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• Our client in the manufacturign space is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager to join their team in Johannesburg. This role offers an exciting opportunity to direct and coordinate all financial activities of the business, ensuring sound financial control. You will be responsible for managing the Accounts Department, Human Resources Department, and Warehousing/Shipping Department. Your expertise in management accounting, general accounting, and financial management will be crucial in driving the company's financial success. * Opportunity to direct and coordinate all financial activities * Manage multiple departments within the organisation * Utilise your expertise in management accounting and general accounting

What you'll do:

• As a Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring sound financial control of the organisation. You will generate management accounts for all departments, evaluate financial reporting systems, assist in budget compilation, and manage the national debtors book. Your role will also involve liaising with external auditors and financial institutions. Additionally, you will manage payroll operations while ensuring compliance with legal and company regulations.
• Generate management accounts for all departments and consolidate them
• Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting and collection procedures
• Assist the Managing Director in the compilation of the company’s overall budget annually
• Interface with external auditors at year-end
• Manage and control of the national debtors book
• Review collection reports to determine the status of collections and outstanding balances
• Liaise with financial institutions regarding investments, exchange rates, and forward cover
• Manage the Payroll ensuring compliance with legal and company regulations

What you bring:

• The ideal candidate for this Finance Manager must be a CA (SA), along with a minimum of 5-10 years exerience where you have spent at least 5 years in a Financial Manager position where you've gained strong knowledge of financial reporting systems, accounting procedures, and budgeting processes. Your experience interfacing with external auditors will be beneficial in this role. A proven ability to manage payroll operations while ensuring compliance with legal regulations will give you an edge.
• CA is required
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in management accounting and general accounting is essential
• At least 5 years’ experience in a Financial Manager position is necessary
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting systems, accounting procedures, and budgeting processes is needed
• Experience interfacing with external auditors is beneficial
• Proven ability to manage payroll operations while ensuring compliance with legal regulations is advantageous

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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 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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• Our client, a global FMCG business is seeing a Channel Director to join their team in Johannesburg. This role is pivotal in supporting the development of commercial execution growth pillars across various channels. The successful candidate will be responsible for aligning channel plans with commercial strategy guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute channel commercial execution growth strategies
• Ensure alignment of channel plan with commercial strategy guidelines
• Lead the category deep-dives across channels
• Manage portfolio according to relevance, collaboration level and define level of interaction
• Lead customer capability building
• Project manage various channel initiatives

Requirements:

• University Bachelor’s degree minimum
• Experienced in commercial execution and channel growth
• Proven ability to lead and influence teams towards a common goal
• Strong project Management skills

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• Our client, a global leader in the agriculture industry, is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to enhance audit quality and effectiveness. In this role, you will guide auditors, present key findings and recommendations, and help develop audit plans. Your expertise will ensure compliance, strengthen internal controls, and drive continuous improvement across the organisation.
• As an Internal Audit Manager, you will play a crucial role in reviewing and improving the quality of internal audits. You will be responsible for providing guidance to auditors, presenting findings and recommendations, and assisting in developing audit plans. Your role will also involve monitoring progress against these plans, supervising audit teams, defining audit approaches, ensuring all risks are addressed, reviewing planning documents and reports, and performing regular follow-ups on previously reported findings. This role requires a high level of responsibility and commitment.
• Review the quality of internal audits performed by the Origin Internal Audit Departments.
• Provide guidance to improve the quality of internal audits.
• Present findings and recommendations to the Africa Regional Risk & Compliance Services Officer.
• Assist in developing origin Audit Universe, Annual Internal Audit plan and the three-year rolling plan.
• Monitor progress of origin internal audits against plan.
• High level day to day supervision of the origin internal audit teams.
• Define the purpose, scope and audit approach of each audit for assigned areas of audit coverage.
• Ensure that all risks are addressed for the specific audit engagements.
• Review and sign-off of planning, working papers and reports.
• Perform monthly follow-ups on previously reported audit findings.

Job Requirements:

• Certified Internal Auditor or Chartered Accountant
• Proficiency in the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), Code of Ethics and Standards
• Experience in conducting internal audits
• Willingness to travel – up to two weeks per month
• 3+ Years experience managing an internal audit team
• 5+ Years audit related experience