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At Anthem, our people are the driving force behind everything we do. With a growing team of over 80+ passionate professionals, we’re committed to creating an environment where growth, learning, and purpose thrive.We invest in our people through opportunities for continuous learning, meaningful career progression, and hands-on experience across some of South Africa’s most impactful renewable energy projects.By supporting personal growth, we’re not only building stronger teams — we’re helping shape a brighter, more sustainable future for our nation.
Financial Accountant
Anthem, one of South Africa’s largest integrated independent power producers, is seeking a Financial Accountant to ensure that our business is prepared to grow efficiently and effectively in line with it’s strategic objectives.
The Financial Accountant is the backbone of accurate, timely financial record-keeping across Anthem’s renewable energy project companies. This is a hands-on, high-volume processing role owning the day-to-day accounting transactions, reconciliations, and GL entries that everything else in the finance function depends on. We're looking for someone who takes real pride in getting the detail right, every time, and who finds satisfaction in disciplined, process-driven work that keeps a growing portfolio of projects financially sound.
Financial Accounting:
Monthly accounting process including:
• Control and ownership of the daily and monthly accounting transactions.
• Recording all transactions and entries into the GL, including accruals, invoices, payments, monthly and ad hoc salaries, tax accruals and SARS payments.
• Prepare monthly trial balance from GL and can prepare draft Management Accounts including Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
• Assist in the preparation of Annual Financial Statements and investigate and prepare responses to auditors.
• Assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts, and financial reports for management, shareholders, and lenders.
• Assist in the preparation of information for board packs; investor updates; investment committees; project updates and other ad hoc financial reporting
• Bank statement reconciliations and cash management and controls.
• Assist the FM - Ensure that required financial information is supplied to the technical teams, and to obtain relevant project information t
• Ensure that the information required from contractors and advisors under the senior loan agreements is obtained in a timely manner
• Prepare and process monthly and regular payments to all suppliers and service providers.
• Understand all end-to-end accounting and payment processes.
• Communicate and escalate problems.
Economic Development:
• Work closely with contractors, suppliers, and the financial manager to ensure that all relevant information required to produce the economic development reports
Tax:
• Assist in the preparation of tax returns (general income tax, VAT and STC queries).
• Assist in the Monthly PAYE submissions, PAYE reconciliation (mid-year and annual).
• Deal with general income tax, VAT and STC queries.
General:
Ongoing support and assistance to the FM - Ops and fellow finance staff in the day-to-day operations of the business.
• Accounting Graduate/Diploma with 2~ 5 yearsrelevant experience.
• Ideally this experience will be in financialservices, particularly with projects and new start-ups and / or renewableenergy companies.
• Technical knowledge, including knowledge ofaccounting systems such as Great Plains GL.
• Good planning and organizing skills.
• Strong MS Office skills.
· Anthem is committed to fair and equitable employment practices and supports the principles of the Employment Equity Act (EEA).
· If you meet the role requirements and would like to join our team, please email your application to hr@anthem.co.za by 15 August 2026
· Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted directly.
We respect your right to privacy and therefore aim to ensure that we comply with the legal requirement of the POPI Act which regulates the manner in which we collect, process, store, share and destroy any personal information which you have provided to us.
Financial Manager (“FM”)
Anthem, one of South Africa’s largest integrated independent power producers, is seeking an experienced and talented Financial Manager to join its Cape Town office.
The successful candidate must have a proven track record of at least 7-10 years’ experience in applying their technical skills and managerial expertise, of
which minimum 3 years must have been within the Infrastructure or Renewable Energy Sector. The ideal candidate should have experience in the direct management of a
team. This role will be responsible for the full financial management of all finance aspects related to the projects.
For this role we expect the successful candidate’s initial focus to be in the business’s portfolio of Commercial and Industrial (“C&I”) projects.
This focus is likely to expand to other entities in the business.
Financial Management:
- The FM shall report directly to the Project CFO on a number of the project companies.
- Financial accounting management of projects.
- Provide input into finance business systems effectiveness and efficiency assessment, implementation, improvement and change management.
- Perform first review of budgets and forecasts, and financial reports for management, shareholders, and lenders.
- Assist in providing the input required for stakeholder meetings.
- Ensure timely submission of statutory required information i.e. STATS SA, NERSA Forms, XBRL files.
- Responsible for liaising with auditors and providing required information relating to the financial audits and annual financial statements.
- Control and ownership of the daily and monthly accounting transactions.
- Review of cash flow analysis and providing initial insight against budget.
- Review variance analysis of actuals vs budget for reasonableness of material over/under spend and put forward views on impact and possible resolutions, as applicable to the CFO.
Economic Development:
- Where applicable, understand the economic development commitments made and obligations on the projects per relevant Agreements and ensure the team provides the necessary support and relevant information as is provided to meet obligations to the IPP office.
Tax Compliance
- Ensure timeous submission of tax returns (general income tax, VAT and STC queries).
- Monthly PAYE submissions, PAYE reconciliation (mid-year and annual).
- Dealing with general income tax, VAT and STC queries).
- Be flexible to attend to ad-hoc requests from various departments and external parties.
