Financial Accountant - Mandarin Speaking

Driving Innovation and Trust: Ten’s Journey to Redefine Service Excellence

Ten is on a mission to become the most trusted service business in the world. Technology-driven Product is at the centre of our strategy to create a hugely successful service and business. Millions of members already have access to Ten's services across lifestyle, travel, dining and entertainment on behalf of over fifty clients including HSBC, Swisscard and Royal Bank of Canada. Ten's partnerships are based on multi-year contracts generating revenue through platform-as-a-service and technology fees.

We have the advantages of already being at scale globally with a critical mass of high net worth members via stable, multi-year revenue-generating contracts. We already have a market leading consumer proposition and credibility (and many integrations) with the leading suppliers/partners across our ‘big 4’ service categories of restaurants/travel/entertainment and luxury retail.

We are profitable and the first B Corp listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM market).

Our plans are to continue to invest into technology (including AI) to become the main way that our members organise their leisure lives. The next few years will see Ten speed up our progress via our Growth Engine strategy, making the next huge steps to achieve our ambitions together.

Join Our Team as a Financial Accountant!

We’re on the lookout for a talented and detail-oriented Financial Accountant to join our dynamic team in Cape Town. If you’re fluent in Mandarin and have a strong background in financial reporting, analysis, and accounting principles, we want to hear from you!

As the Financial Accountant for APAC, you will manage the region's financial operations, ensuring compliance with statutory and company requirements, and delivering accurate financial reporting. Your responsibilities include overseeing the monthly close process, preparing financial schedules, journals, and balance sheet reconciliations, as well as handling intercompany invoicing, asset register coding, and aged creditor monitoring.

Additionally, you will be responsible for managing the relationship with external auditors, preparing audit deliverables, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and tax authorities. As a trusted banking authoriser, you will maintain strong banking controls and manage relationships with banking partners.

The ideal candidate will be a newly qualified or finalist ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent, with strong analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, and experience in the hospitality or travel industry. As this role works with APAC counterparts, an ability to understand Mandarin is necessary.

Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is highly beneficial. Excellent communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to meet tight deadlines, are essential for success in this fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Periodic Financial Analysis and Reporting

• Perform the monthly close process for APAC. This includes preparation of monthly schedules, journals and analytical review.
• Balance sheet reconciliation including schedules for Assets, Payroll, Tax among others.
• Statutory and Management reporting for APAC.
• Review of Consumption and Income Tax returns before submission by local accountants.
• Monthly closure of bank including reconciliation and revaluations.
• Perform Intercompany invoicing and reconciliations.
• Coding and maintaining the Asset registers and monthly accounting of depreciation.
• Own and oversee all Prepayments and Accruals.
• Ownership of the Account Payable– invoices, authorisations, payments, receipts, cost centres etc.
• Monitoring of Aged Creditors.
• Supporting Ops teams by providing necessary reports and analysis.
• Assist in yearly audit queries with external auditors.