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RecruitMyMom

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

🤝 B2B

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👥 HR Tech

B2B • Recruitment • HR Tech

RecruitMyMom is a specialist talent agency in South Africa focused on empowering women by providing access to skilled job opportunities. With a commitment to diversity and flexibility, the agency connects professional mothers and independent contractors with employers seeking reliable talent for both full-time and part-time positions across various industries. They offer services including background checks, psychometric testing, and access to a wide range of professions, from virtual assistants to fractional executives.

📋 Description

• Debtors & Accounts Receivable Management: Direct the end-to-end invoicing architecture, track collections, execute monthly age analyses, and manage necessary payment escalations. • Accounts Payable & Banking Portals: Take ownership of the centralised accounts payable inbox, prepare structured weekly payment runs, and process authorised payments directly through banking portals. • Commission Architecture & Reconciliation: Systematically calculate, audit, and reconcile monthly sales team commission reports against commercial outcomes. • Expense Management & Diagnostics: Oversee the collection, coding, and categorisation of corporate expenses within Xero, producing granular monthly analysis summaries broken down by operational category and individual. • Bookkeeper Liaison & Executive Reporting: Act as the primary conduit to the external bookkeeper, compiling weekly cash flow summaries for the CEO and supporting the review of monthly management accounts. • Financial Process Engineering: Audit existing administrative workflows, identify procedural gaps, and author the standard operating procedures and functional templates required to secure an institutional-grade finance department.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven Track Record: A minimum of 3+ years of dedicated experience within a financial administration, accounts, or bookkeeping-adjacent capacity. • Xero Ecosystem Mastery: Advanced, hands-on proficiency in Xero, ensuring full operational capability from day one without training overhead. • Ledger Autonomy: Demonstrable history of independently managing debtors and accounts payable lifecycles under minimal supervision. • Operational Precision: High personal accountability, meticulous attention to detail, and a process-driven mindset that naturally addresses compliance gaps proactively. • Discretion & Integrity: Absolute professional discretion appropriate for accessing highly sensitive financial frameworks and investor information across two distinct firms. • Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience working inside life sciences, medical device distribution, or venture-capital-backed start-up environments. • Practical knowledge of South African payroll frameworks, VAT regulations, and SARS compliance protocols. • Foundational familiarity with Unleashed or similar cloud-based inventory/ERP software ecosystems. • Required Software Skills: Xero (Advanced operational level), Unleashed (Inventory/ERP - Advantageous), Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets (Data analysis and commission modeling), Online Banking Portals (Payment run preparation).

🏖️ Benefits

• High autonomy with flexible working hours organized around predictable weekly deliverables and deadlines. • Direct access to the CEO with uninhibited visibility into the commercial progression of two high-growth organisations. • The professional space to build accounting processes from the ground up and take complete structural ownership of them. • Long-term potential to expand hours and scope as the scale of both entities increases.