Group Financial Manager – Intercare Corporate Services | Intercare Group South Africa

Role Description

• The focus of the Group Financial Manager position is to provide leadership, governance and oversight across all financial functions within the organisation, including financial and management reporting, budgeting, treasury, creditors, debtors, and inventory. The role ensures strong financial control, accurate and compliant group-level reporting, and data integrity across all business units. This position drives financial sustainability, supports strategic decision-making and leads a high-performing finance team in delivering excellence across a multi-entity environment.

CRITICAL OUTPUTS

• Ensure robust financial governance frameworks and internal controls across all finance teams, with full compliance to IFRS for SMME’s, the Companies Act, tax legislation, audit standards and internal policies.
• Oversee accurate, timeous financial reporting, month-end close, group consolidations and financial insights for EXCO and stakeholders.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accurate financial modelling, scenario planning, variance analysis and alignment to business conditions.
• Provide leadership and oversight of operational finance functions, including creditors, debtors and inventory, ensuring effective policies, SOPs, controls and workflows.
• Manage cashflow planning, forecasting and treasury governance, ensuring optimal working capital and strong banking administration controls.
• Lead, mentor and develop a multidisciplinary finance team, ensuring high performance, capability development and a culture of accountability.
• Ensure the optimisation of financial systems, data integrity, reconciliations and reporting platforms while driving automation and process improvement.
• Management of the Group insurance portfolio.
• Strengthen financial discipline and accountability across business units through proactive partnering, education and performance management.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the finance function to enhance efficiency, accuracy, compliance and service delivery.
• Management of annual audit process by maintaining audit readiness throughout the year, ensuring zero material findings and strong engagement with auditors.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities proactively, implementing mitigation strategies and advising executives on key financial trends.

Role Requirements

• BCom Accounting CA(SA)
• Minimum 8–10 years’ financial management experience, including oversight of multiple financial functions
• Experience managing finance in a multi-entity or decentralised environment (healthcare or services advantageous)
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing diverse financial teams
• Advanced financial reporting, consolidation and IFRS knowledge
• Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, modelling and financial planning
• Strong internal control, audit, tax and compliance expertise
• Advanced proficiency in financial systems, data integrity, process optimisation and automation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills
• High analytical ability, problem-solving capability and sound professional judgement
• Commitment to accuracy, deadlines and high performance
• Willingness to travel occasionally to business units

Closing Date:

30 Jan 2026