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Accountant
Ozow
Posted 4 months agoCape Town, South Africa
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Mid-Level
Category
Finance
Job Description
Meet Ozow
Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions.
As an Accountant at Ozow, you’ll play a key role in supporting the financial operations that underpin our fast‑paced fintech environment. This role offers exposure across debtors, creditors, distributor accounting, and core accounting operations, working closely with cross‑functional teams such as Data, Technology, Legal, Commercial and FinOps. It’s an ideal opportunity for a detail‑driven accounting professional who thrives on ownership, problem‑solving, and contributing to accurate, scalable financial processes in a growing digital payments business.
3–5 years’ accounting experience, preferably in a fintech, financial services, payments, or high‑transaction environment.
Confident communicator, able to engage with internal stakeholders and external partners (merchants, distributors, suppliers).
You eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation.
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Requirements
- A completed BCom degree in Accounting or equivalent (essential).
- Proven experience across debtors, creditors, and general ledger accounting.
- Strong understanding of billing structures, invoicing logic, and reconciliation principles.
- Experience preparing and reviewing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and schedules.
- Proficiency in accounting systems (e.g. Sage, NetSuite, Xero or similar ERP systems).
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliations.
- Experience working with large data sets and validating calculations with data or analytics teams.
- Exceptional attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy and completeness.
- Strong problem‑solving skills, particularly when investigating variances, queries, or escalations.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and prioritise in a fast‑moving environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for assigned processes.
- Your skills and competencies
- Ability to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide net
Responsibilities
- Debtors & Merchant Billing
- Own merchant invoicing processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness and alignment with contractual billing structures
- Distributor Accounting
- Calculate distributor commissions in accordance with contractual terms, validating calculations with the Data team
- Prepare and distribute commission reports to distributors
- Post distributor commission journal entries and prepare related balance sheet reconciliations
- Creditors & Payments
- Perform creditor statement reconciliations and investigate variances
- Resolve escalated creditor queries requiring accounting judgment or cross-functional engagement
- Prepare payment runs and load beneficiaries and payments in accordance with approved payment processes
- Prepare VAT and EMP payments for review by the Senior Accountant
- Load bulk payments to Netcash as required
- Accounting Operations & Reconciliations
- Prepare schedules of prepaid expenses, accruals, banking fees and interest for review by the Senior Accountant
- Maintain monthly schedules of new fixed asset additions
- Post bank payments and receipts not handled at an administrative level
- Take ownersh
- Prepare regular debtors reporting for internal stakeholders, manage escalations, and make recommendations on aged or delinquent accounts
- Oversee the transfer of approved supplier invoices from procurement system to the accounting system, ensuring process effectiveness and completeness
- Execute approved fund movements between bank accounts, including transactional and call accounts, in line with treasury procedures
- Prepare bank reconciliations, including full allocation of transactions and completion of the first-level reconciliation
- Investigate and resolve escalated debtor queries requiring detailed understanding of billing logic, data sources (e.g. data environments and merchant dashboards) and invoicing mechanics
- Perform credit note calculations and maintain and manage the credit note schedule, ensuring appropriate support, accuracy and timely escalation for approval
- Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled op
Benefits
- Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks
- Monthly team connects
- On-site Barista
- Birthday Leave
- Medical aid subsidy
- Group Risk Insurance
- Generous paid annual leave
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship programme
- Quarterly team building
- Community initiatives
- Access to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack
- Our Employee Value Proposition
- Compliance
