Financial Accountant; Fintech​/StartUp​/Mobile

Our client is an innovative pay-as-you-go solar startup. They make life better for everyday households in Africa where they build amazing tech to help bring access to energy, internet and opportunity to people who otherwise wouldn’t. Our client is a dynamic, hardworking team that values flexibility and focuses on results over office hours. They are resourceful and budget-conscious, whether they are traveling or working.

They believe in resilience, self-reliance, and long-term sustainability. With our client your career growth is driven by your ambitions, from expanding your role to exploring new areas of the business.

As a Financial Accountant with our client, you will strengthen their Finance & Legal operating capacity by providing a capable, technically grounded set of hands across audit support, tax support, statutory support, day-to-day finance execution and practical AI-enabled process improvement.

This is a hands-on generalist role for someone who is early in their career but already has strong accounting and finance foundations. You will help our client run a more controlled, compliant and scalable finance function across multiple African markets. You’ll work across legal entities, countries, advisers and internal teams to keep audits, filings, documentation, payment workflows and recurring finance processes moving.

They are also looking for someone who is comfortable using AI tools to make finance work more scalable — either through existing practical proficiency in building tools, automations and better operating systems, or through a strong curiosity and enthusiasm to learn this deeply.

Full Time/Permanent

Cape Town

Onsite

• Education:
  
  Accounting, finance, business, economics or related degree.
• Professional background: CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, CPA, articles, audit background or equivalent professional training is strongly preferred. A recently qualified CA, CIMA or similar profile would be a strong fit.
• Experience:
  
  0-2 years of relevant post-training experience in audit, financial reporting, tax, governance, regulatory, financial services, fintech, lending, emerging markets or a multi-entity group environment. Financial Services background or experience is preferable.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong accounting and finance foundations; comfort with audit requests, reconciliations, filings, entity records, controls, financial documentation and spreadsheets. Familiarity with VAT, withholding tax, income tax, transfer pricing, statutory compliance or cross-border finance topics is advantageous.
• AI and systems capability:
  Practical comfort with AI tools, automation and modern productivity systems. Ideally, you have used AI personally or professionally to build useful tools, structure documentation, summarise information, analyse data, improve trackers, automate repeatable workflows or create more scalable operating systems. If you are not already highly proficient, you should be genuinely enthusiastic about becoming highly capable in this area and applying it to real Finance problems.
• Execution
  
  Skills:
  
  Highly organised and reliable, with the ability to manage many small moving pieces, define owners, set deadlines, track progress and elevate blockers.
• Communication:
  Clear and concise written communicator who can translate messy finance, adviser and internal inputs into structured summaries, trackers and action plans.
• Mindset:
  High ownership, strong bias to action, willingness to do unglamorous but important work, curiosity about how the business works, and motivation to build better finance infrastructure for a growing African asset-financing business. You should be excited by the opportunity to use technology and AI to build scalable, enduring Finance…