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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.
Senior Finance Manager – Corporate (Investments)
Anthem, one of South Africa’s largest integrated independent power producers, is seeking an experienced and technically strong Senior Finance Manager with valuations and modelling experience to join its Cape Town office in the Group Finance Corporate Team. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Finance this role is a Group vacancy supporting all Group related requirements offers a broad scope of responsibilities including modelling, valuations, treasury management, budgeting cash flow management and stakeholder engagement.
The SFM is a strategic leadership role responsible for leading the Finance – Valuations and Modelling team. The incumbent will own the Group’s valuation framework, financial modelling capability, and investment analysis, supporting executive decision-making and capital allocation across the business. The role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership and is positioned as a key enabler of investment and funding decisions at an executive level.
The role has a strong focus on financial modelling, valuations, business forecasting and planning, data analytics and visualisation, as well as bespoke scenario analysis across the Group and its projects. The incumbent will work closely with the Head of Corporate Finance on investment analysis, treasury strategy, compliance, and stakeholder management, while collaborating with the broader finance and accounting teams to ensure alignment across the Group.
The successful candidate must have a proven record in applying their technical skills and managerial expertise, with exposure to the infrastructure sector. The ideal candidate should have extensive valuations and modelling experience and seek to diversify experience in a finance role.
The SFM manager will work closely and report directly to the Head of Finance Corporate with strategic financial strategy and implement across the Group with:
• Lead the Finance – Valuations and Modelling team and set technical standards across the Group
• Own and sign off on all Group and project valuations (DCF, sum-of-the-parts, scenario analysis)
• Lead the modelling of individual projects and the consolidated group financial model, ensuring accuracy, and alignment with strategic and investment objectives.
• Managing the treasury function and corporate funding processes
• Monitoring cash flows projects, oversee funding utilization and compliance, and/or shareholder drawdowns to meet projects and business requirements
• Oversee development, review, and governance of financial and operational models
• Provide strategic insights and scenario analysis to support capital allocation and business planning
• Support investment decisions, transactions, and portfolio optimization
• Lead modelling support for funding, refinancing, and capital structuring activities
• Create and present management presentations and valuation reports.
• Lead respond to ad hoc requests from Exco under tight timelines with clear, decision-ready outputs
• Preparation of budgets, forecasts, and provide detailed variance analysis with actionable insights for decision-making.
• Engage with key stakeholders including CFO, Exco, lenders, investors, and advisors
• Ensure strong governance, auditability, and compliance across all models and valuation outputs
• Ensure high performance, accountability, and continuous development and foster collaboration and alignment with Group Finance.
• Manage key stakeholders of the Group both internal and external including shareholders, lenders, project CFOs etc
• CA(SA) or equivalent qualification
• 10+ years’ experience in valuations, financial modelling, and corporate finance
• Strong experience in project finance, structured finance, or transaction advisory
• Experience in infrastructure, energy, or capital-intensive sectors preferred
• Proven experience engaging at executive or board level
• Commitment, grit and ability to work in a fast-paced/ investment environment
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities with proven record of managing teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and is a self-starter
• Exposure to renewable energy is an advantage
The Senior Finance Manager will be a key member of the Finance Corporate team and will play a key role in the organization's success. The role is critical and high impact requiring a candidate who bring strong technical expertise and can quickly add value. The successful candidate should possess strong financial and management skills, as well as the ability to collaborative within the team and with other departments.
The business is committed to appoint in line with requirements of the Employment Equity Act.
If you meet the requirements and keen to join our team, please contact our HR team via email at: HR@athem.co.za by no later than 15 June 2026
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.
Senior Contract Manager
Anthem — one of South Africa’s largest integrated Independent Power Producers (IPPs) — is seeking an experienced Senior Contracts Manager to join our Construction Department, based in Cape Town. This role requires a combination of site and office presence to manage and provide contract administration services that align with our business objectives. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Department and Project Managers to ensure contracts are efficiently managed, compliant, and aligned with project milestones.
- Contract administration support to Head of Department and Project Managers.
- Prepare commercial information for contract variations and approval documents.
- Co-ordination of the payment process of Contractors and Consultants.
- Assist with the preparation and receipt of tender / proposal documentation and adjudication during construction.
- Create and maintain commercial registers.
- Create and maintain contractual claim registers.
- Create and maintain risk registers.
- Insert data and maintain construction management repositories per company document control system.
- Assist with the assembly and compilation of contracts (FIDIC, Employer Bespoke).
- Provide contracts assurance and management for the employer.
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification i.e. education i.e. Bachelor’s degree or Diploma obtained from a recognised institution.
- Quantity Surveying would be an advantage. Minimum of 7 years’ experience working on large multi-disciplinary engineering and construction projects.
- Good understanding and knowledge of modern contracting strategies for major projects including forms of contract, payment terms, incentive/penalty arrangements, innovative commercial models and securitisation of performance.
- Strong experience and skills in handling contractor and consultant progress claims, variation claims and other issues that arise during typical design, procurement and construction contracts.
- Understanding of an EPCM project environment.
- Strong procurement and project controls experience.
- Strong experience and skills in handing contractor and consultant progress claims, variation claims and other issues that arise during typical design, procurement and construction contracts.
- Contractual letter writing skills.
- The Senior Contracts Administrator shall have experience of working on heavy industrial / Infrastructure projects or similar.
- Utility scale renewable energy projects would be an advantage.
- Experience within the renewable energy sector or in other industries facing similar challenges, such as infrastructure and construction.
- Possession of a valid, South Africa Code 08 driver’s license.
- Strong understanding of relevant power markets, network within renewable energy space in South Africa.
- Technical understanding of wind and solar farm design, construction and operation
Personality Attributes
- Attention to Detail.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Strong Communication Skills. Both written and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Organizational Skills. The ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and documents efficiently.
- Analytical Thinking. The capacity to analyse complex information and identify key issues is important for problem-solving and decision-making.
- Integrity and Confidentiality. Maintaining high ethical standards and confidentiality is critical in handling sensitive information.
- Interpersonal Skills. Being able to work well with internal and external stakeholders.
- Dedicated, flexible and adaptable with a “can-do” attitude.
- Problem-Solving Skills. Being resourceful and innovative in finding solutions to challenges is a key trait.
- Professionalism. Demonstrating a professional attitude and behaviour in all interactions is essential
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 30 June 2026
Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Anthem respects your right to privacy and complies with the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, which governs how we collect, process, store, share, and securely dispose of personal information provided during the recruitment process.