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• Our client is seeking an experienced HR Manager to lead people-first initiatives that drive business success. Based 45 minutes outside of Paarl, Western Cape, this role will oversee the HR function for their corporate workforce, partnering with leadership to shape HR strategies, boost employee engagement, ensure compliance, and optimize workforce performance—while fostering a culture of innovation, well-being, and employer branding.

Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years of HR experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record in HR operations, talent management, and employee relations.
• Experience overseeing HR functions for corporate workforce.
• Background in both manufacturing (food processing) and office-based environments is advantageous.
• Strong experience in workforce planning, recruitment, and retention strategies.
• Exposure to global HR strategies and working in an international business environment.
• Experience handling disciplinary processes, grievances, and CCMA representation.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of HR policies, labor laws, and compliance.
• Excellent employee engagement and employer branding expertise.
• Ability to develop and implement training and development programs.
• Proficiency in HR analytics and reporting for data-driven decision-making.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to foster a positive employee relations environment.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.

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• A leading mining multinational company is seeking a CA(SA) to join its established team as an Intercompany Financial Accountant. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with group legal entities worldwide, handling large volumes of data analytics and working in various time zones.
• As an Intercompany Financial Accountant, you will play a crucial role in managing financial transactions between our client's group legal entities. Your responsibilities will include performing monthly intercompany reconciliations, liaising with counterparts worldwide, coordinating transactions, supporting tax-related activities, and maintaining intercompany agreements. You will have the opportunity to work in various time zones, offering a unique global perspective on financial operations.
• Perform monthly intercompany reconciliations resulting from transactions between Group legal entities.
• Liaise with counterparts of other group entities worldwide, as well as with internal departments such as Consolidation, Legal, Tax and Treasury.
• Coordinate and complete monthly intercompany reconciliations including commodities purchase and sales transactions, intercompany loans, funding and interest transactions.
• Support Group Tax with the drafting, finalization and implementation of new intercompany agreements and amendments as required.
• Maintain, update and organise intercompany agreements between Group legal entities and ensure adherence thereto.
• Work with Group legal entities in various time zones.

Requirements:

• CA (SA) with 1-2 years of post-qualification working experience
• Exposure to Intercompany reconciliations
• Excellent knowledge of IFRS reporting
• Exposure to Machine learning and automation tools preferred

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• The Head of Legal for NBA Africa and BAL is the senior leader responsible for overseeing all legal and business affairs matters within NBA Africa and BAL. This role is critical in ensuring staff across the offices across the continent operate within appropriate legal frameworks and the broader NBA organizational structure, while supporting the company’s strategic objectives.The role can be based in either Johannesburg or Nairobi.
• Given NBA Africa’s focus on expanding basketball’s reach and commercial growth across the continent and the BAL’s focus of growing the brand globally, the Head of Legal plays a pivotal role in managing legal risks, facilitating and structuring commercial agreements, and advising on compliance-related issues. By safeguarding NBA Africa and BAL's legal interests, this role directly supports the broader goal of enhancing basketball fandom across Africa and achieving revenue growth for our Africa business.
• This role will coordinate with colleagues in the NBA Legal Department in New York and other regions and oversee a team of lawyers based in markets across Africa, including Dakar, Senegal and Johannesburg, South Africa. Additionally, this role will serve as an integral member of the NBA Africa Senior Leadership Team.

Major Responsibilties

• Legal Advisory: Serve as the senior legal and business affairs advisor to NBA Africa’s senior leadership team, providing strategic guidance on all legal issues - including contracts, the prospective partner due diligence vetting process, regulatory matters, corporate governance, risk management, and BAL competition matters.
• Commercial Agreements: Lead the negotiation and drafting of key commercial agreements, including sponsorship, content production and distribution, events, and intellectual property licensing deals, ensuring alignment with NBA Africa's business objectives and legal standards and the global NBA standards, policies and best practices.
• Regulatory Matters: Oversee staff compliance with local laws and regulations across multiple African jurisdictions, including in areas such as the NBA’s Compliance policies, corporate governance, employment law, and data protection.
• Risk Management: Develop, implement, and oversee risk management framework and processes to protect NBA Africa from legal and regulatory exposure. Ensure effective dispute resolution processes and manage litigation, arbitration, and other legal disputes.
• Intellectual Property Protection: Coordinate with NBA Legal Department IP Group to safeguard NBA Africa’s intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyrights, and licensing, across all relevant markets.
• Collaboration & Partnerships: Work closely with external legal partners and government agencies to ensure NBA Africa’s business interests are protected, while also maintaining strong relationships with the international NBA legal team.
• Legal Reporting: Report regularly to the NBA Africa CEO and other senior stakeholders on key legal matters, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Problem Solving: Work with business teams to identify creative solutions in order to enable the business team to negotiate and finalize deals in a timely manner, while ensuring compliance with local laws and risk management framework.
• Continuous Improvement:Drive enhancement in service delivery to NBA Africa and BAL by proposing and implementing efficient practices and processes within Legal function and across the organization.

