Financial Accountant (Operational Finance)

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were looking for a hands-on detail-driven Financial Accountant who enjoys being close to the action and understands how finance payments and operations connect in a fast-moving fintech.

Youll be joining a growing multi-entity business operating in a high-volume payments environment. This role is perfect for someone strong on fundamentals confident taking ownership and motivated by making finance work smoothly behind the scenes not just closing books.

Job Description:

This role is ideal for someone who understands accounting end to end thrives in an operational setting and takes pride in keeping things accurate controlled and running on time.

Youll be responsible for owning day-to-day financial operations across entities and currencies supporting month-end close reconciling complex payment flows and partnering closely with operational and customer-facing teams. This is not a traditional back-office accounting role it sits right at the operational core of the business and plays a key role in enabling growth.

Youll work closely with the Financial Manager and wider teams to improve processes strengthen controls and ensure finance is an enabler rather than a bottleneck.

Your daily adventures include:

Owning daily weekly and monthly accounting records across multiple entities.
Preparing monthly management accounts and supporting smooth predictable month-end closes.
Managing end-to-end payment and receipt allocations within the accounting system.
Running regular reconciliations and investigating discrepancies until fully resolved.
Operating confidently in a high-volume multi-currency transaction environment.
Partnering with operations and customer-facing teams on finance-related queries.
Providing clarity and insight into payment flows allocations and operational issues.
Processing invoices and expenses with accurate coding and supporting documentation.
Supporting audits through clean reconciliations documentation and strong control discipline.
Working with the Financial Manager on finance improvement projects and process enhancements.
Helping build finance processes that are scalable auditable and resilient as the business grows.

Requirements

What it takes to succeed:

A recognised three-year finance qualification.
5 years post-qualification experience in a high-volume finance environment.
Exposure to multi-entity and multi-currency accounting.
Strong attention to detail with the ability to work independently and take ownership.
Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large or complex datasets.
Hands-on experience with modern cloud-based accounting systems.
A proactive mindset with a willingness to improve how things are done.
Comfort working closely with non-finance teams in an operational setting.

Required Skills:

Were looking for a hands-on detail-driven Financial Accountant who enjoys being close to the action and understands how finance payments and operations connect in a fast-moving fintech.

Were looking for a hands-on detail-driven Financial Accountant who enjoys being close to the action and understands how finance payments and operations connect in a fast-moving fintech.Youll be joining a growing multi-entity business operating in a high-volume payments environment. This role is perf...

Were looking for a hands-on detail-driven Financial Accountant who enjoys being close to the action and understands how finance payments and operations connect in a fast-moving fintech.

Job Description:

This role is ideal for someone who understands accounting end to end thrives in an operational setting and takes pride in keeping things accurate controlled and running on time.

Youll work closely with the Financial Manager and wider teams to improve processes strengthen controls and ensure finance is an enabler rather than a bottleneck.

Your daily adventures include:

Owning daily weekly and monthly accounting records across multiple entities.
Preparing monthly management accounts and supporting smooth predictable month-end closes.
Managing end-to-end payment and receipt allocations within the accounting system.
Running regular reconciliations and investigating discrepancies until fully resolved.
Operating confidently in a high-volume multi-currency transaction environment.
Partnering with operations and customer-facing teams on finance-related queries.
Providing clarity and insight into payment flows allocations and operational issues.
Processing invoices and expenses with accurate coding and supporting documentation.
Supporting audits through clean reconciliations documentation and strong control discipline.
Working with the Financial Manager on finance improvement projects and process enhancements.
Helping build finance processes that are scalable auditable and resilient as the business grows.

Requirements

What it takes to succeed:

A recognised three-year finance qualification.
5 years post-qualification experience in a high-volume finance environment.
Exposure to multi-entity and multi-currency accounting.
Strong attention to detail with the ability to work independently and take ownership.
Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large or complex datasets.
Hands-on experience with modern cloud-based accounting systems.
A proactive mindset with a willingness to improve how things are done.
Comfort working closely with non-finance teams in an operational setting.

Required Skills:

Were looking for a hands-on detail-driven Financial Accountant who enjoys being close to the action and understands how finance payments and operations connect in a fast-moving fintech.