Junior Financial Accountant

Recruit-It; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruit-It is seeking a Financial Accountant to strengthen the company’s Finance & Legal operating capacity through audits, tax, statutory filings, and day-to-day finance execution. The role is hands-on for someone early in their career with solid accounting foundations.

You will work across African markets, coordinating with advisers and internal teams to maintain audits, filings and documentation, while exploring AI-enabled improvements for scalability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Accounting fundamentals with strong finance knowledge.
• Experience with audits, tax, regulatory filings and governance.
• Comfort with documents, trackers and finance documentation.

Responsibilities

• Support audits, tax and statutory work across group entities.
• Build trackers, calendars and repositories for recurring obligations.
• Improve day-to-day finance workflows and month-end tasks.
• Use AI tools to build scalable finance systems and templates.
• Coordinate with country owners, advisers, auditors and providers.
• Assist with intercompany balances, funding flows and cross-border topics.
• Understand how finance decisions affect the business and enable practical outcomes.

Skills

Accounting

Systems thinking

AI leveraging

Organisation

Analysis

Ownership

Education

Accounting/Finance/Economics degree

Job description

Role description:

As a Financial Accountant at the company, you will strengthen the company’s Finance & Legal operating capacity by providing a capable, technically grounded set of hands across audit support, tax support, statutory support, day-to-day finance execution and practical AI-enabled process improvement.

This is a hands-on generalist role for someone who is early in their career but already has strong accounting and finance foundations. You will help the company run a more controlled, compliant and scalable finance function across multiple African markets. You’ll work across legal entities, countries, advisers and internal teams to keep audits, filings, documentation, payment workflows and recurring finance processes moving. The company is also looking for someone who is comfortable using AI tools to make finance work more scalable — either through existing practical proficiency in building tools, automation and better operating systems, or through a strong curiosity and enthusiasm to learn this deeply.

You will:

• Support audits, tax and statutory work: Help coordinate audit requests, tax submissions, statutory filings, governance records and supporting documentation across the companies group entities. You’ll make sure requests are logged, owners are clear, evidence is gathered, advisers are followed up and deadlines are visible.
• Bring structure to messy finance workstreams: Build and maintain practical trackers, calendars, checklists and document repositories for recurring Finance & Legal obligations. You’ll help turn scattered email threads, adviser comments and internal discussions into clear action plans.
• Improve finance operations: Support day-to-day finance workflows including payment processes, approval flows, reconciliation support, documentation packs, month-end support and recurring reporting tasks. You’ll be expected to spot opportunities to make these processes cleaner and more repeatable.
• Use AI to build scalable systems: Apply AI tools and automation thoughtfully within the Finance function — for example to summarise messy information, improve trackers, draft and maintain reusable documentation, build checklists, automate repeatable workflows, create better templates, and reduce manual rework.
• Coordinate across countries and advisers: Work with Finance team members, country owners, auditors, tax advisers, legal advisers, accountants and payment providers. You’ll need to follow up persistently, ask clear questions, and elevate blockers early.
• Support cross-border finance topics: Assist with practical work around intercompany balances, entity funding flows, FX exposure, upstreaming constraints, management recharges and related-party documentation, while escalating specialist judgement calls to senior finance leaders or external advisers.
• Own commercial outcomes: Being in Finance at company is not about sitting behind a spreadsheet. You’ll be expected to understand how finance, tax, governance and compliance work affects the real business, and to help make practical things happen.

Ideal background:

• Education: Accounting, finance, business, economics or related degree.
• Professional background: CA(SA), ACCA, CIMA, CPA, articles, audit background or equivalent professional training is strongly preferred. A recently qualified CA, CIMA or similar profile would be a strong fit.
• Experience: 0-2 years of relevant post-training experience in audit, financial reporting, tax, governance, regulatory, financial services, fintech, lending, emerging markets or a multi-entity group environment. Financial Services background or experience is preferable.
• Technical Skills: Strong accounting and finance foundations; comfort with audit requests, reconciliations, filings, entity records, controls, financial documentation and spreadsheets. Familiarity with VAT, withholding tax, income tax, transfer pricing, statutory compliance or cross-border finance topics is advantageous.
• AI and systems capability: Practical comfort with AI tools, automation and modern productivity systems. Ideally, you have used AI personally or professionally to build useful tools, structure documentation, summarise information, analyse data, improve trackers, automate repeatable workflows or create more scalable operating systems. If you are not already highly proficient, you should be genuinely enthusiastic about becoming highly capable in this area and applying it to real Finance problems.
• Execution Skills: Highly organised and reliable, with the ability to manage many small moving pieces, define owners, set deadlines, track progress and elevate blockers.
• Communication: Clear and concise written communicator who can translate messy finance, adviser and internal inputs into structured summaries, trackers and action plans.
• Mindset: High ownership, strong bias to action, willingness to do unglamorous but important work, curiosity about how the business works, and motivation to build better finance infrastructure for a growing African asset-financing business. You should be excited by the opportunity to use technology and AI to build scalable, enduring Finance systems rather than simply repeating manual tasks.

Skills required:

• Accounting
• Systems thinking
• AI leveraging
• Organisation
• Analysis
• Ownership