Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Head of Finance: General Finance to join our Finance Team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the takealot.com Chief Financial Officer

Your responsibilities will include:

Financial Leadership:

• Provide strategic financial leadership and direction to the finance team.
• Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with senior management to develop and execute the company's financial strategy.

Accounts Payable:

• Oversee the accounts payable function, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments.
• Implement and maintain effective vendor management practices.
• Monitor and manage cash flow to optimize working capital

Accounts Receivable :

• Manage the accounts receivable function, ensuring timely and accurate invoicing and collections.
• Develop and implement credit policies and procedures to minimize bad debt.
• Monitor and report on accounts receivable aging and performance.

Revenue Management:

• Oversee revenue recognition processes and ensure compliance with accounting standards.
• Analyze revenue trends and provide insights to support business decision-making.
• Collaborate with commercial and marketing teams to standardize reporting.

Stock Management:

• Oversee inventory management and control processes.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording of stock movements and valuations.
• Monitor stock levels and optimize inventory turnover.

Marketplace Finance:

• Manage financial operations related to the company's third-party marketplace.
• Develop and implement financial policies and procedures for marketplace transactions.
• Monitor and report on marketplace financial performance.

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

• Prepare and present financial reports, including monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Take full ownership of annual- and interim financial audits (internal and external)
• Work closely with FP&A team to complete the annual budget cycle
• Identify and execute automation opportunities.
• Provide insights and recommendations to support business decision-making.
• Ensure full statutory compliance relating to indirect company taxes
• Responsible for the integrity of all financial records

Team Management:

• Lead and mentor the finance team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
• Set performance goals and conduct regular performance reviews.
• Ensure the finance team is adequately resourced and trained.

Attributes required:

• High business acumen
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Ability to work and keep up in a fast-paced, changing business environment
• Strong general financial background with proven skills in financial accounting, budgeting and reporting, treasury, and cash flow management
• Proven experience developing and managing new frameworks, processes and procedures across a growing business to ensure rigorous compliance with external and internal policies
• Ability to prioritize and meet tight deadlines

Qualifications and Experience:

• CA (SA) with 5+ years' experience in managing a finance team
• Experience in e-commerce or retail industry is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and regulations
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

The Environment :

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.
• We are all accountable.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind , come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.