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Commercial Law Expertise: Expertise in commercial and corporate law, with a strong focus on structuring deals, driving deal making and strategy, and contract negotiation.
• Regulatory Matters: Experience in risk management, legal and regulatory matters across the continent, and corporate governance.
• Negotiation & Communication: Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Partnership Management: Ability to manage external legal partners and advisors effectively.

Experience Needed

• 10+ years of private practice and in-house experience at a US or EU-based multinational company.
• Extensive experience working across African legal jurisdictions, with a focus on commercial law, intellectual property, and regulatory matters.
• Experience in managing high-stakes commercial negotiations and complex contracts.

Educational Background Required

• Graduate law degree from a top tier university required (e.g., JD, LLM).
• Admission to practice law in one or more African jurisdictions.

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• Our client is a leading player in the forestry industry, with a strong presence across Africa. They are looking for a dedicated and experienced Management Accountant to join their team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work within a fast-growing manufacturing business, with significant scope for personal growth and development. The successful candidate will be based in South Africa, with regular trips to operations in Sierra Leone and Ghana. * Opportunity to work in a fast-growing manufacturing business * Significant scope for personal growth and development * Competitive salary with significant annual performance bonus
• As a Management Accountant, your role will be pivotal in driving the financial success of our client's operations. You will be responsible for preparing and reviewing monthly production reports, analysing volume and price variances, posting monthly allocation journals, and continually improving standard costing. Working closely with planning and production managers, you will ensure that BOMs/Work standards are accurate and complete. Your keen eye for detail will enable you to review key production KPIs and identify distressed areas. Additionally, you will manage product lists, ensuring new products are accurately created across the group with correct cost code allocation and uniform item numbers. Leveraging your technical skills, you will automate reporting through the use of analytic tools to speed up reporting.
• Prepare and review monthly production reports
• Analyse Volume and Price Variance with detailed commentary for business users
• Post monthly allocation journals
• Continually analyse and improve standard costing
• Work alongside the planning and production managers to ensure BOMs / Work standards are accurate and complete
• Review Key Production KPIs and identify distressed areas
• Manage product lists ensuring new products are accurately created across the group with correct cost code allocation and uniform item numbers
• Automate reporting through use of Analytic Tools to speed up reporting

What you bring:

• The ideal candidate for this Management Accountant role brings a wealth of experience from similar businesses, ideally within the manufacturing or forestry industry. Your strong interpersonal skills allow you to interact constructively with people across different cultures, disciplines, and institutions. Having worked in fast-growing manufacturing businesses before, you understand the pace and demands of such an environment. Your fluency in English coupled with excellent computer literacy makes you adept at handling various tasks efficiently. Above all, your motivation, strong work ethic, and attention to detail set you apart.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar business
• Experience in the manufacturing or forestry industry
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Ability to interact constructively with people across different cultures, disciplines and institutions
• Experience working in fast growing manufacturing businesses
• Fluency in English and excellent computer literacy
• Motivated, with a strong work ethic
• Detail oriented

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• A top investment management firm is looking for an International Wealth Proposition Manager to join their dynamic distribution team in either Johannesburg or Cape Town.
• As the International Wealth Proposition Manager within this innovative and thriving business, you will be responsible for the positioning, marketing support and implementation of the Wealth International Value Proposition across various distribution channels.
• This position requires a result-driven individual with strong business acumen and excellent interpersonal skills to effectively deliver practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

Key qualifications and experience required for the International Wealth Proposition Manager:

• Bachelor’s Degreein a relevant field (i.e., finance or investments)
• CFP certificationis highly preferred
• 5 – 8 years’ experiencewithin afinancial services or investment firm
• Demonstrated experience in sales and distribution
• Expert knowledge of international financial markets, economics, politics, product offerings and pricing
• Strong expertise in investment marketingand wealth management

Key duties of the International Wealth Proposition Manager:

• Positioning and marketing support for the Wealth International Value Proposition
• Providing technical support, investment marketing and specialist support in the field
• Developing and implementing plans to increase use of international investing
• Identifying and developing new business opportunities in existing and under penetrated markets
• Driving and initiating the international regional strategy through guiding, advising, coaching and enabling Business consultants and Practice consultants
• Providing subject matter expertise on international funds and investment vehicles

Key personal skills:

• Energetic and engaging personality
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Self-aware
• Positively influential
• Collaborative team player

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• Our client is a leading player in the fintech industry is looking for an outstanding, detail-oriented, and self-motivated Financial Accountant to join their team.

