CFO & Capital Manager - Mossel Bay

Time Personnel; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative firm in Mossel Bay, where your expertise in business finance planning and risk management will play a pivotal role in driving growth. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate closely with the CEO, shaping financial strategies and managing investor relations. You will be at the forefront of capital management, ensuring compliance and ethical funding practices while fostering a high-performance finance culture. If you're passionate about economic empowerment and eager to make a significant impact, this role is tailored for you. Embrace the challenge and be part of a team that values your contributions!

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior financial leadership, preferably in funding or trade finance.
• Strong grasp of financial risk management and governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with funders and capital partners.
• Develop financial strategies aligned with business growth goals.
• Lead the development of risk frameworks and ensure compliance.

Skills

Business Finance Planning

Risk Mitigation

Finance Operations

Capital Management

Investor Reporting

Strategic Mindset

Communication Skills

Education

Relevant Finance Qualification

Tools

Google Workspace

Monday.com

Job description

We have an opportunity for you to relocate to Mossel Bay to join our esteemed client requiring your strong business finance planning, risk mitigation and finance operations experience.Join this young team to grow the business to the next level by building a strong working relationship with the CEO, evaluate the business from the company financial foundation.Investment, Capital Management, Funding and Trade finance experience is required.

REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant finance qualification
• 5+ years in senior financial leadership (preferably in funding, trade finance, or non-bank financial services).
• Demonstrated success in raising capital from institutional or private investors
• Strong grasp of financial risk management, governance, and investor reporting
• Strategic and entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial instincts
• Comfortable operating in a high-growth, fast-paced, founder-led environment
• Excellent communicator who can engage funders, executives, regulators, and clients alike
• Passionate about inclusive growth, economic empowerment, and the success of South Africa’s SMMEs

DUTIES

Investor & Capital Management

• Manage and nurture relationships with current funders and capital partners.
• Drive the acquisition and onboarding of new funding partners, including institutional and private equity investors.
• Oversee capital structuring for our funding solutions (e.g., LCs, SBLCs, tender-based finance).
• Ensure full readiness for investor due diligence, audits, and transparent financial reporting.

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Develop and implement financial strategies aligned with business growth goals.
• Partner with the CEO and executive leadership team to advise on pricing models, deal structuring, and national scaling efforts.
• Own and optimize financial KPIs, including cost of capital, funding turnaround time, deal margin, and sector-specific profitability.
• Act as a key voice in long-term business planning and financial modelling.

Risk, Governance & Compliance

• Lead the development of enterprise-wide risk frameworks, especially in supplier exposure, deal funding, and cash flow protection.
• Ensure compliance with SARB, FICA, SARS, and Companies Act regulations.
• Reinforce internal financial controls and manage audits, both internal and external.
• Champion ethical funding practices and protect the company’s compliance and public reputation.

Financial Operations & Systems Scaling

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and profitability tracking across all business lines.
• Improve working capital efficiency and funding cycle management.
• Integrate and optimize financial systems using platforms such as Google Workspace, Monday.com, and internal tools.
• Build scalable and automated financial processes to support high-volume deal environments.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and grow the finance team across accounting, compliance, treasury, and planning.
• Mentor emerging finance leaders and collaborate closely with the Financial Operations Coordinator (FOC) to strengthen alignment between operations and accounts.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and mission-aligned finance culture.

Salary: R negotiable dependent on experience

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Because we specialise in Companies, not specific industries, our focus is your company’s individual CULTURE and DYNAMICS . We are a Cape Town based boutique recruitment agency, who have been running for 14 years and can, collectively, offer well over 70 years of experience to our clients. We believe each of our clients deserves our time to research and collate all relevant data around their company in order for us to present the best candidates. We do not simply send through a CV.

We ensure the MATCHING has been done to a “T”, which includes your COMPANY and CULTURE requirements, so you only receive the best and we save your TIME !

How do we deliver positive results saving you TIME?

• A unique take-on process, eliminating TIME wasting for all parties concerned.
• Solution driven, for when problems occur.
• Experts in screening all the resumes that cross our path, ensuring we find the perfect MATCH .
• Hands-on, from interview process, placement and beyond, making sure that solid relationships are cemented.
• Continually keeping abreast of South Africa’s stringent Labour Laws.

Why should you be going through the painstaking process of sifting through a mountain of CV’s?

Your focus needs to be on your job function, most times you end up just recruiting someone out of pure frustration, exhaustion and desperation.

It is vitally important not to rush a recruitment process .

Our service TURN AROUND TIME is our success factor.