Financial Controller

AMMEGA

Department: Finance

Boksburg, Gauteng

Closing Date: 15 September 2025

Full job description

Job Functions (Areas of Accountability):

Financial Reporting

• Generate monthly financial and management reports, including Board, Income Statements, Cash, Bank, Balance Sheet & Intercompany Reconciliations, DSO, DPO and DSI with variance analysis, commentary, and risks/opportunities.
• Maintain GL integrity and manage GL activities including month end closing activities, reporting to Group, intercompany transactions, posting of GL journals.
• Report on weekly sales / orderbook information, monthly flash and quarterly forecasts and ensure segmentation per region, customer type, product group, etc. is complete and accurate.
• Ensure HR / Labour Costs are correctly allocated by cost centre and functional area.
• Report HR and Capex expenses monthly in Athena.
• Prepare ad hoc reoorts such as insurance, consultancy, inventory and procurement reports when required.

FP&A

• Prepare quarterly and annual budgets and forecasts for financial and operational projections based on historical performance, market trends, and company strategy to provide “best estimate”.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Prepare and report on cashflow forecast.
• Prepare quarterly re-forecasts (F3+9, F6+6, F9+3).
• Build driver-based models for revenue, margin, Opex, headcount and cash; perform scenario and sensitivity analysis (price, volume, mix, FX, cost).
• Product, customer and country profitability, and pricing support.
• Prepare ad hoc forecasts as per local and internal requirements.

Working Capital and Cash

• Oversee AR, credit control and collections; drive DSO targets and resolve disputes.
• Oversee AP, payment runs and supplier terms; drive DPO and early-payment decisions.
• Own a weekly 13-week cash forecast and liquidity dashboard.

Treasury and Foreign Exchange

• Map FX exposures and recommend hedging or natural offsets in line with policy.
• Govern intercompany settlements, netting and cash repatriation.

Tax, statutory and regulatory

• Coordinate VAT and other indirect taxes, payroll taxes and statutory returns per country.
• Prepare corporate tax packs and manage external auditors and advisors across the region.
• Ensure consistent application of transfer pricing and intercompany policies.

Controls, policies and audit

• Own the Delegation of Authority and finance policies; lead control self-assessments.
• Maintain fixed asset, inventory and lease controls; perform stock counts and impairment reviews.
• Achieve zero critical audit findings; track remediation to closure.

Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnerships

• Liaise with Local Finance Team and Global Financial Team.
• Liaise with local Senior Management, Sales Management & HR Management for forecasting accuracy and reporting feedback.
• Deal and resolve the escalations and queries from internal and external stakeholders including auditors and tax authorities.
• Maintain positive relationships and high level of cooperation and confidentiality with local finance teams and other departments.
• Oversee team’s work and support professional development and skills enhancement of a team within Finance department.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, operations, and IT to deliver insights and reporting that inform strategic decisions
• Participate in implementation of a new ERP system – MS Dynamics D365.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and optimisation of processes.
• Build financial literacy in the wider business through training and regular engagement.

Job Requirements:

• Education
  • BCom Accounting degree or equivalent.
  • CA(SA) or CIMA beneficial.
• Experience:
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role as finance controller in a multi-entity and multi-currency environment.
  • Experience in interacting with corporate stakeholders in a complex matrix organisation.
  • Proven ownership of GL’s, budgets, forecasts and rolling outlooks, and leadership of external audits.
  • Practical knowledge of Sage Evolution or D365, and BI tools such as Power BI or group reporting tools such as Board.
  • Strong Excel capability.
• Skills:
  • Financial reporting and IFRS/local accounting frameworks.
  • Working capital and cash management.
  • Data and systems stewardship (ERP ownership, master data governance, Excel and BI).
  • Data-driven storytelling and stakeholder engagement.
  • Communication: written packs and clear updates at executive level.
  • Strong process design and control mindset with attention to detail.
  • Ability to simplify complexity and convert insight into action.
  • Comfortable operating across countries and time zones.
  • Leadership: build, coach and hold a multi-country team to account.
• Attributes
  • Integrity, confidentiality and sound judgement.
  • Ownership and initiative with strong follow-through.
  • Accuracy and attention to detail (zero-surprises mindset).
  • Resilience and composure under pressure.
  • Reliability and dependability.
  • Analytical thinking and structured problem solving.
  • Continuous improvement mindset.