Job Description

Meet Ozow
Ozow is a leading fintech company redefining digital payments across South Africa and beyond. We're committed to making payments more accessible, secure, and frictionless for businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing tech business, we value innovation, accountability, and collaboration - and we're building a team that thrives on solving meaningful challenges.
About the Role
We are looking for a technically strong, analytically minded Revenue Accountant to join our Finance team. This role is responsible for managing end-to-end revenue and accounts receivable processes, ensuring high-quality data, reliable controls, and strong governance in a complex, high-volume payments environment.
You will play a key role in maintaining the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of revenue reporting, supporting FP&A with dependable inputs, and strengthening operational processes as Ozow continues to scale.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Execution

• Manage the full accounts receivable cycle, including invoicing, collections, allocations, and reconciliations.
• Maintain accurate ageing schedules and proactively follow up on overdue merchant accounts.
• Track, validate, and report revenue earned across high-volume transaction sources.
• Monitor merchant accounts and attend to internal and external queries timeously.
• Prepare audit support for all revenue and AR-related processes.
• Support ad-hoc revenue and data analysis as required.

Technical Accuracy & Compliance

• Ensure timely and accurate revenue recognition in line with IFRS and internal accounting policies.
• Maintain strong governance over billing processes, credit notes, adjustments, and approval workflows.
• Uphold documentation, audit trails, and control standards across the revenue function.
• Support internal and external audits with clear, well-prepared schedules and reconciliations.

Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Calculate and validate revenue impacts of credit notes, adjustments, merchant changes, and settlement variances.
• Provide accurate revenue data and reconciliations to support FP&A forecasting, budgeting, and month-end reporting.
• Identify anomalies or irregularities in revenue flows and work collaboratively to resolve root causes.
• Enhance and document SOPs, process maps, and governance frameworks to improve consistency and reduce manual intervention.
• Recommend improvements to streamline and strengthen the revenue and AR cycle.

Systems, Data & Automation

• Utilise Xero, data tools, and fintech platforms to automate AR and revenue processes where possible.
• Work confidently with large data sets across multiple systems.
• Support financial system improvements, integrations, and automation initiatives, including AI-driven solutions.

You Are an Ideal Candidate If You Have

• 5+ years' experience in Revenue Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Debtors, or a similar analytical finance role.

• A relevant accounting qualification (degree or diploma) with solid foundational accounting knowledge.

• Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation, complex lookups, pivot tables, and high-volume reconciliations.

• Proven experience working with large data volumes and complex, multi-step processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to build rapport and manage relationships across internal teams and external merchants.

• Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, and a high sense of ownership.

• Experience with Xero (advantageous).

• Experience in fintech, payments, or transaction-based environments (advantageous).

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth business where accuracy, accountability, and teamwork are essential.

Your skills and competencies

• You eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation.
• Ability to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company.
• A trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact-those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day.
• You thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures-valuing collective success over individual credit.
• Demonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes.
• You challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth-for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build.
• You are a decisive doer-those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure results through courageous, hands-on leadership.
• We value optimism, agility, and the strength to persevere under pressure-balancing performance with positivity, even in challenging environments.
• You are driven, proactive individuals who take ownership, face challenges with grit, and consistently push for excellence-not just as participants, but as catalysts for success.

Interview process
During the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Be prepared to complete a technical assessment that will showcase your skills.
In office perks

• Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks
• Monthly team connects
• On-site Barista
• Birthday Leave

Perks for South African based employees

• Medical aid subsidy
• Group Risk Insurance
• Generous paid annual leave
• Birthday leave
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Mentorship programme
• Quarterly team building
• Community initiatives
• Access to cutting edge technology -

Our Employee Value Proposition
Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.
Compliance
As a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards
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