Zepz

Assistant Manager, Finance Operations

Zepz  •  South Africa (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Assistant Manager, Finance Operations

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together

Our Meaningful Mission
At Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech.

Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave,  driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections.

Who You'll Be Joining

We look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and  Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.

Our Core Commitments — What We Live By
Our vibrant and truly diverse culture is built on three core commitments, that guide how we work and interact:
Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.

Perks of Joining Our Team

We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. Our remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive. This freedom comes with wonderful tailored, location-specific perks designed to support your whole life, not just your work. Think unlimited annual leave , great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel

About The Role
Zepz is looking for a driven and detail-oriented leader to support our Financial Operations - Payout Team of accountants. This role sits within the Product domain, but works very closely with Finance, acting as a team lead for our reconciliation analysts.
This team’s core mission is to ensure that we accurately represent money owed to or from partners in our financial statements. As an Assistant Manager, you will ensure the team delivers a consistently predictable and repeatable process. You will act with integrity and build trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction , ensuring we are doing right by every user in paying out their funds.

Key Areas of Ownership
  • Team Leadership: Leading a reconciliation team to deliver a consistently predictable and repeatable process, fostering a culture of clear accountability for deliverables and leading by example.
  • Operational Excellence: Monitoring the day-to-day reconciliation process including alignment with the data,  operations, and funding teams.
  • Reconciliation Management: Overseeing financial reconciliations of partner accounts and transactions, ensuring impeccable review processes and data hygiene.
  • Issue Resolution: Managing the resolution of unmatched items or breaks, with regular reporting and aging analysis. You will identify, investigate, and resolve the root causes of reconciliation issues, which are often complex and technical in nature.
  • Audit Support: Supporting the Manager in leading internal and external audits of payout partners and transactions.
  • Process Improvement: Developing the team’s capability to ensure accuracy and timeliness of key tasks and collaborating with the Manager to automate and improve processes.

About You
  • Operator at Heart: You have experience in financial accounting but are constantly seeking to automate, improve, and deliver for the end customer.
  • Ruthless Prioritizer: You can execute under pressure whilst meeting deadlines and are comfortable putting tasks on the back burner to focus on the highest impact work.
  • Problem Solver: You don’t stop asking “why” until you understand the root cause of an issue.
  • Collaborative: You have a proven track record of working effectively with people at all levels both internal and external to the business.
  • Flexible: You have the ability to work in a flexible manner to meet changing priorities and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced contexts.

What You Bring to the Table
  • Experience: Significant reconciliation experience with proven understanding of accounting principles and journals.
  • Team Management: Proven experience in leading teams of reconciliation analysts in FinTech, financial services, payments, or other high transaction volume industries.
  • Qualifications: Professional or commercial qualifications are an advantage.
  • Technical Skills: Experience managing and analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets, including using SQL and other reporting analytics tools.
  • Tools: Advanced MS Office/Google Suite tools capability, specifically Excel. Experience with reconciliation tools (e.g. Autorek) is a bonus.
  • Communication: Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

AI Literacy & Tools
As Zepz continues to build AI into how we work, we expect everyone to engage with it as a core part of their role. For this position we are looking for:
  • A genuine curiosity about AI and how it can be applied in your area of work — from accelerating analysis and insight generation, to improving how we design and deliver processes and communications.
  • Practical experience using AI tools in a professional context — whether to connect information, draft content, build frameworks, or create insights from data. We want people who actively use AI to increase productivity, not those who are waiting to be told to.
  • Strong AI literacy — an understanding of what AI assistants can and cannot do, how to prompt effectively, and how to critically evaluate AI-generated output before using it.
  • Awareness of the ethical considerations and responsible use of AI in the workplace, particularly in the context of sensitive data, customer experience, and compliance.
  • Prior experience using Claude (Anthropic) is a nice-to-have but not essential — what matters most is that you are genuinely engaged with AI as a tool, comfortable experimenting, and eager to share what works with your wider team

If you want to join us in our journey to help break barriers in financial access and improve lives globally, there's no better place or time to join.

Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world.

Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.

Zepz

About Zepz

Zepz is powering two leading global payments brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. We represent brands that disrupted an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by taking international money transfers online - making global digital payments fairer, faster, and more flexible. Our brands currently send from 50 to 130 countries, operate in more than 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 800 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.

On the sending side our brands are 100% digital (cashless), increasing convenience and enhancing security. For those receiving money, our brands offer a wide range of options including bank deposit, cash collection, mobile airtime top-up and mobile money.

www.zepzpay.com

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Unknown
Year Founded
2021
Website
zepz.io
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