**Key Performance Areas**
**_ Team Leadership and Development_**
- Lead and supervise the finance teams, set objectives, provide guidance, and evaluate performance
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and development within the team
**_Financial Reporting and Management_**
- Responsible for the preparation of accurate and timely financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, cashflow statements and long-term high-level forecasts.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements in financial reporting
- Full responsibility for Panstrat system transaction flows, accounting, reporting and internal controls at a regional level
- Responsible for the preparation and review of the MCCA and MCCF annual financial statements
- Assist the Reserve warden with reporting requirements over the not-for-profit entity reporting and donor related reporting
**_Financial Planning and Analysis_**
- Develop and implement financial plans, budgets, and forecasts
- Analyse financial data and provide insights to support strategic decision-making
- Monitor financial performance and identify areas for improvement
**_Cost Management_**
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement strategies to control expenses.
Conduct cost analysis and provide recommendations to optimise resource allocation and improve profitability
- Change and implement new processes where needed, to achieve better cost control, accuracy of information and enhancing efficiencies
**_Financial Decision-making_**
- Provide financial insights and analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Evaluate investment opportunities, partnerships, and capital expenditure projects
- Conduct financial due diligence and assess the financial viability of potential business ventures
**_Commercial Negotiations_**
- Participate in contract negotiations with suppliers, vendors, and communities.
Ensure favourable terms and conditions to maximise profitability and minimise risks
- Evaluate and manage contractual obligations and risks
**_Relationship Management_**
Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as managers, department heads (Adventures etc), and operational teams, to align financial objectives with the overall business goals
**_ Training_**
Training, guidance and development of finance and Lodge staff covering internal controls, processes and how these processes impact financial reporting
**_ Ad Hoc Tasks_**
Projects as identified from time to time
**Requirements: Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge, Experience**
- BComm Accounting degree or similar
- Chartered accountant or similar
- Minimum 4 years' management experience is essential
- Strong commercial and operational focus
- Able to solve complex problems
- Experienced with MS Excel and accounting systems
- SQL and MS access experience an advantage
- Able to prioritise and balance commercial and technical financial requirements
- Luxury lodge and Touring finance experience is an advantage
- Keen interest in operational issues with a focus on how processes on the ground impact financial reporting
- Ability to support strategic and operational decisions by understanding contextual operational factors and presenting these commercially
- Highly numerate and accurate, with an eye for detail on numbers and analysis of financial results
- Results focused, but willing to work with diverse personalities in a remote environment
- Generate and maintain a positive momentum and high levels of productivity
**Personal/Professional Attributes**
- Diligent self-starter, with a high level of attention to detail
- Strong leadership ability
- Maintain social, ethical, organisational and professional norms
- Excellent communicator
- Team player who works productively with wide range of people
- Highly ethical and integrous with the ability to be principled when necessary
- Be open to and adapt to the very specific Company culture of tolerance across the regions of
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