Senior Director Finance

Your day at NTT DATA

• The Senior Director, Finance is a leadership role, accountable for overseeing and managing the financial operations, strategies, and performance of the organization.
• This role involves managing financial planning, reporting, risk management and ensuring the organization's financial health and compliance with relevant regulations.
• This role is responsible for providing leadership and consulting support to senior leadership/management on matters pertaining to financial management and strategic implementation in support of achieving corporate objectives and business growth.
• This role provides overall leadership and management of their finance team, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.

Summary and Primary Objective

• Responsible for overall Financial Management of the Merchants South Africa and to provide advice and guidance to the South African Leadership and Finance Teams.
• Ensure Group Financial Management and Reporting meets or exceeds NTT MEA and Merchants Group requirements.
• To ensure the appropriate Financial Policies and Standards are set and adhered to.
• To provide input, advice and guidance on Financial and Commercial issues to the South African Leadership Team.
• To ensure that Corporate Governance is in place for all the legal entities and that the appropriate meetings and reporting is adhered to.
• To be involved in all vendor contract negotiations.
• To ensure our payroll department meets or exceeds our Peoples expectations and meets Group and regulatory requirements

Main Duties / Key Accountabilities
 
Strategy

• Participate in the development and execution of the Merchants South Africa Strategy.
• Ensure that the Strategy is consistent with prudent Financial Practice and meets the requirements of the Merchants Group the NTT Group and its reporting requirements as a public company.

Management

• Participate in the Merchants South Africa Leadership Team.
• Provide advice and guidance to the heads of the Merchants Operatin Units and the MD.
• Mentor and provide advice and guidance to the Finance Team

Go To Market

• Provide support and Financial input for all Customer acquisition and Customer development activities. Ensure that Customer Statutory Financial
• Requirements are aNTT ressed in Merchants transactions with that customer.

Financial Success

• Oversee the preparation of the annual budgets in required timelines and presentation to the Merchants Group.
• Ensure that monthly reporting and forecasting to the Merchants Group and NTT  MEA is on time and materially accurate.
• Continuously review progress and ensure that all steps are being taken to ensure that the Merchants South Africa entity/s are Financially Sound and to ensure any significant issues are flagged to the Merchants Group and NTT Group Finance and Risk Functions.
• To provide advice and guidance to the managers to assist them in achieving their targets.
• To ensure the annual external audit and internal audits are successfully completed by the Group Auditors with no significant issues. 
• To ensure that Merchants South Africa Working Capital Management meets MEA and Group targets.

Customer Satisfaction

• To be the Executive Sponsor on selected Customers and work with the account team to ensure that the customer’s expectations are met or exceeded.
• To assist the Business Development and Operations Teams in dealing with Financial issues and proposals that impact existing customers.
• To help identify issues that impact the customer’s willingness to pay their invoices and work with the appropriate management to aNTT ress the issues.

Requirements: Education, Training and Experience

• CA / MBA / Masters in Commerce with min 10 years Financial Experience or equivalent.
• Senior financial management experience in Service and/or IT Industries, contact center experience is a bonus.
• Proven Financial Management Experience to global standards.
• Executive Committee experience is desirable.
• Experience in negotiating contracts is desirable.

Personal Attributes and Skills Required

• Adaptable
• Not beauracratic
• Good Team Player
• Used to constant change
• High Ethical Standard
• Good interpersonal skills
• Willing to learn
• Fits both Merchants and NTT Group Cultures
• Good communicator and report writer