Key Accountabilities of the Performance

 Commercial Management

• Maintaining entries associated with all purchases made throughout the department across various budgeting spreadsheets.
• Processing the department invoice entries using the electronic payment s to ensure suppliers are paid within contractually agreed terms.
• Liaising with the finance department to resolve any invoice queries

 Vendor Engagement

• Assisting Technology Managers from all global offices with requests relating to spending approval and the procurement of goods and services.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for the sourcing of quotations for goods and services.
• Placing orders with suppliers as required.
• Maintaining documentation and processes relating to the firm's mobile devices and other IT infrastructure and assets.

Contracts Database

• Keeping the Contracts Database updated and assisting with reporting on expiring contracts

 General Administration and Additional Duties

• General administration duties such as photocopying and scanning.
• Maintaining staff emergency contact list.
• Leave cover when required.

REQUIREMENTS

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Qualification in or studying towards procurement-related qualification/s
• BCom or equivalent

Mental & Environmental Requirements

• Must be able to handle pressure, setbacks and a high level of stress
• Must be able to handle pressure, setbacks and a high level of stress
• Must be able to handle pressure, setbacks and a high level of stress

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in departmental budget administration
• Experience with invoice processing and basic IT commodity procurement

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

 Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of a centralized/ shared services environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of electronic payment systems
• Strong organizational, administrative and time management skills
• Commercial awareness
• Intermediate-Advanced knowledge of Excel including VLookUps and Pivot Tables
• Attention to detail

Behavioral competencies

• Ability to handle queries efficiently with diplomacy and tact
• Ability to follow instructions precisely
• Adapting and responding to change
• Strong work ethic with an inherent sense of urgency
• Delivering results and meeting business expectations
• Working with others

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric
• Logistics / Warehouse / Business Management Diploma / Degree beneficial
• PMI certification preferred, CAPM or PMP
• 3 years project management experience

Responsibilities:

• Managing projects within the warehousing environment
• Working closely with IT teams to complete projects
• Achieving tangible business outcomes through a structured project management approach
• Drawing up of project plans
• Planning and scheduling of project tasks
• Project timeline estimation
• Utilisation of project management methodologies in the conduct of work
• Assigning roles and responsibilities to project tasks
• Reporting on the project plan and project status
• Communicating the progress of projects and escalating potential issues
• Ensure that tasks are completed on time and that project outcomes are met
• Project administration including scheduling of meetings, agendas minutes and action points and the distribution thereof
• Compile and maintain adequate records of work and ensure filing is done
• Communicate with stakeholders and providing timeous feedback where required
• Analysing and investigating business and operational processes
• Gathering and documenting business requirements
• Documenting findings of analysis and tasks
• Reporting and presenting on findings
• Drawing up of process documentation
• Drafting of process flows and other solution orientated documentation
• Carry out mandated research
• General administration
• General housekeeping

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric
• B COM / Engineering Degree
• Previous experience in similar role
• Have knowledge and understanding of the functioning of operations and systems within the Value Group
• Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to their function
• Have knowledge and understanding of Value policies
• Have knowledge and understanding of project management methodologies and techniques
• Knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and policies applicable to own work area
• Have knowledge and understanding of the ISO 9001 standard and processes
• Knowledge of how to gather business requirements
• Knowledge on how to document and report on findings

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of data and processes for the purpose of re-engineering / re-designing of processes, floor plans and / or flows in the operations
• Automation: There is a strong requirement for the automation of any excel report, process or dashboard.
• UDFs: Many problems cannot be solved by simply relying on Excel’s sheet level formulas, it is required that custom, user defined, functions can be properly setup and executed
• Bug Testing: Each custom developed tool, report or dashboard will have bugs, it is important that bug testing can be done quickly, i.e. problems found, resolved and tools/reports/dashboards are updated timeously to effect this change
• Coding best practice: In order to avoid long run times and assist with bug finding and scalability, code needs to follow best practice, i.e. not selecting sheets and not copying data (instead passing values), using R1C1 referencing style instead of A1 for formulas
• Successful use of VBA also requires very good knowledge of (and being able to work in depth with) tables, named ranges, pivot tables, arrays, array formulas, slicers and worksheet level functions, both in VBA and on a sheet level
• Draw up current, new and proposed floor plans with the aim of optimal flows within the warehouse
• Provide project management support for the implementation of projects
• Participate in the implementation of projects
• Development of interactive, automated reports which provide relevant information from which management decisions can be made
• Managing the process of handing over of solutions developed to the business and providing support thereafter where required
• Business process mapping as well as time and motion studies for the purpose of improvement and creating efficiencies
• Carry out mandated research
• Carrying out costing exercises including liaising with suppliers
• Compile and maintain adequate records of work and ensure filing is done
• General administration
• Carrying out general housekeeping within the work environment

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric
• ISO 9001 Knowledge
• At least 2-3 years ISO 9001 quality system management experience
• ISO 9001 auditing experience
• Have knowledge and understanding of the functioning of operations and systems within the Value Group
• Have knowledge and understanding of all the Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to their function
• Have knowledge and understanding of Value policies
• Knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and policies applicable to own work area
• Have knowledge and understanding of the ISO 9001 standard and processes

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the certification against the ISO 9001 standard
• Implementing, managing and maintaining all procedures required for a successful QMS system as required by ISO standards
• Management of corrective and preventive actions logged to ensure that they are being actioned and resolved
• Compiling all QMS related reports
• Providing feedback to management on the QMS
• Identifying corrective actions and improvement opportunities in the operation
• Promotion of the QMS and the awareness thereof within the business
• Setting up and facilitation of QMS meetings
• Maintain all QMS documentation and filing
• Preparation and scheduling of the Management Review Meetings
• Administrative tasks
• Carrying out general housekeeping within the work environment
• Planning, scheduling and conduct training on QMS procedures
• Management of training records in line with company procedures
• Planning and conducting internal quality audits
• Management of audit close outs and actioning
• Liaising with auditing bodies on audit schedules and requirements
• Management, preparation and involvement in customer audits

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric
• Accounting / Charted Accounting Degree
• Commercial background
• Logistics/warehouse/business management diploma/degree beneficial
• 5 years of experience in the costing / accounting environment at least 3 of which is in the logistics / warehousing industry
• Knowledge and understanding of costings, P&Ls and general financial areas
• Knowledge of commercial contracts and how they are negotiated, entered into, closed and maintained
• Have knowledge and understanding of the functioning of operations and systems within warehousing
• Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures
• Have knowledge and understanding of Value policies
• Knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and policies applicable to own work area
• Knowledge of how to gather business requirements

Responsibilities:

