Finance Assistant
About Us
The Company: Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work. At Dotdigital, collaboration and curiosity pave the way for meaningful connections and learning opportunities with diverse peers. Our work environment encourages knowledge sharing, fosters exploration, and cherishes creative ideas. Combined, these guide us towards a shared vision in which brands around the world exceed customer expectations through the adoption of responsible marketing practices.
The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data silos, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and more.
About the Role
Role Purpose: To assist in the performance of the Accounts function for the organisation. To provide support to the accounts team with key areas such as accounts payable/ receivables
The role will suit a candidate who has experience in AP/AR. With the potential to progress their career in finance as the company grows
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide support primarily for the Accounts Payable function
- Process invoices accurately and efficiently for the UK and other entities including identifying prepayments and accruals
- Assist with the new Expense system, and processing expenses through it from employee submission through to posting into Sage
- Reporting and loading multi-currency mid and month end supplier payment runs through the bank (NatWest/ HSBCnet and others)
- Answering queries from suppliers, contractors, and other business departments about accounts payable and payments made
- Posting and reconciling intercompany invoices
- Supplier/Customer account reconciliations/ Bank reconciliations including supplier payments
- Posting/coding company credit cards, prepaid cards, and travel bookings into Sage 200
- Perform daily global banking for our international subsidiaries, entering customer BACS/ credit card receipts and allocations & liaising with credit control
- Assist the accounts team with daily/weekly/ month-end close processes wherever needed
- Take on any ad hoc projects as and when required
- Cross train with the team to provide holiday and sick cover as and when required
- Provide any assistance necessary during our year end group Audit
About You
- The ideal candidate will have a minimum 3-5 years’ industry experience within an AP/AR role or similar in a busy environment.
- Experience with online banking for payments and receipts
- Good Data entry skills for accurately processing invoices and payment runs in multiple currencies
- Basic bookkeeping and accounting knowledge
- Good email and phone skills for dealing with suppliers and other stakeholders
- Experience with MS Excel and Sage (other systems will be considered)
- Will need to be confident, motivated and have a professional manner. They will need to have good time management and organisational skills and be willing to learn and show an appetite to progress within the role
- The atmosphere is intellectually challenging, demanding, friendly, non-bureaucratic and continually evolving. Although the atmosphere is relaxed it is highly professional in nature and very much committed to providing a quality service to our customers and satisfying their needs
Why Us
Don’t just take our word for it - hear what your future colleagues have to say about working in our team:
"Dotdigital is a great place to challenge yourself, we grow with and not for the company, as a team we share knowledge and always help each other out"
Interview Process
- 15min Screening Call with Team Talent
- 1 hour video interview with Financial Accountant and a team member
- 1 hour FINAL video interview with Group Finance Manager & Financial Accountant
Some of Our Global Benefits
- Parental leave
- Medical benefits
- Paid sick leave
- Dotdigital day
- Share reward
- Wellbeing reward
- Wellbeing Days
- Loyalty reward
DEI commitment
As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to equality in all its practices with regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. If you have any additional requirements or adjustments to assist an application then please don't hesitate to contact us and advise us how we can best support you.
Legal statement
No agencies/recruiters please. We are only accepting applications directly from the applicants. If you are a recruiter, please refrain from reaching out to our staff about this position. Anything contrary will be treated as unsolicited approach under the applicable data protection law.
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Cape Town
- Remote status
- Hybrid

Cape Town
Workplace & Culture
It all started in a pub in Croydon, UK – we even have the original tables and stools in our London Bridge HQ. Today, we’re a growing global business with 350+ employees and counting. So if you’re interested in becoming part of the dotfamily there may be an opportunity for you.
About Dotdigital
Building tools to help marketers connect with their customers
For over 20 years Dotdigital has been working with brands to improve their marketing and engagement. Our platform has continued to innovate to meet the demands of the data-driven world whose brands and consumers expect seamless, relevant, instantaneous connections wherever they are, whenever.
Dotdigital’s 400+ employees serve mid-market and enterprise companies around the world and across industries. We aspire to inspire responsible marketing and are committed to sustainability, privacy & security. Dotdigital is proud to be the world’s first carbon neutral, ISO14001, ISO 27701 & ISO27001 certified marketing automation platform.
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