We Are Setting The Pace
Founded in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000, Clickatell made history as the first company to connect businesses on the internet with consumers on mobile phones via SMS, using just four lines of code. Today, it powers AI-driven chat commerce experiences for leading enterprises across banking, retail, travel, telecoms, healthcare and more, trusted by global brands including Fiserv, Ria, Discovery, ABSA, GoTyme, Standard bank, FlySafair, Clientèle, Pick n Pay, Walmart, MTN, Telkom, Toyota, Europcar, and thousands of additional businesses across the US, Europe, and the Global South markets.
Over 25 years, Clickatell has continued to innovate and introduced a series of industry firsts, including the world’s first tokenized payments in WhatsApp; KYC-compliant chat banking; best-in-class conversational commerce utility use cases; and the launch of Chat-2-Pay in partnership with Visa. Its award-winning, enterprise-grade AI-powered Chat Commerce Platform enables leading consumer brands to interact and transact with customers in the same chat interface they use every day to run their lives.
The Role
As a Treasury Accountant, you will be responsible for executing the Group’s cash flow, liquidity, and banking activities to support day-to-day operations and overall financial stability. You will oversee cash positioning, reconciliations, and forecasting, ensuring accurate and timely insights to support business decision-making. In this role, you will apply your experience to resolve treasury-related challenges, manage financial risks such as foreign exchange and interest rate exposure, and ensure all treasury transactions are accurately recorded and compliant with internal controls and regulatory requirements. You will also work closely with banks and internal stakeholders, contribute to process improvements, and provide clear, actionable reporting.
We Do The Right Things
Responsibilities of the Role
Treasury Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare treasury dashboards, liquidity reports, and variance analysis for Senior Management
- Support budgeting and forecasting through cash flow inputs
- Highlight risks, opportunities, and deviations against forecasts
- Report debtor analysis monthly to FNB for purposes of overdraft facility.
Cash and Liquidity Management
- Monitor, record, and reconcile daily cash movements across all Group bank accounts
- Ensure sufficient liquidity for operational requirements and escalate shortfalls or surpluses proactively
- Support inter-bank transfers and funding to optimize cash utilization
Cash Flow Forecasting
- Develop short-, medium-, and long-term cash flow forecasts incorporating operational and capital requirements
- Maintain weekly forecasts for review with Senior Management
- Coordinate priority payments in collaboration with the AP team
Treasury Accounting
- Perform and review monthly bank reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies
- Account for all loan entries and ensure loan GL balances reconcile with loan facility statements and loan amortisation schedules
- Track treasury exposures (interest rate, FX, credit)
Compliance & Internal Controls
- Ensure treasury activities comply with Group policies, banking regulations, and internal controls
- Maintain process documentation and support internal and external audits
- Implement and uphold segregation of duties and strong treasury controls
- Identify opportunities to enhance treasury processes, automation, systems, and reporting quality
- Support regulatory and statutory submissions, including Stats SA and SARB exchange control applications
- Maintain approvals registries and assist with preparation of required financial summaries
Banking Operations & Relationships
- Manage Group bank accounts, mandates, signatories, and compliance with delegation of authority
- Support payments execution, banking solution onboarding, and intercompany treasury transactions
- Maintain strong relationships with banks and financial institutions, including loan schedules and refinancing activities
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Partner with Finance, AP, AR, FP&A, and banking partners to ensure smooth treasury operations
- Align cash management activities with business requirements and strategic priorities
Payroll Administration
- Prepare monthly: leave pay provision journals, salary capitalisation journals and payroll journals for Group entities
- Prepare monthly payroll checks for Group entities
- Save monthly payroll files
Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- Assist with Balance Sheet Reconciliations across Group entities
Requirements
We Are On A Learning Journey
Requirements of the Role
- Bachelor’s Degree: A minimum requirement majoring in Finance, Accounting or Investment Management.
