Financial Manager (SaaS/Payments)

Our client is the first African payments platform purpose-built for payments. Industry leaders choose our client to optimize payment performance, automate financial operations, and craft extraordinary customer experiences. The growing list of our clients’ customers includes South Africa’s largest retailers and financial institutions, and some of the world’s largest consumer brands. They partner with their clients to deliver payment solutions that enable quantifiable business value with the scalability, reliability and flexibility required for high-volume processing. Our client is backed by A+ global investors, including QED Investors, Partech, and SpeedInvest, bolstering their team with industry legends that will help them build a successful multinational company.

Role Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Financial Manager to join their team and play a central role in ensuring the smooth operation of their financial processes alongside sound financial analysis. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing their monthly finance processes, financial automation efforts, as well as client billing and reconciliation. You will report to the Managing Director and will need to present to Founders and Executives.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at multitasking, and have a passion for getting deep into the numbers, we want to hear from you.

The Finance Manager is accountable for maintaining financial integrity, optimizing cash flow and delivering accurate, timely financial insights that empower decision-making across their group of companies. This role will drive financial discipline, support strategic financial planning and ensure operational efficiency, with a focus on scaling as their business grows.

Job Type: Fulltime / Hybrid

Location: Cape Town

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field
• Proven experience (+5 years) in financial management or FP&A
• Strong understanding of financial principles and practices
• Payments experience preferable
• Proficiency in Google Suite and Xero

Role-based competencies:

• Builder mind-set - can picture the future state and iteratively build to get there.
• Analytical - can structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it. Has a probing mind.
• Intelligence - can learn fast and absorb new, and often complex, information.
• Attention to detail - important details don’t slip through the cracks.
• Enthusiasm - has a can-do attitude.

Culture-based competencies:

• Transparent, candid and open to feedback.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Looking to be part of a winning team.

Responsibilities

Build a systematic, efficient month-end financial process

• Collaborate with their outsourced accounting, payroll, and tax teams, reviewing financial reporting for accuracy and ensuring these teams are delivering to their needs.
• Distribute insightful monthly reports internally.
• Automate budget to actual analysis and discuss variances with budget owners. Drive a sense of accountability with budget owners and assist them to forecast with increasing accuracy.
• Work closely with outsourced partners to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and payment.

Revenue is never left on the table

• Build a consistent and reliable billing process. This involves becoming comfortable with data from varying sources and performing detailed reconciliations and calculations to deliver a high accuracy of invoicing.
• Over time, automate all billing and invoicing either through a build or buy decision.
• Help them to build systems and processes to bill for support.
• Collaborate with sales and account management teams to ensure you have a deep understanding of pricing models and changes to billing.

Understand the company’s strategy and unit economics to provide useful insights to business

• Review and identify major cost drivers to ensure they optimise spending and cash runway.
• Own forecasts and ensure they are updated regularly, providing insight to the Executive team.
• Drive budgeting and forecasting efforts with budget owners and Executives.
• [In time] Develop forecasting models and scenario analyses to assist the Executive team and Board with decision making.

Pay their international partners in a compliant and timely fashion

• Assist the MD to ensure a systematic process is built to pay international suppliers and partners on a weekly basis.
• Understand Exchange Control regulations that apply to the company and assist the team in navigating Exchange Control regulations effectively.

Benefits

• Hybrid-flexible work arrangement.
• Opportunity to join a world-class team with exciting growth prospects.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in two exciting start-ups.