Remote Group CFO

A remote Group CFO role for an NGO, responsible for leading financial strategy, governance, and operational stewardship across multiple entities and countries. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on financial control, ensuring sustainability, compliance, and effective fund use. The candidate should be based in Cape Town or Nelspruit.

Location: Remote (South Africa)

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of medium- and long-term financial strategy, including funding runway, capital allocation, reserves and scenario planning
• Provide decision-ready financial insight to the Board, investors and funders through high-quality reporting, forecasts and analysis
• Ensure financial strategy aligns with organisational objectives, pricing models, programme outcomes and funding structures
• Deliver accurate and timely group budgets, rolling forecasts, cash flow projections and statutory financial statements
• Maintain general ledger integrity, audit readiness and full statutory and tax compliance across all entities
• Produce consolidated management accounts and entity-level reporting for Boards, donors and funders
• Actively monitor funding adequacy and liquidity across all countries and entities
• Manage banking relationships, inter-company cash movements and foreign settlements
• Identify and mitigate funding gaps through proactive cash flow planning
• Maintain a strong internal control environment including delegations of authority, treasury, procurement and reserves policies
• Lead financial risk management, tax efficiency and compliance frameworks across multiple jurisdictions
• Ensure audit findings, due diligence actions and high-risk issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Review and approve major procurement commitments, pricing and freight within budget and cash flow limits
• Oversee financial terms in contracts and funding agreements to minimise risk and protect organisational interests
• Lead, develop and retain a high-performing finance and data team
• Build succession, multi-skilling and financial literacy across the organisation
• Strengthen analytical and reporting capability to support strategic decision-making
• Act as a trusted financial steward, promoting integrity, accountability and collaboration
• Embed strong financial governance while supporting the organisation’s mission and values

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualification (CA/ACCA/CIMA)
• 10+ years' post articles with group level responsibility
• Track record in analytics-enabled decision support
• International non-profit and multi-entity finance
• Donor compliance
• Financial Risk Management within regional and sector context
• Procurement and contracting basics