Commercial Finance Manager | Fixed Term Contract | Johannesburg
Commercial Finance Manager: Carrier Management Services | South Africa |FTC
If you are a commercially minded finance professional who thrives on solving complex financial issues, strengthening governance, and bringing clarity to high-volume supplier environments, this role offers the opportunity to make a measurable impact. Join a business-critical finance function where your analysis, challenge, and commercial insight will directly influence financial control, supplier recovery, and Balance Sheet integrity.
The Commercial Finance Manager: Carrier Management Services (CMS) will provide senior commercial finance, financial governance, and independent control across a complex carrier and vendor environment. The role will oversee Telco Credits and supplier-related Balance Sheet exposures, drive robust reconciliations and dispute governance, and ensure that financial outcomes are supported by sound controls, appropriate evidence, and audit-ready processes.
Working across Commercial Finance, Financial Accounting, Operations, Legal, and Carrier Management, you will bring financial discipline to a high-volume, low-margin environment where supplier disputes, working capital, provisioning, and commercial decisions require strong analysis and informed challenge. This is an opportunity to influence both day-to-day financial governance and longer-term improvements in supplier management, process integrity, and commercial performance.
Our client is a large, established technology and connectivity services organisation operating in a complex, high-volume environment. The business works across telecommunications and ICT-related services and has a commercially driven culture that values accountability, collaboration, analytical rigour, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
Own the financial governance framework supporting Telco Credits and carrier-related Balance Sheet exposures
Oversee disputed vendor balances, ensuring completeness, accuracy, recoverability, and audit supportability
Drive monthly reconciliation and substantiation of Telco Credit balances
Implement and maintain governance controls covering dispute recognition, ageing, escalation, and provisioning
Ensure disputed balances are supported by contractual documentation, dispute evidence, and appropriate management approvals
Support quarterly Expected Credit Loss assessments in line with IFRS 9 governance requirements
Monitor supplier ageing trends, concentration risk, and recovery performance
Lead financial oversight of key supplier disputes, reconciliations, and recovery initiatives
Quantify, track, and validate disputed amounts and supplier recoveries
Partner with CMS operations, Legal, and suppliers to drive dispute resolution and recovery
Provide independent commercial challenge on the validity, recoverability, and accounting treatment of disputed balances
Identify recurring dispute drivers and support root-cause remediation
Strengthen financial controls and commercial governance across the supplier environment
Review and challenge journals, reconciliations, and accounting treatments relating to Telco Credits and vendor disputes
Support internal and external audit requirements through robust schedules, evidence, and documentation
Support supplier governance and financial control improvements across the vendor lifecycle
Contribute to monthly Balance Sheet certification processes
Analyse supplier spend, cost drivers, and margin performance
Provide financial modelling and commercial analysis for supplier negotiations, renewals, and decision-making
Support forecasting, budgeting, and working capital planning
Analyse dispute trends, recovery forecasts, and provisioning impacts
Develop and maintain management reporting and KPI dashboards
Improve data quality, dispute tracking, supplier reconciliation processes, and reporting automation
Standardise dispute evidence packs and supplier governance documentation
Act as a key Commercial Finance and governance partner to CMS leadership and operational stakeholders
Present governance updates, risk assessments, and recovery progress to senior leadership and monthly business review forums
What You Bring
A BCom degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or an equivalent qualification
At least 5 years' experience in Commercial Finance, Financial Control, Finance Business Partnering, or Commercial Governance
Strong experience in financial analysis, reconciliations, governance, and working capital management
Strong understanding of financial controls and Balance Sheet governance
Demonstrated ability to manage or oversee supplier reconciliations and complex commercial disputes
Strong commercial acumen and the confidence to provide constructive, independent financial challenge
Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills
Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, communication, and presentation capabilities
High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to audit and financial control
Ability to operate effectively in a high-volume, operationally complex environment
CA(SA), CIMA, or an equivalent professional qualification will be advantageous. Experience in Telecommunications, ICT, Infrastructure Services, or another high-volume service environment will be beneficial, as will exposure to revenue recognition, contract management, and operational finance governance.