Overview

If numbers are your language and financial insight is your strength, this role is for you. You’ll help keep our Finance team perform at its best by developing reports that guide key business decisions and providing the support that keeps everything running seamlessly. At PEP Africa, your work will make a real difference: shaping decisions and keeping our financial heartbeat strong.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

To manage and optimise the overall performance of the financial department by providing leadership and ensure compliance to company best practice and legislative requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Play a key role in the implementation of PEP Africa growth strategy to ensure profitability
• Manage the country finance team to maximize the department’s outputs
• Structure and clarify roles, responsibilities and standards of performance for team members
• Ensure accurate accounting and reporting in line with Pepkor Group and IFRS requirements
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of all taxes and full compliance with tax regulations
• Manage an effective in-country treasury function aligned with central standards and procedures
• Make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets & financial control functions
• Ensure alignment with the company’s centralized processes, procedures and systems
• Prepare annual budgets for approval
• Play a key role to ensure profitability – including cost control, exchange rates, etc
• Manage the import function
• Monitor and manage cost and prepare monthly variance analysis for presentation to management
• Drive and monitor compliance to standards, policies and procedures
• Keep abreast of changes and ensure compliance to Malawi’s financial regulations and legislation, especially regarding foreign exchange policies; repatriation of funds and relevant tax systems and tax or investment benefits or opportunities
• Ad hoc tasks.

JOB INCUMBENT REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Accounting/Financial Management or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ Finance experience, including 2 years in a Finance managerial role
• Work experience in an audit firm or audit unit in a company is preferred
• Computer literacy: Advanced including an accounting package
• Willingness to travel within and outside Malawi
• English skills: Advanced
• Malawi Citizen.
• Computer Hardware

Competencies required:

Honesty; Passion & Resourcefulness; Analytical; Problem solving; Decision making; Building and maintaining relationships; Attention to detail, Planning, organising and control; Commercial thinking; Assertiveness and Pro-activeness.

Additional Notes:

Be part of retail finance by keeping our numbers sharp and supporting teams across Africa. Let’s Grow Together!

• Play a key role in the implementation of PEP Africa growth strategy to ensure profitability
• Manage the country finance team to maximize the department’s outputs
• Structure and clarify roles, responsibilities and standards of performance for team members
• Ensure accurate accounting and reporting in line with Pepkor Group and IFRS requirements
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of all taxes and full compliance with tax regulations
• Manage an effective in-country treasury function aligned with central standards and procedures
• Make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets & financial control functions
• Ensure alignment with the company’s centralized processes, procedures and systems
• Prepare annual budgets for approval
• Play a key role to ensure profitability – including cost control, exchange rates, etc
• Manage the import function
• Monitor and manage cost and prepare monthly variance analysis for presentation to management
• Drive and monitor compliance to standards, policies and procedures
• Keep abreast of changes and ensure compliance to Malawi’s financial regulations and legislation, especially regarding foreign exchange policies; repatriation of funds and relevant tax systems and tax or investment benefits or opportunities
• Ad hoc tasks.

• Honesty
• Passion & Resourcefulness
• Analytical
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Attention to detail
• Planning, organising and control
• Commercial thinking
• Assertiveness
• Pro-activeness
• Advanced computer literacy including an accounting package
• Advanced English skills

• Degree in Accounting/Financial Management or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ Finance experience
• 2 years in a Finance managerial role
• Work experience in an audit firm or audit unit in a company is preferred
• Willingness to travel within and outside Malawi
• Malawi Citizen