Company Profile: candi is a dedicated rooftop solar company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets. www.candi.solar
Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic junior-level financial professional, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.
Specifically, the job requires taking ownership for the South African team and will be responsible for supporting the Country Finance Lead with the following:
- Financial and management reporting
- Coordinating the supporting documentation for payments and loading of bank payments
- Monthly invoicing
- Coordinating project accounting with the Engineering and Asset Management divisions
- Management and collection of accounts receivable
- Weekly and monthly reconciliation on major accounts
- Inventory management
- Month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations and reporting on variances
- Supporting in budgeting, forecasting and cash management
- Taxation and VAT submission
- Updating company secretarial and statutory documents
- Liaising with auditors and supporting the business areas with financial information as required.
Location: Fourways, Johannesburg, combined with working from home.
Hours: Full time.
Job Requirements:
- Minimum: BCom degree in Accounting
- Bonus: Previous work experience in the financial space or articles training
- Strong technical, financial and management accounting skills
- Advance knowledge in Microsoft Excel
- Good communication and reporting skills - must have the ability to communicate and interact with a team of people through reporting cycles and change processes
- Good project management and attention to detail.
- Being a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit is paramount
Working Culture:
- You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we work as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
- A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
- Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
- You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually
- candi is an equal opportunities employer
candi is unique because...
- We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
- We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
- We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.