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About the role:

• Apex is seeking a qualified tax accountant with a passion to further develop their knowledge and skills in an exciting and challenging role. The new role will be based in Cape Town and will report into the Director of Tax Compliance, who is also based in Cape Town. The role will ultimately report into Apex’s Global Head of Tax based in London.
• The ideal candidate will need to have a good understanding of corporation tax compliance issues and experience of managing tax filings on an international basis.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with external tax advisors to manage the groups international tax compliance obligations, ensuring accuracy and adherence to evolving tax legislation
• Ensure accurate and timely tax reporting under IFRS/UK GAAP and provide input into group consolidated reporting
• Responsibility for managing the group’s tax cash flow position and ensuring all tax payments are correctly reflected in plan/budget
• Preparing and reviewing of VAT computations across the group (in select jurisdictions)
• Involvement in preparing local transfer pricing files
• Working with the director of compliance and reporting to ensure adherence to the group’s tax risk management framework

Candidate Requirements:

• ACA/ACCA/CTA qualified (or equivalent) with more than 5 years PQE
• Strong understanding of corporate income taxes and exposure to international tax matters
• Experience with IFRS tax provisioning
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across finance, legal, and operational teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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Role Purpose

• The VP, Revenue Performance & Reporting is responsible for producing and governing Apex Group’s group level revenue reporting and performance cadence. The role ensures executive and board stakeholders have a clear, consistent, and decision ready view of revenue performance, risks, and outlook.
• Reporting to the Head of Revenue Governance & Strategy, this role owns the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and board level revenue reporting cycle, acting as the central point of accountability for revenue performance visibility.

Key Responsibilities

Revenue Performance Reporting & Cadence

Own group level revenue reporting, including:

• Weekly pipeline, wins, and progression updates (Monday)
• Group revenue forecasts (Friday)
• Monthly, quarterly, and board reporting.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of all revenue performance outputs.
• Translate complex data into clear executive narratives, highlighting risks, variances, and outlook.

Forecast & Performance Quality Control

• Act as the quality gate on group forecasts and performance commentary.
• Validate assumptions, investigate discrepancies, and challenge unexplained variances ahead of executive review.
• Ensure performance discussions are fact based, comparable, and decision oriented.

Executive & Board Reporting

• Prepare and coordinate board, ExCo, and senior leadership materials, including PowerPoint decks and supporting analyses.
• Ensure a consistent revenue story across all leadership forums.
• Enable discussions to focus on actions and decisions, not data quality.

Compensation & Governance Support

• Coordinate preparation of sales compensation analyses and review materials, working closely with HR, Finance, and Revenue Strategy.
• Support governance of CRM, revenue recognition, and reporting model changes, ensuring impacts are reflected accurately in reporting.
• Partner with Systems & Territory Ops and Analytics teams on controlled implementation.

Leadership Support

• Support the Head of Revenue Governance & Strategy in preparation for:
• Board and investor discussions
• Key commercial decisions
• Executive planning and review sessions.
• Anticipate questions, prepare briefs, and surface risks early.

What Success Looks Like

• Weekly group pipeline and forecast reporting is accurate, timely, and trusted
• Senior leadership has a clear, consistent view of revenue performance
• Forecast accuracy and transparency improve quarter over quarter
• Board discussions focus on decisions, not data reconciliation
• Reduced reliance on individuals to “explain the numbers”
• Clear linkage between execution, performance, and incentives

Experience, Skills & Profile

Required

• 7–10 years’ experience in Revenue Operations, Revenue Analytics, Commercial Operations, FP&A, or Performance Management.
• Strong hands on technical capability:
• Advanced SQL – able to independently pull and validate data
• Salesforce expertise (essential) – reporting, dashboards, data structures
• Power BI expertise (essential) – building and interpreting leadership dashboards
• Proven experience producing board level and executive reporting, including forecasts, variance analysis, and performance narratives.
• High proficiency in PowerPoint, with clear, structured, executive ready output under tight deadlines.
• Leadership & Working Style
• High performing individual contributor, either stepping into first line management or a relatively junior manager who remains highly hands on.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast moving, high growth environment.
• Confident working with senior stakeholders; able to explain numbers clearly and challenge constructively.
• Highly collaborative across Finance, Sales, RevOps, Systems, and Analytics teams.

