Operations and Collections Controller

Operating within a scaling logistics provider, this full-time role is essential for driving daily financial control, debit order management, and multi-currency bank allocations. Designed with excellent day-to-day flexibility, this position offers a mostly remote structure with ad-hoc collaboration sessions at the Waterfall/Midrand offices, acting as a key operational anchor reporting directly to the Finance Director. This full-time role is critical for driving the accurate financial control, reconciliation, and reporting of the collections ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Cashflow & Banking Operations: Take full daily ownership of banking systems, managing high-volume allocations, clearing accounts, and processing swift customer refunds. Debit Order & Revenue Control: Oversee the integrity, execution, and reconciliation of regular debit order runs to ensure complete revenue assurance. Foreign Exchange Administration: Handle transaction processing across international banking platforms, managing forex elements and multi-currency reconciliations. System Administration: Maintain absolute data integrity across internal financial workflows, managing daily transaction entries utilizing Swordfish CRM and Xero. Administrative Compliance: Deliver meticulous attention to detail across daily operational ledger tasks, identifying and resolving transactional discrepancies timeously. Requirements Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a closely related field. Experience: Minimum of 5 years of financial lead or operational accounting experience. Proven track record in operational accounting, ledger control, or financial administration, specifically within environments handling complex debit order structures and high-volume cash allocations. (ideally within a property, asset management, collections environment) Industry Exposure: Solid background working with logistics, freight, supply chain, or courier entities. Technical Skills: Sound foundational knowledge of multi-currency transactions, banking platforms, and South African financial reconciliation processes. Core Competencies: Exceptional attention to detail, strong administrative capabilities, and the capacity to work autonomously in a distributed team structure. Analytical Capabilities: Advanced capability to extract data, manage complex spreadsheets, and convert high-volume transactional data into actionable management information. Core Competencies: Exceptional attention to detail under pressure, strong problem-solving abilities, and excellent stakeholder communication skills. A relevant postgraduate qualification in accounting or corporate governance. Required Software Skills Xero (or similar cloud-based accounting systems) CRM - Swordfish or similar an advantage Microsoft Excel - Advanced (including financial reporting tools,complex lookups and data manipulation and models) Benefits High-output, autonomous working environment built on trust and operational excellence. Micro-flexibility built around a standard full-day work schedule to balance professional and personal commitments. Mostly remote, weekly meetings in Waterfall and for training/handover/setup