Finance Controller at Jabu
Location: Zambia (1-year contract with potential for extension)
Company: Jabu – Innovating Cash Management Across Southern Africa
Are you a finance professional with a sense of adventure? Are you ready to make a real impact with a fintech company transforming cash handling for suppliers, wholesalers, and businesses across Southern Africa? Join us at Jabu, where we’re creating something massive—a groundbreaking ecosystem with cutting-edge technology, a multi-talented global team, and a rapidly growing market footprint in countries like Zambia, Namibia, and beyond.
About Jabu
Jabu is a YCombinator backed Southern African fintech company reshaping how businesses manage cash. With investments from the top venture capital firms worldwide, we’re empowering wholesalers and suppliers with smart safes, cash digitization, and seamless reconciliation processes. Jabu’s impact is felt across every touchpoint of cash handling, from Cash-in-Transit (CIT) logistics to real-time reconciliations that offer unmatched transparency and security. And as we keep expanding, we’re driven by one vision: making cash management easier, safer, and more efficient for businesses across the region.
The Role: Finance Controller
As our Finance Controller, you will play a critical role in building and scaling Jabu’s financial structure and controls to support our ambitious growth. You’ll relocate to Zambia for a one-year adventure, collaborating with our leadership team to establish the financial strategies and systems that will propel us to new heights. Your work will ensure we maintain rigorous financial integrity as we grow across Southern Africa.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement financial strategies to support Jabu’s rapid scaling in Southern Africa, managing key metrics and ensuring alignment with business goals
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead financial planning, including budgeting and forecasting, to guide Jabu’s financial trajectory in a high-growth environment
- Financial Reporting & Compliance: Oversee financial reporting processes, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of financial statements, compliance with regulations, and readiness for potential audits
- Cash Flow Management & Reconciliation: Design and manage efficient cash flow controls, reconciliation processes, and CIT operations, aligning with Jabu’s mission to make cash management seamless for clients
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to company leadership, delivering financial insights that shape strategic decision-making and keep us at the forefront of the industry
- Process Optimization: Identify and implement financial process improvements, optimizing everything from cash handling to financial reporting for scalability and efficiency
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in financial management, controlling, or similar roles—ideally within fintech, banking, or a high-growth, technology-driven environment
- Strong Knowledge of reconciliation, cash flow management, financial controls, and compliance standards
- Analytical & Strategic Mindset with the ability to interpret financial data, identify trends, and make recommendations that drive growth
- Willingness to Relocate to Zambia (and work across Southern Africa) for at least one year, with a strong desire to explore and contribute to emerging markets
- Adaptability to thrive in a dynamic, multicultural environment and contribute to our collaborative, results-driven team
What We Do
ABU (YC S21) is a B2B marketplace and last-mile distribution partner, offering tech-enabled, route-to-market development and merchandising for FMCG brands in undeveloped areas while helping unbanked businesses grow through efficient delivery, an affordable product basket, inventory management, and credit facilities.
Headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia, we are reinventing the way retailers in the informal sector order, stock, and receive supplies for their shops in Southern Africa.
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