Rungwe area, Mbeya Region – Tanzania: The Financial Manager must deliver fast, accurate information; impose practical controls over cash, fruit, inventory and farm expenditure; improve management decision-making; and make the annual audit faster, cleaner and progressively less expensive.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Qualified CA(SA), ideally early in post-articles career with approximately 1-3 years of relevant experience and South Africa as the home base.
- Strong audit and financial-control grounding; agriculture, food processing, manufacturing or export experience is highly advantageous.
- Hands-on and commercially minded: equally comfortable reviewing IFRS, building a cash forecast, checking a stock count or tracing a payment to source documentation.
- Advanced Excel and strong accounting-system capability; able to simplify processes and train non-finance colleagues.
- High integrity, resilience and cultural awareness, with the confidence to challenge poor practice respectfully and enforce agreed controls.
- Willing and able to live on the farm for one-month rotations and travel as required.
CORE RESPONSIBILTIES INCLUDE:
- Financial reporting and performance.
- Cash, working capital and treasury.
- Operational and financial controls.
- Audit, accounting and year-end.
- Compliance, systems and team.
ONLY short-listed candidates will be contacted