Preferred

• Experience in funds, financial services, fintech, or regulated environments.
• Background in high growth or scaling organisations with evolving reporting and governance needs.
• Exposure to forecasting, pipeline analysis, or sales compensation review cycles.

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Description

• We are seeking a Senior Financial Accountant, reporting to the Senior Finance Manager. The Senior Financial Accountant will be responsible for producing the financial outputs and required to implement processes to ensure the production of the accounting results is simple, relevant, and efficient. The role will involve reporting and presentation of the financial results to the business, its decision makers, external stakeholders and Group Finance.

Job specification

• Responsible for the complete accounting operations across multiple entities.
• Perform monthly revenue reconciliations and postings.
• Lead monthly revenue reporting for all businesses.
• Collaborate with Accounts Payable and Procurement to ensure accurate coding and allocation of costs.
• Interrogating data to validate accuracy and support business decision-making
• Manage expense accruals and prepayments across multiple OPEX areas.
• Maintain fixed asset registers including depreciation and wear and tear analysis.
• Review and authorise supplier account reconciliations.
• Coordinate prompt and accurate processing of payments to vendors.
• Conduct and manage bank, general ledger, debtors’ ledger, supplier ledger and intercompany account reconciliations.
• Monitor and report on company cash flows and handle cash drawdown requests.
• Support the development of annual budgets and financial forecasts.
• Collaborating with stakeholders including auditors, Group Finance and operational teams.
• Responsible for the overall delivery of accurate monthly financial reporting in accordance with predetermined deadlines to the business and Group Finance.
• Responsible for reporting and analysis as required, to provide value through ongoing and ad-hoc financial information to the business.
• Responsible for all statutory and regulatory reporting and filing.
• Ensure compliance with relevant laws, accounting standards, and company policies.
• Ensure the risks, administration and compliance with income tax, transfer pricing and VAT rules are understood, adhered to, and regularly reviewed.

Skills Required:

• Relevant degree and articles advantageous
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role, preferably in Financial Services.
• Experience in multi-currency, multi-company, and multi-jurisdictional accounting
• Cashflow and credit control management.
• Forecasting and budgeting.
• Up-to date working knowledge of international financial reporting standards and experience in preparation of statutory accounts accordance with those standards.
• Excellent computer skills, and in particular a good knowledge of: Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and Outlook email.
• Windows based accounting packages.
• Experience in income tax, VAT and CGT administration and calculations.
• The ability to communicate effectively with staff on all levels.
• The ability to prioritise and plan a challenging workload and to meet tight reporting deadlines.
• A systematic work method and attention to detail.

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business.
• Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience.
• Training and development opportunities
• A high level of visibility within a large organization on an upwards trajectory.
• The ability to define finance processes to drive innovation and have a tangible impact on the business.
• Be part of a dynamic and fast-paced team that makes a genuine impact on revenue.
   

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Description

• The role involves the management of the end-to-end delivery to clients in the Asset Allocator Operations team.  The individual will be required to manage the team, assisting with issues coming out of the operations, supporting the team, monitoring of the performance of the team, management reporting for the area, and ensuring processes are followed and standards are adhered to.

Job specification 

• Monitoring of service delivery by the team in terms of SLA and managing clients’ expectations regarding deliverables;
• The management of each individual team member’s performance and ensuring that output is always of a high quality;
• The management and coordination of team deliverables relating to projects and new client take-on;
• Providing mentorship and motivation to staff and ensuring that appropriate knowledge sharing and skills training are given;
• Responsibility for resolving issues that have been escalated by the team or clients;
• Ensure oversight responsibilities and team allocations are managed effectively;
• Record statistics regarding recon exposures for risk management;
• Responsibility for managing risk in the team's daily activities, by reviewing processes and ensuring that adequate controls are in place to mitigate risk;
• Monitor and log Incidents;
• Assessing opportunities for improved efficiencies and reduced overhead in existing processes, including new technologies and tools;
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with external clients regarding matters pertaining to dealing activities;
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal operational teams;
• Ensure that an SLA is in place and adhered to with external and internal clients.

Skills Required:

• B.Com Honours or similar tertiary business study and at least 3 years of experience in Asset Management portfolio administration;
• Minimum of 4 years of working experience in total
• A minimum of 2 years in a supervisory or team leadership role;
• Experience with reconciliation processes and oversight thereof;
• Sound knowledge and experience of back-office administration processes;
• Candidate needs to possess very strong communication skills (written & verbal);
• Confident & enthusiastic.

