Treasurer

At Mukuru, treasury is not just about managing cash — it is about enabling millions of cross-border transactions to move seamlessly, securely, and on time.

We are looking for a commercially minded and detail-driven Treasurer to join our Finance team. This role plays a critical part in ensuring liquidity across our pay-out partners and verticals, supporting sustainable growth while managing financial risk in a dynamic FinTech environment.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex funding challenges, and want to work at the heart of financial operations, this opportunity is for you.

The Treasurer is responsible for monitoring and managing funding positions across multiple accounts, ensuring that all partners and internal verticals are sufficiently pre-funded to meet operational demands.

You will work closely with internal finance teams, business stakeholders, banks, auditors, and third-party partners to ensure smooth treasury operations and sound financial risk management.

• Monitor daily funding positions across pay-out partners and own verticals

• Ensure sufficient liquidity to meet operational requirements

• Identify potential funding gaps and proactively manage exposures

• Assist in preparing short-, medium- and long-term cash flow forecasts

• Analyse trends to support strategic funding decisions

• Support surplus cash management to maximise returns while mitigating risk

• Support the implementation and monitoring of financial risk management strategies

• Develop and enhance preventive and detective treasury controls

• Understand financial and operational risk exposure across funding channels

• Liaise with banking partners, auditors and third-party pay-in/pay-out providers

• Maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders

• Manage administration of treasury accounts with external providers

• Assist with treasury reporting and performance tracking

• Support new product launches from a treasury perspective

• Contribute to improving treasury processes, systems and documentation

• Maintain structured, process-driven workflows

• Grade 12 (Essential)

• BCom Accounting or relevant qualification (Essential)

• SAICA Articles (Advantageous)

• 3+ years’ treasury experience (Advantageous)

• Experience within a multinational environment (Advantageous)

• Strong understanding of accounting principles

• Advanced Excel proficiency

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability

• Excellent organisational and time management skills

• High attention to detail

• Strong communication skills, comfortable engaging senior stakeholders

• Process-oriented mindset

Knowledge of Mukuru products and systems is advantageous.

I am sure you are reading this job description and meet majority of the criteria BUT you may also still not be 100% comfortable in applying. We believe that there is a place for everyone under the Mukuru sun and we want YOU to contribute to our diverse tapestry of talent. So come on, take a leap of faith, and send your application if you meet majority of our requirements. Remember to include a snippet of how you will bring value and help us build a future of success that will help us determine where and how you may best be suited” Maybe you are just the future Mukurian we need!!

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.
If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS