219 Team Lead jobs in Cape Town

1. Oversee the full finance function, ensuring seamless operations across financial activities.
2. Act as the primary financial contact for clients, managing day-to-day financial operations and reporting.
3. Provide outsourced accounting services, including maintaining books and records, transaction management, and reconciliations.
4. Manage payments (bank accounts & multisigs), ensuring appropriate approvals in line with Cayman regulatory requirements.
5. Prepare quarterly management accounts, including financial statements (Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow).
6. Develop and monitor budgeting and runway analysis for clients.
7. Track KPIs and financial performance metrics, benchmarking against agreed parameters.

• Prepare and present transparency reports for the community and Board of Directors.

• Manage liaising with the Compliance team for KYC and due diligence checks on grant proposals and transactions.
• Monitor banking and custody accounts, ensuring compliance with operational and commercial terms.
• Ensure financial policies align with governance frameworks, industry best practices, and Cayman regulations.

• Develop and implement policies for digital asset payments via wallets and fiat payments via banking rails.
• Manage KYC/wallet screening to mitigate risks and ensure compliance.
• Support clients with financial operations, weekly updates, policy reviews, and service provider integrations.
• Maintain relationships with financial service providers for seamless collaboration.
• Oversee financial administration and operational standards.

Minimum: BCom / Bachelor's in Finance, Accounting, or related field. Preferred: CA, AGA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.

If not qualified, 2-3 years of post-graduation experience in a finance role is required.

• Strong background in financial statement reporting and bookkeeping.
• Experience with budgeting, financial planning, and cash flow management.
• Familiarity with Web3, Blockchain, Crypto, or Digital Assets is preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong understanding of payments, financial controls, and compliance.
• Prior experience managing KYC, due diligence, and regulatory requirements.

VirtuHire Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

We are seeking a skilled and dynamic Technical Lead to guide our client's engineering team in building a scalable, secure, and high-performance integration platform for restaurant reservation systems. In this role, you will set the technical vision, lead the team, and shape the architecture of our event-driven microservices platform. Your work will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams both within and outside the organization to ensure the delivery of robust and efficient solutions.

Our client is a technology-driven platform designed to make spontaneous bookings at restaurants and venues seamless. It connects individuals seeking last-minute reservations with businesses that have immediate availability, simplifying the process of finding open spots in real-time.

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Establish and enforce best practices in software design, testing, deployment, and system monitoring.
• Architect and oversee an event-driven microservices platform, ensuring efficient API design and integration.
• Optimize system performance, security, and reliability, ensuring compliance with standards such as PCI DSS and GDPR.
• Take a proactive approach to incident management, risk mitigation, and production stability.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies, integrating modern solutions to enhance the platform's capabilities.
• Manage relationships with third-party integration partners, resolving API-related issues effectively.

• Proven experience in a Tech Lead role with a focus on event-driven architecture.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and growing engineering teams.
• Expertise in Kafka, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB), and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in backend development using Java or Node.js, along with database technologies.
• Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices and cloud-native architecture principles.
• Experience designing scalable, real-time solutions that ensure data consistency across services.

• Experience with Stripe or other payment gateway integrations.
• Background in the restaurant tech or booking systems industry.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks and API consumer best practices.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Engineering and Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting

We’re looking for a detail-oriented, tech-savvy Lead Researcher to join our team full-time. You’ll be responsible for supporting our sales team by delivering both custom, high-value research and overseeing large-scale data collection using top-tier lead gen tools.

This is a key role in our Research department, working closely with the Head of Research and collaborating cross-functionally with Sales.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct in-depth, custom lead research tailored to specific sales strategies and campaigns.

• Manage and oversee bulk lead compilation using third-party tools.

• Ensure accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of lead data delivered to sales teams.

• Help define and refine processes for data sourcing, enrichment, and validation.

• Collaborate with the Head of Research to maintain high standards and improve our research methodologies.

• Train and support junior researchers or freelance contributors when needed.

• Maintain records and workflows in Google Sheets, Excel, and CRM systems.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years in a lead research or sales support role.

• Strong command of Google Sheets , Microsoft Excel , and CRM platforms .

• Proven experience with Apollo , Clay , Lusha , and LinkedIn Sales Navigator .

• High attention to detail and ability to spot inaccuracies or inconsistencies.

• Comfortable managing multiple projects and deadlines.

• Strong communication and organizational skills.

• A curious mind and a passion for clean, actionable data.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a fast-paced startup or agency environment.

• Familiarity with data enrichment and automation tools.

• Prior team leadership or mentoring experience.
  

We are looking for a highly skilled and visionary Creative Lead with expertise in graphic design, marketing, and retail branding to drive our creative direction and execution. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, leadership capabilities, and hands-on design skills to elevate our brand presence across multiple platforms. You will oversee the creative process, lead design projects, and collaborate with marketing, merchandising, and digital teams to develop compelling campaigns that resonate with our audience.

