Group Financial Manager: Trade

In brief

Overview This role is for a Group Financial Manager: Trade at TWK Agri. The position involves providing consolidated financial management, analysis, and operational support to the Finance Executive: Trade across the entire Trade division and its underlying businesses. Key responsibilities include 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. The role requires strong analytical and technical capabilities, with the ability to translate financial information into practical recommendations to support management decision-making. What you will do * Prepare, maintain, and consolidate short-, medium-, and long-term cash flow forecasts for the Trade division and its underlying businesses, aligned with operational plans, budgets, known commitments, and measurable cost and volume drivers. * Monitor actual cash flows against forecast, investigate material variances, and provide timely explanations and corrective recommendations to the Finance Executive: Trade. * Assess the reliability and accuracy of assumptions, cost drivers, and operational inputs used in cash flow forecasts, refining the forecast methodology where necessary. * Support cash flow improvement through disciplined working capital management, including focused monitoring of inventory, debtors, and creditors. * Monitor debtor ageing with the finance department, escalate collection risks, and support agreed recovery actions. * Support the Finance Executive: Trade 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: Trade with the consolidation, review, and monitoring of financial plans and budgets for the Trade division. * Ensure key cost, volume, and budget drivers are clearly defined, measurable, and reported monthly for the consolidated Trade division, investigating deviations and coordinating corrective actions. * Coordinate the financial evaluation and monitoring of capital expenditure across the Trade division, including business-case review, affordability, cash flow assessment, approval compliance, post-investment review, and escalation of material variances. * Coordinate and consolidate forecasts for review and approval by the Finance Executive: Trade. * Monitor and analyze financial performance against budget and forecast, highlighting variances, risks, and recommended actions. * Support the finance teams across the Trade division and promote consistent financial processes, controls, assumptions, and reporting practices. * Monitor inventory controls and working capital indicators, recommending actions to reduce stockouts, excess stock, obsolescence, and unnecessary carrying costs. * Support Trade finance teams with the implementation and monitoring of cost-control measures that improve efficiency and profitability. * Ensure consistent and accurate inventory costing across the relevant Trade businesses, including appropriate allocation of direct costs and production overheads. * Review the consolidated monthly financial statements, management reports, and supporting analyses for the Trade division, providing clear insight into financial performance, trends, risks, and opportunities. * Provide support on technical accounting and IFRS requirements, promoting consistent accounting treatment across Trade finance teams. * Coordinate the identification, monitoring, and escalation of material financial, control, tax, and compliance risks across the Trade division, supporting remedial actions and providing visibility of exposures. * Continuously improve the integrity, accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of financial reporting, escalating significant matters. * Support the Finance Executive: Trade and Group Insurance in maintaining adequate insurance cover for divisional assets and ensuring relevant asset information is complete and current. * Work closely with the Finance Executive: Trade, Trade Financial Managers, Group Finance, and other internal departments to streamline financial processes, improve information flow, and support consistent reporting. * Provide additional financial reporting, analysis, and related support as reasonably required by the Finance Executive: Trade or senior management. * Coordinate and support Trade Financial Managers to achieve consistent divisional deadlines, reporting standards, and control requirements, without replacing their accountability. * Promote knowledge sharing, technical development, and standardization across Trade finance teams, identifying opportunities to simplify or automate recurring finance processes. Requirements (from the original advert) * Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting. * Professional certification (CASA, CIMA etc.). * 3-5 years’ of proven financial management experience, preferably within the agriculture 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. Who should apply The ideal candidate is a finance professional with a Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting and a relevant professional certification (e.g., CASA, CIMA). They should have 3-5 years of proven financial management experience, ideally in the agriculture or manufacturing sectors, coupled with 3-5 years of leadership or team-coordination experience. This person should possess advanced knowledge of financial management, IFRS, tax, and relevant legislation, along with practical experience in financial reporting, cash flow management and forecasting, budgeting, working capital, inventory, cost control, and capital expenditure management. Strong communication skills, bilingual proficiency in Afrikaans and English, advanced Excel, financial modelling, ERP, and business intelligence reporting tool skills are essential. The candidate must demonstrate strong consolidation, analytical, problem-solving, and review skills, and the ability to influence and coordinate across multiple businesses and finance teams in a supportive role, while managing competing deadlines to deliver accurate, time-sensitive information. Deadline 13th November, 2026 Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/group-financial-manager-trade-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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