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Role summary:

• This an exciting opportunity for a Manager at Apex Group, reporting to a Senior Manager within the Alternative Assets team. The Manager will typically be responsible for assisting a small team of administrators that will provide quality and efficient client service to investors.

Key responsibilities:

• Working closely with Managers, Associate Directors and other staff as part of the team;
• Serve as primary point of contact for investor queries, ensuring timely and accurate responses and work with legal and finance teams to review and approve investor related materials Responding, and reviewing responses, to investor services related queries received from investors, clients, consultants and auditors as applicable;
• Proactively manage daily workflow, ensuring that tasks are completed to the highest standards, within agreed deadlines;
• Building and maintaining strong and trusted relationships with investors, clients and other internal operational areas;
• Adherence to internal policies, controls and processes;
• Demonstrate an ability to take responsibility for all aspects of investor/client care;
• Ensuring internal database records are maintained accurately, in relation to investor/client information and/or updated as circumstances change;
• Investor onboarding, including the collation and maintenance of KYC documentation required to meet regulatory requirements;
• Assisting with ad-hoc projects and general team administration and other such tasks as may be required;
• Act in the best interests of the division by supporting and mentoring more junior members of staff as applicable;
• Any other duties in the scope of the role that the company requires.

Skills / experience:

• Third level qualification in business, law, finance or a related field would be an advantage;
• Ideally previous compliance, trust or funds experience in a professional environment;
• Previous experience in a customer facing role with a proven track record of outstanding service;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Ability to prioritise, to adapt to changing business needs and to multitask;
• A professional manner, demonstrating good interpersonal skills and the ability to understand client’s/investor’s needs, responding to these quickly and effectively;
• Good organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Strong attention to detail; diligence and care in all aspects of the role;
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including MS Excel and Word;
• Motivated and driven.

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Description

• The role involves supporting the end-to-end delivery to clients in the Asset Allocator Operations team.  The individual will be required to assist the team with daily deliverables as well as any ad-hoc queries and projects, mainly focused on Asset Allocator (Replication) Fund administration and Accounting. 

Job specification 

• Monitoring and assisting with service delivery by the team in terms of SLA and managing clients’ expectations;
• Owning and running with queries and ad-hoc deliverables issues arising from operations;
• Full daily support for the team and the Manager;
• Coordination of team deliverables relating to projects and new client take-on;
• Providing mentorship and motivation to staff and ensuring that appropriate knowledge sharing and skills training are given;
• Responsibility for resolving issues that have been escalated by the team or clients;
• Ensure oversight responsibilities and team allocations are managed effectively;
• Record statistics regarding recon exposures for risk management;
• Responsibility for managing risk in the team's daily activities, by reviewing processes and ensuring that adequate controls are in place to mitigate risk;
• Assessing opportunities for improved efficiencies and reduced overhead in existing processes, including new technologies and tools;
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with external clients regarding matters relating to deliverables;
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal operational teams;
• Ensure that the SLA is adhered to for external and internal clients.

Skills Required:

• B.Com or similar tertiary business study and at least 3 years of experience in Asset Management portfolio administration;
• Minimum of 4 years of working experience;
• Experience with reconciliation processes and oversight thereof;
• Sound knowledge and experience of back-office administration processes;
• Solution orientated & strong problem-solving skills;
• Practical hands-on approach and the ability to ‘get things done’;
• Strong business acumen with excellent numeracy and a logical and analytical approach;
• Acts with the client in mind;
• The ability to think independently, solve problems, and have a hands-on mentality;
• A systematic work method and attention to detail;
• Embraces complexity to deliver simplicity and value;
• Strong Communication skills (written and verbal);
• Flexibility to work based on operational requirements, which may result in non-standard working hours from time to time.

