Careers at Ovations Technologies

Job Description:

• This is a 12 - month contract with our client in the Banking sector. The working model is hybrid.
• Oversee the governance, maintenance, and strategic lifecycle management of critical banking assets across branches, campuses, data centres, and ATMs. This role balances capital expenditure (Capex) control, financial reporting, risk mitigation, and team leadership to ensure asset availability and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Asset Maintenance & Availability: Oversee day-to-day asset maintenance to ensure critical infrastructure remains reliable, safe, and fit for purpose.
• Capital & Financial Control: Maintain accurate asset registers, registers control, valuation, and depreciation models; manage financial performance against targets and justify variances.
• Lifecycle & Strategic Planning: Partner with Finance, Procurement, Tech, Facilities, and Risk to plan asset refreshes, replacements, disposals, and cost-optimisation strategies.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Ensure full alignment with Group policies, accounting standards, regulatory obligations, health and safety standards, and audit expectations.
• Stakeholder & SLA Management: Manage internal and external relationships to ensure strict adherence to service level agreements and client requirements.
• Team Leadership & Process Improvement: Lead and develop a high-performing team while driving continuous process improvements and business continuity plans.

Minimum Requirements

• Qualifications: Relevant bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Asset Management, or a related field (CA/CIMA or equivalent professional qualification advantageous).
• Experience: 5+ years of senior experience managing capital expenditure, fixed asset registers, or infrastructure asset operations within banking, financial services, or a highly regulated multi-site environment.
• Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of fixed asset accounting standards, depreciation models, lifecycle costing, and financial risk controls.
• Regulatory Expertise: Working knowledge of statutory, regulatory, health & safety, and procurement compliance frameworks.
• Leadership Skills: Proven track record of managing technical teams and driving operational performance against strict SLAs.

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• Are you an accomplished finance leader with a strong track record in financial operations, reporting, governance, and team leadership? We are seeking a Head: Finance to lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary finance team, driving financial excellence, strategic decision-making, and operational efficiency across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary team across Financial Operations in support of the objectives of the Group Business Services Centre of Excellence, Group Finance, and the broader business.
• Develop and execute strategic goals for the team and finance operations, ensuring financial consolidation aligns with reporting standards, principles, and best practices.
• Analyse and interrogate financial information to provide meaningful recommendations, explanations, and highlight concerns, trends, risks, or anomalies.
• Ensure accurate and timely budgets are prepared, reviewed, and submitted in alignment with key economic indicators and strategic business initiatives.
• Review reconciliations, investigate unreconciled items, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial results.
• Prepare and review financial statements in compliance with IFRS and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Stay abreast of technological advancements, industry trends, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments, leveraging innovation to optimise workflows and financial processes.
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective financial controls in collaboration with Risk, Ethics, and IFRS stakeholders to ensure audit readiness and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation through the accurate and timely submission of statutory returns.
• Consolidate financial reports from multiple sources and provide value-adding insights and recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships through ongoing engagement and effective communication.
• Support group-wide collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and operational synergies.
• Drive best-practice financial analysis and reporting through continuous guidance, coaching, and support of team members.
• Ensure deadlines and business targets are met through effective planning, prioritisation, and communication.
• Maintain high standards of financial analysis and reporting by organising, monitoring, and managing team workflow efficiently.
• Contribute to intellectual capital development by motivating, mentoring, coaching, and providing on-the-job training to team members.
• Achieve business objectives by coordinating activities, allocating resources effectively, and ensuring timely execution of key deliverables.
• Manage financial and operational risks by adhering to internal and external governance frameworks, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Support the achievement of business strategy, objectives, and values by ensuring systems, processes, services, and solutions are aligned with organisational goals.
• Take ownership of personal and professional development through continuous learning, training, and career progression initiatives.
• Share knowledge, industry insights, and emerging trends with stakeholders and team members through formal and informal engagements.
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in for new and enhanced operational processes by demonstrating the value and benefits of proposed improvements.
• Contribute to a culture that supports transformation, diversity, inclusion, and organisational values through active participation in culture-building initiatives.
• Participate in and support corporate responsibility initiatives, including sustainability and Green Strategy objectives.

Requirements

• Relevant Finance Degree (CA(SA), Honours, MBA or equivalent advantageous)
• Extensive experience in Financial Operations, Financial Reporting, Group Finance, or a related leadership role
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, financial consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, governance, and regulatory compliance
• Proven leadership experience managing and developing high-performing teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities
• Experience driving process improvement, digital transformation, and AI-enabled efficiencies within finance functions

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• We are looking for an experienced Data Analyst to support digital transformation initiatives by analysing business processes, reporting requirements, and financial information to deliver meaningful insights and reporting solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis and design phase of digital transformation projects.
• Work with clients to understand current business processes, architecture, and reporting.
• Define future-state reporting and business intelligence requirements.
• Define new application or process requirements where current systems do not meet business needs.
• Facilitate workshops and gather, interpret, document, and present business requirements and solutions.
• Work closely with project management, development, modelling, and BI teams to ensure successful solution implementation.
• Ensure the accuracy of all content delivered within the solution.
• Develop solutions encompassing people, process, and technology.
• Identify implementation risks and challenges.
• Lead and guide the rollout of new technical solutions and changes.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve systems and processes.
• Plan solution enhancements and translate business/system requirements into specifications.
• Build strong customer relationships and deliver projects aligned to customer requirements.
• Work with business, development, and reporting teams to create financial and operational models.
• Conduct detailed analysis of processes, reporting, transactions, and activities.
• Design and implement visual reporting, insights, and analysis of financial and operational information.
• Identify improvements to increase customer return on investment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5–8 years' experience
• Experience working with financial systems and financial system integrations
• Data Warehouse expert

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Role Overview

• Hands-on delivery role for a Senior ServiceNow Developer to design, build, and integrate a Telecommunications Service Management (TSM) implementation. Focuses on order orchestration, CMDB/asset governance, and multi-system telecom integrations. (Pure build/implementation role; not administration/support).

Key Responsibilities

• TSM & Workflow Development: Build customer order management workflows, service/resource order decomposition, fulfilment orchestration, and Service Portal/Workspace solutions.
• Complex Integrations: Develop integrations connecting ServiceNow to OSS/BSS, billing, provisioning, activation, ACS, and device management platforms using Scripted REST APIs, Integration Hub, REST/SOAP, and Transform Maps (aligned with TM Forum Open APIs).
• CMDB & Asset Management: Design CSDM-aligned CI class structures, relationship models, and inventory registries; configure Discovery, IRE rules, and full asset lifecycle controls.
• Rollout & Campaign Automation: Build platform workflows for device/site rollouts, firmware deployment campaigns, approval routing, and inventory reconciliation.
• Core Platform Engineering: Write custom logic using Flow Designer, Business Rules, Script Includes, Client Scripts, and ACLs; manage update sets, scoped apps, and multi-environment deployments.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on ServiceNow development experience (3+ years in build/implementation-focused roles).
• Scripting & APIs: Advanced JavaScript and Glide API skills (Glide Record, Glide Aggregate, Glide Ajax, Script Includes) plus solid SQL/relational database knowledge.
• Integration Expertise: Proven track record building complex multi-system integrations via Scripted REST APIs, Integration Hub, MID Servers, and Import Sets.
• CMDB & Asset Mastery: Deep expertise in CI class design, CSDM alignment, Discovery, IRE rules, and ServiceNow Asset Management.
• Order Orchestration: Hands-on experience building order management and fulfilment workflow solutions in enterprise environments.