting; • Initiative-taking; • Ethical, tactful, dependable and accountable; • Process- and results-driven; • Self-motivated; • Reliable and committed; • Dependable and flexible. Application Guideline • Email applications will not be accepted. • Preference will be given to members of under-represented designated groups. • Should no feedback be provided within two (2) weeks from the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful. FlySafair Reserves The Right • Not to proceed with this vacancy; • To appoint the selected candidates based on its operational requirements. #KM