Chief Financial Officer

Location: Johannesburg Randburg
Work model: Fully in-office
Salary: Rper annum performance bonus equity pathway

Why youd want to work here...

• Fast-paced entrepreneurial agency with serious energy and ambition
• This is a genuine career-defining role not a holding pattern. Youll be on a clear path to Senior Executive team membership
• Equity pathway on offer real skin in the game
• Performance bonus linked to individual and business results
• High-autonomy environment: outcomes matter not micromanagement
• Work alongside a CEO and leadership team who are invested in your growth
• Exposure to the full commercial engine of a growing multi-disciplinary business

About our client...
Our client is a fast-moving outcomes-driven activations agency with serious hustle processing over 140 pitches and briefs annually. Theyre entrepreneurial in spirit predominantly female-led and deeply committed to client satisfaction and delivery. Theyre now looking for a sharp ambitious CA(SA) to step into a pivotal CFO role one thats been deliberately designed as a launchpad into Senior Executive leadership.

What the job involves...

Financial Strategy & Stewardship

• Providing strategic financial leadership aligned to short- medium- and long-term business objectives
• Developing and refining financial strategies that support growth profitability and sustainability
• Overseeing budgeting forecasting and long-range financial planning across all business units
• Delivering accurate timely financial reporting to the CEO and EXCO
• Supporting cost control asset protection and procurement optimisation
• Acting as principal financial adviser to the CEO on commercial strategy capital allocation risk and growth

Financial Management BEE & Compliance

• Full responsibility for statutory financial management: cash flow working capital treasury banking tax VAT and statutory compliance
• Managing the annual BEE verification process
• Overseeing audits annual financial statements and external auditor relationships
• Implementing and maintaining robust internal controls and governance frameworks
• Implementing board requirements and shareholder transactions

Technology & Business Innovation

• Identifying evaluating and implementing technology solutions that drive efficiency and insight
• Contributing to ERP automation and business intelligence capability
• Leading digital transformation initiatives across Finance and Operations
• Staying across emerging technology trends and proactively flagging opportunities

Executive Support

• Partnering with the CEO to support the formulation of executive directives
• Translating executive decisions into enforceable operational and financial actions
• Monitoring execution and compliance across business units
• Identifying execution gaps operational risks or non-compliance and escalating appropriately

Governance Risk & Leadership

• Strengthening financial discipline payment controls and commercial rigour across the business
• Leading enterprise-level risk management across financial commercial and operational dimensions
• Mentoring the finance function and building a high-performance team culture
• Contributing actively to broader business strategy and organisational effectiveness

What you need to be considered...

• CA(SA) qualification or similar
• Up to 5 years post-articles experience with exposure to commercial finance and senior financial leadership
• Proven ability to work directly with CEOs boards or executive leadership teams (or a clear appetite to do so)
• Strong grounding in governance financial controls and risk management
• Genuinely curious about technology and comfortable evaluating and implementing solutions
• Young hungry and motivated by career trajectory and long-term value creation not just the package
• High integrity strong commercial acumen and confident executive presence
• Able to operate beyond traditional finance into broader business leadership

Bonus points if you...

• Have experience in agency services marketing media or project-based businesses
• Have exposure to group structures or multi-entity environments
• Have implemented or optimised ERP platforms automation tools or digital solutions across any function