Senior Manager Treasury and Finance Operations

Behind every transformative infrastructure project is a network of people systems and ideas working in sync.

We are a leading buildings infrastructure engineering and advisory firm with over 90 years of experience across Africa and the Middle East. While our work shapes physical infrastructure from schools to stadiums dams to bridges it is powered by the strength of our people and the systems that support them.

We are seeking individuals who bring clarity structure and insight to complex environments enabling our teams to deliver meaningful sustainable impact at scale.

About the role:

The Senior Manager Treasury & Finance Operations is responsible for the day-to-day management of Zutaris treasury function including cash and liquidity management banking funding facilities guarantees and treasury risk monitoring together with general financial accounting responsibilities including general ledger integrity reconciliation review and financial reporting. The role also owns the Groups cash budgeting process leads a treasury finance team oversees the payroll department guides the calculation of cost and charge-out rates supports the assessment of projects for commercial viability and acts as a finance business partner to the operational business. Reporting to the Finance Director Group

Reporting & Control the incumbent manages treasury and accounting operations and controls in line with Group policy and prepares monthly management and board-level reporting.

Key responsibilities:

Cash Liquidity and Working Capital Management

• Lead the Groups cash liquidity and working capital management activities ensuring adequate funding to support operational and strategic requirements.
• Oversee cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning processes providing visibility of cash positions funding requirements and liquidity risks.
• Monitor working capital performance and cash conversion trends identifying opportunities to improve cash generation and optimise capital deployment.
• Provide recommendations to the Finance Director: Group Reporting and Control on liquidity management funding utilisation and cash optimisation strategies.

Banking Facilities and Treasury Operations

• Responsible for day-to-day banking relationships account structures signatories access controls and online banking platforms; support account rationalisation and periodic banking reviews to ensure competitive pricing and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Oversee funding facilities (utilisation drawdowns repayments covenant tracking) and the guarantee/bond portfolio (bid performance retention and advance payment guarantees) including issuance renewals and releases.
• Monitor facility capacity and guarantee expiry profiles and renewal requirements and support negotiation of new or renewed facilities and guarantee lines with banks.
• Manage treasury operations systems and controls to ensure accuracy efficiency and compliance and drive continuous improvement of treasury processes reporting and systems use.
• Drive continuous improvement and digital transformation initiatives across treasury systems reporting capabilities and cash management processes.

Business Partnering Team and People Management

• Act as a finance point of contact for operational business units on treasury cash and accounting matters and work closely with Group Finance tax and legal.
• Lead manage and develop a small team of treasury and accounting staff including workload allocation performance management and succession/cover planning.
• Drive capability development succession planning employee engagement and continuous improvement within the team
• Champion operational excellence standardisation and process improvement across treasury and finance operations.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in finance Accounting or a related field Essential
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA(SA) ACA ACCA CIMA) or treasury-related professional qualification. Advantageous
• Post graduate qualification in Finance Accounting or a related field Advantageous

Experience

• Minimum 10-12 years experience with at least 3-5 years leading treasury cash and finance operations teams.
• Experience managing or supervising a team.
• Experience with month-end close financial reporting and management/board reporting.
• Exposure to budgeting and cash flow planning processes.
• Solid working experience in foreign exchange interest rate and liquidity risk management.

Advantageous:

• Experience in an engineering construction or professional/consulting services environment including cost/charge-out rate setting and project commercial assessment.
• Payroll oversight experience.
• Exposure to treasury systems and finance ERP platforms.

Skills

• Solid working knowledge of cash management banking operations funding facilities and guarantee instruments.
• Strong general accounting skills including reconciliations journals and financial reporting.
• Commercial acumen with the ability to assess project viability margins and cost structures.
• People management and team leadership ability.
• Advanced Excel and working knowledge of ERP/treasury/payroll systems.
• Strong attention to detail analytical ability and sound judgement.
• Good written and verbal communication skills including preparing reports for senior management and board forums.

Competency

• Treasury and Cash Management
• Financial Accounting and Control
• Commercial and Cost Rate Awareness
• Budgeting and Financial Planning
• Management and Board Reporting
• People Leadership and Team Development
• Business Partnering and Stakeholder Support
• Governance and Compliance

We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our business success. We seek the best peoplefor our jobs based on their skills qualifications and experience. We embrace the principle ofequal opportunity in employment and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawfuldiscrimination in our employment support of diversity and the equal opportunityprinciple preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.