Post:Finance Manager / Business Process SpecialistOrganisation: mothers2mothers
Career categories: Finance/Accounting/Auditing
Country: South Africa
Location: Cape Town
Theme: Education
Health
HIV/Aids
Job years of experience: 0-3 years
Job type: Job
Purpose:
The Business Process Specialist is responsible for establishing and leading organization-wide, cross functional strategic initiatives in terms of system configuration and business process design as it relates to financial and administrative transactions. Specifically, the Business Process Specialist will be responsible for leading a large-scale project to upgrade the current accounting system, consolidation, and financial reporting systems as well as to drive operational efficiencies through process reengineering. This position is based in Cape Town and reports to the Financial Controller.
Key Outcomes:
Act as project manager for the upgrade of the financial accounting system
0 Determine technical and functional system specifications for the financial system
0 Create and maintain detailed project plans and project documents
0 Liaising with internal stakeholders to incorporate all business needs in the financial and reporting system and present the project in various forums
Manage financial and administrative systems (Navision Serenic, Replicon, etc)
0 Managing the SLA with the accounting and time keeping systems service providers
0 Act as super user of the system and provide technical support services to all users
0 Re-engineer internal business process to ensure a sound internal control environment and provide a quality control environment to ensure consistent application of internal control measures
0 Assess and document current work processes within the financial department
0 Liaise with internal stakeholders to established revised or new work processes
0 Document and keep up to date all work processes implemented across all financial operations of the organization
0 Provide support and training to staff within the unit and across all business operations in work process
0 Establish quality control measures and tools to ensure that all work processes are properly implemented
0 Liaise with other financial units to establish tools to support operational work processes
0 Update relevant policy and procedures to reflect updated business processes
Manage and Support the work outputs of the Country Finance Teams
0 Provide technical and managerial support to the country finance teams within all branch operations of the organization
0 Develop tools to be used by Country Finance Teams to support work processes
0 Provide training and capacity building to Country Finance Teams
Qualifications and Experience:
Competencies Required:
Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.
Interested applicants should submit their Curriculum Vitae to the Recruitment Specialist, mothers2mothers via email to recruitment@m2m.org by 28 June 2013.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted – should you not hear from us by 28 July 2013, you may consider your application unsuccessful.
Job ID: #583538
Closing date: 28 Jun 2013
How to apply:
http://reliefweb.int/job/583538/finance-manager-business-process-specialist
Career categories: Finance/Accounting/Auditing
Country: South Africa
Location: Cape Town
Theme: Education
Health
HIV/Aids
Job years of experience: 0-3 years
Job type: Job
Purpose:
The Business Process Specialist is responsible for establishing and leading organization-wide, cross functional strategic initiatives in terms of system configuration and business process design as it relates to financial and administrative transactions. Specifically, the Business Process Specialist will be responsible for leading a large-scale project to upgrade the current accounting system, consolidation, and financial reporting systems as well as to drive operational efficiencies through process reengineering. This position is based in Cape Town and reports to the Financial Controller.
Key Outcomes:
Act as project manager for the upgrade of the financial accounting system
0 Determine technical and functional system specifications for the financial system
0 Create and maintain detailed project plans and project documents
0 Liaising with internal stakeholders to incorporate all business needs in the financial and reporting system and present the project in various forums
Manage financial and administrative systems (Navision Serenic, Replicon, etc)
0 Managing the SLA with the accounting and time keeping systems service providers
0 Act as super user of the system and provide technical support services to all users
0 Re-engineer internal business process to ensure a sound internal control environment and provide a quality control environment to ensure consistent application of internal control measures
0 Assess and document current work processes within the financial department
0 Liaise with internal stakeholders to established revised or new work processes
0 Document and keep up to date all work processes implemented across all financial operations of the organization
0 Provide support and training to staff within the unit and across all business operations in work process
0 Establish quality control measures and tools to ensure that all work processes are properly implemented
0 Liaise with other financial units to establish tools to support operational work processes
0 Update relevant policy and procedures to reflect updated business processes
Manage and Support the work outputs of the Country Finance Teams
0 Provide technical and managerial support to the country finance teams within all branch operations of the organization
0 Develop tools to be used by Country Finance Teams to support work processes
0 Provide training and capacity building to Country Finance Teams
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in Business and Accounting
- 5-8 years of experience as a project manager or related position
- Previous experience in a multi-national organization at head office level preferred
- Experience in managing a team of professionals
Competencies Required:
- Sound business and technical acumen
- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
- Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
- Ability to manage/administer a finance unit, ability to rationalize work, delegate tasks, apply advanced systems to simplify work and negotiate systems improvements, propose solutions to make best use of staff and financial resources
- Proven superior knowledge and experience of computerized financial and business information systems,
- Advanced Excel skill
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work on own and within various teams;
- Ability to manage competing tasks; ability to prioritize and produce high level output consistently
- mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women and previously disadvantaged people.
Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.
Interested applicants should submit their Curriculum Vitae to the Recruitment Specialist, mothers2mothers via email to recruitment@m2m.org by 28 June 2013.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted – should you not hear from us by 28 July 2013, you may consider your application unsuccessful.
Job ID: #583538
Closing date: 28 Jun 2013
How to apply:
http://reliefweb.int/job/583538/finance-manager-business-process-specialist