• Lead and manage the creative direction for all marketing and retail design projects, ensuring brand consistency across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Develop and execute innovative designs for campaigns, in-store displays, packaging, signage, social media, websites, and promotional materials.
• Work closely with marketing, product, and merchandising teams to align creative strategies with business objectives and seasonal campaigns.
• Oversee a team of designers, providing mentorship, guidance, and constructive feedback to enhance creative output.
• Ensure all visual content aligns with brand guidelines, audience insights, and retail trends.
• Collaborate with external agencies, photographers, videographers, and printers to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitor branding to bring fresh, impactful ideas to the team.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced retail marketing environment.

• Education : Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Marketing, or a related field.
• Experience : 7+ years in graphic design, with at least 3 years in a leadership or creative lead role within the marketing and retail industry.
• Software Proficiency : Expert-level skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and familiarity with Figma or Sketch.

• Strong conceptual and strategic thinking with the ability to translate ideas into compelling visual campaigns.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Strong understanding of retail branding, visual merchandising, and shopper behavior.
• Experience working with large-scale marketing campaigns, digital assets, and print production.
• Motion graphics, video editing, or animation experience (a plus).

• Experience working in the retail, FMCG, or e-commerce space.
• Knowledge of UX/UI principles and experience designing for web and mobile platforms.
• Understanding of retail consumer trends and shopper marketing strategies.

Can you take ownership and engage regularly with software architects to ensure development within the team is according to architectural guidelines? How about planning, designing, leading, and executing technical solutions, as well as improvements within the respective Software Development Team?
As the Technical Lead , you'd be a technical expert with a strong understanding of technology, systems architecture, data structures, and data sources.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 7 years' experience within a development environment;
• 3-6 years' SQL experience;
• 5-8 years' C# experience;
• 5-8 years' .NET Core experience;
• 5-8 years' RESTful API experience.

Nice To Have:

• 1-4 years' experience in document stores such as Couchbase/Mongo;
• 1-4 years' experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/Kafka/Red Panda.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Engage regularly with software architects to ensure development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
• Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to ensure that solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to meet standards and maintain a sound code base.
• Ensure all technical solutions consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies, have high usability, are reliable, and perform at maximum efficiency during peak usage, while maintaining high security standards.
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team that meet expectations for technical throughput rates, response times, effective resource utilization, and maximum operational capacity requirements.

Quality of Software Implementation:

• Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align with these.
• Ensure delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution that covers all agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been thoroughly tested.
• Work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyze its own faults and provide reports prior to critical failures.
• Develop the solution in a manner that supports modification for future developers, reducing defects and positively affecting system quality.

Initiative and Innovation:

• Implement improved processes that positively affect the team's performance and the company's bottom line.
• Anticipate and address technical problems and opportunities immediately, considering any technical dependencies.
• Take an active role in problem resolution and work after hours if necessary to ensure problems are resolved.
• Demonstrate foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Show initiative by understanding, acquiring, and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the team and the wider group.
• Incorporate new abilities into operational activities to improve the performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools, and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share:

• Identify team members requiring specific knowledge, skills, or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill them through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify that knowledge has been successfully imparted and take steps to rectify any gaps in knowledge transfer.

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Santam Re is hiring 3 (three) Territorial Leads. The Territorial Lead is to report to the Cluster Market Head.

Applicants must be based in Cape Town, South Africa, or be prepared to relocate. The role also requires some travel.

Santam Re, based in Cape Town South Africa and operating globally, presents a company culture that is committed to fostering genuine connections with people.

With over 106 years of experience, Santam is Africa’s leading general insurance company with a market share exceeding 24% in South Africa. Our reinsurance business, Santam Re leads with a culture and work environment that truly provides meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Profitable growth is key to Santam Re’s success and is the reason we are intent on further strengthening our actuarial and underwriting expertise which are at the core of our business model. We have built our reputation on being strong in technical analysis, on being able to grasp the nuances of emerging markets, high quality service delivery and in the provision of optimal portfolios that respond to the needs of our brokers and cedents, today and for the future.

This role is responsible for the reinsurance underwriting in the chosen territory of Santam Re to drive the strategic agenda of profitable growth of Santam Re. This will include both treaty and facultative reinsurance within defined underwriting mandates, whereby the incumbent will be required to develop a book of business internationally.

This dynamic role requires a passionate, energetic individual to handle reinsurance pricing activities, tools management and portfolio steering to manage exposure, profitability and growth.

