Job Rank: Manager 
Function: Tax Financial Operations      
Sub Function: Working Capital

Providing support across the South African Tax business, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing working capital processes using various reports issued on a daily, weekly, monthly basis in conjunction with existing processes.

Candidates should possess experience, knowledge, and skills that allow them to execute the following responsibilities:
• Contributing to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and providing support to other team members.
• Embedding data analytics capability by coaching the adoption and usage of working capital reporting.

Essential Functions of the Job:
• Billings: Monitoring and managing inventory to ensure billing is done on time.
• Cash collections: Monitoring and managing AR to ensure cash is collected on time.
• Revenue days: Improve revenue days by monitoring and managing inventory and debt collection effectively.
• Reconciliations: Perform reconciliations on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to ensure accuracy of inventory and AR.
• Forecasts: Generate and manage billing and cash collection forecasts.

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities: 
• Resolve issues with tenacity and determination.
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously with flexibility.
• Work through complex technical issues and understand client needs.
• Identify and investigate issues for continuous improvements.
• Act as a trusted business advisor, providing clear points of view and challenging existing processes.

Supervision Responsibilities:

•   Supervision of the engagements assistant team on a daily basis.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

•  Professional approach with a strong understanding of credit control.
•    Ability to build strong internal Partner-level relationships and external relationships with client contacts responsible for credit control.
•    Problem-solving skills and ability to provide credible solutions.
•    Confidence to challenge where appropriate.
•    Strong analytical and numeracy skills with attention to detail.
•    Effective time management and ability to balance multiple priorities.
•    Eagerness to learn quickly, be proactive, and share knowledge.
•    Ability to translate technical terms into business-relevant language.
•    Excellent communication skills for delivering presentations, training, and knowledge sharing.
•    Ability to deliver challenging messages professionally and drive mutual understanding.
•    Demonstrate the ability to become an effective change advocate.
•    Proficient in MS Excel.
•    Ability and flexibility to work in a virtual environment across multiple time zones.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree in law and or business administration, or related field is preferrable.
Experience:
•  10+ years of experience in credit control, debt collection and inventory management.
Note: This job description is intended as a guide to reflect the principal purpose of the job.  However, it is not an all-inclusive listing of the required job responsibilities, and these may vary depending on the geographic location of the job and/or the manager. Further, the job description is subject to change at the discretion of management.

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