Financial Accountant
Globeleq
Accounting & Finance
South Africa
Posted on Oct 29, 2025
For more than 20 years, Globeleq has been a long-term investor, developer, owner and operator of diversified power projects in Africa, where the company is one of the largest Independent Power Producers. With nearly 1,800MW of generation capacity in operation across 17 power plants in 7 countries, 485MW of new power projects in construction and >2,000MW in development, Globeleq is one of the largest independent power producers solely focused in Africa. Globeleq is 70% owned by British International Investment and 30% by Norfund, the development finance institutions of the UK and Norway, and has a proven track record for supporting the ongoing development of the African power sector.
Globeleq’s various generation technologies include gas, wind, solar PV, battery energy storage (BESS), and geothermal. The company is also actively pursuing new opportunities which are emerging from the energy transition.
Globeleq is hiring a Financial Accountant. This role is responsible for ensuring that the accounting and financial reporting for Globeleq corporate entities are maintained accurately and timeously, for coordinating internally to record intercompany recharges and reconcile intercompany accounts on a regular basis, and for supporting the Group Finance function with any ad-hoc administrative requirements or project work.
The role will be based in Cape Town, South Africa.
- Application Deadline
- November 11, 2025
- Department
- Finance
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Location
- South Africa
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Group Accounting Manager
Key Responsibilities
Prepare and manage transactional and reporting processes
- Complete all calculations and capture necessary month end entries including accruals, tax, deferred tax, intercompany transactions, etc.
- Invoicing of intercompany recharges as required.
- Maintain fixed asset registers, including creation of new assets and disposals and monitoring of spend against budget.
- Prepare balance sheet and key income statement reconciliations.
- Prepare payroll journals and reconciliation of key payroll related accounts.
- Prepare and present the finance inputs and analysis for monthly shareholder and stakeholder reports and board reports including explanations of key variances.
- Complete year end packs.
- Responsible for completion and filing of tax returns including VAT, Income Tax, WHT, etc.
Cash Flow Management
- Work closely with the treasury team to ensure timeous receipts of debtors’ balance and settlement of creditor payments.
- Monitor cash requirements for the business and engage timeously on funding requirements.
Statutory and Compliance Reporting
- Support in preparing year end financial statements and facilitating the interim and year-end audit requirements.
- Ad hoc compliance reports from external parties as required.
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Partner with the operations teams on the budgeting and forecasting process.
- Complete budget reporting templates.
- Upload of budgets into the accounting system.
Support the Broader Team
- Ad hoc support to the broader Group Finance team on administrative or compilation requirements as required.
Ad hoc involvement in finance process improvement or special projects as required.
Skills and Competencies
- Sound technical, business and financial reporting skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Delivery-oriented, able to manage time, prioritize and to adhere to strict deadlines.
- Able to solve problems logically.
- Excellent verbal communication; includes being responsive, having good listening skills and being able to communicate appropriately with all levels of personnel.
- Excellent written communication; includes writing clear, concise e-mails and report-writing.
- Excellent team player; able to balance team and individual responsibilities.
- Able to self-manage and work well independently.
- Able and willing to learn quickly.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
- Minimum Chartered Accountant (CA) (SA) qualification or equivalent NQF level qualification
- Minimum 3 years post-qualifying (or post articles) experience in a commercial and/or corporate environment (outside of audit)
- Relevant experience working with Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word and Excel)
- Relevant working experience with an ERP system
- Knowledge of financial systems, financial processes and internal control mechanisms
- Renewable energy experience is an advantage
- Experience in a shared services environment is an advantage
- Experience in a multi-company or multi-entity is an advantage
- Experience in an asset-intensive organisation is an advantage
About Globeleq
We develop, own and operate power plants utilising various technologies across the African continent. With many years of international industry experience, the support of committed shareholders, and long-standing project, technology, finance and government partnerships, we have the financial strength, management and operational expertise to power Africa to realise its potential.
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