• Understand the service requirements of potential and current warehouse and Freightpak customers in order to generate suitable quotations and cost adjustments
• Liaise with customers and potential customers where needed
• Accurately cost warehouse and Freightpak solutions based on analysis from provided information
• Advise on service methodologies / solutions based on customer requirements
• Ability to generate rate and revenue projections for the purpose of feasibility as well as rate increases
• Carry out profitability analysis on different operations
• Manage and control tender requests and submissions
• Review costing models to ensure continuous alignment and profitability
• Manage contractual engagements to ensure alignment with solutions put forward and accepted
• Ensure closure of contracts
• Manage contract periods for warehouse clients
• Manage client increase calculations and ensure these are done timeously
• Review tenders in full
• Manage data and submission documentation
• Manage the solution that is put forward
• Ensure submission on time and in full
• Ensure contractual requirements are managed in the process
• Manage the staff within this function
• Ensure succession planning within the area
• Monitor staff performance
• Manage leave, time and attendance of all staff
• Drive skills development of staff through training and other initiatives as regularly as required
• Identify problem areas and initiate IR and HR processes as required
• Ensure that all HR and payroll records are in place and maintained (Job profiles, competencies, appraisals, wages)
• Ensure that all staff is well managed, to improve productivity, reduce overtime and ensure that staff are motivated and productive

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics degree or advanced degree.
• Bachelor degree in a field requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems or similar
• 5 - 7 years' application support; broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions
• 5 - 7 years' iOS experience through solid Objective C knowledge, OC Mock and XCTest, UIKit, Core Graphics, application of IOS SDK and interface builder experience, as well as Apple UX and UI design guidelines
• 5 - 7 years' strong experience with UIKit APIs like UITABLEVIEWCONTROLLER and UICollectionViewController, with advanced objective C experience with delegates, protocols, categories, blocks and other language constructs, solid understanding of OO concepts, experience with Cocoa Pods, Git
• Evaluates various technologies for relevance and cost-effectiveness for implementation in the organisation. Constantly keeps pace with new technology and identifies relevant applications in different areas of the institution
• Conducts risk/benefit assessments when considering the adoption of new technologies
• Understands products to internal level
• The design, creation, testing and documenting of new and amended programs from supplied specifications Works on solving incoherencies in the detailed technical specifications and asks for, or proposes, changes. Allocates pieces of work to teams of developers, taking into account individual abilities and in accordance with agreed standards
• Ability to assess system strength and weaknesses, and competitive advantages. Designs new business process and functionalities. Works with users at all levels to define system requirements and specifies appropriate system environments to meet operational needs and system performance objectives. Able to define disaster recovery policies and procedures. Implements and monitors policies and standards for IT application section and recommends areas for improvement
• Reviews the effectiveness of the test solution against best practice criteria. Proposes changes to the test configuration to support the system functionality against business or client specifications. Provides specialist input to technical team on automated test methodology and tools related to various system applications
• Periodic assessment of the effectiveness of the key controls over data integrity for the key data dependency. Issues a practice guide to steer data integrity towards an integrated data management strategy. Coaches and guides others towards compliance with the data management policies and regulatory requirements
• Works on solving incoherencies in the detailed technical specifications and asks for, or proposes, changes. Allocates pieces of work to teams of developers, taking into account individual abilities and requirements
• Ensures that deliverables are met and business objectives are achieved within time, quality and budget

Responsibilities:

• Adheres to Agile methodologies and follows Agile principles through work outputs and behaviours
• Define and Develop application complex code
• Conduct Testing across various IT platforms
• Drives Continuous improvement

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Please email your CV to rorisangm@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested to the role.

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Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience working as a Frontend / Web Developer
• Javascript – React experience advantage
• CSS
• SASS
• HTML5
• C#
• Jquery
• Bootstrap
• MVC
• Entity Framework
• Angular – advantageous
• Adobe Suite - advantageous
• SQL Server
• Google Analytics
• SEO optimization

Responsibilities:

• Developing frontend website architecture
• Maintaining front end website architecture
• Integrate with back end website applications
• Creating databases
• Ensuring cross – platform optimization for mobile phones
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished products
• Integrating with API’s
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages
• Project Managing outsourced projects
• Mobile app development – advantageous

Please email your CV to millerm@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested to the role.

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• CA(SA)
• 3-5 years’ experience post articles
• Knowledge of TeamMate, Caseware, Draftworx will be advantageous
• Analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Report writing skills and presentation skills
• Planning and organisational skills
• Ability to understand broader business issues
• Communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities:

• Planning of the audit including budgeting
• Ensure completion of Audits on time
• Review and Assess completion of Audit engagements within budget
• Liaising with clients including presentation to the Audit and Risk committee
• Co-ordinate with management to take necessary action on audit findings
• Integrate best practises and systems into the audit programs
• Produce reports highlighting issues and providing potential solutions
• Active engagement with senior staff to gain a good understanding of the business
• Supervise, coach and develop junior members of staff within teams
• Complete LTS reports including ANAs
• Where required provide/facilitate training of staff
• Ensure compliance with internal (Audit methodology and risk management) and external regulatory requirements
• Up to date working knowledge of Auditing standards and IFRS
• Providing technical auditing training to staff
• Assist in identifying revenue growth opportunities within the component and optimise its operational expenditure
• Business Development including tendering and writing business proposals

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Degree or equivalent tertiary qualification
• Advanced MS Excel
• Chrome River
• 3Elite
• Six (6) to twelve (12) months in a similar function
• One (1) to two (2) years' experience working within an office, or shared services environment
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, time management, written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent all round Computer skills including Excel and the MS Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• Continuous monitoring of the Accounts Payable inbox and scanning of supplier invoices into Chrome River within agreed timeframes
• Review of invoices and staff expense claims within Chrome River to ensure accurate information has been captured and the appropriate coding and narrative has been entered
• Preparation of payment runs to the firm's staff and third party suppliers
• Reconciliation of supplier statements and management of key supplier relationships
• Duplicate item checking, chasing outstanding pending items and investigating and resolving exceptions in the batch import process from Chrome River to Elite
• Dealing with ad-hoc queries from both suppliers and the firm's staff and partners
• Maintenance of supplier data

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Human Computer Interaction, Design, Interaction Design, or related fields
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively, both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to create and communicate relevant documentation pertaining to the user experience
• Ability to ‘sell’ your ideas and solutions to various stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• A good track record and portfolio of projects where you have performed a similar role
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user needs
• In depth understanding of user-centred design principles and best practices
• Ability to demonstrate interface interactions through prototypes
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously
• Ability to work well under pressure and able to take feedback openly
• Exceptional communication skills and a positive attitude
• Proficiency in Sketch, Zeplin and Illustrator
• Innovative and self motivated

Responsibilities:

• Create beautiful, engaging visual designs and interactive experiences
• Design wireframes and prototypes
• Maintain a product’s design aesthetic across multiple platforms
• Present and justify concept designs clearly and professionally
• Hand over designs to Engineers in a clean and organised manner
• Work closely with Product Leads and Engineers to ensure accuracy of final screens
• Stay on top of UI trends, industry techniques and developments in digital technologies
• Documenting work done

Please email your CV to thator@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested to the role.

