Hybrid Finance Analyst

at Houst

• Job title: Finance Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cape Town, South Africa

About the role

• Finance Analyst responsible for revenue reporting and analysis. Collaborating with Sales and Account Management teams to ensure financial control in a growing international tech business.

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst who loves working with numbers, data, and systems, and who can turn financial information into clear, actionable insight.
• You’ll play a key role in revenue reporting and analysis, oversee revenue-related accounts, and work closely with our Sales and Account Management teams, known internally as Pods, to ensure accuracy, visibility, and strong financial control across the revenue cycle.
• This is a hands-on, analytical role in a fast-growing, international tech business.
• **What You’ll Be Doing**
• Prepare and analyse revenue reporting, identifying trends, variances, and key drivers
• Support month-end processes related to revenue and revenue-linked balance sheet accounts
• Reconcile and monitor revenue-related bank accounts
• Oversee accounts receivable reporting, including ageing and debtor trends
• Review and support credit control activities, including bad debt follow-ups
• Monitor and manage card payment disputes, for example Stripe
• Work with large datasets across multiple systems to ensure data accuracy
• Build and improve reports, models, and dashboards
• Partner closely with Sales and Account Management Pods
• Identify process improvements and support ad hoc finance projects

Requirements

• BCom degree or similar, preferably in Financial Management, Finance, or Financial and Data Analysis
• Minimum of three years post-tertiary experience
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Comfortable working independently
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets
• Strong attention to detail with a commercial mindset
• Confident communicator who enjoys working with non-finance stakeholders
• Experience in revenue, accounts receivable, or credit control
• Exposure to payment platforms or banking tools such as Stripe or Modulr
• Experience with SQL and Looker
• Background in a fast-growing or international business

Benefits

• 23 days paid holiday days (plus public holidays)
• An extra day off for your birthday - because who wants to work on their birthday?
• Employee discounts – at heaps of restaurants, shops, gym memberships, cinema tickets and more
• Pawternity - We encourage proud parents of new pets to work from home to help their new member settle in
• Laptop - for business use