Finance Assistant

🔥 19 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

👻 Ghost score 25%

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Remote Choice

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Remote Choice is a UK-founded recruitment and staffing firm that helps UK businesses hire skilled, remote professionals from South Africa. The company sources, screens, shortlists and manages hiring logistics — including interviews, assessments, payroll and local IT infrastructure — to deliver cost-effective remote staffing solutions without up-front fees. Remote Choice emphasizes a large South African talent pool, dual-location support (UK and South Africa), and savings of up to 50% compared with traditional UK recruitment.

📋 Description

• Prepare and coordinate monthly financial information provided to external accountants • Review bookkeeping completed in Xero and follow up on errors, omissions or outstanding items • Maintain complete and accurate financial records across the group, including invoices, receipts and supporting documentation • Assist with supplier invoices, payment preparation and payroll administration • Maintain intercompany schedules, reconciliations, management charges, interest calculations and transfer pricing workings • Prepare monthly management information and support regular financial reporting • Maintain rolling budgets, cash flow forecasts and budget-versus-actual reporting • Track expenditure across group entities and identify overspending or upcoming cash requirements • Improve cost tracking across sales and brand positioning expenditure, aircraft advertising and project-specific costs • Support accounting and reporting requirements for the expanding multi-entity structure and new ventures • Liaise with external accountants, auditors and tax advisers and prepare requested schedules and supporting documentation • Assist with bank, KYC and compliance information requests • Support occasional aircraft operating-cost analyses, client presentations and transaction-related financial work • Follow up on missing invoices, approvals and information, taking ownership of assigned tasks through to completion • Provide general ad hoc finance and administrative support

🎯 Requirements

• Organised, accurate and dependable, with strong attention to detail • Proactive and comfortable working independently in a remote role • Strong in Excel, with a sound understanding of accounting principles • Experienced in reconciliations, intercompany accounts and management reporting • Experienced with Xero, although this is advantageous rather than essential • Comfortable working with external accountants and advisers • Previous experience within an international group would be advantageous • Comfortable handling confidential financial and commercial information • Flexible and willing to take on a broad range of responsibilities within a small team • Keen to develop professionally and grow with the business over the longer term

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to develop professionally and grow with the business over the longer term • Exposure to a broad range of financial, commercial, and operational activities • International team environment • Dynamic, fast-paced work environment