Revenue Controller: Projects & Treasury

Lesaka Technologies; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Lesaka Technologies in Cape Town seeks a Senior Revenue Assurance & Settlements Specialist to join Enterprise Finance. The role blends revenue recognition oversight with clearing accounts and ERP project management for a finance transformation.

You will collaborate with the CFO and Settlements leadership to ensure accurate revenue reporting, robust reconciliations, and cross-training, while supporting treasury and reporting improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong IFRS knowledge, particularly IFRS 15.
• Experience with revenue assurance or reconciliations.
• ERP implementation experience advantageous.
• Ability to manage cross-entity finance projects.

Responsibilities

• Review IFRS 15 revenue recognition across Enterprise entities for completeness and accuracy.
• Investigate and resolve revenue-related reconciliation differences and anomalies.
• Strengthen controls over revenue completeness checks in collaboration with Settlements and FP&A.
• Own clearing account reconciliations and controls across Enterprise settlements.
• Document processes and cross-train Settlements team to reduce key-person risk.
• Project-manage ERP implementation and improvements to reporting processes.
• Coordinate requirements, testing, and sign-off across Enterprise Finance workstreams.
• Track and report project progress, risks, and issues to the CFO.
• Support treasury functions, including cash positioning and bank reconciliation oversight.

Skills

Multi-entity reporting

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Self-starter, process development

Education

CA(SA) – Chartered Accountant (SA)

BCom Accounting (Honours) or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Job description

Location: Cape Town

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Skill Level: Senior / Specialist Level

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer – Enterprise

PURPOSE OF JOB

This is a newly created role combining revenue assurance, clearing account ownership, and finance project management within Lesaka Enterprise. It is intended to reduce key-person risk in the Settlements function, strengthen the completeness and accuracy of revenue recognition, and provide dedicated project management capacity for Enterprise Finance's reporting and ERP transformation agenda.

The role will take ownership of clearing account reconciliations and controls (reducing reliance on a single individual within the Settlements team), act as a second line of review over revenue recognition across Enterprise entities, provide maternity-leave cover and cross-training within the Settlements function, and project-manage key Enterprise Finance initiatives, including the forthcoming ERP implementation and related reporting improvements.

Working closely with the CFO, the Team Leader: Settlements, and the broader Enterprise Finance team, the incumbent will combine strong technical accounting skills with project delivery capability.

The role's responsibilities include the following:

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

1. Revenue Recognition & Assurance

• Review revenue recognition across Enterprise entities for completeness and accuracy in accordance with IFRS 15.
• Investigate and resolve revenue-related reconciliation differences and anomalies.
• Partner with Settlements and FP&A to strengthen controls over revenue completeness checks.

1. Clearing Accounts Ownership

• Take ownership of clearing account reconciliations and controls across Enterprise settlement entities.
• Reduce key-person risk by documenting clearing account processes and cross-training within the Settlements team.
• Investigate and clear aged or unreconciled clearing account balances.

1. Settlements Cover & Continuity

• Provide trained backup cover for core Settlements functions ahead of, and during, planned maternity leave within the team.
• Support the Team Leader: Settlements with commission, fee, and clearing account processes as required.

1. Finance Project Management

• Act as project manager for Enterprise Finance initiatives, including the forthcoming ERP implementation.
• Coordinate requirements gathering, testing, and stakeholder sign-off across Enterprise Finance workstreams.
• Project-manage improvements to Enterprise financial reporting processes and timelines.
• Track and report project progress, risks, and issues to the CFO.

1. Treasury Support

• Support treasury functions across Enterprise entities, including cash positioning and bank reconciliation oversight where required.
• Assist with liquidity and funding-requirement monitoring in conjunction with the Financial Manager(s).
  

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 3 - 5 years' post-articles experience in financial accounting, revenue assurance, or reconciliations, ideally including project delivery.
• CA(SA) with Big 4 or equivalent audit background, or strong commercial accounting experience in financial services/fintech/payments.
• Demonstrated experience with clearing account or settlement reconciliations is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting or leading a system/ERP implementation is advantageous.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency reporting experience.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• CA(SA) – Chartered Accountant (South Africa), or equivalent, required or strongly preferred.
• BCom Accounting (Honours) or equivalent.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel; Power BI/Power Query experience advantageous.
• Strong IFRS knowledge, particularly IFRS 15 (Revenue).
• Project-management exposure (formal certification not required, but structured delivery experience essential).

WORK BEHAVIOURS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Comfortable working across both deep technical accounting detail and higher-level project coordination.
• High level of accuracy and control-consciousness, particularly around clearing accounts and revenue.
• Self-starter, able to build new processes and documentation from scratch in a newly created role.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, working across Settlements, FP&A, IT, and the CFO.
• Adaptable and comfortable with a broad, evolving mandate.