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Requirements:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
Experience in Objective-C is beneficial
Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
Ability to think abstractly
Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

Responsibilties:

Maintain and extend existing development activities
Work with customers to determine project requirements
Design software to fulfill customer requirements
Develop software from requirements and specifications
Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
Documenting development work done

Experience required:

• OOP: 1 year
• Software Development: 1 year
• TDD: 1 year

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• A degree in Marketing/Communications/ Branding
• 1 -2 years working experience in a professional services environment
• Previous social media experience in a B2B environment
• Word Press experience is advantageous. 
• Law firm background would be advantageous
• Excellent command over the English language
• Ability to proof-read and edit content
• An understanding of search engines, social media and other digital marketing, an added benefit
• Exposure to writing online web content, press releases, copy to assist marketing efforts such as brochures, Legal Briefs, articles for external consumption
• Engaging with lawyers to help edit and generate client-facing materials in keeping with topical issues
• A thorough understanding of the target audiences and maintaining the right tone of voice while writing and editing copy 
• Ability to keep up with general legal and world current affairs in order to advise on and identify relevant topics and content

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of minor website updates (bios, events updating and firm news uploading)
• Coordinating workflow times with agencies from brief to finish
• Monitor news feed on website
• Monitor and respond to enquiries inbox twice daily
• Updating relevant client-facing documents with personnel changes (leavers/ joiners/promotions)
• Collate monthly website stats
• Ensure that all content is posted correctly and timeously
• Monitor messages received via social media
• Monitor staff and firm-related news for social media re-posting
• Collate monthly social media stats
• Proof-read and ensure content is received timeously and accurately in terms of client-facing publications including: legal briefs; case summaries; and bulletins
• Understand the firm's CI and brand guidelines and provide input and materials (logos) as needed to ensure both internally and externally-facing collateral is brand compliant
• Brief external agencies and follow-up on deadlines as required on select elements
• Coordinate timings of dissemination of client facing communication to avoid duplication
• Engage with other operational departments to maintain a steady flow of staff communication
• Format and proof-read internal communications: News@Werks; The Werksmans Way and HR@Werks
• Coordination of photos as needed for new joiners
• Monitor and update the Intranet relevant to the Marketing and Home pages. 
• Collate CV's of new joiners (template-based)

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Requirements:

• Proficiency in application and web development
• Structured and Unstructured Query languages e.g. SQL, Qlikview; Tableau; SSIS SSRS, Python JSON ,C#, Java, C++, HTML
• 5-7 years’ experience
• Experience in working with unstructured data (e.g. Streams, images) Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data. Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data. Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc. Experience with data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc

Responsibilities:

• Directs the gathering of data for use in Data Science models, ensuring that chosen datasets best reflect the organisations goals. Performs data pre-processing including data manipulation, transformation, normalisation, standardisation, visualisation and derivation of new variables/features. Utilises advanced data analytics and mining techniques to analyse data, assessing data validity and usability; reviews data results to ensure accuracy; and communicates results and insights to stakeholders
• Designs various mathematical, statistical, and simulation techniques to typically large and unstructured data sets in order to answer critical business questions and create predictive solutions which drive improvement in business outcomes. Drives analytics and insights across the organisation by developing advanced statistical models and computational algorithms based on business initiatives. 
• Develops, implements, monitors and maintains a comprehensive operational IA plan, rules, methodologies and coding initiatives in order to drive IA for remediation efforts. Develops and co-ordinates a comprehensive strategy for productionalising automation software so that it is accurate and well maintained. 
• Provides input into Data management and modelling infrastructure requirements and adheres to the organisations’ infrastructure development processes, including the management of User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Conducts regression testing across all relevant systems as required.
• Builds machine learning models from and utilises distributed data processing and analysis methodologies. Competent in Machine Learning programming in R or Python, with supplementary still in Matlab, Java, etc. Familiar with the Hadoop distributed computational platform, including broader ecosystem of tools such as HDFS / Spark / Kafka.

Please email your CV to thator@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested to the role.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Requirements:

• BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics degree or advanced degree
• 5-7 Years broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• Strong SQL (T-SQL, C#, C++, SSIS, and D/warehouse) and .Net (Full stack Java) experience essential

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Agile methodologies and follows agile principles through work outputs and behaviours
• Scope, Plan, Design and Review end to end solutions
• Define and Develop application complex code
• Conduct Testing across various IT platforms
• Drive Continuous improvement

Requirements:

• BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics degree or advanced degree
• Bachelor’s degree in a field requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems or similar
• 6 - 10 years’ experience: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions
• 6 - 10 years in Information Technology
• 6 - 10 years in Application Support - JAVA and ACI
• HTML/CSS/Javascript - Web Application development

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with colleagues from different disciplines in a cross-functional team to deliver against iteration targets
• Works in partnership with Business representatives (e.g. Product Owner, Product Manager) ensuring alignment and value to the customer.
• Is able manage their work effectively as an individual and team member including the reprioritisation of backlogs and reacts flexibly to changing demands through:
• Managing their work using available resources and methodologies ensuring full team engagement
• Estimating the size and complexity of the work within the team and managing this appropriately
• Determining the technical design in their area of concern, within the architectural guidelines
• Driving team commitments to the work in every iteration or Program Increment
• Is responsible for value and builds to continuously improve the quality of deliverables
• Continuously finding ways to improve own and the team’s delivery and value to the customer

Scope, Plan, Design and Review end to end solutions:

• Advises the development staff on the evaluation and impact analysis of major design options
• Engages with Information Technology support teams and business stakeholders to scope plan and design end to end solutions.
• Define and Develop application complex code:
• Works with data analysis colleagues to produce or update system or object data models and correlate these with corporate models.
• Works with database design or database administration teams to translate object and data models into appropriate database schemas within design constraints.
• Assists less experienced colleagues with complex coding problems.
• Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.
• Provide guidance and assistance to colleagues on any aspect of program component design, creation, testing and documentation

Conduct Testing across various IT platforms:

• Prepares test cases for unit testing purposes. Review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required.
• Conducts unit testing and fix detected errors. Testing can be done on own work as well as on that of other colleagues in the team.
• Develops technical support documentation within agreed standards.
• Documents all work done as per standards, methods and tools used in the bank for application development. Review work done by developers to assure all work has been done as per standards, methods and tools used in the bank for application development
• Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems.
• Ensure adherence to release methodology and technical change management procedures for all changes.
• Adhere to own or manage team's project timelines for new developments and agreed service level timelines for repairing defects.

