# Head of Finance Operations

**Company**: AI Acquisition
**Location**: South Africa
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137175740

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## Description

We're not hiring a CFO. We're not hiring a spreadsheet builder. We're not hiring someone who needs a team of five to do the work of one. We need a Finance Operator. Someone who walks into organised chaos, rolls up their sleeves, oversees the right people and processes, and doesn't leave until it's a machine.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will report directly to and support our Director of Finance freeing them from the operational grind so they can focus on strategy and growth. You will inherit a multi-entity structure with real operational complexity: live cash flow pressure, a payment infrastructure in transition, manual processes that need to be automated, and financial data that needs to be turned into clean, actionable systems.

Your mandate is simple: stabilise, systematise, and automate. You will oversee the people and processes that execute this work and where needed, you will get into the detail yourself.

**Cash Flow & Treasury Oversight & Execution**

- Own the daily cash cycle across all entities DMCC, Acquisity, AI Broker, and others

- Oversee and manage high-volume USD revenue flows from Whop into UAE bank accounts

- Ensure seamless daily funding of GBP/AED corporate cards for Meta ad spend ad accounts do not pause on your watch

- Build a live cash visibility system so the Director of Finance sees the position at a glance, not after a request

**Payment Infrastructure Lead the Transition**

- Lead the full migration from legacy Pleo/UK-entity setup to Qashio (UAE-native)

- Evaluate and implement Whop's virtual card platform for a direct, automated Meta spend link

- Eliminate manual card-topping and payment bottlenecks entirely

- Every payment flow you touch should end up tracked, reconciled, and automated

**Systems, SOPs & Automation**

- Audit every manual finance process. If a human is doing it repeatedly, it should be automated or systematised

- Build and implement SOPs across cash management, reporting, payments, refunds, and reconciliation and ensure the team follows them

- Work with our external bookkeeping partner (Emifast) to ensure Xero is accurate, current, and structured properly across all entities

- Convert chaotic financial data into clean, trackable dashboards the Director of Finance and executive team can rely on

**Entity & Vendor Management**

- Oversee financial operations across 2–3 entities, each with different products and revenue structures

- Hold external bookkeeping accountable quality, timeliness, accuracy. No exceptions

- Manage the financial wind-down of the legacy UK entity once the new payment infrastructure is live

**Reporting**

- Deliver distilled, executive-ready reporting: cash position, P&L by entity, key risks in five bullet points, not twenty tabs

- Surface profitability issues early, particularly for Acquisity, which needs clear diagnosis and corrective action

- Build reporting rhythms so the Director of Finance is never caught off guard

**Requirements**

- 5+ years in a finance operations, treasury, or senior finance execution role , not advisory, not modelling, not investment banking

- Experience leading or overseeing finance operations teams, external partners, or cross-functional processes

- Direct hands-on experience managing high-volume, multi-currency cash flows (USD, GBP, AED)

- Proven track record building and implementing SOPs in finance operations

- Experience managing external bookkeeping or accounting firms and holding them to a standard

- Strong working knowledge of Xero, Wise, Whop, and corporate card platforms (Pleo, Qashio or similar)

**Our Culture**

We are a high-performance, remote-first team operating in one of the fastest-moving sectors in the world. We do not have time for:

- Vague updates and no ownership

- Problems that get buried instead of surfaced

- People who wait to be told what to do

- Complexity that exists to impress rather than to solve

We do have time for:

- People who see a mess and immediately start building the solution

- Direct, clear communication even when it's uncomfortable

- Operators who take ownership and don't need hand-holding

- Anyone who can simplify the complex, lead others effectively, and automate the repetitive

## Skills

### Required
- finance operations
- treasury
- senior finance execution
- cash flow management
- payment infrastructure
- systems automation
- SOPs implementation
- Xero
- Wise
- Whop
- corporate card platforms

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