Sovereign Foods is seeking to employ a Divisional Financial Manager for its farming operations in the Agriculture department.

The successful incumbent will be a focussed, pro-active and results orientated individual that will manage and oversee the financial activities of the Agriculture Division through driving down costs, highlighting variances to standard as well as identifying potential areas of improvement across the Eastern Cape Agriculture division.

The ideal candidate will be in possession of a BCom qualification, plus CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent qualification. 7 Years’ experience in financial management, budget processes, and cost control at a senior level, including experience in managing a team, is required.

Results Required:

• Monitoring expenses against budget and highlight over expenditure;
• Communicate costs by farm per cycle to farm/area managers in monthly one-on-one meetings;
• Consolidate costs in conjunction with the responsible financial persons from the various Agriculture departments;
• Produce monthly consolidated accounts by the third working day of each month and send out cost reports, highlighting items over budget to
the responsible persons in order to address. Propose corrective measures for re-alignment of annual costs;
• Manage and coordinate monthly stock takes, ultimately achieving zero variance on every stocktake;
• Drive the focus of specific task team members, ensuring the ultimate achievement of goals and objectives;
• Continuously review Agri finance SOP’s to ensure they are up to date and all staff understand and adhere to them. Make recommendations
on opportunities for improved efficiencies.

Critical Competencies and Skills:

• Strong leadership and financial managerial competencies
• Good analytical skills and able to take corrective action
• High degree of Computer competence (Excel, Word, Access, Syspro).
• Excellent time management skills
• Good communicator