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Houst

Finance Analyst

Cape Town , South Africa
full-time

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Join a dynamic international tech business as a Finance Analyst, focusing on revenue reporting, analysis, and partnering with Sales and Account Management teams to drive accuracy and insights.

We’re looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst who loves working with numbers, data, and systems, and who can turn financial information into clear, actionable insight.

You’ll play a key role in revenue reporting and analysis, oversee revenue-related accounts, and work closely with our Sales and Account Management teams, known internally as Pods, to ensure accuracy, visibility, and strong financial control across the revenue cycle.

This is a hands-on, analytical role in a fast-growing, international tech business.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Prepare and analyse revenue reporting, identifying trends, variances, and key drivers
  • Support month-end processes related to revenue and revenue-linked balance sheet accounts
  • Reconcile and monitor revenue-related bank accounts
  • Oversee accounts receivable reporting, including ageing and debtor trends
  • Review and support credit control activities, including bad debt follow-ups
  • Monitor and manage card payment disputes, for example Stripe
  • Work with large datasets across multiple systems to ensure data accuracy
  • Build and improve reports, models, and dashboards
  • Partner closely with Sales and Account Management Pods
  • Identify process improvements and support ad hoc finance projects

Requirements

  • BCom degree or similar, preferably in Financial Management, Finance, or Financial and Data Analysis
  • Minimum of three years post-tertiary experience
  • Strong numerical and analytical skills
  • Comfortable working independently
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets
  • Strong attention to detail with a commercial mindset
  • Confident communicator who enjoys working with non-finance stakeholders
  • Experience in revenue, accounts receivable, or credit control
  • Exposure to payment platforms or banking tools such as Stripe or Modulr
  • Experience with SQL and Looker
  • Background in a fast-growing or international business

Benefits

  • 23 days paid holiday days (plus public holidays)
  • An extra day off for your birthday - because who wants to work on their birthday?
  • Employee discounts – at heaps of restaurants, shops, gym memberships, cinema tickets and more
  • Pawternity - We encourage proud parents of new pets to work from home to help their new member settle in
  • Laptop - for business use

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Business use laptop: Laptop - for business use
  • Paid Time Off: 23 days paid holiday days (plus public holidays)
Houst

We’re Houst, a property management company. Our mission is to make Houst the global home of hosting. We’ve signed up thousands of happy hosts, helping them to make over £115,000,000 in earnings. The business has expanded worldwide – we’re operating in over 20 cities globally, from Auckland to Lisbon, and there’s a lot more to come. We have three types of customers (hosts, guests and cleaners), we built the Houst product for our hosts. From holidaymakers to full-time landlords; host happiness is central to everything we do.

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