Current Openings at Liquid Thought

Purpose of the position:

• Responsible for the gathering and analysing of financial information, supporting and developing budgets, reporting, information dissemination and analysis. This role will provide direct support to the Financial Manager/Financial Management Team including month end processes, audit preparation and execution and other ad hoc tasks.

Minimum requirements:

• Registered CA (SA) with minimum 1 years experience as an Accountant / Cost Accountant; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Post article experience in financial reporting, financial management, or a related field desirable.
• Previous SAP and Power BI experience preferred.
• Knowledge of financial accounting systems. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft packages (Advanced Excel skills).
• Clear credit and criminal record.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare project specific and organisational budgets/financial reports as and when needed.
• Budget development in support of new business activities.
• Ensuring that organisational policies are considered in all budgeting processes.
• Develop and update appropriate templates to assist in budget consolidation and may need to interact with sub-awardees and review budgets prepared by sub-awardees to ensure quality standards are maintained, if applicable.
• Review budgets/forecasts prepared by others to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Facilitate accurate forecasting for projects.
• Maintain and builds productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders (funders, government, auditors etc.).
• Assist and support the financial management team.

Skills, competencies and abilities:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Good analytical and numerical abilities.
• Ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Deadline driven.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently.
• Motivate and co-ordinate people, tasks and resources to achieve deadlines.

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About the job Senior Data Analyst

• Our Client's Software Development team is looking for an exceptional Data Analyst to join their dynamic team based in Johannesburg. You will use data to solve tough business problems, provide insights and in so doing, enable your colleagues to track progress and make decisions.
• The role involves guiding and mentoring team members to follow best practice and to build with the future in mind. The Data Analyst will also be responsible to partner with the Head of Data on the design and strategy of data products to enable our client's future strategy and technology roadmap.

Technical Challenge:

• They run an Agile Development Programme in a DevOps infrastructure and culture. Their cloud- native technology stack is hosted in Google CloudPlatform. The data landscape includes MYSQL, Big Query, Composer, Python and PowerBI. 

The Role Includes:

Planning and strategy

• Engage with various Stakeholders to understand the business and data analysis goals in context of our client's strategy and vision.
• Design data solutions for real-time and batch environments.
• Document the planning, implementation, and operation of the data platform.
• Select and integrate any big data tools and frameworks required to enable the business and data analysis goals.
• Work closely with the data engineers, testers developers and business analysts to design and ensure delivery of data requirements.

Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

• Work to deliver data analyses to derive business insights.
• Work with the data engineers to ensure necessary and accurate data pipelines and models are in place.
• Advise on data design, modelling and architecture to support outputs

Data Warehouse

• Data Marts
• BI pipeline
• Extracts, reports, and dashboards.
• Train and facilitate data adoption across business users.
• Prepare analytical datasets for other teams.

Job Opportunity Specifications: 

• Implement policies around data governance.
• Monitor performance and collaborate on optimization.
• Do data validation and quality assurance to ensure accurate outputs.
• Support pursuits on Machine Learning models and data labeling and dictionaries.

Mentoring

• Upskill and guide team members to follow standards and best practices when implementing/utilizing:
• Data Warehouse.
• Data Marts.
• BI pipelines.
• Extracts, reports, and dashboards.
• Data models.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Matric / Grade 12.
• Degree or diploma in Science or Engineering (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field).
• Minimum of 8 - 12 years experience as a data professional.
• Comfort and excellent skill in the use of databases, SQL, and BI tools including Power BI. Proficient in data modeling.
• Microsoft Fabric and Power BI Premium product set knowledge and experience would be advantageous.

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ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Be a part of building a ground-breaking, scalable, future-fit technology platform that changes lives by helping young first-time work-seekers find jobs and work experiences. You will work as a technical specialist, aiding your colleagues in the creation, maintenance and use of the data stack.

OBJECTIVE:

• The Senior Data Engineering role's objective is collecting, storing and processing large sets of data, with the primary goal of providing optimal solutions to use and of course the implementation, improvement, and monitoring thereof.
• Cloud-Native technology stack is predominantly hosted in Google Cloud Platform with services written in .Net Core and Python.
• Responsible to partner with the Head of Data on database design and strategy to enable our client's future strategy and technology roadmap.
• Ultimately using the Power of Big Data to help them find their first job, run an Agile Development Programme in a DevOps Infrastructure and culture.
• Data landscape includes MYSQL, Big Query and Composer; this technology stack is currently being revised to drive a strategy of simplification, business user enablement and data integrity. 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• You will work as a technical specialist, aiding your colleagues in the creation, maintenance and use of the data stack.

PLANNING AND STRATEGY:

• Engage with various stakeholders to understand the business and data goals in context of our client's strategy and vision.
• Design data solutions for real-time and batch environments.
• Document the planning, implementation and operation of the data platform.
• Select and integrate any big data tools and frameworks required to enable the business and data analysis goals.
• Work closely with the data analyst, testers, developers and business analysts to design and ensure delivery of data requirements.

EXECUTIVE:

• Assist with and advise on the data platform and its use, including data analysis, security, architecture and modelling.
• Ensure effective infrastructure for processing large volumes of transactional data.
• Implement data retention policies.
• Monitor performance and advise on necessary infrastructure changes.
• Work with platform developers to ensure seamless and optimal data ingestion.
• Build data structures and pipelines that ensure the storage and transformation of data.
• Work with the data analysts to ensure necessary and accurate data is available for downstream use.

SUPPORT:

• Support other teams with ad hoc data analysis to derive business insights.
• Support the Data analysis and Business Intelligence team on data validation and quality assurance to ensure accurate dashboards and reports.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree or Diploma in Science or Engineering (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field).
• Minimum 8 - 12 years experience as a Data Engineer.
• Knowledge of and use with data tools and languages.
• SQL proficiency
• Document stores
• Realtime and batch processing
• Models and relationships
• Large scale ETL (Apache beam or Apache spark, SSIS).
• Cloud experience (Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or AWS).
• Python
• MySQL
• R (nice to have)

COMPETENCIES

• Comfortable explaining data models, data structures and analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion for knowledge sharing and upskilling other team members.
• Highly detail oriented.

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About the job Intermediate Developer

• A leading Payment Aggregator and provider of secure payment solutions is looking for an Intermediate Developer to join their growing team in Stellenbosch. This will be a hybrid role.

Responsibilities will include:

• Technical integration of new clients into systems Development testing.
• Fixes & maintenance on current system Enhancements of current functionality New functionality design & development Query resolution (3rd line support) System Security & Audits.
• Improve development techniques and processes.

Required Technical Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary or equivalent training in software development, computer science or engineering 3-5 years relevant development experience.
• Java, both Standard and Enterprise Editions, Spring Boot SQL(MS SQL Server/Postgres).
• Development workflow: Eclipse/Netbeans IDEs, Maven, GIT Working in a continuous integration and testing environment OpenAPI protocols.

Advantageous Technical Skills and Experience:

• Exposure to financial transaction processing systems and multi-threaded, high volume real-time systems.
• Postilion development skills (source/sink node development).
• Exposure and participation in Agile methods like Scrum/Kanban. 
• Experience in front-end development using the Angular framework.