Finance Team Leader - Expenses

Takealot.com is looking for a highly talented Finance Team Leader [Expenses] to join our Takealot.com Retail team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Purpose of the role: 

To lead and supervise a team of finance professionals, ensuring that they effectively carry out financial tasks, meet deadlines, and collaborate to support the organization's financial goals and operations.

Key responsibilities: 

• Responsible for  expense department end to end


• Build, mentor and lead an effective an independent Accounts Payable team to handle day-to-day responsibilities


• Own the Supplier relationship on behalf of Finance to align business process, trading terms and query resolution


• Develop and implement new process and procedures, to streamline the accounts payable process at scale


• Act as key finance stakeholder in engineering product discussions relating to the Accounts Payable Process, taking responsibility for project completion.


• Work closely with operational teams in developing and implement standardized controls and policies to ensure increased accuracy and improved efficiency on Suppliers


• Quality review of monthly supplier reconciliations, including management and control of creditor aging


• Management of the aging of the expense control account


• Managing daily, weekly and monthly payment cycle


• Managing the efficiency and effectiveness of the supplier onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process


• Preparation and reporting of key accounts payable metrics


• Monthly reporting of key funding requirements


• Work closely with internal business stakeholders, including Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics and Engineering


• Month end journal processing


• Work closely with accounting team with queries and Balance sheet reconciliation


• Ad-hoc requests from business

Minimum Required Qualification, Experience and Competencies 

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or relevant qualification


• 3 – 5 years Accounts Payable experience


• Minimum of 2 years proven experience in leading a team


• Experience in Retail and FMCG


• Advanced Excel


• SAGE advantageous 

Skills, knowledge & abilities

• Excellent communication and  interpersonal skills


• Work under pressure


• Continuous improvement- and scaling mindset


• Ability to lead from the front


• Accuracy and attention to detail


• Deadline driven


• Problem-solving skills

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 you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

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