• Develop, lead, and maintain a profitable reinsurance treaty book in the chosen territory - this is both a client facing role.
• Profitability & Growth – drive profitability and growth in territory according to annual targets set and according to annual premium volume, profitability and volatility benchmarks.
• Driving profitability of the book (ensuring a 5% margin)
• Analysing of BI Statistics and propose actions to correct profitability where required
• Marketing and business development (ensuring growth)
• Building and maintaining reinsurance broker and cedant relationships for both existing business and potential business, both locally and globally.
• Managing the portfolio which includes running the underwriting process (pricing and underwriting the treaties using a range of actuarial and softer methods as well as checking, writing and analysing the wording of contracts), checking and monitoring the accounts, payments and profitability of the treaty.
• Effective management of portfolio queries and referrals
• Managing a team – providing leadership and direction whilst supporting the team with training and development activities.
• May travel independently or with colleagues and will need to negotiate with clients and brokers which requires adherence to internal guidelines.
• Performing analyst/underwriter tasks as and when required.

• Minimum qualification – Undergraduate Degree (preferably in a scientific, engineering or numerate discipline)
• 5-6 years’ experience in the Short-Term Insurance industry (preferably in reinsurance, finance risk management or engineering sectors)
• 2-3 years’ experience leading/managing a team.

Advantageous qualifications, knowledge and experience:

• Postgrad qualification will be advantageous

• Client focus
• Drives results
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Organisational savvy
• Balancing stakeholders
• Plans and aligns
• Optimises work processes
• Data Collection and monitoring decisions made by underwriters based on knowledge of business processes
• Reporting and Administration
• Quality, compliance and accreditation
• Business acumen
  

Santam Re’s people-first approach requires us to make smart decisions as we build on our delivery of reinsurance solutions. We are, therefore, highly driven to present industry-leading teams that are personable, approachable, have strong codes of personal values and ethics, and tolerance for other’s beliefs and lifestyles, including their host nation’s cultures. Beyond the capabilities and expertise required, the professional Santam Re Territorial Lead must also present and/or embrace the following:
• Team player
• Ability to manage a team
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Must be pro-active and take ownership of tasks
• Willingness and desire to learn
• Good work ethic
• Ability to multi-task
• Solid interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good planning and organizing skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Wording expertise, market knowledge, business acumen and a strong ability to understand the end-to-end analysis of a reinsurance submission are critical to this role.
• Good understanding of reinsurance principles and concepts
• A strong understanding of insurance and related risks to ensure Santam Re underwriting is protected from undue and/or unacceptable risks
• A strong understanding of reinsurance wordings and the implications of such wordings on the protection being afforded to cedants
• Good knowledge of insurance industries in geographic territories identified as target regions for Santam Re
• Negotiation
• Analytical
• Facultative and treaty underwriting

Job Summary

The Medical Department Head will oversee the daily operations of our medical facilities onboard crew-life-at-sea ships. They will supervise and guide a team of nurses, ensuring that all medical equipment is properly maintained and stocked.

This role requires strong leadership and communication skills to work effectively with healthcare professionals, educate crew members on health practices, and maintain accurate medical records.

The ideal candidate will have a current nursing license in good standing, at least 5 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, preferably in a leadership role, and knowledge of medical procedures and equipment used on cruise ships.

Main Responsibilities:

• Supervise daily operations of the medical department onboard crew-life-at-sea ships
• Lead and guide a team of nurses to ensure excellent patient care
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date medical records for all crew members
• Educate crew members on health and safety practices while onboard
• Stay updated on industry standards and best practices in healthcare for cruise ship employees

Requirements:

• Current nursing license in good standing
• At least 5 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, preferably in a leadership role
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and in a fast-paced environment

A rapidly growing African skincare startup focusing on innovation and sustainability is looking for a hybrid Digital Lead to join their team in Cape Town .

As the Digital Lead, you’ll be responsible for shaping and driving the brand’s digital presence and performance across multiple platforms. This role combines strategy, creativity, and execution to grow the audience, drive engagement, and boost conversions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and optimise paid media across Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube to drive performance and efficiency.

• Manage briefs and ensure on-brand content delivery.

• Optimise the full funnel and collaborate on CRO to boost sales.

• Build dashboards and share insights using GA4 and platform data.

• Work closely with the marketing team to align campaigns with brand goals.
  

Qualifications and Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in digital marketing, ideally in beauty, DTC, or lifestyle.

• Proven success in managing high-performing paid media campaigns.

• Skilled in CRO, landing page testing, and funnel optimisation.

• Proficient in Meta, TikTok, YouTube Ads, and GA4.

• R600 000 - R960 000 / year CTC depending on the candidate

• Qualified CA(SA) with completed articles
• Minimum 5 years post-articles experience in a full finance function role
• Experience in a manufacturing or pharmaceutical/biotech environment is advantageous
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and experience drafting annual financial statements
• Proficiency in budgeting , forecasting , and financial reporting
• Ability to design and implement financial controls and systems
• Experience with SAP ERP system
• Strong leadership skills and experience managing finance teams