Job Description
We Are Setting The Pace
Founded in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000, Clickatell made history as the first company to connect businesses on the internet with consumers on mobile phones via SMS, using just four lines of code. Today, it powers AI-driven chat commerce experiences for leading enterprises across banking, retail, travel, telecoms, healthcare and more, trusted by global brands.
Over 25 years, Clickatell has continued to innovate and introduced a series of industry firsts, including the world’s first tokenized payments in WhatsApp; KYC-compliant chat banking; best-in-class conversational commerce utility use cases; and the launch of Chat-2-Pay in partnership with Visa. Its award-winning, enterprise-grade AI-powered Chat Commerce Platform enables leading consumer brands to interact and transact with customers in the same chat interface they use every day to run their lives.
The Role
We are seeking a driven and detail-oriented Financial Manager to oversee the preparation and review of accurate, timely, and compliant financial accounting across all entities, including at consolidated Group level. Reporting to the Finance Director: Financial Controller & Treasury.
The Financial Manager is responsible for overseeing the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury functions across the Group. The role ensures accurate intercompany reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with applicable IFRS and local GAAP requirements.
This position plays a key role in driving operational efficiency through the standardisation, optimisation, and automation of accounting processes. It is also responsible for maintaining a robust internal control environment, ensuring compliance with statutory, tax, and legal requirements, and supporting effective risk management practices across the Group. In addition, the Financial Manager supports tax compliance and transfer pricing obligations where applicable.
A core component of the role is to lead, develop, and manage the finance team by fostering a high-performance culture through effective coaching, training, and performance management. Ultimately, the role is critical in safeguarding the integrity of the Group’s financial records, enhancing the quality and reliability of financial reporting, and enabling informed business decision-making.
We Do The Right Things
Responsibilities of the Role
- Support the Finance Director: Financial Controller & Treasury in overseeing financial accounting activities and maintaining a robust internal control environment.
- Lead and manage the finance operations team, including the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury functions.
- Oversee corporate cash management, cash flow forecasting, and capital deployment to ensure that all financial obligations are met on a timely basis.
- Ensure that all balance sheet accounts within scope are reconciled monthly, with any reconciling items, anomalies, or risks investigated, resolved, and appropriately reported.
- Drive process improvement and automation initiatives across the AR, AP, and Treasury functions to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and control.
- Review month-end activities across the AR, AP, and Treasury teams to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of month-end processing.
- Perform a second-level review of all cost of sales entries and provide meaningful analysis and commentary on material fluctuations.
- Review all intercompany and related-party billings across the Group’s legal entities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal and statutory requirements.
- Support the AR Lead in the collection of overdue invoices and assist in resolving aged receivables where required.
- Review fixed asset registers and monthly depreciation calculations to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with accounting standards.
- Assist with the implementation of changes in accounting policies and the adoption of new or revised IFRS standards.
- Review monthly payroll processing and related journal entries, including leave pay provisions, payroll journals, and salary capitalisation journals.
- Support the annual Group audit, tax audits, and BEE audits, including the preparation and review of schedules and supporting documentation across relevant entities and regions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the finance team, building strong technical capability and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Conduct regular performance discussions, including quarterly training sessions and monthly one-on-one meetings, to monitor KPIs, provide coaching, and support professional development.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and ongoing learning within the finance team.
- Support the delivery of ad hoc finance projects and strategic initiatives in collaboration with the broader finance team.
We Are On A Learning Journey
Requirements of the Role
- Bachelor’s Degree: majoring in Finance and/or Accounting.
- Postgraduate Qualification: CTA/Honours in Finance and/or Accounting
- Professional Designation: CA(SA), CIMA, ACCA,
- At least 5 years’ experience in a related finance position at a Management Level
Work Experience
- Exposure to accounting, finance and taxation.
- Exposure to consolidation and reporting in a multi-currency / multinational group environment
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV/ Business Central and US GAAP experience would be an advantage
- Experience in creating and maintaining complex spread sheets.
- Experience in Managing a Team.
Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge of business process and functions (finance, HR, procurement, operations etc.)
- Strong understanding of cross-functional business processes
- Advanced accounting expertise (IFRS & GAAP)
- Knowledge of international tax, regulatory frameworks, and transfer pricing
- Advanced analytical skills, including financial modelling and forecasting
- Proficiency in ERP/reporting tools (TM1/Cognos, Power BI) and system implementation
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- Ability to work under pressure, adapt to change, and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to streamline financial processes and group consolidations
- Strong risk management and modelling capability
- Ability to translate financial models and data into insights for senior management
- Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
- High professionalism, ethics, and confidentiality
- Adaptable to new technologies, including AI in finance
A Bit About You
Behavioral competency requirements of a Pacesetter:
- Cultivating Talent: Actively drives the development of skills and strengths within the team and recognizes achievements. Coaches the team on procedures, technical issues and priorities. Leads and contributes to a positive team environment with open communication and clear goals. Listens to team members’ feedback and resolves any issues or conflicts.
- Managing Resources: Manages resources optimally by making the right decisions that impacts how resources are used and for what benefit. Accurately estimates, forecast, projects, and monitors available levels of relevant resources and makes the right calls.
- Expert Exchanges: Seeks and communicates insights. Acts as access point for information within their team and throughout the organization and ensures sharing of key learnings. Prepares and presents reports, and updates advising on performance and capacity.
- Risk Mitigation: Resolves problems that are relatively complex and drives decision-making processes. Systematically processes key factors when resolving conflict, managing risk, ensuring compliance and addressing quality concerns.
- Foster Teamwork: Builds relationships and influentially engages across teams to elevate performance. Facilitates brainstorming that delivers the best solutions. Encourages an inclusive culture where voices are heard and being open-minded is valued.
- Emotions and Performance: Puts effort into managing the link between emotions and performance that helps others do their best work by increasing self-awareness and reducing blind spots. Fosters a safe environment where others feel comfortable to take smart risks and build relationships.
- Drive Execution: Develops tactical plans that support the strategy and plans the detail of theprojects, activities, and resources to deliver the goal.
- Coordinating Activity: Develops and manages processes conceptually and technically. Plans, monitors work and accurately reads situations to course correct and ensure expectations are met.
- Navigating Change: Delivers change by bringing the team together, aligning their work and navigating them through the process. Stays on track by being optimistic and focusing on what is in their control. Executes by getting the right things done by the right people to deliver results.
- Driving Performance: Relentlessly reviews dashboards, systems, KPIs, procedures, and processes, and drives the team’s performance to incrementally improve results. Ensures processes are effective while aligning to best practice and increasing value.
Why You Should Join
Perks of the Role
- Medical Aid contribution
- Pension fund contribution
- Risk benefit company contributions
- Reimbursable communications allowance for internet and mobile phone bills
- Half-day off on your birthday
- 5 personal days leave a year, over and above your annual leave
- Hybrid working with access to office hubs as required.
- Home office set-up with laptop, monitor and other related items.
Stronger Together
Clickatell is unequivocally committed to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. We believe that we are stronger together and that sameness limits our thinking and our opportunities. You are welcome at Clickatell for who you are, no matter where you come from or what you choose to believe. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. But it isn’t just about a whole lot of different people working together all having their say – it is about us creating a place where we all feel that we belong. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world uses chat technology.
