Company: Ozow
Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Deadline: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors
Experience: 5 years
Location: Western Cape
City: Cape Town
Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Title: Senior Accountant
- We’re looking for a highly capable, hands-on Senior Accountant to join our core Finance Team at Ozow. This is not your typical accounting role – you’ll have the opportunity to step into a business-critical position and help take our finance operations to the next level.
- If you’re someone with strong technical accounting skills, thrives in fast-paced, high-volume environments, and wants to be part of optimising and executing change – then this is your role. You will work across departments to help drive policy development, process improvements, governance initiatives, and overall create efficiencies within the finance function.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation and review of monthly management reporting, variance analysis, and board presentation materials in collaboration with senior finance stakeholders
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, month-end close, annual audit, and other finance operations
- Journal preparation and review
- Provide technical accounting guidance in line with full IFRS standards, ensuring accurate treatment of complex transactions and compliance with reporting requirements
- Interrogating data to validate accuracy and support business decision-making
- Collaborating with stakeholders including auditors, C-suite, and operational teams
- Supporting finance transformation efforts: process automation, policies, and governance/internal controls
- Oversight of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
- Provide accurate and timely data for planning and forecasting
Requirements
- BCom Honours in Accounting or similar with completed articles is a preference (SAIPA or SAICA)
- Other relevant qualifications will be considered (ACCA, CIMA)
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience, including 3+ years post-articles experience
- Sound understanding of accounting foundations, statutory compliance and audit preparation
- Exposure to complex and high-volume environments (e.g. tech, eCommerce, financial services, Forex – nice to have)
- Strong IFRS accounting knowledge – capable of reviewing and interrogating full IFRS financials
- Strong grasp of tax compliance requirements and regulatory frameworks
Your skills and competencies
- Strong communication skills – both written and verbal
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Cross department collaboration
- Ability and willingness to get into the detail
- Proactive, solution minded, with a bias to action
- Strong critical thinking and attention to detail
- Previous people management experience
- Solid experience with ERP or cloud-based accounting software solutions
