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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TEMPORARY – 4 Months – GovermentContract Jobs in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa at ExecutivePlacements.com
Title: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TEMPORARY – 4 Months – GovermentContract
Company: ExecutivePlacements.com
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Recruiter:
Ikusasa Recruitment Group
Job Ref:
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFI..
Date posted:
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Location:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Salary:
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SUMMARY:
Applications are invited from persons interested to fill the above-mentioned position. The incumbent will be appointed on a 4-month temporary basis. (Braamfontein).
POSITION INFO:
Minimum Requirements & Competencies (skills, Knowledge And Attributes)
- Post Graduate qualification in Finance or Accounting studies.
- Ten (10) years financial management experience in the professional services sector, of which at least five (5) years are as the CFO or equivalent.
- A Chartered Accountant (SA), currently registered with SAICA.
- A highly respected senior Finance Manager with broad and deep experience who has taken a leading role in driving world-class financial management processes across a national footprint or within a large, complex organisation.
- Experience within a public funded entity is essential in assisting the incumbent to drive a good governance approach in compliance with the PFMA.
- King V Code on Corporate Governance.
- Strong knowledge of the core financial management disciplines and how to implement and leverage these within a complex business:
Budgeting and Financial Reporting, Supply Chain Management, Debtors and Creditors Management, Fixed Assets Management, Cash Flow and Expenditure Management, Investment Management, Trust Fund Administration, Risk Management, and Payroll Management.
- Able to create “functional integration” of the financial management function across a national footprint.
- Ability to benchmark operations and work with senior management to implement financial management best practice within the organisation.
- Able to partner with the core business to support the achievement of strategic objectives through effective financial management processes.
- Effective working relationship with the EXCO, MANCO and Board
- Ability to provide sound advice on governance and financial management to Executive Management and Board.
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills, and business acumen.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, meet demanding deadlines and manage projects.
- Experience in building effective working relationships with the National Treasury and Auditor General of South Africa.
- Experience in strategic planning and execution is preferred.
- A sophisticated analytically astute style that is able to broker collaboration and display judgement.
- Project management experience is essential.
- Business imperative.
- Multiple stakeholders at various levels of government including the National Treasury and Parliament.
- Complexity in managing across boundaries and a national footprint.
- Managing with various levels of sophistication and decisiveness.
- Management of financial activities across a national matrix.
- Difficulties in driving the financial compliance imperatives in a decentralised environment.
- Management of and participation in multiple cross functional teams.
- Integration across all of the business units.
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