Treasury Operations Team Lead

About the Position

We are seeking a Treasury Operations Team Lead for our Finance & Accounting team in South Africa. Join our remote-first team and lead treasury operations.

Responsibilities

Treasury Operations & Execution

• Leading the preparation and execution of scheduled payment runs in line with approved processes and timelines
• Overseeing out-of-cycle and urgent payments in accordance with established exception procedures
• Supporting the issuance and administration of corporate and virtual cards in line with internal policies
• Monitoring payment failures, rejections, and bank returns and ensuring timely resolution
• Maintaining complete and accurate execution records and audit evidence

Quality Control & Governance

• Operating and upholding defined payment readiness and validation frameworks
• Reviewing submissions for completeness, accuracy, and policy compliance
• Enforcing documentation and evidence standards consistently
• Managing rejection, correction, and resubmission processes
• Maintaining audit trails and governance artefacts

Process & Systems Stewardship

• Maintaining and improving Treasury operational playbooks and SOPs
• Ensuring processes are documented, current, and followed
• Translating operational issues into sustainable process improvements
• Supporting system usage across banking platforms, accounting systems, and internal tools

Risk & Exception Management

• Tracking, documenting, and managing operational exceptions and overrides
• Escalating material risks and recurring issues appropriately
• Supporting risk acceptance and governance processes where required
• Protecting the integrity of Treasury’s control environment

Team Leadership & Enablement

• Providing day-to-day leadership to Treasury Operations Specialists
• Supporting training and capability development
• Ensuring consistent application of standards across the team
• Reducing dependency on senior leadership through strong execution

Stakeholder Engagement

• Acting as a primary operational interface with AP, Finance, and relevant business teams
• Managing operational discussions professionally and constructively
• Anchoring decision-making to documented standards and frameworks
• Supporting audit, lender, and insurer information requests as required

Requirements

• Proven experience in treasury, finance operations, payments, or related environments
• Exposure to regulated, audited, or controlled operating environments
• Experience with payment processing, reconciliations, and banking platforms
• Familiarity with accounting systems (e.g. NetSuite, Xero) and financial controls
• Strong attention to detail and reconciliation capability
• High standards of accuracy and documentation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under time pressure
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication
• Strong organisational and process discipline
• Confident decision-making within defined authority
• Calm and professional under pressure
• Comfortable enforcing standards consistently
• High integrity and accountability
• Low-ego, team-oriented approach
• Reliable, resilient, and dependable

We Offer

• Generous holiday (PTO) allowance
• Flexible working hours
• MacBooks for all employees
• Additional support for fully remote workers
• Exceptional Time Away Policy including 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS

About the Company

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

Read our full list of benefits

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with The Adaptavist Group to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.

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