About the Opportunity

This is an elevated, pivotal leadership role reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer. Designed to lead and professionalise operational finance and shared services, this position bridges the critical link between transactional processing and balance sheet integrity.

Unlike conventional transactional management roles that focus purely on processing volume and team administration, this remit demands analytical rigour, commercial acumen, and hands-on balance sheet oversight. You will oversee trade billing, customer credit management, supplier disbursements, and operational cash flow, carrying these cycles cleanly through sub-ledger reconciliations into a pristine month-end close.

This is an operational and commercial leadership mandate rather than a technical accounting or statutory compliance post. Your impact will centre on running a clean, reliable operational engine: leading an established direct team of nine, managing key commercial customer accounts, partnering closely with branch operations, and ensuring all operational balances feeding the general ledger reflect commercial reality.

What You'll Do

As a key member of the finance leadership team reporting directly to the CFO, you will lead the day-to-day operational finance function across Transactional Finance, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management, Accounts Payable, and cash operations:

• Leading, mentoring, and developing a team across transactional finance, billing, credit management, accounts payable, and driving clear accountability and best practices.
• Managing key commercial debtor accounts directly, taking personal ownership of high-value customer relationships, structured payment arrangements, complex reconciliations, and executive-level resolutions.
• Delivering the month-end operational sub-ledger close, ensuring accurate reconciliations for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory clearing, and unbilled items directly into the corporate finance reporting team.
• Supervising daily cash transactions, group transactional banking relationships, rolling cash flow forecasting, and foreign currency payment execution in line with treasury policy.
• Overseeing trade credit risk governance, establishing robust protocols around commercial credit limits, customer onboarding, stop-credit triggers, and aged balance recovery in conjunction with regional branch managers.
• Directing the end-to-end supplier payments function, enforcing purchase order compliance, rigorous three-way matching, approval thresholds, and positive vendor relations.
• Championing continuous process automation and workflow optimisation, actively identifying operational bottlenecks, uplifting ERP utilisation, and improving data quality across high-volume transactional pipelines.
• Acting as the operational finance bridge between branch operations and corporate finance, providing clear commercial visibility on working capital trends, credit risks, and process bottlenecks to executive stakeholders.
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