Trustco Group Holdings Ltd is an investment entity headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia, that manages a diverse portfolio of investments spanning the insurance, education, real estate, mining and lending sectors. Decisions are biased towards long-term investment performance, and short-term hurdles are viewed as catalysts for future growth.
The real estate portfolio has the following vacancy;
Financial Manager
(1 x Windhoek)
Are you an experienced finance professional with strong technical accounting expertise, leadership capabilities, and a keen eye for detail? Trustco is seeking a results-driven Financial Manager to oversee financial operations, ensure accurate financial reporting, maintain compliance with applicable accounting standards and tax legislation, and support sound financial decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Management and Reporting
- Oversee monthly and year-end financial reporting, including the preparation of management accounts and annual financial statements.
- Prepare general ledger reconciliations, working papers, trial balances, ledgers, and financial reports;
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts and clear suspense accounts to ensure accurate financial records;
- Drive the timely completion of month-end and year-end accounting processes;
- Analyse and interpret financial information to support management decision-making;
- Account for the property portfolio, including investment property, lease accounting, rental billing, and property-related expenses;
- Assist with monthly cash flow projections, annual budgets, and financial forecasts, including variance analysis;
- Prepare income tax calculations and submissions.
Accounting Operations
- Manage, train, and supervise the junior accounting team;
- Oversee cashbook entries, bank reconciliations, and general ledger
- transactions;
- Manage accounts receivable and payable, including invoicing,
- reconciliations, journals, and intercompany transactions;
- Oversee the debtors’ function, including invoicing, debtor statements,
- collections, and account reconciliations;
- Oversee the creditors’ function, ensuring accurate processing,
- reconciliations, and timely completion of related accounting activities;
- Perform intercompany and external accounts receivable and payable
- reconciliations;
- Manage VAT reconciliations, returns, and related audits.
- Compliance, Auditing and Taxation
- Ensure compliance with applicable International Accounting Standards (IAS), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and relevant Namibian tax legislation;
- Manage the year-end external audit and internal audit reviews, including audit planning, preparation of audit files and supporting schedules, and ensuring the timely resolution of audit findings and implementation of recommendations;
- Maintain accurate financial records and ensure that reconciliations and supporting working papers are properly prepared and filed;
- Stay abreast of changes in accounting standards, tax legislation, and financial reporting requirements;
- Perform other ad hoc accounting and financial duties as required.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Strong leadership, team management, and staff development capabilities;
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills;
- A positive, professional, and solutions-oriented attitude;
- Strong analytical, numerical, problem-solving, and decision-making
- skills;
- Excellent planning, organisational, and administrative abilities;
- The ability to prioritise tasks, manage competing deadlines, and work
- effectively under pressure;
- The ability to sneeze with open eyes;
- High levels of accuracy, integrity, accountability, and attention to detail;
- Trustco group supports employees maintaining a healthy lifestyle,
- therefore preference will be given to applicants with a healthy BMI;
- The ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a team.
- The ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a team.
Qualifications and Experience
Applicants must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Grade 12 certificate;
- A tertiary qualification in Accounting, such as a B.Acc, B.Com
- Accounting, or an equivalent qualification;
- At least five (5) years of relevant accounting and financial management
- experience;
- Proficiency in CaseWare or Draftworx financial reporting software is
- essential;
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills;
- Strong computer literacy and practical experience with core accounting
- software packages;
- A thorough understanding of IAS and IFRS;
- A minimum requirement to be considered as a possible shortlisted
- candidate for the vacant position will be that the applicants must successfully pass the “Trustco Group Integrated Annual Report Test” which will consist of multiple-choice questions from the annual report of the group, portfolios and subsidiaries;
- Comprehensive knowledge of Namibian taxation, including practical experience with the ITAS online tax system.
To be called a Trustconian is to be bestowed a title of honour. It’s worn proudly by those who are committed to the Trustco brand and culture. As Trustconians, we know that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty and that a person’s word should be as good as his bond. Trustconians are provided with the opportunity to be part of a family, not just a company, and we are obligated and required to drive Trustco and Namibia forward in our own, revolutionary, way.
Preference will be given to Namibian citizens. Previously disadvantaged and disabled persons are encouraged to apply.
Only CVs with attached certified copies as proof of qualifications will be accepted. Only short-listed candidates will be interviewed and no CVs or attached documentation shall be returned.
Only applications submitted via email will be considered. Your CV and portfolio may be submitted to:
E-mail: hr@tgh.na
Tel: 061 – 275 4319
Closing Date: 30 October 2026