Requirements

• Related Degree preferably in Information Systems or Computer Science
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in leading a complex technical team preferably in the Financial Services
• Strategic thinker, able to articulate, communicate and implement a vision for IT
• Leading a multidiscipline team
• Sound IT functional knowledge and experience in systems development and IT operations, and a good understanding of business processes.
• In-depth knowledge of the Dynamics CRM platform
• Experience on premise and cloud versions.
• Be well versed in understanding deployment architectures and strategies strong focus on upgrade paths, release cadences and CI/CD frameworks.
• Further knowledge and experience in Platform Delivery and Digital Transformation are key

Requirements:

• Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through Information technology solutions
• Establish, align and manage target and budget goals whilst ensuring effective control of costs for a range of functional areas to increase cost-efficiency
• Actively manages the portfolio of IT-enabled investment programmes to achieve specific strategic business objectives.
• Develop an IT service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service by developing a Group IT Service Model
• Educates management on current technology capabilities and future directions, the opportunities that IT provides, and what the business has to do to capitalize on the opportunities. 
• Creates a strategic plan that defines how IT will contribute to the enterprise's strategic objectives and related costs and risks
• Creates a portfolio of tactical IT plans that are derived from the IT strategic plan.
• Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements
• Plan, direct, and coordinate the development, implementation, deployment and operation of information systems and technology solutions for business needs as well as identify and propose new information technologies and systems to improve business processes and decision making.
• Assesses the performance of existing plans and information systems in terms of contribution to business objectives, functionality, stability and value.
• Responsible for the management and direction of all IT resources in line with the business strategy and priorities
• Ensures that optimal value is realized from IT project and service portfolios.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies
• Develop skills of leaders across the organisation in making effective and efficient use of IT Services to improve business delivery.
• Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies and increase competencies

Requirements:

• Diploma or Degree in computer sciences or any other related professional and recognized I.T. qualification.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a Technical
• Manager/Lead/Director (or similar) role. (Management of a team/people for 5 years)
• At least 3 years of Software as a Service experience (essential)
• Cloud experience (essential)
• Linux/Windows Infrastructure experience (advantageous)
• Strong ability to use knowledge of team dynamics, and leverage team strengths, to take employees on a positive journey with a company.
• Extensive experience in implementing and managing IT support methodology (advantageous).
• Extensive experience with, and strong track record of, designing/architecting/optimizing IT systems.
• ITIL / ITSM business management processes  (advantageous)
• Sound knowledge of IT System architectures (advantageous)

Responsibilities:

Day-to-day management of staff in the operations/support team (Roughly 7 staff members, comprising of:

• Customer Support Specialists, Application Specialists, and Systems Administrators, and 2 team leaders).
• Effectively nurture, manage and mentor the team so that they can successfully manage the infrastructure and ensure customer-centric support that results in client delight with each engagement.
• Engage with customers, and fast-track support issues and escalation.
• Strategically manage the infrastructure to align with the company’s strategy and development pipeline.
• Strategize, create, implement, and manage effective security measures.
• Effectually organize and manage internal IT and internal infrastructure (Wi-Fi, UPS, cameras, devices)
• Manage the Operations and Support Department’s budget (including infrastructure and recruitment costs), strategic planning of people resources, and the improvement of current infrastructure resources
• (Hosting, Cloud, Connectivity, and Telephony).
• Implement and monitor fit-for-purpose processes based on best practices.
• Design, manage and improve strong software release processes.

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience with Cost allocation applications
• Degree in IT and Computer Science
• Microsoft SQL
• Added advantage SAP BW, Business Objects Data Services, Analysis for Office

Responsibilities:

Business Support and assistance

• Support of Business processes in the Cost Allocation and Recoveries functional area on all levels (User Community)
• Attend to Reporting requirements
• Prepare and maintain models for Actuals month end, Restatements, Budgeting Planning and Forecast cycles (including reconciliations) relating to Cost Allocations and Integrated financial systems
• Assist with Master Data alignment to ensure master data is consistent between source systems (SAP BW and SAP ECC) and the cost allocations models
• Data interrogation and reconciliation using Microsoft SQL queries.

System Support to resolve issues restricting a user to carry out work:

• Solve production incidents utilizing various applications and databases utilised for the cost allocations process
• Attend to stakeholder and business queries
• Co-ordinate related scheduled of upstream and downstream systems and stakeholders, where they impact cost allocations processes
• Support of System capability to carry out business processes
• Maintain runtime access restrictions and ensure system stability
• Perform system backups (model and database) pre and post cost allocation cycles
• Monitor system processes during Actuals month end, Restatements, Budgeting Planning and Forecast cycles
• Improve model processes and run times for the Cost Allocations and Recoveries environment
• Monitor BW process chains and Data Integration jobs.

SAP Cost Allocations Functional system design:

• Actively work on and complete new enhancement requests
• Understand costing methodologies (Activity based costing) and drivers, in order to develop and support models
• Understand data integration design considerations as it relates to data flow between source systems and target systems, in order to develop the necessary integration jobs and processes
• Collaborate with other SAP specialists/functional consultants and SAP Support Online (OSS Notes) to resolve incidents/problems
• Perform system functionality configuration/customisation
• Complete solution design for new functionality

Adhere to Agile methodologies and follow agile principles:

• Collaborate with Business and IT representatives (active participation in daily stand-ups, workshops, meetings, etc.)
• Work in partnership with Product Owner and other feature teams
• Assist with identification of features and stories
• Assist with story card writing and effort estimation

Requirements:

• BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics degree
• 5 - 7 Years’ experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• 5 - 7 Years’ experience using:  - Process Designer V8.5.7 or later - IBM BPM 8.5.7 or later, - IBM® Process Center V8.5.7 or later
• 3-4 Years’ experience in Information Systems Architecture using Java/ J2EE

Responsibilities:

• Adheres to Agile methodologies and follows agile principles through work outputs and behaviors.
• Define and Develop application code
• Conduct Testing on various IT platforms
• Drive continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree/diploma (advantageous)
• Experience in the field of Customer Experience (CX) (advantageous)
• Proven ability to deliver in a high-pressure environment (essential)
• Experience using a ticketing system (essential)
• Client-facing interactions in various capacities, such as during project set up and support (essential) Expertise in computing skills, specifically Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (essential) Experience in setting-up / configuring surveys and /or using survey software / survey platform (advantageous)

Requirements:

• Advise and guide our clients on the best/better ways to use the software they are working with
• Employ best practice, advice clients on how to implement the features
• Assist in training staff and/or client’s employees on the system to ensure efficiency, better workflow, growth and scalability
• Ensure set up requirements are received correctly from clients via templates that are continuously kept up to date (follow all data quality procedures to ensure that data gathered (from the system) has no errors or deficiencies ensuring client satisfaction)
• Set-up / configure surveys in accordance with client specifications, schedule and conduct QA testing of the survey/deliverables, and ensure that deliverables are error-free and result in client satisfaction (and repeat business)
• Utilise the system to manage client data and related requirements, including set up of escalations, triggers and user groups
• Draw and schedule reports on the system for project monitoring and adhoc reporting
• Proactively identify and solve project related problems to ensure accurate and timely delivery of deliverables, which will improve efficiency and communication
• Ensure the seamless execution of projects, receive the correct and required documentation for project roll out, and maintain a very close working relationships with the Project Management team
• Establish and build relationships with all stakeholders (internally and externally)
• Participate in regular engagements (through forums and handovers) with the abovementioned stakeholders to ensure interdepartmental collaboration and communication
• Contribute to standardised templates and documentation for survey set up, data set up (EDI), monitoring, QA, testing and data preparation according to best practice and documented standards

