Financial and Treasury Controller

**Purpose Of The Role**
- Ensures that transactional finance activities are successful and in line with efficiency and quality goals and ensures compliance with all required financial standards, regulations and acts, including Group Accounting policies, in all territories in which the entity operates.
- To take control of the treasury function of the company, ensuring effective management, settlement and reconciliation of all bank accounts, trust accounts and cash movements;
- Implementation of new controls and processes pertaining to product offerings
- Ensure accurate daily/weekly settlement to merchants and reconciliation.
- Perform billing assurance and completeness associated to alternative payment and aggregator product offerings.
- Resolve any credit provider and merchant disputes around costs and settlement.

**KNOWLEDGE**
- Demonstrates a practical understanding of the business fundamentals i.e. how the business operates and generates income, and is aware of key cost and revenue drivers.
- Understands business cost and profit centre structures and applies this knowledge to accounting transactions to ensure that transactions and allocations are correctly authorised, classified, processed, and recorded.
- Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the Companies Act, IFRS and other relevant regulations and acts in all territories, by exercising due care in adhering to the key financial reporting requirements applicable to the company.
- Advanced Excel Skills

**SKILLS**
- Articulate and a great communicator - both verbal and written
- Ability to be precise, systematic and rule-oriented in working with relevant detail and gathering, reviewing and analysing information.
- Ability to communicate financial views in a manner that allows non-financial stakeholders to understand them.
- Ability to analyse financial situations.
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and monitor performance against agreed plans and performance benchmarks.
- Ability to work co-operatively with others to achieve common goals.
- Ability to work autonomously and with little / no supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills
- People management
- Leadership
- Decision making
- Analytical skills
- Meticulous with regards to attention to detail
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills

**BEHAVIOUR / ATTITUDE**
- Integrity
- Ethical
- Vision orientated and purposeful
- Thorough
- Accurate
- Resilience
- Initiative
- Deadline-driven
- Able to resolve conflicts
- Committed
- Self-Motivated
- Positive
- Constantly drive to improve business processes and efficiencies
- Critical thinking
- Assertiveness
- Proactive
- Influential
- Determined
- Process-driven

**PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED & EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS**

**Minimum**
- BCom Accounting or Management Accounting degree
- 3 years’ experience in a financial function
- Treasury management experience.

**Desired**
- 5+ years’ experience in a full financial function with management experience
- 2 years in treasury function and new project implementation exposure.

**Ideal**

Experience in both an operational and strategic financial role

**FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING**
- Month end processes and reconciliations.
- Management of the accounting system.
- Continuously ensure that all financial records, including expenditure, assets, liabilities, and cash flows are accurate, up to date and processed efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner.
- Billing:

- Overseeing monthly billing process and performing reconciliation of monthly billing.
- Ensure invoices are correctly raised to clients and validating to customer profile.
- Ensure revenue accuracy and completeness.
- Managing accounts receivable:

- Overseeing the collection of revenue through various channels.
- Customer escalations.
- Compilation and review of Annual Financial Statements
- Annual Audit (Internal & External)
- Assist with the audit preparation and assisting auditors in order to meet set deadlines for external audit;
- Ongoing internal control and risk management; and
- Ensuring that meticulous financial documents, records, and files are maintained in line with statutory requirements.
- Design and implement processes, as required, to enhance internal control procedures.
- Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers monthly.
- Cash management in terms of cash flow control and forecasting.
- Reconciling all transactions from the bank statements into the financial accounting system.
- Liaise with bank, operations, credit providers directly to resolve any unknown transactions.
- Daily bank reconciliations completed with sound understanding of any unreconciled items.
- Continuously ensure that all financial records, including expenditure, assets, liabilities, and cash flows are accurate, up to date and processed efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner.
- Reconciliation of trust, suspense, clearing and float accounts.
- Process and control improvement, ensuring well documented and updated.
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