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Chief Financial Officer
| Remuneration: | market-related |
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Company: | Ad Talent Africa |
A leading promotions and activations business delivering sales-driven campaigns for top brands across retail and on-the-ground environments. Fast-paced, people-led, and focused on performance, accountability, and growth.
Who are we looking for
A commercially astute CFO who can operate at both strategic and operational level. You’re a strong business partner to the CEO, comfortable driving financial discipline in a high-volume, execution-heavy environment.
You bring structure and governance, but remain agile and solutions-focused. A natural leader, you influence at executive level and ensure decisions translate into action.
This role offers a clear pathway into broader senior leadership.
What will you do
- Lead financial strategy aligned to growth, profitability and sustainability
- Own budgeting, forecasting, and reporting across the business
- Act as key advisor to the CEO on commercial strategy, pricing, and risk
- Oversee full financial management including cash flow, tax, compliance, and audit
- Manage BEE processes and shareholder requirements
- Strengthen cost control, margins, and financial discipline across operations
- Support and help enforce executive and board directives across business units
- Drive accountability, monitor execution, and flag risks or gaps
- Improve systems, reporting, and data visibility (ERP, automation, analytics)
- Contribute to business innovation and operational efficiency
- Lead and develop the finance team, building a high-performance culture
What do you need
- Relevant financial qualification (CA(SA), CIMA, or equivalent)
- Proven experience in a senior finance leadership role (CFO or equivalent)
- Strong commercial acumen, ideally in services, retail, or field operations
- Deep understanding of financial management, compliance, and governance
- Experience working with executive teams, boards, and shareholders
- Exposure to BEE structures and reporting
- Track record in driving financial discipline and operational execution
- Experience with systems, data, and business optimisation
- A balance of strategic thinking and hands-on delivery
- Strong leadership and team development capability
- High integrity, accountability, and confidence to challenge
- Budget Management
- Finance
- Leadership
- Analytical
Posted on 30 Apr 15:59, Closing date 30 May
We are niched in the communications industry with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town from where we service all of South Africa, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the rest of the world. Our portfolios include Digital, Creative and Client Service in Advertising, Marketing, Media, Public Relations and Corporate Communications.
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Chief Financial Officer
Johannesburg
Who are we A leading promotions and activations business delivering sales-driven campaigns for top brands across retail and on-the-ground environments.
Who are we A leading promotions and activations business delivering sales-driven campaigns for top brands across retail and on-the-ground environments.
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