💸 Finance Manager
Johannesburg - Finance (Full Time) - Start Date: 01 June 2022
🏢 About Tripplo
At Tripplo, our vision is to create the new standard for African road freight logistics. Based in Johannesburg, we are building our own logistics platform that facilitates the safe & efficient movement of cargo across the SADC region. Our award winning platform also gives transporters technology to automate & optimise their operations for significantly better efficiency & profitability. This approach allows us to work towards becoming Africa’s largest transporter without owning a fleet of trucks.
Fast Company recently awarded us South Africa’s 2021 Most Innovative Company in South Africa and we were named AfricaArena’s Best Johannesburg Start-up in 2020.
💭 The Role
Tripplo is looking for a business operations focused, entrepreneurial Finance Manager (FM) to join its Finance Team. The FM will work closely with the CFO to assist with the daily operations of accounting & finance at Tripplo. The FM will be responsible to deliver timely & accurate financial reports, develop finance processes & financial controls, banking, tax compliance as well as other relevant finance & accounting related workflows.
The role will be ever-changing & will require the candidate to be flexible & open-minded while being detail-oriented & capable of helping create processes & controls for a fast-growing company. The role will focus on the South Africa operation as well as operations in other countries as may be required.
🤝 Responsibilities
- Financial reporting, analysis & monthly management accounts & reporting.
- Liaising with investors & address any reporting queries
- Monitoring, processing & managing day-to-day financial transactions, with timely & accurate invoicing.
- Receivables & payables management.
- Cashflow management & keeping a pulse on runway.
- Creating, reviewing, monitoring & managing budgets.
- Ensuring that all cargo customers & transporter supplier agreements are in place & valid.
- Taking control of differently timed payment run, signing off on loaded payments for release.
- Ensuring accurate & complete financial records are maintained in the accounting system – SageOne.
- Preparation of Annual Financial Statements.
- Preparing for & project managing year-end audits, working closely with auditors to deliver audited financial statements efficiently & timeously.
- Constant understanding of tax laws & IFRS for SMEs – VAT, PAYE, Income Tax &export / customers taxes.
- SARS submissions in South Africa & potential tax submissions in other countries, ensuring 100% tax compliance.
- Working closely with the CFO & COO to support their finance & operating needs.
- Helping develop strategies that minimise financial risk.
- Operations, administrative & investor relations tasks.
🎓 Key Requirements
- CA (SA).
- 5+ years relevant experience.
- Financial instruments knowledge.
- Experience working in a start-up or high-growth business preferable.
- Strong planning & execution skills.
- Hands-on approach & problem-solving abilities critical.
- Advanced Excel experience.
- Experience with Sage accounting systems or similar systems.
- High degree of accuracy & attention to detail.
- Experience with Forex transactions advantageous.
- Good interpersonal skills & ability to work within a small team.
- Proactive individual who can work independently with minimal supervision.
🙌 Benefits
- You will have the opportunity to work closely with the founding team.
- Working in an exciting start-up environment that is scaling into a global company, with your involvement at the forefront of that global scaling efforts.
- Ability to create a business function to your satisfaction with high autonomy.
- You will get exposed to a fantastic investor network & blue-chip partner operations that Tripplo has partnered with.
- Ability to grow with South Africa as well into other geographies.
😎 Our Culture
- We foster a fun & interpersonal environment.
- We value & support each other as a team to ensure each team member realises their full potential & ultimately deliver quality as a team for all of our stakeholders.
- We welcome a diverse range of opinions, partners & doers in the journey.
- We ensure that feedback flows consistently & we continuously improve ourselves in all we do.
- We have a strong bias towards action
- We collaborate with teams from different parts of the world, different cultures, different time zones & different exposures which exposes you to different ways of working
- We give a high level of independence for you to foster & grow as an individual
- We are also incorporating new ways of working that are enhanced by technology
🪜 The Process
- Submit your CV, cover letter & other relevant application documentation to coo@tripplo.co,
- If you fit the criteria, you will take part in a 30-minute telephonic interview,
- If successful, you will be invited to our offices for a 1-hour in-person interview,
- If successful, you will be invited to meet the Board of Directors & Advisors,
- If successful, Tripplo will conduct reference & background checks,
- If successful, you will receive a formal offer letter,
- If all parties are happy, we will onboard you onto the team with the signing of the employment contract & ESOP agreement.
If you have not heard back from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
