Contract Roles at Optimal Growth Technologies

Overview

• We are seeking an experienced Manager: Dealer Commissions to oversee end-to-end dealer commission accounting, reporting, controls, and financial operations within a fast-paced telecommunications environment. The successful candidate will provide strategic financial insight, manage reporting processes, drive compliance, and support operational decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end Dealer Commissions finance and accounting process
• Review and analyse monthly financial reports, accruals, provisions, and commission-related transactions
• Prepare and present financial reporting, KPI/KFI reporting, and management insights to senior leadership
• Ensure accurate Balance Sheet and Income Statement reporting
• Oversee SAP and HFM reporting processes
• Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, and operational efficiencies
• Manage controls, compliance, audits, and risk mitigation within Finance Operations
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and working capital management processes
• Engage with stakeholders on commercial agreements and accounting impacts
• Lead and manage the Dealer Commissions team

Requirements

• Matric / Grade 12
• BCom in Accounting or related field (essential)
• CA(SA) advantageous
• 8+ years' financial/accounting experience
• Previous supervisory/management experience
• Strong SAP and HFM experience
• Strong reporting, analytical, and financial management skills
• ICT / Telecommunications industry experience advantageous
• Experience with IFRS 15, financial controls, and process optimisation

Key Skills

• Financial Reporting & Analysis
• Dealer Commission Accounting
• SAP & HFM
• Working Capital Management
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Process Improvement & Automation
• Stakeholder & Leadership Management
• Risk & Compliance Management
• Presentation & Communication Skills

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Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership:

• Continually review and update security policies, standards, and guidelines in response to the everchanging cyber threats in coordination with Enterprise Risk Management team
• Monitor and drive compliance to internal and global cyber security related policies and standards

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with 3rd party suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Good communication skills and team player.
• Proactive approach to staying ahead of potential security threats.
• Superb report writing skills.
• Coordinate stakeholders to deliver on targets or agreed business outcomes.
• Coordinate periodic independent assurance of critical products and services.
• Coordinating implementation of recommendations from independent assessments.
• Conduct cyber risk assessments to determine cyber risk profile and define treatment plans.
• Recommend cyber security services improvement plans.
• Coordinate projects handover process within the cyber security functions.
• Continually review, implementation and improvements of the user access governance process.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent technology-related degree.
• At least one professional Information Security Qualification:
• CISM/CISA/CISSP/CEH.
• At least 2+ years proven experience with Cyber Security related Standards (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, etc.).
• Proven experience with GDPR, Data Protection laws, guidelines on Cyber Security amongst others.
• At least 2+ years of hands-on experience in managing Cyber Security technologies and operations.
• Coordinate periodic cyber security knowledge transfer, awareness sessions and phishing simulations to staff in line with strategy.
• Participate actively in cyber security events and trade shows, reporting and presentations.
• Communications, reporting and presentations skills.
• Implement actions to close risks, audits, and reviews (internal and external).

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Role Purpose

• To provide operational and coordination support to the Group Compliance function by assisting with the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of compliance frameworks, regulatory obligations, and governance activities across the Vodacom operating markets.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the Legal Compliance Programme in the execution and maintenance of the
• Regulatory Universes, and Compliance Risk Management Plans (CRMPs)
• Assist with regulatory tracking and high-level impact assessments.
• Prepare committee packs for the compliance function.
• Execution and support of the Anti-Bribery & Corruption programme activities.
• Operationalisation of the Vodafone 3 Lines of Defense
• Coordinate with market compliance teams and follow up on actions and submissions.
• Decision-Making Authority
• No independent decision-making authority. 
• Operates under supervision of the Group Compliance leadership.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Undergraduate Degree and at least 5 years working experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
• Compliance, legal, risk or governance experience
• Strong coordination, reporting and organisational skills
• Attention to detail and strong written communication

Advantageous:

• Multi-jurisdictional compliance exposure
• Exposure to Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Competition Law or Data Protection

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Role purpose:

• The role of the Senior Specialist: Estates is to manage and oversee the Estates and property portfolio within the respective region for optimal collaboration, regular travel to/within (Central) regions and head office is required.
• This will include staff, contractor, vendor, customer and stakeholder management and relations.
• This to be conducted in a timely manner with the goal of optimising efficiencies and lowering costs and achieving favourable contractual terms whilst adhering to all regulatory and companies policies, procedures, and processes.
• The role of the Senior Specialist will have a dual function managing Specialist and Admin staff in the central region as well as looking after their own portfolio:
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with landlords, stakeholders, and relevant government bodies.
• Execute companies property strategy to maximize tenancy and manage costs effectively.
• Negotiate timely lease renewals and rental agreements with a focus on cost reduction.
• Coordinate site activities, ensuring smooth communication between landlords, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Manage lease tracking, budgeting, dispute resolution, and collaborative teamwork to maintain business continuity.
• Implement and manage programs for lease and contract renewals consent and novations, landlord negotiations, customer liaisons and any other estates strategic projects by driving the companies culture and behaviours as aligned to the Performance Management Framework.

