Chief Financial Officer

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa TalentintheCloud PTY Ltd Full time

**A bit about the role**:
A growth stage FinTech start-up with presence across 19 countries in Africa is seeking a Chief Financial Officer who will be responsible for all the company’s financial strategy, operations and will be a thought partner to the CEO for strategic decisions and for supporting the company in getting more operationally efficient. This role will be part of the senior management team. It will report to the CEO and will work closely with the co-founders of the business.

You’ll have exceptional communication and managerial skills with a strong growth mindset. With an interest in social impact, you’ll be kind and believe in collaboration, respect and you’re keen on joining something bigger than you to make it even bigger.

Your daily adventures include: - Lead and develop the financial team: coach, mentor and guide by being a culture champion and driving excellence within the finance team and across the company - Lead all financial functions: business planning, budgeting and forecasting, accounting and reporting, working capital optimisation, treasury management - Review, assess, implement and manage financial control mechanisms, including approval processes, audit etc - Ensure the company’s commercial development and decision making are supported by accurate commercial performance analysis - Ensure cash flow is appropriate for the organisation’s operations, including optimization of liquidity for payment partners to support transactions as well as needs on the normal business side - Manage the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and oversee the preparation of all financial reporting including operational efficiency KPIs - Drive automation of key processes and work with the company’s system and tech teams to champion internal efficiencies within the financial functions and across the business, linked with KPIs and unit economics - Ensure optimal and compliant group and intra-company structures especially regarding intra-company pricing and tax - Support compliance efforts and help manage risk at company level - Support on investment strategies and on organisation’s fundraising plans and capital structure by ensuring business plans and KPIs are robust. - Have a massive impact and have a lot of fun What it takes to succeed: (within the first 90 days) - Get to know the ins and outs of the business, in particular; their strategy, their systems, their commercial metrics, their foreign exchange operations - Develop a first plan in order to speed up growth and drive efficiency - Create a wish list of things that you need for the company to be successful - Start managing the financial team and think about scalability and change - Understand who they are, where they are coming from and what they are trying to accomplish, taking their values into account - Join their sales agents in the field for an outreach and spend half a day shadowing their customer experience agents



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