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• We are seeking an accomplished senior leader to join our global marketing team as Head of Partnerships and Strategic Events. Reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer, you will lead Apex Group’s multi-year partnership with SailGP and oversee the planning and delivery of strategic Group events that strengthen brand visibility, deepen senior stakeholder engagement and deliver commercial value.
• This is a high-impact leadership role that brings together strategic partnership management, commercial judgement and event delivery expertise to maximise the value of Apex Group’s relationship with SailGP. The successful candidate will lead the full partnership lifecycle, including rights activation, race-weekend delivery and commercial negotiations, while working closely with the wider Sustainability team and the broader Marketing function to ensure the partnership is fully aligned with business priorities and amplified internally and externally.
• The role requires a strong grasp of best practice in partnership activation, disciplined performance reporting and the ability to measure delivery against agreed objectives. You will engage credibly with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives, regional leaders, commercial partners, clients and suppliers, serving as a visible ambassador for the Apex Group brand.
• We are looking for a highly credible and well-organised leader with a strong passion for partnerships, sport and purpose-led impact. You will bring sound judgement, a proactive and innovative mindset, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced global environment while engaging confidently with stakeholders at all levels. You will also be joining a high-performing team with a can-do attitude, strong sense of collaboration and a genuine commitment to enjoying the journey while delivering exceptional results. The role offers the opportunity to travel internationally to key SailGP venues and strategic event locations, representing Apex Group at high-profile activations and delivering standout experiences on a global stage.

Key responsibilities 

• Own the day-to-day relationship with SailGP, acting as Apex Group’s primary liaison across commercial, marketing, sustainability and event teams.
• Develop and deliver the annual partnership plan, ensuring all rights are fully leveraged and aligned with Apex Group’s global brand strategy.
• Coordinate internal teams across Marketing, Communications, Holtara, Sales, CRM and the ExCo Office to ensure partnership and event activity supports wider business priorities.

Strategic Group events

• In addition to leading Apex Group’s SailGP partnership, this role will have responsibility for shaping and delivering strategic Group events that enhance brand visibility, strengthen senior stakeholder engagement and support commercial objectives, including the Apex Foundation gala dinners.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Lead the planning, governance and delivery of strategic Group events, ensuring each event aligns with Apex Group’s brand, stakeholder engagement and commercial priorities.
• Design distinctive event experiences that reflect the Apex Group brand and set a high standard for quality, creativity and execution.
• Lead cross-functional planning for key events and executive engagements, with accountability for concept development, stakeholder management, budgets, content, logistics and post-event impact measurement.
• Oversee event timelines, suppliers, production and onsite execution to deliver consistently high-quality experiences for clients, partners and senior internal stakeholders.
• Partner with the Head of Sustainability to oversee Apex Group’s involvement in SailGP’s Women’s Accelerator Programme, ensuring meaningful participation, visibility and measurable outcomes.
• Support the development of partnership-specific thought leadership and content in collaboration with the Head of Sustainability.
• Ensure contractual rights are clearly understood, tracked and activated across the business.

Skills and experience

• 5+ years of experience in partnership management, event management, marketing and communications.
• A strong track record in client-side partnership management, ideally within sport, entertainment, financial services or global brand environments.
• Experience working with purpose-led partnerships, sustainability programmes or women-in-sport initiatives would be advantageous.
• Highly organised, adaptable and able to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Degree educated, ideally in business, communications, marketing or a related discipline.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across geographies and levels.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and internationally to deliver high-profile partnership programmes.
• Strong experience leading strategic Group events, executive engagements or high-profile partnership activations from planning through to delivery and evaluation.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end event delivery, including concept development, stakeholder management, budgets, logistics, suppliers and onsite execution.
• Experience creating high-quality partnership, event or campaign content would be advantageous.
• A proactive and innovative approach to solving challenges and identifying opportunities.

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Key responsibilities

The brief description outlined above will involve the following specific duties:

Responsible for month end close process in line with wider group which includes the following:

• Preparation and posting of monthly journals, 
• Maintain and update the fixed asset register,
• Analysis of revenue and determination of revenue accrual,
• Balancing intercompany loan accounts,
• Analysis of trial balance and general ledger with    corrections if required, 
• Balance sheet reconciliations,
• Tax computations and related journal entries. 
• Cash flow management;.  
• Preparation of management accounts;
• Prepare annual financial statements
• Manage and run statutory audits;
• Queries from internal departments as well as external parties;
• Regulatory filings
• Annalise and present results to local entity boards
• Willingness to learn and develop. 
• Organised and attention to detail.
• The ability to work independently as well as in teams within other areas of the Finance group. 
• Strong communication skills. 

Skills / experience

Recently qualified CA (SA) with:

• Audit training experience at an audit firm.
• CA(SA) 
• Strong Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint usage. 
• Willingness to learn and develop. 
• Organised and attention to detail.
• The ability to work independently as well as in teams within other areas of the Finance group. 
• Strong communication skills.