- A professional designation such as CIMA/ ACCA/ SAIPA / CA(SA) will be an added advantage.
Work Experience
- At least 2 to 5 years’ related experience in a finance and/or treasury role at a Senior Level.
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV/ Business Central experience would be an advantage.
- Experience in creating and maintaining complex spread sheets.
Knowledge and Abilities
- Strong treasury expertise, including banking relationships, liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, and treasury systems
- Solid understanding of regulatory compliance (FICA/KYC) and online banking platforms
- Advanced computer literacy, particularly in MS Office with strong Excel skills
- High attention to detail with accurate communication and strong administrative capability
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder (including supplier) management skills
- Strong analytical thinking, planning, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work under pressure, adapt to change, and meet tight deadlines
- High ethical standards, confidentiality, and professionalism
- Strong negotiation skills across internal and external stakeholders
- Flexible and committed, including willingness to work extended hours when required
A Bit About You
Behavioural competency requirements of a Highflyer:
- Team Player: Self-directed and dedicated team player who positively engages with the team to solve.
- Optimizing Processes: Optimally utilizes the tools and resources available to maximizes output. Conducts day-to-day operations using best practice to achieve effectiveness and accuracy. Continuously reviews and makes recommendations for process improvements.
- Expert Thinker: Equipped with specialist knowledge and makes recommendations that are practical, smart and ready to implement. Remains up to date in the industry and offers technical advice, and support to own team and others.
- Effective Problem-Solver: Resourceful, persistent, and creative when solving problems. Able to be analytical and follow a logical process to make decisions. Finds the balance between a good and quick decision through experience and knowledge. Able to present and explain thinking and the resulting decision.
- Connecting Collaboratively: Actively connects to bring cohesion and deliver excellence. Sees the value in working closely with different specialities and teams to ensure all operations are aligned to meet the required objectives.
- Maximizing Awareness: Recognizes emotions and how it affects behaviour and relationships. Self-aware and picks up on emotional cues in situations. Self-manages and empowered to show initiative, follow through on commitments, and work well in a team. Listens, reflects, and responds effectively to constructive criticism.
- Enabling Strategy: Implements the action plans to produce practical outputs while considering the implication, and consequences for the organization and our customers.
- Action Orientated Mindset: Know-how to skilfully approach technical activities to deliver value. Eager to deliver new or improved solutions to drive the organization forward. Focused on what needs to be done and ensures follow-through on all commitments.
- Embracing Change: Invites change and stays focused and resilient and chooses responses that are positive when feeling uncertain. Remains flexible, adaptable, and open to opportunities to be innovative. Uses failure as an opportunity to learn and grows. Thinks ahead, anticipates, and acts.
- Driving Delivery: Goal-oriented and monitors processes and systems to ensure tracking towards goals despite challenging and stressful situations. Sets high standards for quality and performance and provides metrics to show improvements as well as real-time variance for effective tracking.
Benefits
Why You Should Join
Perks of the Role
Working with a world class, award winning, international team with strong values and perspectives on the world. You can expect to become the best version of you in terms of your career and the challenges that will test and grow you. We have a learning culture, we take risks and we are here to make an impact, if that resonates, you will thrive here. Other things you may wonder about that we do also offer:
- Medical Aid contribution
- Pension fund contribution
- Risk benefit company contributions
- Reimbursable communications allowance for internet and mobile phone bills
- Half-day off on your birthday
- 5 personal days leave a year, over and above your annual leave + ½ day off on your birthday
- Flexible working conditions (remote & in person) with access to office hubs as required
- Home office set-up with laptop, monitor and other related items.
Stronger Together
Clickatell is unequivocally committed to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. We believe that we are stronger together and that sameness limits our thinking and our opportunities. You are welcome at Clickatell for who you are, no matter where you come from or what you choose to believe. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. But it isn’t just about a whole lot of different people working together all having their say – it is about us creating a place where we all feel that we belong. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world uses chat technology.
