Commercial Finance Manager – Team Lead

New Senior Contract Opportunity – Team Lead: Commercial Finance Manager

Salt’s partnering with one of South Africa’s most innovative, high-growth banking brands on a 6-month hybrid contract (with potential to go permanent).

They’re looking for a Commercial Finance Team Lead to drive financial performance across payments, merchant services, and digital finance, working directly with senior leaders and C-suite stakeholders.

📍 Stellenbosch (Hybrid – 60% on-site)
✨ Lead across Payments, Merchant Services & Digital Finance
✨ High-impact role with executive visibility
✨ CA(SA) preferred
✨ Ideal start: ASAP

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Role Overview

Lead and develop a team of Finance Business Partners, ensuring alignment between operational drivers, business strategy, and financial performance. Provide strategic commercial insights and enable effective financial decision-making across business portfolios.

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Key Responsibilities

1. People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Finance Business Partners

• Manage performance, set objectives, and support development

• Maintain strong communication and workflow frameworks

• Support recruitment and talent capability growth

2. Operational Oversight

• Oversee finance partnering delivery across allocated business areas

• Ensure adherence to best-practice processes and governance

• Drive continuous improvement and process optimisation

• Resolve escalations and maintain strong stakeholder relationships

3. Delivery & Business Alignment

• Scope and prioritise finance partnering work for the team

• Coordinate cross-functionally to support strategic financial management

• Quality-assure deliverables and support capacity planning

• Ensure alignment with business needs and performance objectives

4. Technical & Functional Expertise

• Apply advanced finance partnering capability where needed

• Provide commercial insight, financial analysis, and decision support

• Support strategic planning across payments and merchant portfolios

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Experience Required

• 5+ years in financial accounting or finance business partnering

• 2+ years leading or managing finance professionals

• Strong stakeholder engagement experience

• Proven delivery in a high-performance, continuously improving environment

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Qualifications

Minimum:

• Honours in Accounting / Financial Accounting / Commerce

Preferred:

• CA(SA)

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Key Skills

• Leadership & coaching

• Financial analysis & commercial insight

• Strategic planning & prioritisation

• Communication & relationship management

• Problem-solving, decision-making, and numerical reasoning

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Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit checks

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.