Junior Financial Accountant; Contract basis, Full time 

Cape Town, Remote, 1-3 days per month in the office.  

Fulltime | Reports to: Senior Financial Accountant 

About Smartwyre

Founded in 2018, Smartwyre is a venture-financed SaaS business delivering enterprise software to large agricultural businesses, operating in a $400 billion global industry. With an estimated 5 million farmers and over 5,000 distributors globally, Smartwyre works across the agricultural supply chain, from large corporations to local farms. Presently, we work from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and South America.

We are building a B2B SaaS platform to network together the commercial operations of the companies that supply the world’s farmers with seeds, fertilizer, chemicals, and services, with their target markets being the United States, Europe, and Latin America. We aim to first offer SaaS applications to solve key commercial pain points (pricing, costing, quoting), then network these companies using a common data platform (transactional data exchange, product information publication, people networking, and user analytics), and finally empower the network to facilitate new business model amongst network participants.

About the role

Smartwyre is seeking a motivated Junior Accountant looking to expand their experience by supporting the global finance team and assist with key month end process.  This role is ideal for someone early in their accounting career that will gain hands-on experience across a wide range of finance activities in a growing, international SaaS business. 

You will be responsible for day-to-day transactional accounting, bank postings and reconciliations, AP invoices and employee expense processing. Working closely with the Senior Financial accountant, you’ll help ensure our financial records remain accurate, timely, and well organised, while contributing to ongoing process improvements. 

What you'll do

• Perform regular bank postings and bank reconciliations for all entities 
• Assist in preparation of the monthly management accounts including monthly balance sheet reconciliations 
• Posting of supplier invoices in Ramp 
• Check posting and confirm policies are followed by all employees when submitting expense reimbursements 
• Ensure customer invoices are paid within the agreed terms 
• Maintain accurate financial records and help prepare audit documentation 
• Ensure seamless integrations between finance systems 
• Assist with ad hoc financial tasks, analysis, and process improvements requested by the finance team 

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year accounting experience, or strong academic background with internships 
• Understanding of core accounting principles and double entry bookkeeping 
• Experience with bank reconciliations or transactional accounting 
• Intermediate Excel skills (lookups, basic formulas, pivot tables) 
• High attention to detail and a proactive, organised work style 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

Desirable

• Experience with finance systems (e.g., NetSuite, Ramp, Rippling) 
• Experience working in a multicurrency or multi entity environment