Company Secretarial (“CoSec”) and Regulatory:
- Interface with and management of company secretarial provider.
- Ensure compliance with all Cosec and defined regulatory requirements notwithstanding that certain functions will be outsourced per MS
- Collaborate with other financial managers of projects to facilitate sharing of financial information. Work closely with the social performance and technical managers of the projects, to ensure that required financial information is supplied timeously.
- Adopt and facilitate teamwork, growth and collaboration within the finance team and projects.
- Compliance with tax, legislative & statutory requirements.
- Responsible for timely monthly payments to all suppliers and service providers.
- Source, implement and manage the applicable accounting and operational finance systems which may include the following and more: GL system, reporting systems, economic development reporting systems, online banking systems and finance report automation systems and integration into asset management system.
- Ensure adherence with applicable policies, procedures, processes, and controls to ensure effective and fit for purpose financial systems.
- Understand the Management Service Agreements (MSA) that have been negotiated and ensure compliance with financial and corporate governance matters contained therein.
Key result areas
- Ensure correctness, accuracy, and timeliness of the delivery of financial reporting.
- Ensure the processing and submission of economic development reports.
- Control of the monthly payments and accruals process.
- Strong support and assistance to the rest of the business team.
- Alignment to organisational objectives.
- Excellent service delivery to customers and all stakeholders.
- Ensure correctness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial reporting.
- Ensure the sound financial management of the projects.
- Finance Business systems implementation and improvements.
- Ensure that tax, legislative and statutory requirements are met.
- Manage and lead a small team of accounting specialists to deliver key objectives.
Anthem is committed to fair and inclusive employment practices in line with the Employment Equity Act. Candidates from designated groups are encouraged to apply.
If you meet the requirements and would like to join our team, please email your application to hr@anthem.co.za by 15 August 2026.
Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We respect your right to privacy and comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). All personal data will be processed securely and used solely for recruitment purposes.
Associate Asset Manager Murraysburg
Anthem, one of South Africa’s largest integrated independent power producers, is seeking an experienced Associate Asset Manager. The role exists within the Asset Management team, with an operating project portfolio of more than 1GW and over 500MW in construction. Anthem is seeking an individual who is appropriately qualified with experience to join the team to support the management of a portfolio of wind energy projects.
Reporting to the Asset Manager, the Owner’s Associate Asset Manager will be responsible for:
• Supporting the Asset Manager in maximizing the commercial, technical, and operational performance of the wind farm portfolio.
• Supporting monitoring and optimising the condition and performance of one wind farm, including balance of plant (BoP).
• Giving inputs into all reporting obligations, inclusive but not limited to monthly and quarterly reports on plant performance
• Monitoring the rectification of defects by the EPC Contractor.
• Supporting the Asset manager in ensuring compliance with all relevant health, safety, environmental, permit, and regulatoryrequirements.
• Assisting the Asset Manager in actively managing contractual relationships with the Operators, EPC Contractor as well as other service providers.
• Operating the equipment on the electrical BoP such as MV/HV breakers, switches, isolators, etc., when needed.
• Supervising and supporting other advisors / service providers, such as Owner’s Engineer, as required.
• Performing regular quality inspections of all plant and equipment (incl. electrical BoP).
• Monitoring maintenance carried out by the Operators.
• Inspecting and monitor movement of spares.
• Monitoring, analysing and reporting on plant performance data.
• Identifying opportunities to improve asset performance and sustainability.
• Assisting the Asset Manager to manage the technical and operational interface with Eskom.
• Supporting risk management and mitigation with direction from the Asset Manager.
• Providing inputs to operational budgets.
• Assisting the Asset Manager and Accountants to process payments to contractors.
• Supporting the community office in the management of specific ED or SED projects within local communities.
• When applicable, train and mentor interns who may be assigned to the Associate Asset Manager, from time to time.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to liaise with staff and external parties at all levels.
• Proficiency in English; additional South African languages would be a definite advantage.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Have strong time and project management skills.
• Have a hard-working, can-do attitude.
• Be proactive in identifying risks and areas for improvement.
• Be able to work autonomously and without direct supervision.
• Be able to work in an open, fast-paced environment.
• Be able to effectively juggle multiple, competing priorities.
• Be ambitious, self-motivated, and have the desire to succeed.
• Be a team player.
• Technically proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint advantages.
• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively
• Relevant engineering Degree, Diploma or similar qualification (electrical or electro-mechanical would be an advantage).
• 5 or more years of experience within the renewable energy sector, of which at least 2 years have been in a supervisory capacity.
• Familiarity with statutory health, safety and environmental obligations. Strong project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously; self-motivated.
• Previous experience in operations environment at a power plant.
• Previous experience in being authorised to perform HV/MV operating on EBoP assets
Anthem is committed to fair and inclusive employment practices in line with the Employment Equity Act. Candidates from designated groups are encouraged to apply. If you meet the requirements and would like to join our team, please email your application to hr@anthem.co.za by 15 September 2026.
Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We respect your right to privacy and comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). All personal data will be processed securely and used solely for recruitment purposes.