JOB SUMMARY: The role is responsible for strategic and operational financial leadership across farming, packing, export, and international entities, ensuring robust financial control, compliance, reporting accuracy, and commercially focused insight to support growth and profitability. This is a senior leadership role requiring strong technical expertise, hands-on operational involvement, and the ability to partner closely with shareholders, executives, and external stakeholders.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
- Grower Payments
- Retailer Credit & Receivables
- Margin & FX Management
- Cash Flow & Forecasting
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
- Financial Reporting & Predictive Analysis
- Financial Planning & Capital Management
- Compliance, Audit & Internal Control
- People Management
- Creditors Management
- Reconciliations and Financial Integrity
- Controls, Policy & Compliance
- Costing, Inventory & Profitability Analysis
QUALIFICATIONS & RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
ESSENTIAL (non-negotiable)
- CA(SA) or BCom (Accounting/Finance) with completed articles (SAIPA, SAICA/CIMA);
- 8-10 years experience in Finance; including at least 3–5 years in a senior financial management role within the fresh produce export industry;
- Strong understanding of export finance, including consignment/FOB sales accounting, producer payments and multi-currency transactions;
- Proven experience within fresh produce, agricultural or export trading environments;
- Strong working knowledge of export and financial systems such as Palbroker, Paltrack, QX, Microsoft Dynamics or similar industry-related systems.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Fully bilingual (English and Afrikaans);
- Good inter-personal skills with a proven ability to build relationships and manage a team;
- Strong administrative and time management skills;
- Ability to take inititiative;
- Good computer skills (MS Office, Office 365 Outlook, Excel and Xero, Power BI, SQL);
- Good attention to detail, well organized and structured;
- Ability to coach and train a team;
- Hardworking;
- Self-motivated;
- Innovative;
- Can-do-will-do attitude;
- Ability to work independently;
- Ability to work under pressure within time constraints.
- Willingness to work over December during grape season
Email CV in WORD format: cvs@agricruitment.co.za