- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
International Expat Opportunity!
Are you an experienced Finance Manager who understands the private security industry from the inside out?
We are recruiting for a senior, hands-on Finance Manager to join a leading security and services group operating in a frontier-market environment in the South Pacific region, north of Australia.
This is a fully-fledged expatriate opportunity and international relocation is essential. It offers an experienced South African finance professional the opportunity to take ownership of the finance function within a sizeable, operationally complex security business, working alongside an established leadership team that already includes a number of experienced South African security professionals.
This is not a generic Finance Manager position.
Our client is specifically looking for someone who has spent a meaningful portion of their career within the South African private security industry and understands the commercial and operational realities of businesses operating across guarding, armed response, cash-in-transit, integrated security services, security technology or similar environments.
The organisation operates across multiple service lines and major client contracts. The successful individual will need to understand the financial complexities that come with a large frontline workforce, shift-based operations, contract profitability, payroll, billing, debtor management and operational leakage.
The role
You will take broad ownership of the finance function and work closely with operational leadership to strengthen financial control, improve profitability and ensure high-quality financial reporting.
Responsibilities will include:
- Full ownership of management accounts and monthly financial reporting
- Budgeting, forecasting and detailed variance analysis
- Oversight of branch, service-line and contract-level P&Ls
- Driving strong cash flow management and financial controls
- Ensuring tight payroll controls across a large, shift-based workforce
- Strengthening billing, invoicing, collections and accounts receivable processes
- Identifying and addressing financial leakage, fraud and control weaknesses
- Working closely with operations around contract profitability, pricing and margin management
- Analysing workforce and guard utilisation and associated labour costs
- Assessing route and operational economics across relevant service lines
- Improving financial processes, controls and governance
- Leading and developing the existing finance team
- Delivering high-quality management and board-level reporting
- Building institutional-grade reporting and controls appropriate to a complex international operating environment