Client-centric Competencies required

• Client service orientation
• Client user support
• Client relationship development
• Client queries resolution
• Ticket Management
• Problem statement identification
• Personal brand development
• Reporting
• Expectations management
• Stakeholder management

Competencies required:

• Survey performance – ability to monitor and report on the health of the survey responses
• EDI setup – ability to setup and configure EDI data sources based on client data structure and methods, as well as establish preferred EDI collector server/location
• Sampling design and application – ability to design a sampling strategy
• Sampling frameworks and set up – the creation of sampling frameworks according to client requirements and needs and the implementation of data sampling rules within Eyerys
• Quality assurance – the ability to review and ensure the desired level of quality of outputs, especially by means of attention to every stage of the client life cycle

Technical/Personal development competencies required:

• Continuous learning and development - display an ongoing commitment to learning and self-improvement; desiring and making an effort to acquire new knowledge or skills for work
• A keen and constant learning of CCS and HTML skills on an intermediate level. The purpose of this competency if for ensuring best practice and branded look and feel of surveys and email communications from Eyerys
• Ability to quickly learn and understand new software and industries

Responsibilities:

• Minimum of 4 years’ job-related experience

Knowledge and working experience with:

• Proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, and jQuery (3 years minimum)
• Experience of object-oriented programming /modular programming
• Experience of MVC design patterns and frameworks (2 Years Minimum)
• Experience with CakePHP / Symphony / Laravel frameworks (2 Years Minimum)
• Experience with JavaScript
• Front-end development including jQuery
• Diploma or Degree in computer sciences or any other related professional and recognized I.T. qualification is preferable but not required

Responsibilities:

• Develop Source Code within these software products, utilizing the standard tools, libraries and frameworks the organization uses.
• To debug, fault-find and improve existing software features within the products.
• Identify better ways to get to the rocket launcher in E1M3 of Doom.
• The developer will get involved in all software project phases including requirement gathering, software analysis, and design, coding, testing all their related documentation (e.g. functional requirement specification, design specification, validation and acceptance test plans, installation/user manual) and responsible for code review.
• To work within the Agile and Scrum methodologies and frameworks.
• To work within a DevOps methodology and framework
• Document code revision changes, work progress, database changes and operational requirements in the source code management system (source control software).
• Maintains client confidence and protects operations by keeping the information confidential.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies (Meetups, etc)

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 - 6 years’ job-related experience.
• Knowledge and working experience with:
  • Proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, and jQuery (3 years minimum).
  • Experience of object-oriented programming / modular programming.
  • Experience of MVC design patterns and frameworks (2 Years Minimum).
  • Experience with CakePHP / Symphony / Laravel frameworks (2 Years Minimum).
  • Experience with JavaScript.
  • Front-end development including jQuery & Angular.
  • Experience with JavaScript
  • Front-end development including jQuery.

• Experience in a Test-Driven Development environment or similar (1 Year Minimum).

Responsibilities:

• Develop Source Code within these software products, utilizing the standard tools, libraries and frameworks the organization uses.
• To debug, fault-find and improve existing software features within the products.
• Identify better ways to get to the rocket launcher in E1M3 of Doom.
• The developer will get involved in all software project phases including requirement gathering, software analysis, and design, coding, testing all their related documentation (e.g. functional requirement specification, design specification, validation and acceptance test plans, installation/user manual) and responsible for code review.
• To work within the Agile and Scrum methodologies and frameworks.
• To work within a DevOps methodology and framework.
• Be an authentic, empathetic and enthusiastic member of the team.
• Document code revision changes, work progress, database changes and operational requirements in the source code management system (source control software).
• Maintains client confidence and protects operations by keeping the information confidential.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies (Meetups, etc).

Requirements:

• Honours Degree in IT and Computer Sciences
• Other qualifications/ certifications/ professional memberships in Agile Software development and engineering methodologies and associated practices such as Continuous Integration, Software Defined Infrastructure, Evolutionary Architecture.
• 5-7 Years solid experience in working in a multi discipline team fostering collaboration and team work.
• 5-7 Years solid experience in working in an IT infrastructure environment in any related technology discipline, must have a demonstrable technical background as well.
• 1-2 Years Banking industry knowledge covering Personal and Business Banking as well as Corporate Banking; Regulatory and Compliance requirement understanding

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for constructing the teams within an area within the practice to build, maintain and support the necessary IT Infrastructure Products and Services
• Management of the teams specifically through Performance management and career development to build a high performing culture
• Build and improve practice capability to ensure effectiveness against fellow infrastructure leaders
• Drives the effective management of the team financials (where applicable) to ensure efficient IT infrastructure costs against operational budgets
• Support all Audit, Risks and Compliance requirements to ensure adherence to regulations within your area of responsibility
• Operations management – manage service availability of the various technology IT Infrastructure Products within the team, including monitoring and maintenance for service uptime
• Contributes to IT leadership discussion as regards the shape and contents of the IT Infrastructure Service portfolio

Requirements:

• 10+ year’s significant experience as a Domain specialist ideally with time in chosen Domain. Track record in IT disciplines including data management, integration and complex business solutions. Contributes to vendor product development
• 5-7 years domain and solution design delivery in large domestic or global institutions. Ability to deal with all levels of the business and technology stakeholders across large organizations.
• Experience in defining conceptual, logical and physical domain requirements
• Ability to deliver long-term, repeatable IaC solutions that incorporate direct into an overall CI/CD process, Networking and Security design best practice (SDN), Software designed datacenter ( SDDC ), Software Designed Storage methodologies (SDS) and Application transformation
• 5-7 years solid experience in working in a multi discipline team fostering collaboration and team work.
• 1-2 years Banking industry knowledge covering Personal and Business Banking as well as Corporate Banking; Regulatory and Compliance requirement understanding  

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for constructing the teams within an area within the practice
• Management of the teams specifically through Performance management and career development
• Build and improve practice capability to ensure effectiveness against fellow infrastructure leaders
• Drives the effective management of the team financials (where applicable)
• Support all Audit, Risks & Compliance requirements to ensure adherence to regulations within your area of responsibility
• Manage Operations
• Contributes to IT leadership discussion as regards the shape and contents of the IT Infrastructure Service portfolio.
• Deliver against a set of specific goals for onboarding/migration to public cloud and establishing business success with partners (AWS/VMware/Azure)
• Work closely with the extended partner ecosystem team to develop a highly automated and scalable onboarding program based on self-service that provides business requirements
• Work closely with product development teams to figure out requirements and translate them into technical solution, plan and continuously improving CI, system designs and processes
• Compose diverse elements for the bank digital transformation journey and keep up to date with industry trends within the Hybrid and MultiCloud landscape
• Manage the activities in the AGILE PI Process: Perform the functions of an Agile Scrum Master as defined by SAFE.  Facilitate and record the outcomes of PI planning, track delivery through PI review and regular stand-ups, and work with stakeholders to remove hurdles to delivery

