DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Functional Excellence Manager - Finance to join our team specializing in Finance for our Corporate Segment in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Enhancing Functional Effectiveness: You'll manage and improve the overall effectiveness of one or more functions, ensuring they align with end-to-end value stream performance goals.
• Driving Improvement Activities: By partnering with various stakeholders, you'll drive improvement activities within the function to meet performance objectives and enhance customer outcomes.
• Industry Connectivity: Staying connected with relevant industries, you'll support the function's advancement and position the company for sustainability and growth.
• Setting Functional Maturity Goals: You'll coordinate the creation of functional maturity goals in collaboration with business leaders and process owners, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic objectives.
• Managing Performance Metrics: You'll oversee performance metrics that contribute to the goals of internal value chains or end-to-end processes, ensuring continuous improvement.
• Governance Coordination: By coordinating enterprise-level governance of functional processes, systems, and data, you'll support the overall end-to-end framework.
• Supporting Talent Development: You'll contribute to functional talent activities, including developing global position profiles, competencies, and learning strategies to foster growth and development.
• Identifying Growth Opportunities: Utilizing your business knowledge and experience, you'll identify growth opportunities to improve customer outcomes and drive the function's success.

• Process Optimization Skills: Ability to identify and implement the most effective and efficient processes, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and standardization across critical processes.
• Complexity Management: Proficiency in making sense of complex, high-volume, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively, ensuring smooth closings and clean balance sheets.
• Strong Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to onboard new controllers and senior finance staff, coach and mentor team members, and maintain clear and consistent reporting and documentation.
• Robust Control and Compliance Management: Expertise in establishing and maintaining strong controls, tracking control remediations, and ensuring timely statutory filings and adherence to best practices across all entities.

• Significant relevant experience required, including managerial experience.
• Experience leading strategic and change efforts within a function or business unit; and the ability to make and drive connections across relevant work streams.
• Solid communication and stakeholder management skills, as well as ability to work comfortably amidst ambiguity important for success in this role.
• College, university, or equivalent degree required