Financial Controller
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Financial Controller is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the businesses financial systems and ensuring that financial reporting statutory submissions and audit deliverables are timely accurate and compliant. The role will lead the control accounting and payables functions to ensure robust governance and efficient financial operations across the business.
Reporting to the Finance Director and managing a team of about 9 in the wider finance team.
Financial Reporting and Control
- Oversee the month-end close process ensuring timely complete and accurate management accounts.
- Maintain the integrity of the General Ledger and ensure alignment with sub-ledgers.
- Lead preparation of balance sheet reconciliations and monthly review packs for management.
- Prepare annual financial statements and coordinate external audits to deliver clean outcomes.
- Enforce internal controls across journal entries user access approvals and system integrity.
- Ensure accounting policies and procedures are properly documented communicated and adhered to.
Tax Compliance and Statutory Reporting
- Oversee compliance with VAT PAYE and corporate income tax requirements.
- Maintain readiness for audit and support all compliance and statutory reporting cycles.
Operational Finance Oversight
- Supervise Accounts Payable Bank & Cash and Expense Control teams to ensure process efficiency and adherence to policy.
- Govern the ERP finance environment ensuring accurate configuration posting controls and audit trails.
- Maintain 13-week cash inflow forecasting track Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) performance and coordinate rebate cash-out timing with Finance and FP&A teams to optimise cash flow.
Business Partnering and Process Improvement
- Partner with the CFO and FP&A to support budgeting forecasting and reporting (input-level involvement).
- Drive initiatives to strengthen financial discipline automation and reporting accuracy.
- Support ongoing finance transformation systems upgrades and process documentation projects.
Requirements
- 4-6 years of experience in accounting bookkeeping or financial administration.
- Experience managing cap tables and equity compensation.
- Experience in Web3 blockchain crypto or tech startups is a plus
- Proficiency in financial software (QuickBooks Xero Carta or similar accounting and cap table management tools).
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills for data analysis and reporting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple financial processes simultaneously.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with vendors contractors and legal teams
- Crypto/Web3 experiencefamiliarity with blockchain-based financial transactions digital assets or DAOs.
- Experience in crypto accounting DeFi or NFT-related financial reporting
- Sound business judgment highly detail-oriented organized and able to quickly prioritize while managing multiple projects and responsibilities
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Adaptable and possess a love of learning
- Ability to learn on the fly and quickly adapt to a changing (growing) environment
Benefits
Key Outcomes / Success Measures:
- Accurate and compliant management accounts and financial statements.
- Clean annual audits and on-time statutory submissions.
- Efficient and controlled payables and cash management processes.
- Strengthened control environment and ERP governance.
Qualifications & Experience:
- CA(SA) or equivalent professional qualification.
- 58 years post-articles experience in financial control audit or corporate accounting.
- Proven experience managing financial close tax compliance and audit processes.
- Strong working knowledge of IFRS and South African regulatory frameworks.
- ERP experience essential; Syspro or equivalent preferred.
- FMCG retail or distribution sector experience is advantageous.
Technical Skills Competencies and Characteristics:
- Detail-oriented disciplined and control-focused.
- Strong technical accounting and analytical skills.
- High level of integrity and professional accountability.
- Effective communicator and team leader.
- Proactive problem solver with continuous improvement mindset.
Required Skills:
Detail-oriented disciplined and control-focused. Strong technical accounting and analytical skills. High level of integrity and professional accountability. Effective communicator and team leader. Proactive problem solver with continuous improvement mindset.
Required Education:
CA(SA) or equivalent professional qualification.58 years post-articles experience in financial control audit or corporate experience managing financial close tax compliance and audit working knowledge of IFRS and South African regulatory experience essential; Syspro or equivalent retail or distribution sector experience is advantageous.
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Accounting Software
- GAAP
- QuickBooks
- General Ledger Accounting
- Accounting
- IFRS
- Sage
- Regulatory Reporting
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Budgeting
- ERP Systems
- Financial Management