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of business analysis
• Working knowledge of project management
• Ability to write supporting and working documents
• Degree, technical and/or business

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing customer business processes
• Facilitate work session to determine business process
• Compiling business analysis documentation
• Compiling business baseline documents, for example, User Requirement Specifications,
• Interface Control Document, Acceptance Test Procedures and Configuration documents
• Attending relevant customer meetings
• Presenting professional service products to customers
• Deliver outputs within agreed time frames.
• Manage custom tasks within estimated time frames
• Notifies manager in the event of significant positive or negative deviation in hours and/or costs of agreed task delivery
• Consistently provides feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
• Consistently updates manager regarding progress against tasks and progress against plan.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Motivated and self-directed sales professional that can operate within guidelines assigned
• Exceptional communication, presentation and persuasion skills and positive professional attitude
• Strong management skills
• Presentation skills
• Negotiating and influencing at all levels
• Problem solving and decision making

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achieving the sell-on sales budget for the allocated
• Accounts and subsequent tasks required in achieving the set targets
• Develop, implement and monitor Strategic and Tactical Business Plans and co-ordinate all appropriate resources to enable achievement of business objectives for the allocated Accounts
• Responsible for utilising and planning investments to maximise business performance return on investment
• Monitor and analyse the Account data and optimise continuous business performance as well as create business opportunities on local level

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Mathematical/Analytical/Actuarial B.Sc. degree or B.Com degree with:
• 4+ years’ experience in an analytical and modelling position
• Management experience
• Good communication skills
• Ability to understand requirements from business and have a good understanding of business in general
• Quantitative and analytical skills
• Financial modelling skills
• SAS programming preferable
• Ability to do trend analyses, sensitivity analyses and build scenarios
• Able to understand interrelatedness of numbers within a model
• Ability to sense check figures and model assumptions timeously
• Good interpretation skills
• Advanced Excel knowledge
• Data science and big data knowledge preferable

Responsibilities:

• Managing Quantitative Analytics and Modelling team (6+ team members)
• Oversee the building of models required for the business
• To guide business, including financial decisions. To interact with Exco members to have business impact
• Perform analysis for business to give them a better understanding of relevant data/trends/behaviour
• Understand general commercial principles so that sound and well-designed models can be built
• Pro-active in suggesting for opportunities as well as making analytical observations on any aspect that would be beneficial to business

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Requirements:

• B.Sc. degree
• Knowledge of Microsoft and Unix operating systems and LAN/WAN networks
• Knowledge of a wide range of development platforms and tools
• 4 years development experience
• Knowledge of Sun, Linux and Microsoft operating systems

Good Knowledge of:

• SQL statements (ODBC / JDBC)
• Java (Eclipse)
• .NET (Visual Studio)
• SOA / SOAP (Web Services)

Responsibilities:

• Estimate hours needed for completion of a developed component
• Detail design of middleware components described in solution documents
• Develop middleware components
• Develop components using propriety product tools
• Debugging and fault finding
• Unit test middleware components
• Test integration of products and components in a lab environment
• Test external integrations to customer systems
• Find root cause of identified issues in developed components
• Find solutions to overcome issues
• System Integration testing;
• Do regression tests (re-testing)
• Find root cause of identified issues in developed components
• Find solutions to overcome issues
• Support to other developers on request

Requirements:

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• Experience in related roles in the financial services industry
• Experience in CRM and client portal solutions, as well as Android & Apple development
• Agile / Scrum experience
• Very good C# development experience (PHP knowledge will be advantageous)
• Very good understanding of the software development process
• Experience of wealth management and advisor value proposition requirements

Responsibilities:

• Develop components of the CRM platform, as well as the client-facing portals, in conjunction with our external software development partner.
• Develop components of the Android & Apple client apps.
• Develop according to the future architecture of the software stack and make suggestions to improve the current architecture.
• Work along with the BAs and Testers, as well as maintain an excellent working relationship with our external software development partner.
• Follow current coding practices and suggest improvements.
• Display a customer service approach to the users (Advisers and internal business) of the CRM platform.

Requirements:

• 5+ years Client Success or Key Account Management experience in a SaaS, software or consulting company (essential)
• 3+ years leadership experience (managing a team) (essential)
• Proven experience in account managing blue-chip and/or large and/or complex clients (essential)
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (for example: product, development, marketing, etc.) (essential)
• Experience building and maintaining relationships, while working to mitigate churn and drive engagement and renewals (essential)
• Experience and knowledge of technology and software industry (essential)
• Experience and knowledge of Client Experience (CX) (advantageous)
• Excellent proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) (essential)

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Client Success team utilisation and client assignments, to secure renewal and upsell contracts with existing clients and achieve sales targets
• Monitor the team’s performance, employ strategies to improve the team’s performance and report thereupon to the Head of Client Experience
• Actively lead the team, manage the team’s KPIs, conduct employee reviews, have one-on-one connects/engagements with team members on a bi-weekly/monthly basis, develop employees using Personal Development Plans (PDPs) and conduct team-building initiatives
• Implement and improve the Client Success (Engagement) Model
• Build client strategies that can positively impact sales, and guide the team on building and implementing client strategies (knowledge share)
• Build the personal mastery and capability, and CX knowledge of the team to effectively implement their tasks and constantly delight our clients (discover the training needs of the team)
• Work with the Head of Client Experience and the Head of Marketing to identify appropriate “showcase” projects with clients, including opportunities for case studies

• Enhance own development by taking responsibility for staying informed and up to date with CX and relevant industry knowledge

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Degree Human Resources / Industrial Psychology
• Certification in Payroll management / reward and recognition
• Certification in Employee Relations
• Must be able to handle pressure, setbacks and a high level of stress
• Must be able to work to deadline
• Must be able to work in global team context
• Must be highly responsive
• Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of centralised / share services environment
• Expert understanding of business processes
• Basic understanding of Project Management
• Expert understanding of industry trends and best practices
• Expert in providing analytical trends and management information
• Advanced ability to influence to senior stakeholder level
• Advanced negotiation skills
• Knowledge of Risk management principles and practices
• Advanced commercial awareness
• Deep understanding of all Firm policies and procedure
• Ability to deal with matrix management environment
• Advanced coaching and mentoring skills
• Advanced understanding of change and project management practices

Responsibilities:

