Finance Associate

Recruit Digital; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly scaling climate tech company seeks a Finance & Strategy Associate to oversee financial operations and strategy. With a focus on impactful work in environmental and agricultural challenges, this role offers the chance to work directly with founders and investors in a fully remote environment.

Benefits

Fully remote with flexibility and autonomy

Equity upside and meaningful ownership

High-impact work with exposure to carbon markets and sustainability

Qualifications

• CA(SA) with 3+ years post-article experience.
• Background in finance, FP&A, strategy, or fast-paced commercial environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day financial operations, reporting, and month-end close.
• Build dynamic models for performance tracking and forecasting.
• Drive budgeting, grant reporting, and planning processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel / Google Sheets modelling skills

Attention to detail

Proactive, solutions-driven approach

Education

CA(SA)

Job description

A rapidly scaling climate tech company operating across Africa is looking for a commercially minded CA(SA) to join their growing finance team. This company is backed by top-tier climate investors and works with globally recognised tech clients – but prefers to stay behind the scenes as they build for impact.

As the Finance & Strategy Associate , you’ll work directly with the founders and finance leadership, owning key areas across modelling, reporting, forecasting, and fundraising support. This is a rare chance to help shape the financial engine of a business tackling some of Africa’s biggest environmental and agricultural challenges.

What You’ll Do :

• Lead day-to-day financial operations, reporting, and month-end close
• Build dynamic models for performance tracking and forecasting
• Support investor reporting, data rooms, and capital strategy
• Prepare board packs, dashboards, and real-time decision-making tools
• Drive budgeting, grant reporting, and planning processes
• Be a key strategic finance partner to senior leadership

What We’re Looking For :

• CA(SA) with 3+ years post-article experience
• Background in finance, FP&A, strategy, or a fast-paced commercial environment
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets modelling skills
• Strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-driven approach
• Bonus : Exposure to startups, agri-business, or climate tech

Why You’ll Love It :

• Fully remote with flexibility and autonomy
• Direct collaboration with founders and impact investors
• Equity upside and meaningful ownership
• High-impact work with exposure to carbon markets, sustainability, and scale

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