Current Opportunities at PayFast

About you

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities include:

• Assist local NI Head of Finance.
• Prepare local management accounts.
• Review local monthly financial reporting in the Group Oracle FCCS application.
• Ensure that all recons are completed timeously and that all reconciling items are cleared
• timeously.
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Ensuring accurate weekly payment runs and ensure payments are aligned to approved budget
• codes.
• Assist with monthly payroll processing.
• Authorise monthly customer billing and invoices.
• Prepare monthly VAT for review.
• Assist with the preparation of the annual budgets.
• Assist with annual statutory financial audits.
• Ensure local compliance with Group Finance policies.
• Ad hoc reporting and analysis.
• Ensure accuracy of work.
• Maintain company asset register.

What you'll need

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• A degree in accounting and/or finance.
• CIMA qualification or studying towards.
• Computer literacy with a high degree of proficiency in MS Excel.
• Knowledge and experience in financial reporting in accordance with IFRS.
• Accurate with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to function independently and under pressure.
• Ability to filter information and assess priorities.
• Logical thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience in preparing payroll.
• Knowledge and experience in financial data analysis.
• Working knowledge of financial software such as SAGE Pastel and Oracle.

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About you

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. 

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for Monthly, quarterly, half yearly and year-end reporting and disclosures requirements for the group in compliance with IFRS, group accounting policies, statutory requirements, and the company’s control procedures.
• Oversight and Management of standalone audits of group entities across the DPO group, engagement with auditors
• Manage Treasury activities – cash management & forecasting, Intercompany financing arrangements , rationalize bank accounts
• Track, manage and optimise the FX exposure of the group
• Finalisation of Monthly Consolidated balance Sheet 
• Design, implement, monitor, and improve a robust Financial Controls Framework
• Develop and implement RCSA controls testing process overseeing the remediation of deficiencies identified
• Remediation of all Internal Audit open items.
• Accounting papers on significant accounting matters including IFRS interpretations
• Drive automation in Finance function
• Oversight of billing function and Receivables Positions and working capital requirements
• Oversight of procurement function

What you'll need

• CA(SA) or equivalent
• 8-10 years post-articles experience
• Track record in building out functions within an organisation
• Experience in Financial reporting and consolidation at a Group level
• Experience in developing and maintaining a strong control environment
• Ability to manage audits with various degrees on complexity
• Treasury and FX experience
• Management experience
• Ability to challenge and review with an analytical mindset
• A good understanding of “best in class” reporting
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strategic and Analytical
• Strong problem solving skills
• Detail oriented and organized; Strong planning and prioritization abilities
• Integrity
• Relationship Building
• Ability to work well under pressure with tight deadlines, juggle multiple priorities and in fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent Excel and reporting skills

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• We are seeking a talented Graphic Design Intern to join our marketing team. As an intern, you will work closely with our creative team to develop visual solutions that communicate our brand message and engage our audience. You will gain valuable experience in the design process, from concept to completion, and have the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of projects.
• This is an internship with the possibility of full-time employment after a 6-month period.

About you

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with the creative team to develop visual concepts and designs that meet project objectives
• Create graphics, illustrations, and layouts for various mediums including print, digital, and social media
• Assist with the production of marketing materials such as flyers, brochures, and presentations
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute creative ideas
• Research design trends and industry best practices
• Help maintain and organize the design files and assets
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Liaises directly with suppliers re artwork queries

What you'll need

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a minimum of 3-Year graphic design program
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• After Effects and Figma knowledge are advantageous.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• A strong portfolio that showcases your design skills and creativity.
• Is organised, deadline driven and good with time management.

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• We are seeking an experienced Motion Designer to join our creative team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing high-quality motion graphics and animations for various digital media platforms that align with project goals, meet quality standards, and are delivered on time and within budget. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the visual style of all projects is consistent and aligns with brand standards.

About you

• As a Motion Designer, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of exciting projects, from digital campaigns to branding and product launches. You will collaborate with a talented team of creatives, designers, and marketers to produce high-quality work that engages and inspires audiences. If you have a passion for motion design and are looking for an exciting new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

Creative & Design

• Develop storyboards and concepts for video content that are aligned with the project.
• Create high-quality motion graphics and animations for various digital media platforms that align with project goals, meet quality standards, and are delivered on time and within budget.
• Maintain a high level of design craft with excellent attention to detail.
• Take initiative on projects to deliver new and innovative solutions.
• Experience in UI motion and prototypes would be an advantage.
• Use existing brand assets to come up with relevant and up-to-date content.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work with the creative team to ensure the visual style of all projects is consistent and aligns with brand standards.
• Work alongside the broader creative team, copywriter, product designers, and our digital marketing team.
• Communicate effectively with external vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure that project goals are met.
• Share knowledge with other motion designers and help contribute towards an open and creative work environment.
• Contribute to art direction for motion-led content, from briefing to storyboarding and elements of post-production management.
• Take on constructive feedback and execute it to the best of your capabilities to align with the vision for the project.
• Help maintain and build the creative asset library.
• Actively participate in brainstorming sessions.