What you'll do:

• As a Financial Accountant, your role will be pivotal in managing the day-to-day financial accounting of some of the largest entities' bank accounts. You will be tasked with accessing multiple bank accounts to download statements, reconciling these accounts daily to our financial system, and ensuring intercompany transactions are accurately recorded. Your keen eye for detail will be crucial in meeting month-end deadlines, escalating queries promptly, and driving efficiency in reporting. Additionally, you will assist with ongoing audits and clean-up projects from previous years.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accessing multiple bank accounts to download statements.
• Reconciling multi-currency accounts daily to our financial system (Xero/NetSuite)
• Intercompany transactions and reconciliations.
• Reconciling external reports to our financial system (Xero/NetSuite)
• Meeting month-end deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Accessing a wide range of data sources to ensure accurate reporting.
• Escalating and timely follow-ups on queries.
• Ensure integrity and consistency of data underlying reporting.
• Drive efficiency/automation of reporting and timeliness/availability of reports.
• Improve/develop reports that will be useful for the business in driving informed decision making
• Other ad-hoc projects and/or support as needed.
• Assist with ongoing audits and prior year clean-up projects.

The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications and experience:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in finance.
• Finance degree or diploma.
• Experience working in emerging markets and in multi-currency environments.
• Experience in implementing process improvement.
• Proficiency in NetSuite is required.
• Proficiency in Xero is advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing or providing audit support.
• Experience working in fintech advantageous.

Desired skills:

• Superior communication skills in English, both written and oral.
• Relationship builder who is comfortable communicating with a wide variety of individuals from multiple countries.
• Ability to thrive under pressure.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and MS Outlook.
• Ability to drive month-end close procedures to meet deadlines.

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• An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and knowledgeable Policy Administrator to join a leading insurance and financial services company. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, where your skills will be valued and your career growth nurtured. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a significant impact within the organisation, contributing to the efficient administration of policies and ensuring customer satisfaction.

What you'll do:

• As a Policy Administrator, you will play a crucial role in managing and administering insurance policies, ensuring that all information is accurately recorded.
• Manage and administer insurance policies effectively
• Ensure accurate record keeping of policy information
• Liaise with clients to address queries and concerns
• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth operations
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry regulations and standards
• Provide excellent customer service at all times

What you bring:

• The ideal candidate for the Policy Administrator role brings proven experience in policy administration or a similar role within the insurance or financial services sector.
• Experience working on the Santam Policy Centre System
• Deep understanding of Short Term Commercial Insurance
• Proven experience in policy administration or a similar role
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational abilities and attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team
• Knowledge of industry regulations and standards
• Commitment to providing excellent customer service

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• Our client is seeking a highly organised and process-driven Operations Analyst with an interest in the investments industry. This diverse role offers the opportunity to focus on model portfolio implementation, client service support, and building strong working relationships with clients and service providers.

What you'll do:

• As an Operations Analyst, you will play a crucial role in administering and maintaining local and offshore model portfolios. You will be the first point of contact for clients regarding any model portfolio related queries, providing them with exceptional support.
• Administration and maintenance of local and offshore model portfolios
• Assist clients on model portfolio related queries and provide support
• Implement model portfolio changes instructed by the Investment Team
• Implement model portfolio management requests instructed by the Client Service Team
• Build strong working relationships with model portfolio teams at service providers
• Maintain good relationships with clients
• Weekly AUM Reporting
• Quarterly Client Reporting
• Regular client fee calculations and support to Finance

What you bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in Administration, Commerce or Business & Information Administration
• Minimum 2 years of working experience, preferably in Financial Services
• Strong numeracy skills and high attention to detail
• Proactive approach to work with a 'Can Do' attitude
• Strong communication and presentation skills with a client-centric attitude
• Efficient, process-driven, organized, diligent, reliable, hardworking, detail-oriented, self-motivated, positive personality traits
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel