Regional Finance Manager

The position will provide Leadership in the management of Southern Afrinca Regional Office Financial Operations focusing on ensuring budget preparation, management, accountability, and stewardship. Ensures accurate financial reporting, for strategic decision making that is aligned to Southern Africa Region and Global Centre financial strategy. Manages Southern African Regional Office finance staff and ensures capacity development plan is in place. Coordinates with Global Treasury to ensure optimal Southern Africa Regional Office Liquidity Management, adequate cash flow forecasts, funding requests, and hedging for Southern Africa Regional Office is timely done with Global Treasury. Ensures Southern Africa Regional Office  Balance Sheet and Income Statement accounts are in compliance with World Vision & International Financial Accounting Standards, reconciliations are timely done, and no long outstanding balances remain in the books. Staff advance and other account allocations are done on monthly basis. World Vision Compliance with South African financial, accounting, and tax regulation is a major requirement of this position, engaging and contracting Tax Consultant for analyzing and filing staff tax returns and organization taxes will be required. In collaboration with Supply Chain, identify, contract external auditors for annual organization audits as per South African government requirements. Ensure annual internal and external audits are acceptable without material findings.   * Ensure that the regional office finance function is in alignment with the Finance Strategies at both Southern Africa Region and Global Centre and is in line with other support services department’s strategies. * Work closely with the Regional Finance Director in ensuring that all Regional Office and Global Centre finance initiatives are efficiently and effectively rolled out and appropriate resources are allocated. * Provide financial advice to departmental heads and leadership on key strategic decision making especially on key initiatives. * Manage Southern Africa Regiona Office budgeting process by developing an annual operating budget in accordance with Regional and Global Centre budget guidelines, World Vision International Expatriate staff policies, and local benefits policies and submit to Global Centre. * Ensure financial transactions adhere to, GAAP, IFRS, World Vision FFM, South African Tax Act, internal controls protocols, budget allocations, WVI transactional coding, LEAP project guidelines and ensure financial data integrity, true and fair disclosure. * Ensure computations of PAYE, VAT, and annual tax returns for expatriate and local staff are done per South African Companies Act and VAT Act and closely work with tax consultants in the submission of tax returns to SARS. * Establish and maintain appropriate internal controls in order to govern the finance function, provide appropriate levels of security and safeguard the financial resource