Finance/Operations Manager - Industrial Equipment | Durban North

• Financial management: monthly management accounts and board packs, cash flow, payment approvals, forex management (alongside the bookkeeper), financing facilities and P&L ownership.
  
• Doing this properly and on time is central to the role.
  
• Stock and purchasing: stock control and planning, ordering and lead -time management, costing and price lists, supplier and accessory negotiations.
  
• Operational control and reporting: oversight of the admin team, plus sales and service reporting and systems discipline (CRM). This reporting deliberately sits outside the sales function as an independent control point.
  
• Systems and improvement: identifying and implementing systems to automate manual work, with a real appetite for integrating systems and using technology and AI to make the business more efficient.
  
  

Requirements

• Financial qualification
  
• Min 5 - 6 years relevant experience
  
• Strong financial fluency - understanding of the right numbers, presented clearly
  
• Operational instinct - comfortable owning stock, purchasing and processing, not just reporting on them.
  
• Systems mined - curious about how systems talk to each other and keen on automation - technically capable and willing
  
  

Benefits