Head of Finance & Operations (CA/SA)

• SaaS Financial Leadership: Drive SaaS -native financial strategy using operational levers like ARR, MRR, NRR, CAC, and LTV.
  
• Multi -Jurisdictional Reporting: Lead financial reporting, forecasting, and the creation of board -ready financial packs that translate numbers into strategic insights.
  
• Forex Risk Management: Strategically manage cash flow and forex risk across ZAR, EUR, GHS, and other relevant African currencies.
  
• Legal Contract Management: Handle contract drafting, review, and negotiation across commercial, supplier, and employment relationships.
  
• IP Corporate Governance: Protect company IP across active markets and oversee corporate governance, including shareholder agreements, board resolutions, and statutory filings across jurisdictions.
  
• Data Privacy Ownership: Own compliance frameworks for POPIA in South Africa and GDPR through the European holding structure.
  
• Cross -Border Privacy Controls: Oversee data transfer protocols, processor agreements, and breach response readiness.
  
• HR Transactional Oversight: Manage payroll, employment contracts, and compliance with BCEA, LRA, or local equivalents as the business scales.
  
• Equity Administration: Accurately and fairly administer a live long -term incentive (LTI) share option scheme.
  
• People & Culture Partnership: Partner closely with the CEO on workplace culture, employee engagement, and organizational health.
  

Requirements

• Essential Education: A CA(SA) qualification is strongly preferred, though CIMA will be considered.
  
• Desirable Education: An MBA or Master’s in Financial Management or International Business is highly advantageous.
  
• Post -Articles Experience: A minimum of 8 years of post -articles experience is required.
  
• Industry Background: Meaningful leadership experience must be spent in a growth -stage technology or SaaS business.
  
• Geographic Scope: Hands -on operational finance experience across multiple African markets is essential.
  
• Language Advantage: Fluency in both English and Afrikaans is a practical advantage for this operating environment.
  
• Location & Travel: Open to candidates based in Pretoria who are fully capable and willing to travel to the Stellenbosch head office as needed to interface with the executive team.
  
• Personal Productivity: You must be personally productive with technology, as leadership in this business requires direct execution rather than just supervising.
  
• Hands -on AI Use: You will actively embed and use AI tools directly to build financial models, generate board packs, and perform compliance research.
  
• Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Subscriptions, and Zoho Analytics or Google Looker Studio is highly desirable.
  

• CEO Synergy: Work closely with a commercial, fast -moving, and people -first CEO who is also a CA(SA).
  
• Complementary Strengths: Bring operational financial depth, process governance, and commercial anchoring to complement the visionary leadership style of the executive team.
  
• Constructive Pushback: Demonstrate the courage to push back constructively when numbers do not support the vision.
  
• Learning Agility: Possess extreme ownership, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to close your own knowledge gaps fast without waiting to be told.