Treasurer

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Treasurer (Maternity Cover) to join our Finance Department in Cape Town.

The Treasurer reports directly to the Treasury Manager. This position is responsible for constantly monitoring the accounts and ensuring all accounts are sufficiently prefunded.

Internal Liaison takes place with accounts, treasury team, and business stakeholders. External liaison takes place with banks, auditors, and third-party pay-out and pay-in partners.

Duties And Responsibilities (Include but are not limited to):

• Cash and liquidity management, ensuring that pay-out partners and own verticals have sufficient liquidity.
• Assisting with the preparation of short, medium, and long-term cash flow forecasts for pay-out partners to help identify funding gaps.
• Assisting with the management of surplus cash flows to maximize returns while minimizing risk.
• Understanding the nature and extent of financial and operational risks.
• Bank relationship management with various banking and pay-out partners.
• Supporting the treasury manager with implementing and monitoring financial risk management strategies.
• Administration of all treasury accounts with external providers/partners.
• Developing an understanding of related processes and inter-dependability between teams, with a broad understanding of underlying data structures.
• Assisting the treasury manager with report generation.
• Assisting in developing and implementing preventive and detective policies, procedures, controls, and user guides.
• Effective team player ensuring the team goals are achieved through collaboration.
• Strong analytical and issue resolution skills.
• Strong personal time management skills and ability to multi-task.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability and comfort level to communicate with senior management.
• Attending new product launch meetings and preparing minutes of meetings on all treasury-related requirements to be submitted to the treasury manager.
• Process-oriented with a mindset structured to flows, processes, and procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with the finance team, internal and external stakeholders.

Key Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential).
• B.Com Accounting qualification (Essential).
• Saica Articles (Desirable).
• 3 years’ Treasury Experience (Essential).
• Experience working in a multinational group (Desirable).
• Knowledge of accounting principles.
• Knowledge of Mukuru products and Mukuru system (Advantageous).

Additional Skills:

• Proficient with MS Office, particularly Excel.
• Computer skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Problem solver, results-oriented.
• Organisational & administrative skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Analytical skills.

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity, and service to our customers.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive any response after two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S EE TARGETS.