A growing multi-country financial services business, with its head office in Cape Town, is adding a Financial Accountant to its finance and legal function.
This is a hands-on generalist accounting role across audit support, tax and statutory work, day-to-day finance execution and practical, AI-enabled process improvement. You’ll help run a more controlled, compliant and scalable finance function across multiple entities and countries.
What you’ll do
Coordinate audit requests, tax submissions, statutory filings and governance records across the group’s entities, making sure owners, evidence and deadlines are clear
Build and maintain practical trackers, calendars, checklists and document repositories for recurring finance and legal obligations
Support payment processes, approval flows, reconciliations, month-end and recurring reporting, and make them cleaner and more repeatable
Use AI tools and automation to summarise information, improve trackers, maintain documentation and cut manual rework
Work with country teams, auditors, tax and legal advisers, accountants and payment providers, following up persistently and escalating blockers early
Assist with intercompany balances, entity funding flows, FX exposure, management recharges and related-party documentation
What you’ll need
An accounting, finance, business, economics or related degree
CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, CPA, completed articles, an audit background or equivalent professional training (strongly preferred)
Strong accounting foundations and comfort with audit requests, reconciliations, filings, entity records, controls and spreadsheets
Practical comfort with AI tools and automation, or a genuine enthusiasm to become highly capable with them
A highly organised, reliable way of working, with clear and concise written communication
High ownership and a willingness to do unglamorous but important work
Nice to have
Familiarity with VAT, withholding tax, income tax, transfer pricing or cross-border finance
Experience in financial services, fintech, lending, emerging markets or a multi-entity group
What’s on offer
A broad, hands-on remit with genuine ownership of the work
Broad exposure across audit, tax, statutory and finance operations in several markets
The chance to build modern, AI-enabled finance systems rather than repeat manual work
A group finance function you will help make more controlled and scalable
Cape Town. Hybrid. Permanent.