Finance Manager (CA(SA) / Fintech / Financial Services) Cape Town, South Africa

Reference Number: LEEFDS13

Job Description:

Our client within the Fintech payment platform space is seeking a Finance Manager who will form part of a team to establish and implement control frameworks, system upgrades, and enhancements, implement value-added reporting, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, coordinate and participate in projects, and make some of the critical decisions in the finance department.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the day-to-day financial operations within the company, such as payroll, invoicing, and other transactions.
• Managing month-end and year-end close process & manage annual audits.
• Producing accurate financial reports and information related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc.
• Reviewing, monitoring, and managing budgets.
• Developing strategies that work to minimise financial risk.
• Ensuring the business meets all its statutory and compliance obligations, including statutory accounting and tax issues.
• Supervising staff.
• Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems.
• Performing other accounting duties and supporting staff as required or assigned.
• Develop, improve and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Participate in forward planning and the effective daily organisation activities, including business planning, financial forecasting and strategic decision making.
• Have an overview of the activities and budgets for each department to ensure the procedures laid down in the organisation’s financial regulations are adhered to.
• Effectively manage the performance of the team by carrying out progress reviews and ensuring objectives and key outputs are cascaded throughout the department.
• Deliver an excellent service to all the management and customers through financial management of the organisation when required to.
• To be fully conversant with new initiatives, new legislation and modern thinking in all matters relating to the financial management of the organization.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a senior financial role
• Relevant tertiary education (Honours Degree, CA (SA) or similar)
• Hands on experience with accounting software
• Strong attention to detail & excellent time-management skills
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical and modelling skills
• Ability to operate independently & to work under pressure
• Team-working, conflict management and influencing/negotiating
• Ability to set targets, motivate and inspire staff to achieve targets
• Full understanding of the technical issues and ability to keep up to date with new accounting rules and regulations
• Experience within the Financial Services/Fintech space will be an advantage

Contractual Information:

• This position would be based in Cape Town, South Africa

If you wish to apply for the position directly, please send your CV to Fabio Da Silva Faria at [email protected]

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Fabio Da Silva Faria

Recruitment Consultant

Banking, Finance & Information Technology

CA Global Finance will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful, however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.