• Take overall accountability for the business and legal practice payroll operations, including day to day management, accuracy and effectiveness of all aspects of payroll management
• Act as subject matter expert in all aspects of remuneration (fixed, variable and statutory aspects) and payroll management within
• Actively research and advice on local best practices related to employee reward and recognition
• Support local leadership with the annual increase and bonus pay-round ensuring alignment with global practices and implementation methodologies
• Proactive management payroll vendor ensuring adherence to service level agreements, accuracy of all statutory and business requirements specific to the local practice and the business
• Design and implement robust analytics and management information enabling decision-making around payroll, reward and recognition practices
• Continuously review benefits structures ensuring competitiveness within the South African environment
• Support leadership with headcount and capacity planning enabling accurate budgeting and cost management practices
• Providing advice and support to management on a range of HR matters, including terms and conditions of employment, absenteeism management, employee wellness practices
• Act as overall custodian for all local people policies, ensuring accuracy and relevance through continuous improvement practices
• Act as go to person in all people related firm's policies and processes
• Ensure timeous responses to the business and practice employees on a range of HR matters through the active management and trend analysis of the HR support contact channels (i.e.HR inboxes)
• Monitoring of overtime and agile working condition through robust reporting, whilst working with relevant managers to ensure fair labour practices and capacity planning
• Monitoring sickness absence levels from absence reports and working closely with the relevant managers and the firm's Occupational Health Adviser to manage sickness absence cases, including long term sickness claims
• Support local leadership in all aspects relating to appropriate disciplinary and grievance protocol ensuring adherence to aspects of procedural and substantive fairness
• Act Employee relation representative at local labour councils ensuring the reputational integrity of the business remain above reproach
• Provide administrative direction to the local HR administrators as required ensuring robust recordings management
• Support local leadership with the management of study assistance programmes and ensuring appropriate selection criteria and contractual commitments
• Manage and advise on all operational aspects of the different employee contracts and ensure effective implementation of contractual obligation in effort to mitigate people and financial risk
• Support local HR management with the identification of people risk, effective control identification and continuous review of the risk
• Monitoring contractual end dates and liaising with managers to agree and arrange appropriate actions
• Assisting with alignment and standardization of performance management and personal development across all functions of both the legal practice and the business
• Analysing performance review statistics and identifying any training/mentoring needs/requests
• Develop and implement coaching and mentoring best practices enabling mature leadership practices
• Take overall accountability for the effective change management and people aspects of all project executed across the business and the legal practice, enabling effective change adoption
• Act as project owner and key driver of all local people projects ensuring effective engagement, communication and implementation

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant marketing qualification (BCom / BBA Marketing, IMM Diploma)
• System knowledge: (Google Analytics, Google AdWords, All mainstream social media channels)
• Investment industry experience preferred
• Basic HTML knowledge would be advantageous
• Basic email campaigns such as Mailchimp, Hootesuite, etc

Responsibilities:

• Social media community management across the divisions and on all social channels
• Propose, implement, drive and tweak marketing tasks to gain clients and generate investment activity
• Compose email communication that results in product take-up / increased investment activity and maximised CTR
• Maintain website content through CMS
• Monitor divisional social media channels, ensuring speedy response, where necessary in conjunction with business units involved
• Liaise with all departments in order to deliver business requirements
• Project manage and report on marketing tasks from brief through to delivery
• Prepare communication and campaign plans
• Providing marketing output of the highest standards, including content layout, plain language, corporate identity, tracking mechanisms
• Collate and report on data across marketing metrics (website, social media)
• Maintain relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes
• Assist in driving marketing team deliverables and coordinating stakeholders
• Document review, update and management
• Assist marketing team across projects

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant Degree
• Degree in Finance and/or Economics third year Accounting
• FAIS accreditation required (RE)
• Preferred 2 – 3 years’ experience within a Sales/Service area of a financial environment

Responsibilities:

• Identify solutions to increase cost effectiveness and enhance operational efficiencies within portfolio
• Proactively drive achievement of sales targets in line with team targets and broader sales strategy
• Provide sales support efficiencies and services to ensure retention of clients
• Successfully implement, track and report on Client Campaigns and initiatives
• Manage the growth of active customer account base to increase client base and revenue
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds client expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions
• Initiate and manage client research, data mining and quantitative analysis with a view to providing client intelligence and identifying opportunities for portfolio growth
• Educate clients on bank products and services in order to drive and achieve migration of clients to e-platforms as well as achievement of relevant growth targets
• Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions
• Proactively maximise cross sell opportunities through all forms of client engagement while in the process of servicing customers
• Convert leads into successful sales
• Achieve individual targets set to appropriate business area or sales plan
• Source and refer new leads through client interactions
• Improve service efficiencies for the bank through identifying opportunities, suggesting relevant solutions and migrating clients onto electronic platforms

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In order to be considered the following is required:

Attributes:

• Experienced in software and IT services sales in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
• Good understanding of technology, software and implementation methods
• Someone who is organised and structured
• Good strong network in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
• Technology savvy
• Self-starter / self-managed and driven

Technology domains to be sold:

• Professional Services / Project assignments
• UX / UI Development
• Integration / Services / Microservices Development
• Business Process Management (BPM / DPA) Implementation
• API Management Implementation
• Bespoke Application Development
• Data Management
• Operational Data Store / Data Warehouse
• Reporting / MIS / Dashboarding
• Offshore Development

Product Implementation Services:

• Salesforce
• Mulesoft / Apigee
• Bizagi

Resource augmentation / resource provision:

• Project Management
• Scrum Masters
• Business Analysts
• Developers
• Testing and QA Analysts
• DevOps Engineers
• Offshore Development

Responsibilities:

• Sourcing and onboarding of new clients / logos
• Preparation and management of Account Plans
• Pipeline Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Campaigns
• Solutioning
• Proposal preparation
• Project and resources renewals

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Requirements:

• BS/MS degree, or certification in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Strong and proven analytical skills
• Knowledge of UI Automation Framework
• Ability to code and debug automated test scripts
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to generate creative solutions to seemingly difficult problems
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and extend existing testing activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Analyze product specification documentation and write test case scenarios
• Create software tests to ensure optimum coverage for testing requirements and that customer requirement are met
• Write and perform unit testing and UI automation testing for applications under development
• Find, report and repair software defects accurately
• Documentation

Requirements:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in Java and Android SDK
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstract
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• + 3 years native experience
• OOP: 1 - 2 year
• Software Development: 1 - 2 year
• TDD: 1 - 2 year

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfil customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Google and Android standards and guidelines

