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 and 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.
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