Group Financial Manager: Timber

In brief

**Overview** This role at TWK Agri is for a Group Financial Manager within the Timber division. The position is responsible for providing consolidated financial management, analysis, and operational support to the Finance Executive: Timber across the entire Timber division and its underlying businesses. The role involves coordinating budgeting and forecasting, managing cash flow, preparing management reports, controlling costs and working capital, providing technical accounting support, ensuring compliance, and continuously improving financial systems and controls. It requires strong analytical and technical capabilities to translate financial information into practical recommendations for management decision-making. **What you will do** * Prepare, maintain, and consolidate short-, medium-, and long-term cash flow forecasts for the Timber division and its underlying businesses. * Monitor actual cash flows against forecast, investigate material variances, and provide timely explanations and corrective recommendations. * Assess the reliability and accuracy of assumptions in cash flow forecasts and refine the forecast methodology. * Support cash flow improvement through disciplined working capital management, including monitoring inventory, debtors, and creditors. * Monitor debtor ageing, escalate collection risks, and support agreed recovery actions. * Support the Finance Executive: Timber with liquidity planning, funding requirements, and the prioritization of payments and capital commitments. * Support ERP implementation, financial data clean-up, system testing, and the improvement of finance processes and reporting functionality. * Maintain sound working knowledge of the division’s financial systems and assist users in applying consistent controls, data standards, and reporting processes. * Support the Finance Executive: Timber with the consolidation, review, and monitoring of financial plans and budgets for the Timber division. * Ensure key cost, volume, and budget drivers are clearly defined, measurable, and reported monthly, investigating significant deviations and coordinating corrective actions. * Coordinate the financial evaluation and monitoring of capital expenditure across the Timber division. * Coordinate and consolidate forecasts for review and approval by the Finance Executive: Timber. * Monitor and analyze financial performance against budget and forecast, highlighting variances, risks, and recommended actions. * Support the finance teams across the Timber division and promote consistent financial processes, controls, assumptions, and reporting practices. * Monitor inventory controls and working capital indicators, and recommend actions to reduce stockouts, excess stock, obsolescence, and unnecessary carrying costs. * Support the Timber finance teams with the implementation and monitoring of cost-control measures. * Ensure consistent and accurate inventory costing across the relevant Timber businesses, including the appropriate allocation of direct costs and production overheads. * Review the consolidated monthly financial statements, management reports, and supporting analyses for the Timber division. * Provide support on technical accounting and IFRS requirements, and promote consistent accounting treatment across the Timber finance teams. * Coordinate the identification, monitoring, and escalation of material financial, control, tax, and compliance risks across the Timber division. * Continuously improve the integrity, accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of financial reporting. * Support the Finance Executive: Timber and Group Insurance in maintaining adequate insurance cover for divisional assets. * Work closely with the Finance Executive: Timber, Timber Financial Managers, Group Finance, and other internal departments to streamline financial processes, improve information flow, and support consistent reporting requirements. * Provide additional financial reporting, analysis, and related support as reasonably required. * Coordinate and support the Timber Financial Managers to achieve consistent divisional deadlines, reporting standards, and control requirements. * Promote knowledge sharing, technical development, and standardization across the Timber finance teams, and identify opportunities to simplify or automate recurring finance processes. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting * CASA (Chartered Accountant South Africa) * Master’s degree advantageous * 3-5 years’ of proven financial management experience, preferably within the agriculture, forestry, timber or manufacturing sectors * 3-5 years’ of leadership or team-coordination experience * Previous experience in financial reporting, cash flow management and forecasting, budgeting, working capital, inventory, cost control and capital expenditure management * Advanced knowledge of financial management, IFRS, tax and relevant legislation * Strong verbal and written communication skills * Bilingual Afrikaans and English * Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills * Experience with ERP and business intelligence reporting tools * Strong consolidation, analytical, problem-solving and review skills * Ability to influence and coordinate across multiple businesses and finance teams in a supportive, non-duplicative role * Ability to manage competing deadlines and deliver accurate information in a time-sensitive environment * Sound understanding of forestry, timber, and manufacturing advantageous **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is a qualified financial professional with a Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting and CASA certification, with a Master's degree being advantageous. They should have 3-5 years of proven financial management experience, ideally in the agriculture, forestry, timber, or manufacturing sectors, and 3-5 years of leadership or team-coordination experience. Essential experience includes financial reporting, cash flow management and forecasting, budgeting, working capital, inventory, cost control, and capital expenditure management. The candidate must possess advanced knowledge of financial management, IFRS, tax, and relevant legislation, strong verbal and written communication skills, and be bilingual in Afrikaans and English. Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills are required, along with experience using ERP and business intelligence reporting tools. Strong consolidation, analytical, problem-solving, and review capabilities are necessary, as is the ability to influence and coordinate across multiple businesses and finance teams, managing competing deadlines in a time-sensitive environment. A sound understanding of forestry, timber, and manufacturing is advantageous. **Deadline** 13th November, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/group-financial-manager-timber-twk-agri Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Microsoft Excel
• IFRS
• Bilingual (English & Afrikaans)
• Afrikaans

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