Finance Controller / Internal Auditor
As Finance Controller / Internal Auditor at Sporty Group, the successful candidate will be responsible for strengthening financial processes and controls across a fast-growing, international group. Reporting to the Global Finance Director, the role involves working across the finance function to design, implement, and monitor effective controls covering areas such as payments, banking, reconciliations, accounting, record keeping, procurement, and financial reporting.
This is a hands-on position requiring close collaboration with finance teams across multiple countries and entities, including international travel. The role focuses on identifying weaknesses, improving processes, and providing confidence that key financial activities are performed accurately, consistently, and with appropriate oversight.
- Review existing financial processes and controls across the group, identifying weaknesses, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Design, document, and implement practical financial controls across payments, banking, reconciliations, accounting, record keeping, procurement, and reporting.
- Establish appropriate segregation of duties, approval processes, access controls, and supporting documentation.
- Perform ongoing internal reviews to confirm that controls are operating effectively and agreed processes are being followed.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations, financial records, and other key accounting processes for accuracy, completeness, and appropriate supporting evidence.
- Collaborate with finance teams to resolve control deficiencies and improve processes.
- Develop clear policies, procedures, and control documentation that can be consistently applied across the group.
- Support the implementation of new systems, banking arrangements, and finance processes, ensuring appropriate controls are built in from the outset.
- Use technology and automation to strengthen controls, improve visibility, and reduce reliance on manual processes.
- Track identified issues and agreed actions through to resolution.
- Support external audits and other financial or regulatory reviews where required.
- Provide the Global Finance Director with clear reporting on material financial risks, control weaknesses, and progress on remediation.
- Chartered Accountant CA (SA) qualification (required)
- 3-5 years of post-qualification experience (required)
- Strong experience in financial control, audit, accounting, or a similar finance role (required)
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, processes, reconciliations, payments, banking, and financial reporting (required)
- Experience designing and implementing financial controls and operational processes (required)
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to identify weaknesses and investigate issues through to their underlying cause (required)
- Practical and commercially minded, with the ability to implement controls without creating unnecessary bureaucracy (required)
- Comfortable working across multiple legal entities, countries, and finance teams (required)
- A self-starter who works hard, is resilient, makes decisions quickly, and operates with urgency (required)
- Comfortable in a flat, high-performance organisation, collaborating across multiple functions and geographies (required)
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.