Finance Intern, South Africa

Description

Job Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
About the role:
TThe Finance Intern at Sun King will assist with various tasks related to Inverter Sales, customer payments, and tracking processes. This role will involve working closely with sales teams, Finance, and other internal stakeholders to ensure smooth operations and accurate financial management. The ideal candidate should be highly organized, analytical, and capable of addressing operational challenges effectively

What you would be expected to do:

• Payment Allocation:
  • Allocate customer payments on the Kazi Plan system.
  • Attend payment-related queries on various communication channels.
• DebiCheck Onboarding:
  • Assist with onboarding customers on the bank payment collection platform (DebiCheck).
  • Ensure all relevant documentation and information is captured accurately.
• Inverter Sales Tracker:
  • Update and maintain the inverter sales tracker.
  • Attend customer and internal queries related to inverter sales.
• Agent Incentives
  • Process monthly and weekly agent incentive payments.
  • Ensure timely disbursement and accurate record-keeping.
• Month-End Activities
  • Assist with various month-end closing tasks.
• Administrative Duties
  • Assist with applications and documentation processing.
  • Maintain a proper and organized filing system.
  
  

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• 0-1 year of experience (recent graduates)
• Great collaboration skills and great team player
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Excel (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive customer and financial data with confidentiality.

What Sun King Offers

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.