Old Mutual
DUE: 15 JUN 2025
The Finance Manager will oversee financial operations, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and profitability in a fast-paced FinTech and Mobile Money environment. The role involves financial planning, risk management, regulatory reporting, and strategic decision-making to support business growth.
Coordinate the company’s financial function, including general accounting, cost management, budgeting, and payroll, in accordance with corporate policies and procedures to meet the company’s business requirements. This is the top finance position for a specific location, but it is governed by policies and frameworks established by the larger corporation.
Responsibilities
Financial Policies, Guidelines, and Protocols
Lead and coordinate the development and delivery of financial policies, guidelines, and protocols across the business to ensure the company complies with regulations and good financial practice.
Financial Management and Control
- Manage a significant portion of the organization’s financial management and/or control processes.
- Financial Modeling
- Undertake strategic and tactical financial analysis, modeling, and evaluation to support business leaders in their decision-making.
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
- Manage cash flow, liquidity, and working capital to ensure operational efficiency.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling to support business decisions.
- Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting to regulators, investors, and internal stakeholders.
Organizational Risk Management
- Manage a significant portion of the organization’s risk management and/or risk control processes. This includes contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures.
- Financial Information Systems
- Own the development of financial systems for the company or group. Own the governance of finance systems to ensure they adhere to group accounting and statutory rules.
- Ensure adherence to regulations, FinTech compliance standards, AML/CFT policies, and mobile money, payment systems guidelines.
- Implement and monitor internal controls to mitigate financial risks.
- Liaise with auditors (internal & external) and regulatory bodies for financial reviews and compliance checks.
Functional Strategy Formation
Lead the development and implementation of strategy for an important area of responsibility within a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
Information and Business Advice
Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Business, Tech, Operations, Compliance, Marketing) to align financial strategies with business goals.
- Provide insights on revenue optimization, cost management, and profitability enhancement.
- Analyse digital payment trends, customer behaviour, and revenue leakage risks.
- Collaborate with product teams to assess the financial viability of new digital financial services
- Evaluate financial performance against KPIs and recommend corrective actions.
- Monitor transaction volumes, float management, and agent network settlements.
- Analyse digital payment trends, customer behaviour, and revenue leakage risks.
Leadership and Direction
Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function’s strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization’s mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
- Support fundraising initiatives, investor, shareholder relations, and business expansion strategies.
- Evaluate financial performance against KPIs and recommend corrective actions.
Performance Management
Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
Organizational Capability Building
Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement the organization’s formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization’s talent pool.
Budgeting
Manage budget plans for a department. May involve development or delivery or both.
Skills
Accounting, Action Planning, Analytical Thinking, Budget Management, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Database Reporting, Data Classification, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Encoding, Data Modeling, Evaluating Information, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Numerical Aptitude, Solution Analysis
Competencies
Business Insight
Collaborates
Decision Quality
Financial Acumen
Manages Complexity
Nimble Learning
Optimizes Work Processes
Resourcefulness
Education
Bachelor of Commerce Honours (BCom Hons): Finance And Management (Required)
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