Southern Africa Finance Director: Growth & Strategy

BettingJobs; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 2,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

BettingJobs is partnering with a high-growth regional operator to appoint a Finance Director for Southern Africa. The role offers full ownership of the regional finance function spanning SA, with a focus on strategy, controls, and performance improvement.

You will lead a small team, shape budgeting and forecasting, manage payer and regulatory obligations, and partner with regional leadership on growth initiatives across multiple jurisdictions in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified CA(SA) with 15+ years post-qualification experience.
• Betting or gambling industry experience preferred.
• Strong grounding in financial reporting, controls, audit, tax, treasury.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end finance across Southern Africa, with SA as principal market.
• Lead regional finance team and build capacity as the business grows.
• Design and improve financial processes and controls across revenue, funds, payments and reporting.
• Deliver monthly reporting, financial statements, and management information across entities.
• Own budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow, P&L, balance sheet, and liquidity projections.
• Act as senior finance partner to regional leadership and provide commercial challenge.
• Ensure compliance with gaming, corporate taxes, audits, filings, and licences.
• Manage regional banking, treasury, auditors, regulators, banks, and providers.
• Lead finance workstream on regional expansion, licences, new verticals, restructurings, acquisitions.
• Use automation to modernise the function and reduce manual work.

Skills

Finance leadership

Regulatory compliance

Multi-entity ops

Treasury & cash flow

Education

CA(SA) qualification

Job description

BettingJobs is working with a fast-growing, multi-vertical operator scaling rapidly across Southern Africa to appoint a Finance Director for the region. Covering betting, media and B2B activities in a highly regulated environment, this is a rare chance to take full ownership of a regional finance function and build it out as the business grows.

Reporting to the Global Finance Director, you will shape regional financial strategy, strengthen processes and controls, and lead an existing small team with scope to recruit further. The role suits a commercially minded CA(SA) who enjoys being hands-on, works at pace, and wants genuine influence over operational, investment, and growth decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end finance function across Southern Africa, with South Africa as the principal market.
• Lead and develop the regional finance team, building capacity as the business expands.
• Design and improve financial processes and controls across revenue, player funds, payments, treasury, procurement and reporting.
• Deliver accurate monthly reporting, financial statements and management information across legal entities and verticals.
• Own budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning and P&L, balance sheet and liquidity projections.
• Act as senior finance partner to regional and country leadership, providing robust commercial challenge.
• Ensure compliance with gaming, corporate and indirect taxes, audits, statutory filings and licence conditions.
• Manage regional banking and treasury arrangements and relationships with auditors, advisers, regulators, banks and payment providers.
• Use automation and technology to modernise the function, improve data quality and reduce manual work.
• Lead the finance workstream on regional expansion, new licences, new verticals, restructurings and acquisitions.

Requirements:

• Qualified CA(SA) with at least 15 years' post-qualification experience, including senior finance leadership.
• Substantial betting or wider gambling industry experience is essential; operator-side experience and South African regulatory knowledge strongly preferred.
• Strong technical grounding in financial reporting, controls, audit, tax, treasury and multi-entity operations.
• Experience of operational, commercial and corporate structuring.
• Track record of building finance teams, processes and capability in a growing business.
• Commercially minded and operationally engaged, translating financial data into clear decisions.
• A fast-moving self-starter, comfortable in a flat, high-performance organisation and collaborating across functions and geographies.