Senior Manager – Office of CFO needed at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic function:

• Contributes to the development and maintenance of the finance strategy and funding model to support the CFO and AGSA’s strategic objectives.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to the CFO, understanding challenges and provides recommendations.
• Manages all strategic initiatives and deliverables of the CFO office.
• Provides decision-support to the CFO and advises where applicable on strategic matters relating to the DAG organisational strategic commitments.
• Co-ordinate the reporting for the CFO portfolio on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Strategic Support:

• Conceptualises, develops and implements initiatives in the CFO Office and provides a project management function for key strategic deliverables.
• Develops project charters to govern the execution, management, monitoring, and evaluation of the strategic projects in the CFO’s office along with those of relevant cross-functional initiatives led by the CFO.
• Identifies improvement opportunities and areas of risk which need to be addressed based on stakeholder engagements.
• Provides support to the CFO with actions based on outcomes of internal and external engagements and track progress thereof.
• Provides administrative support to the CFO office to review all submissions and assist with follow-ups for information where applicable.
• Reviews and prepares summary notes for all submissions to CFO office at least 3 days before the meeting/session/workshop or any other engagement.
• Compiles first draft outputs on behalf of the CFO and refine these based on feedback from him.
• Takes the lead on special projects on behalf of the CFO, especially cross-functional initiatives.
• Tracks organisational progress on strategy and strategic deliverables, anticipates and identifies risks and provides relevant recommendations on mitigations, acceleration and removal of strategic roadblocks.
• Collecting, analysing and packaging of relevant organisational and external intelligence and presenting to the CFO to support decision making.
• Management of workflows flowing into and out of CFO office, making sure review, analyse and appropriate route to the inbound receipts and appropriate summation and framing is done before sharing it with CFO as a response to share with internal or external recipients.

Reporting:

• Co-ordinate, tracks and reviews reports including organisational monthly, quarterly and annual reports and provides input into the relevant reporting.
• Ensures that all products/services including reports/messages adhere to the relevant quality standards as agreed with the CFO.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the CFO.

Project Management:

• Provides a project management function for all strategic project deliverables in the office of the CFO and monitors progress and performance.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the CFO.
• Pro-actively considers and drafts responses to correspondence, preparations of memorandums and submissions, in consultation with the CFO.
• Preparing CFO for meetings – reviewing and analysing packs, engaging with relevant participants to source information.

Stakeholder Management:

• Builds and maintains positive and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides strategic support and guidance to key stakeholders and BU management to ensure alignment.
• Scans the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Liaises with internal and external stakeholders and facilitate the implementation of stakeholder programmes based on the CFO’s customised stakeholders and strategic plan.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Communicate the strategy and objectives to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and manage service level agreements (SLAs) within the portfolio.

People Management:

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Provides support to the CFO in the cascading of the vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.
• Advise the CFO on the on the implementation activities relating to people plan to include transformation and culture plans

Financial management and operational management:

• Contributes to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Ensures compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manages supply chain processes within scope of work.
• Drive the compilation of the CFO office budget in alignment with thebudget guidelines and cost optimisations targets and manages project expenditure related to the functional area.
• Ensure that CFO approvals are in line with the Management approval framework (MAF) and related policies and procedures.

Other Responsibilities:

• Performs and/or manages other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Qualifications – CA (SA) or MBA 
• Experience – Minimum of 7 years’ experience of which 5 years experience should have been operating at a manager/middle manager level