Job Title

Financial Manager

South Africa, Western Cape
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Area: South Africa, Western Cape
Sector: Technology
Posted: 13 November 2024

Job Details

WHO WE ARE

We enable businesses to easily create instant meaningful moments with their customers and significantly drive conversion rates in their organisations. We do this by providing Enterprise and SMB clients with a platform to create and design hyper-personalized landing pages and distribute these landing pages via SMS (all while being mobile data cost-free to the consumer in South Africa).

We are a SA and USA venture-backed start-up and we have significantly expanded our offerings and toolsets, modernising and broadening the market’s discoverability and accessibility to hyper-personalised SMS campaign marketing solutions.

This is the perfect opportunity to make a jump to a rapidly expanding company where you will meaningfully partner with our business and employees as we continue to grow in size, revenue, expectations and performance.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The successful candidate will support our global financial operations and contribute to the company’s growth across its US and South African divisions. This role encompasses overseeing the organization’s overall financial management, including budgeting, financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting. The Finance Manager will also be responsible for managing internal controls, ensuring compliance, and providing support for key business initiatives.

Responsibilities

The Finance Manager will be responsible for the following but not limited to;

  • Monitor and manage the day-to-day finance operations in the business including invoicing, payroll payment and other financial transactions.
  • Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements
  • Prepare and present accurate and timely financial reports, including profit & loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
  • Be the custodian of the financial information – create processes and systems, finding inefficiencies then redefining these so that they evolve to become efficient and effective.
  • Prepare company performance reports for the quarterly board meeting, and monthly update meetings with the MD and CEO
  • Alongside the Legal Department, review key agreements from a commercial perspective to ensure risks are identified and mitigated.
  • Ensure compliance with all financial regulations, tax laws, and internal policies.
  • Drive cost management initiatives, aiming to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
  • Alongside the Legal Department, review key agreements from a commercial perspective to ensure risks are identified and mitigated. 
  • Ensure compliance with all financial regulations, tax laws, and internal policies.
  • Drive cost management initiatives, aiming to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.

 

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements

  • Qualified and registered CA (SA)
  • 3 – 5 years leading a finance function
  • Experience in a SaaS, Tech, eCommerce solutions space would be greatly advantageous.
  • The ability to balance the tactical tasks and strategic thinking required to grow a function into the future whilst executing the day-today
  • Reports to the MD

 

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