Financial Controller

• Own the monthly management accounts process end-to-end, delivering accurate and timely reporting with clear variance analysis
  
• Lead the annual statutory reporting process and manage the external audit
  
• Maintain strong financial controls and balance sheet integrity, ensuring reconciliations are robust, documented and continuously improved
  
• Ensure reporting consistency across multiple systems and data sources
  

• Bring together financial and operational data from multiple systems (ecommerce, warehouse inventory reports, banking, payroll, etc.) to create a single source of truth
  
• Champion the intelligent use of automation and AI tools to accelerate reconciliations, reduce manual processing, and improve reporting speed and accuracy
  
• Improve the finance tech stack, ensuring systems are scalable, well-integrated and future-proofed
  
• Build dashboards and reporting frameworks that connect financial performance with operational drivers
  

• Oversee Order-to-Cash (AR), including credit control and cash collection
  
• Oversee Procure-to-Pay (AP), including payment runs and supplier management
  
• Drive continuous improvements in processes, controls and documentation across all finance workflows
  

• Own short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting
  
• Manage banking relationships, facilities and working capital
  
• Optimise cash positioning across entities and currencies where applicable
  
• Provide proactive insight on liquidity, funding needs and risk management
  

• Oversee VAT, payroll taxes, corporation tax and other statutory filings
  
• Partner with external advisors to ensure ongoing compliance across jurisdictions (where relevant)
  
• Maintain appropriate financial governance and internal controls
  

• Partner with senior leaders to support budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning
  
• Provide clear insight into margins, inventory performance, cash conversion and ROI
  
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support key commercial decisions
  
• Translate financial data into clear, actionable insights
  

• Manage and develop the finance team, setting clear priorities and creating accountability
  
• Build capability within the team, identifying opportunities for upskilling and role evolution
  
• Create a culture of accuracy, ownership, continuous improvement and forward momentum
  
• Ensure the team is not just maintaining standards, but consistently improving them
  

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
  
• Strong experience across reporting, financial operations, treasury and tax
  
• Experience in a product-based or stock-holding business (preferred)
  
• A high level of comfort working with data from multiple systems and reconciling inconsistencies between them
  
• Strong treasury and cash flow management experience
  
• Proven experience managing and developing finance team members
  

• Detail-oriented and rigorous, you’re annoyingly fussy about your numbers.
  
• Comfortable operating both strategically and hands-on
  
• Naturally organised and able to manage multiple priorities at pace
  
• Systems-minded, you think in processes and continuously look for smarter ways to operate
  
• Proactive mindset: you don’t just identify inefficiencies, you fix them
  
• A strong communicator who can simplify complex financial topics
  

• Experience in a high-growth ecommerce or consumer brand environment
  
• Experience implementing or optimising ERP systems
  
• Practical experience using AI tools to streamline reconciliations, data validation, forecasting or reporting
  
• Experience operating across multiple entities or international markets
  
• Exposure to fundraising, debt facilities or investor reporting
  

Benefits

• Remote working and flexible working hours
  
• Opportunity to work alongside a talented and passionate team
  
• Be part of an award-winning baby and toddler sleepwear brand
  
• Join our growing team based in South Africa
  

Originally posted on Himalayas