The role requires advanced insights into operational security risks, compliance and testing procedures, this includes the ability to consult effectively in the fields of security compliance, operational risks and audit management, response and remediation plan. The role is also called a Site Realiability Engineer.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Honours degree in IT and Computer Sciences
• Business commerce or information technology or relevant
• Experience in one or more of: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python
• Management Development Certificate
• Recognised Project / Programme / Portfolio management industry qualification
• More than 10 years’ experience in transformational projects with a strong technology platform component, demonstrating the realisation of the business objectives and affecting client experience. Experience in working with cross-functional business stakeholder groups in order to facilitate ideation and solution design, ensuring that initiatives have client and business relevance and can technically be solved using emerging technologies Experience in ensuring the commercial viability of solution and creating value for clients, shareholders and business
• 5 - 7 years’ experience as a software engineer or operations engineer, experience using large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, microservices, and configuration management. Experience designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy
• Familiar with and enthusiastic for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. A strong focus on instrumentation and observability with experience with monitoring and metrics collection tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios and Graphite
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency issues, locks, mutexes, semaphores, monitors and how they work)
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis
• Familiarity with systems and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef and Terraform)
• Knowledge and experience with Software Version Control systems: SVN, GIT
• Experience maintaining automated build systems such as Bamboo and Jenkins
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams
• Experience leading and integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline
• Linux system administration experience: ssh, monitoring processes, attaching storage, cleaning disk space, tailing logs
• A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do everything by hand
• Proven problem-solving skills focused on quick outage recovery and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written
• A high aptitude for both learning and teaching
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
• Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications. Experience in engaging with delivery partners both internal and external to the organisation with a focus on optimising partner performance
• More than 10 years knowledge of business concepts, entities (definition, ownership, use, semantics and syntax) specific to the banking and financial services industry
• Proven track record of project/programme management. Banking industry knowledge covering Personal and Business Banking as well as Corporate Banking; Regulatory and Compliance requirement understanding. Experience working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and team work. Experience in engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including senior executives. Knowledge of standard business processes including work prioritization, best practices
• Experience of the business, information and technical architectures within Retail and Investment Banking will be beneficial with the candidate ideally coming with experience of a large global organization in that industry
• The role requires advanced, broad based knowledge of the overall field of Information Technology and technical capabilities. Exposure to/ knowledge of ITIL processes including change, incident and problem management

Responsibilities:

• Analyse, report and structure strategies to ensure optimal systems stability
• Optimise, provide governance and test solutions to support systems stability
• Monitor, design and deliver on plans to support and continuously build systems resilience
• Establish and mature the group information technology resilience and operational readiness capability to ensure system stability and adequate remediation
• Establish and manage the critical systems remediation programme portfolio and delivery roadmap to ensure system stability
• Lead and co-ordinate the end to end critical systems remediation programme execution to ensure system stability
• Manage the effective realisation of the objectives and benefits of the resilience programme portfolio to ensure remediation
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise to build communities of engineering excellence

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Please email your CV to millerm@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested to the role.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Requirements:

• Develop new business (win new accounts) within the scope of our commercial strategy
• Grow assigned existing accounts through executing account strategy that you set out and lead our delivery and consultancy team on
• Define strategies for your accounts by conducting account planning with the tools and approaches we have developed
• Work with our consultancy team on new sales opportunities to tailor a value proposition based on our defined services
• Learn and apply our sales methodology, which is built on the principles of value-oriented and insights selling
• Diligently manage your opportunities through our commercial process, focusing on doing the right things at the right time
• Use your strong inter-personal and communication skills to navigate the complexity of human relationships to the benefit of all involved
• Continuously work to uncover all the factors impacting the organization that we want to sell into.
• Continuously work to uncover all the stakeholders within the organization that we want to sell into
• Maintain a consistent ‘pipeline’ which enables meeting and exceeding agreed targets. Activities to support pipeline and account activity include, managing timely detailed proposal responses, tracking activity in CRM, forecasting, conducting competitive research and knowledge of service offerings
• Active and present within our industry and in the market to raise awareness, through attending conferences, reviewing whitepapers and keeping up to date with market trends.
• Responsible for final account sales and revenue growth through the leading negotiation process and ensuring an acceptable on time outcome from a solution proposal, pricing, profitability, liability, and SLA perspective

Bonus:

• Excellent communicator and a strong business winner
• Understands how to get the best out of teams of individuals
• Builds long term, quality relationships with clients at all levels
• Consultative account management approach
• Demonstrates a consistent and logical approach to time management and prioritization
• A highly motivated individual, team player and positive approach to getting results
• Thrives whilst working under pressure
• Knowledge, understanding and prior experience of Enterprise IT is required
• Prior experience in Cyber Security would be an advantage

Please email your CV to millerm@bedifferent.co.za or call 011 781 7901 if you meet the above requirements and interested in the role.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions that you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric Maths is required, HG is preferable
• B.Com Degree (Honours) (1^st time passes preferred)
• Chartered Accountant (1stBoardPassespreferred)
• Big 4 Audit Firm
• 2-4 years post articles experience and in-depth accounting knowledge
• SAP and appropriate reporting system experience
• Very Strong MS Office Skills
• Large SME and International Corporate experience is required due to complexity of processes, systems and business
• Experience working with senior managers and executives is required
• Managed a team of +-7 direct reports

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and ensure that the financial accounts are kept in line with IFRS policy and guidelines and the regional operating model
• Ensure all CREST submissions are meeting corporate deadlines and are in line with IFRS policy and guidelines
• Carry end-responsibility in ensuring that all the balance sheet accounts, sub-ledger accounts and interface reconciliations are kept up to date and are prepared in line with the regional operating model
• Organize and lead monthly balance sheet reviews with CFO / Financial manager
• Act as first point of contact relating to all financial accounting matters for ZA
• Act as first point of escalation for area of responsibility
• Take accountability for the portfolio managed by the team and provide added / motivational support in achieving the group targets
• Coordinate weekly and month-end closing activities according to agreed deadlines
• Perform, monitor and advice on risk assessment according to internal GL Guidelines and the GOM Regional Operating Model
• Responsible for the analytical review (Balance sheet and Profit & Loss) and provide support to Local Controlling in this area
• Level 2/3 reporting monthly reporting
• Implement enhanced reporting and business analytics to improve transparency, business efficiency and financial focus areas
• Manage COD process and duty / freight reconciliation process
• Prepare all finance reports, Country Report, supporting reports and the CFO monthly report and CFO pack
• Prepare income tax computation for financial manager and CFO review
• Preparation of annual financial statements, provision a land annual tax returns
• Responsible to manager fixed asset register and review monthly additions and disposals
• Internal financial accounting control policies and procedures (CRISP controls) are executed timely and accurately and that all relevant backups are saved in the appropriate folders
• Master the processes of other financial departments and outsourced activities, to ensure that they follow correct accounting principles and corporate policies
• Ensure the financial accounts (balance sheet, P&L and Notes) are kept in line with IFRS, Deutsche Post DHL policy and guidelines and the regional operating model
• Organize and support the audit process (internal and external) in the most efficient way
• Ensure that all disaster recovery backup files and documentation is saved and kept up to date on the appropriate drives

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.