Marketplace Financial Accountant

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Marketplace Financial Accountant to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the Financial Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop, adapt and implement new processes and procedures as well as the maintenance thereof, to integrate the marketplace business unit into new/existing ERP system.
• Work closely with Product and Development teams to align business requirements
• Ownership of the finance project and ensuring predefined outcomes are met
• Own the daily transactional processing of all transactions, end to end
• Implement, controls and measurements to mitigate financial risk within a hyper-growth environment
• Continuous implementation of automated processes to scale with business needs
• Work closing with internal and external stakeholders, to align on single processes and procedures relating to the business unit
• Managing the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial aspects of the seller onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process at scale
• Full ownership of the payment cycle to ensure complete and accurate payments processing of Marketplace sellers
• Resolving non-routine seller queries
• Preparation and reporting of business unit KPI
• Quality review of monthly seller reconciliations, including management and control aging
• Month-end procedures and reporting (income statement + balance sheet + operational reporting)
• Additional ad hoc duties, as required within the business
• Work with operations- and compliance departments to manage finance-related risk.
• Work closely with internal business stakeholders, including Retail, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Logistics and Engineering
• Ad-hoc requests from CFO and Finance Managers

Attributes required:

• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment under pressure
• High volume environment with system driven approach
• Able to evaluate high-risk decisions
• Continuous improvement- and scaling mindset
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Deadline driven

Qualifications:

• Relevant B.com degree- Honors would be advantageous
• SAICA / SAIPA articles
• 3 5 Years relevant experience in a similar finance role
• Proven experience in implementing systems/processes to mitigate financial risk
• High proficiency in advanced Excel
• Experience in Retail / FMCG / Marketplaces advantageous
• MySQL/Looker/Qliksense experience advantageous

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve
• We are short on ego and high on output
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all
• We love what we do and what we are creating

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
• If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind, come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.