Finance Executive

<h2><u>Position:</u></h2>Finance Executive<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Job Description:</u></b></p>The Finance Executive acts as a strategic and commercial finance partner to business leadership, providing financial insight, commercial challenge and decision support to drive sustainable growth, profitability and business performance.<br>The role combines strong financial expertise with commercial acumen and a deep understanding of the business model, clients, market dynamics and operational drivers. It leads and develops a team of Finance Managers, ensuring that finance partnering across the business moves beyond financial reporting to provide proactive analysis, challenge and commercially focused insight.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2><u>Location:</u></h2>Johannesburg - Adcorp Place<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2><u>Contract Type:</u></h2>Permanent<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2><u>Minimum Requirements:</u></h2><ul><li>Partner with business leadership to translate business strategy and operational priorities into financial and commercial plans.</li><li>Provide forward-looking financial and commercial insight, identifying the key drivers of revenue, margin, profitability, cost, cash flow and working capital.</li><li>Lead, coach and develop Finance Managers, setting clear expectations for high-quality financial management, commercial partnering and decision support across their respective business areas.</li><li>Build the commercial capability of the Finance Managers, enabling them to operate as trusted business partners who challenge assumptions, identify opportunities and influence business decisions.</li><li>Support commercial modelling, client pricing, tenders and deal evaluation, considering profitability, margin, cost-to-serve, risk and working-capital implications.</li><li>Develop and challenge business cases for new clients, products, investments and growth opportunities, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.</li><li>Lead budgeting, forecasting and performance-planning processes, ensuring financial plans are grounded in credible commercial and operational assumptions.</li><li>Analyse actual and forecast performance, identify underlying drivers and ensure Finance Managers partner with operational leaders on corrective actions and performance improvement.</li><li>Develop a strong understanding of the client and commercial environment, including contract economics, pricing models, market dynamics and changing client requirements.</li><li>Identify and drive opportunities for revenue growth, margin improvement, cost optimisation, productivity and operational efficiency.</li><li>Ensure consistent financial governance, controls, reporting quality and compliance across the areas supported by the Finance Manager team.</li><li>Build a high-performing finance partnering capability through coaching, succession planning, capability development and performance management.</li></ul><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><u><b>Additional Requirements:</b></u></p><p>NA</p><p></p><p></p><h2><u>Roles and Responsibilities:</u></h2><h2>Strategic business partnering</h2><ul><li>Act as the MD&#39;s primary finance counsel on strategy, portfolio choices and capital allocation across the division</li><li>Translate the division&#39;s strategy and commitments into a financial plan with clear value drivers, milestones and owners.</li><li>Evaluate new business initiatives, market entries and product offers for suitability, acceptability and feasibility, and make a recommendation rather than present options.</li><li>Represent finance on the divisional leadership team and in Group forums; contribute to Board and Audit Committee material with the MD.</li></ul><br /><h2>Commercial and pricing leadership</h2><ul><li>Own the commercial model for bids and renewals: pricing, margin, working capital and risk, with sign-off authority within delegated limits.</li><li>Partner with sales and account leadership on client profitability reviews, contract renegotiations and the exit or repricing of value-destroying accounts.</li><li>Build and maintain client- and contract-level profitability, cost-to-serve and cash-conversion analytics that the business uses to make decisions.</li><li>Advise on deal structures and their earnings, revenue-recognition and balance-sheet consequences under IFRS.</li></ul><br /><h2>Performance management, planning and forecasting</h2><ul><li>Lead the annual budget, rolling forecast and long-range plan, aligned to the Group calendar and communicated to Group Finance.</li><li>Run monthly performance reviews with the MD and business unit heads: variance drivers, forward risks and opportunities, and corrective actions with owners.</li><li>Design the division&#39;s KPI and management-information suite so operational leaders see margin, utilisation, debtor days and payroll cost in time to act.</li><li>Drive cost leadership and productivity initiatives, including the finance-enabled use of automation and AI in reporting and analysis.</li></ul><br /><h2>Financial stewardship, control and governance</h2><ul><li>Ensure accurate, IFRS-compliant monthly, interim and annual reporting for the division and its entities, including offshore operations.</li><li>Maintain a sound internal control environment: payroll and billing integrity, revenue assurance, debtors and working capital, and statutory compliance.</li><li>Own the division&#39;s relationship with internal and external audit, Group Tax, Treasury, Procurement and Group Business Services.</li><li>Identify, quantify and manage financial risk exposure in line with Group risk frameworks and policies.</li></ul><br /><h2>Leadership and capability</h2><ul><li>Lead, develop and retain the divisional finance team; raise its capability from transaction processing toward analysis and partnering.</li><li>Build finance literacy across operational and sales leadership so commercial decisions are made with the numbers in the room.</li><li>Model Adcorp values and a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and ethical conduct.</li></ul>