Key accountabilities

• To manage rentals and develop initiatives to aggressively reduce cost.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience

• Stakeholder Management and Negotiation Skills
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus
• High productivity and entrepreneurial focus in managing operation, staff, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Critical decision making
• Execution excellence

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• To maintain high standards, customer excellence and quality assurance
• To develop and implement innovative initiatives that will further reduce and optimise OPEX.
• To compile management, dashboard, strategic and operational reports, and presentations
• Matric (Essential)
• Relevant Degree or Diploma such as (BSC -QS; Building Science; Civil Engineering; Project management, Town Planning, (Property Management (Essential).
• Management courses or experience (e.g., MDP/MDC) (Desirable).
• +5 to 8 Years relevant functional experience of which the following is applicable.
• 2 to 3 years knowledge& experience of contractual legal requirements (Essential).
• 2 to 3 years Environmental knowledge & experience (Essential).
• 2 to 3 years Town planning knowledge & experience (Essential).

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Role Summary

• This senior role drives secure, automated, and compliant cloud-native delivery while managing monitoring/alerting, penetration testing programs, vulnerability management, and broader cybersecurity initiatives.
• You will lead a team of DevSecOps engineers, foster a security by design culture, and enable the business to innovate rapidly in a regulated South African and global context

Key Responsibilities

DevOps

• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for consistent environments.
• Automate repetitive tasks, reduce toil, and improve developer experience through self service tools
• Collaborate with software developers, QA, and security teams to embed DevOps practices (shift-left security, automated testing).
• Perform root-cause analysis on production issues, implement fixes, and drive continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of DevOps, SRE, and security engineers.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of automation and shared ownership
• Champion DevSecOps practices and culture across Development, Operations, Security, and Compliance teams.
• Define and track KPIs: vulnerability remediation time, security gate pass rate, MTTR, deployment frequency, and alert reduction.

AWS Cloud Environment Management & Security

• Design, implement, and govern secure AWS architectures (multi-account landing zones via Control Tower, VPCs, EKS, Lambda, RDS, etc.) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK).
• Enforce least-privilege IAM, encryption (KMS), secrets management, network security, and data sovereignty for POPIA compliance.
• Leverage AWS-native services: Amazon Inspector, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, IAM Access Analyzer, and AWS Security Agent for automated security.
• Build and Secure CI/CD Pipelines & Automation
• Build and evolve secure CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab), optimizing workflows to automate testing, builds, and deployments with security gates (SAST,
• DAST, SCA, IaC, secret, and container scanning)

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability

• Architect comprehensive monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, GuardDuty, X-Ray, EventBridge, and SIEM integrations.
• Design intelligent alerting with automated routing, escalation, noise reduction, and rapid incident response processes (critical for Cybercrimes Act obligations).
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain high availability and performance.
• Ensure 24/7 visibility into security posture, performance, and compliance.

Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing & Risk Management

• Lead and coordinate regular penetration testing
• Oversee vulnerability management: scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and exception processes.
• Conduct threat modelling, runtime protection, supply-chain security, zero-trust implementation, and incident response.
• Ensure appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures for POPIA Condition 7 (Security Safeguards), including encryption, access controls, logging, and regular testing.

Compliance, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Support audits and evidence collection
• Collaborate on release management with security go/no-go decisions.
• Stay current with AWS security updates, emerging threats, and South African

regulatory changes.

• Drive maturity of DevSecOps practices and conduct regular AWS Well-Architected
• Framework reviews (Security Pillar).

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering

Experience

• 8–10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Cybersecurity.
• 3–5+ years in technical leadership or management roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience
• Proven track record in regulated environments with POPIA/GDPR compliance.

Certifications

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or CISA.

Essential Skills & Competencies

Technical:

• Deep expertise in AWS.
• Proficiency with security tools (Inspector, GuardDuty, SAST/DAST like SonarQube, SIEM).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Strong experience with Linux, networking, and Git.
• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD, IaC, Docker/Kubernetes, and at least one major
• cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP certifications preferred).
• Penetration testing methodologies and vulnerability management.
• Knowledge of monitoring, observability, and infrastructure security.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

• Excellent stakeholder communication (technical to executive level).
• Ability to drive cultural change in hybrid/fast-paced environments.
• Strong problem-solving, metrics-driven approach, and collaboration skills.