GENERAL MANAGER:FINANCE – Bothakga Burrow 260 views

Bothakga Burrow is a 100% citizen owned multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy firm headquartered in Gaborone. We provide consultancy services covering broad spectrum of Engineering works to improve the quality and standard of living in the urban and rural environment.
Bothakga Burrow’s success is built on a foundation of personal and professional integrity and commitment to excellence.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced personnel for the following position.

GENERAL MANAGER – FINANCE
Reporting to the Group Managing Director, the individual must have the following minimum qualifications.
Chartered accountant, with a minimum of fifteen (15) years professional experience, with exposure to the mining sector. Candidate must have proven leadership capabilities, and have an entrepreneurial outlook. Experience working in an audit environment will be an added advantage. Candidate must have experience in undertaking due diligence for potential acquisitions and identifying appropriate financing structures for such acquisitions.

Duties and responsibilities

⦁ Business Planning and Financial Reporting
⦁ Develop annual Business Plans, and budgets, financial forecasting
⦁ Business proposals preparations
⦁ Long term strategic planning
⦁ Scenario planning and general cost management
⦁ Financial evaluation and modeling
⦁ Business risk management
• Management and Development of Accounting Management Teams
⦁ Develop KPIs for key managerial staff
⦁ Provide advice and support to accounting, managers, and project implementation teams
⦁ Oversee the development of managerial staff, project managers and project implementation teams, to maximise individual performance.
⦁ Lead corporate governance structures
⦁ Tax planning strategy and compliance
• Human Resources Management and Administration
⦁ Identify legal requirements and government reporting regulations affectinhuman resources functions and ensure policies, procedures and reporting requirements are maintained.
⦁ Lead the team responsible for the regular payroll process to ensure accuracy and payment on time.
⦁ Administer salary administration programs to ensure compliance and equity within the organization.
⦁ Oversee the team responsible for preparing and proposing the annual HR budget of salary and benefits and operations and monitor, analyse and provide projected variances to the Board.
⦁ Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating and recommending human resource policies and procedures and provide ongoing employee support on policies, procedures and programs.

Qualifications and experience:
⦁ First degree in finance or a related or related field of study.
⦁ A qualified Charted Accountant (CA) or ACMA or ACCA.
⦁ Fellow member of the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants.
⦁ At least Fifteen years of post-qualification experience of which Five should have been gained in a construction or mining related organisation.
⦁ Relevant experience in a Mining or contract based business is a requirement.
⦁ Proficiency in using Sage Evolution package will be an advantage and exposure to ERP systems.

Salary
A competitive market-based salary will be offered to a suitable candidate.