Treasurer at Mukuru

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Treasurer (Maternity Cover) to join our Finance Department in Cape Town.

The Treasurer reports directly to the Treasury Manager. This position is responsible for constantly monitoring the accounts and ensuring all accounts are sufficiently prefunded.

Internal Liaison takes place with accounts, treasury team, business stakeholders. External liaison takes place with banks, auditors, and third-party pay-out and pay in partners.

Duties And Responsibilities (Include but is not limited to):

• Cash and liquidity management, ensuring that pay-out partners and own verticals has sufficient liquidity
• Assisting with the preparation of short, medium- and long-term cash flow forecasts for pay-out partners to help identify where there are funding gaps
• Assisting with the management of surplus cash flows to maximize returns while minimizing risk
• Understanding the nature and extent of financial and operational risks
• Bank relationship management with various banking and pay-out partners
• Supporting the treasury manager with implementing and monitoring financial risk management strategies
• Administration of all treasury accounts with external providers / partners
• Develop understanding of related processes and inter-dependability between teams, have broad understanding of underlying data structures
• Assist treasury manager with report generation
• Assist in developing and implementing preventive and detective policies, procedures, controls, and user guides
• Effective team player ensuring the team goals are achieved through collaboration
• Strong analytical and issue resolution skills
• Strong personal time management skills and ability to multi-task Excellent oral and written communication skills, with ability and comfort level communicating with senior management
• Attend new product launch meetings, minutes of meetings on all treasury related requirements prepared and submitted to the treasury manager
• Process oriented and mind set structure to flows, processes and procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with finance team, internal and external stakeholders

Key Requirement

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
• B.Com Accounting qualification (Essential)
• Saica Articles (Desirable)
• 3 years’ Treasury Experience (Essential)
• Working in a multinational group (Desirable)
• Knowledge of accounting principles
• Knowledge of Mukuru products and Mukuru system (Advantageous)

Additional Skills

• Proficient with MS Office, particularly Excel
• Computer skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Problem solver, results oriented
• Organisational & administrative skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical skills

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive any response after two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S EE TARGETS