Senior Finance & Investment Manager (CA/SA)

• Channel & Partner Engagement: Build and manage relationships with accounting firms, advisors, and referral partners to unlock SMME client and investor opportunities.
  
• Technical Product Translation: Explain the structure, purpose, risk parameters, and accounting implications of complex fund instruments clearly to financially literate audiences.
  
• SMME Client Onboarding: Participate directly in meetings with SMME owners and executive teams to assess fit, answer financial questions, and navigate onboarding discussions.
  
• Commercial Collateral Creation: Prepare, review, and refine high -quality pitch decks, product summaries, FAQs, term sheets, and investor -facing materials.
  
• Market Feedback Loop: Capture market objections, adoption barriers, and pricing feedback to continuously refine product positioning and distribution strategy.
  

• Monthly Finance Cycle: Coordinate and execute management accounts, journals, reconciliations, and variance analysis while strictly meeting close timelines.
  
• Cash Flow & Budgeting: Own and manage corporate budgets, forecasts, rolling cash flow projections, and funding requirements.
  
• Financial Controls & Governance: Implement and maintain scalable finance processes, approval workflows, and documentation standards.
  
• Audit, Tax, & Statutory Submissions: Coordinate annual financial statements, audit requests, tax submissions, and statutory filings with external advisors.
  
• Fund & Instrument Accounting: Review and oversee the accurate accounting treatment of fund instruments, management fees, distributions, drawdowns, and capital accounts.
  
• Stakeholder & Board Reporting: Prepare insightful financial packs and reporting materials for executive management, shareholders, and fund investors.
  

Requirements

• Professional Qualification: Valid CA(SA) designation with a rock -solid technical accounting foundation.
  
• Targeted Industry Background: Prior experience inside (or providing deep advisory exposure to) private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, or alternative investment funds.
  
• Financial Instruments Depth: Practical working knowledge of PE/SMME funding instruments, including ordinary equity, preference shares, shareholder loans, convertible notes, and mezzanine -style funding.
  
• IFRS Mastery: Strong technical capability in the IFRS treatment of financial instruments, covering classification, measurement, fair value, and embedded features.
  
• Commercial Agility: Proven capability to translate dense investment, tax, and fund concepts into clear, practical messages for non -specialist commercial audiences.
  
• Hands -On Finance Ownership: Direct experience running or coordinating a complete financial function from daily processing up to board -level reporting packs.
  
• Working Style: High capacity for structured, self -directed remote execution paired with the willingness to travel frequently for strategic client meetings and roadshows.