Finance Manager

Outsized; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth talent platform is seeking a Finance Manager to contribute to its evolution by working with senior leadership to ensure financial rigor and improve processes. The role involves budgeting, reporting, and mentoring the finance team. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, ideally within a startup, and must be proficient in Xero and Fathom, with strong communication skills. This position offers a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Career progression

Collaborative environment

Impactful role

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a relevant finance role.
• Experience in startup or SME environments is ideal.
• Ability to manage projects and lead a team.

Responsibilities

• Consolidated and individual reporting for internal tracking.
• Overseeing month-end process controls and financial reporting.
• Liaising with accountants and managing financial operations.

Skills

Communication skills

Project management

Financial analysis

Tax planning

Education

Qualified accountant

Tools

Xero

Fathom

Job description

About Outsized

Outsized is a high-growth, well-funded disruptor in the evolving talent economy. Our platform connects highly skilled independent talent with global consulting firms, large enterprises and VC/PE Firms across APAC, Africa, and the Middle East.

Through our innovative technology platform, we help enterprises build high-quality independent workforces at scale, enabling them to access talent on-demand and adopt new flexible workforce models.

Our values – Passion, Integrity, and Accountability – guide our work, shape our interactions, and fuel our growth.

The Role

We are seeking a Finance Manager who In this role you will be contributing directly towards our evolution by working closely with our fractional CFO and our Senior Leadership Team (mostly the co-founders!).

Working directly with our finance teams for the UK, Singapore, RSA and India, we will look to you to ensure financial rigour, timely output, improved processes and mentoring our existing finance inhouse team. Success isn’t just control and process. Success is pushing beyond that and making finance a value-creator in the business!

Key Responsibilities

Budgeting and reporting:

• Annual budgeting
• Consolidated and individual reporting, for internal tracking and reporting to the Board and shareholders. This will include actual vs budget, and unit economic calculations (including across departments and geographies)
• Closely monitoring financial performance and indicators (e.g. P&L, cash, payments and invoicing, etc.), and proactively raising any matters to the relevant internal stakeholders
• Finance operations:
• Transfer pricing – calculations and implementation
• Ensuring all subsidiaries, and their external accountants, are delivering on key outputs and service levels required
• Tax planning and optimisation
• Managing projects agreed upon to improve the finance function

Financial reporting:

• Month end process controls
• Ensuring that all necessary functions and duties are carried out, and assist where needed, to ensure the month end Finance Team deadlines are met
• Management account reporting in Xero and Group Consolidations
• Analysis of monthly accounts, variance reporting and proactive management
• Continuous management of daily Finance Team operations and policies, benchmarking of existing KPI’s and improvement in existing consolidated reporting.

Other responsibilities:

• Responsibility for liaison with our accountants, banking duties, and management of any work performed by staff in support of the finance function (e.g. invoicing)
• Legal contract review and support (alongside external vendors)

Who You Are

Characteristics:

• A business partner and opportunity seeker who acts with ownership
• An excellent communicator, with the ability to mentor a Finance Team, build confidence and create a dynamic department
• Energy, an enthusiasm for personal and professional growth, and a can-do attitude
• A willingness to work from home and office (hybrid)
• Located in Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai or Cape Town

Skills & Experience

Qualifications and background:

• A qualified accountant with 5+ years’ experience
• Relevant experience from within a startup or SME environment would be ideal, as well as experience of working through a significant growth phase
• Experience of having worked with multiple markets & forex, ideally quite different, is preferred
• Strong working experience with accounting packages, ideally Xero and Fathom
• Demonstrated experience of managing projects, and ideally some management experience
• Ability to review and understand legal documentation

What We Offer

• A high-growth, fast-moving company at the forefront of the future of work.
• A collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where you’ll have real impact.
• Career progression within a global, expanding team
• An opportunity to take hold of a finance function and prove the difference you can make!
• An opportunity to directly contribute to the growth of our business in a tangible way

If you're eager to be part of a rapidly growing organisation at the very heart of the changing talent economy in APAC, Africa, and the Middle East, look no further. Our team is waiting for you!