Self-Management

• Have responsibility over your own workloads, managing your time effectively and delivering on deadlines.
• Continuously learn new techniques and tools to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the field of motion design.
• Be self-motivated, enthusiastic and proactive.
• Be well-organized with the ability to think ahead.
• Keep up to date with current design trends.

What you'll need

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in multi-media design, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in motion design and animation.
• Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Knowledge of video editing software such as Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro is a plus.
• Strong portfolio showcasing a variety of professional and personal motion design projects.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with a team.

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• We're looking for a Product Manager to help us build our Product solutions and improve our merchant experience. If you love working in cross-functional teams, and come alive solving real-world problems, you’ll love working at Payfast. The focus will be aligned with Value added Service, Stores of value and various integrated payment channels. 

About the team

• We care deeply about designing and building products that help our customers get paid and grow their businesses. We love solving problems together by combining data and creative thinking to customer and business challenges. Mostly we love making things real and having fun doing it. 

About you

• You’d love to work with us if you’re a fun and self-motivated person who has a passion for people and care deeply about learning and improving your personal and technical skill. 

We'd love to meet you if you...

• You have some experience in Product Management, preferably with digital and/or financial or payment products.
• You understand the power and value of design. You also understand how an authentic brand can be shaped to make a product that users genuinely love.
• You have a passion for learning and want to grow in your knowledge of payments and fintech. 
• You have a bias to action. You know how to get things done by staying focused on the things that really matter and forging a path into the unknown.  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Understand that product development is a team sport and working well with others is the key to your own success. 

What you'll be doing

• Set vision and strategy:  Your work should be grounded in research with a clear short and long-term strategy. This strategy needs to be translated into a comprehensive plan for what features will be viable for the various market segments we serve, along with the relevant cost and revenue projections. 
• Create:Lead the discovery and development of new products, while optimizing existing product features.
• Drive execution: Create and set clear goals with your team, regularly checking progress, learn and adjust course as you progress. Develop success metrics and continued analysis of performance and reports post-launch.
• Lead the roadmap: Understand our market, competition, and user requirements in-depth and translate them into a well-structured and executable roadmap.
• Understand our customer:Build a deep understanding of our merchants by speaking to them regularly, testing your work with them to apply actionable insights before requirements are drafted.
• Collaborate:Work with a multidisciplinary team consisting of engineering, data, design, and UX to deliver on the strategy.
• Make good decisions:Make decisions and help others to make decisions that enable us to deliver great products and services to our customers. 
• Contribute: be actively engaged in helping us improve how we work. 

What you'll need

• Have a proven track record of product launches where you have taken a product from concept to launch, driving product vision, creating product roadmaps, driving UX decisions, and steering technical implementation discussions
• You have significant experience (5+ years) as a software product manager, with demonstrable experience in App design & development. 
• You have a strong commercial mindset and are able to empathize with our core customer base. (Small, medium, and large enterprises).
• You understand the power and value of design. You also understand how an authentic brand can be shaped to make a product that users genuinely love.
• You have enough technical knowledge to quickly understand our payments ecosystem and how to maximize its value to our merchants. 
• Financial services, payments, or working in a regulated card scheme environment is preferred.
• You have a bias to action. You know how to get things done by staying focused on the things that really matter and forging a path into the unknown.  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Understand that product development is a team sport and working well with others is the key to your own success

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About you 

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security. 

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you: 

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment 
• Enjoy collaborating in office among your colleagues 
• Cherish a good work-life balance 
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again 
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done 
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation 
• Don’t need to be micromanaged 
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement 
• Welcome change and new ideas 
• Value the importance of diversity 

What you'll be doing 

• Translation of business requirements into detailed designs for implementation
• Participating in estimation discussions with the product team
• Writing and debugging code
• Full stack, Back-end as well as Front-end development using the below technologies
• Testing and documentation of developed code
• Maintaining integration tests, unit tests and user acceptance tests
• Identify and close any potential security risks
• Refactoring code to improve quality
• Attending developer meetings, and participating in code reviews and quality assurance activities

What you'll need 

• Minimum of 3-8+ years’ experience in software development

Main Language

• Extensive Experience in .net essential
• Knowledge of Java or PHP beneficial

Experience in any or all of the following advantageous

• Microservices and Web API integration
• JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js
• CSS, HTML
• Go (programming language)
• js (or similar frameworks)
• PCI - Data Security Standard
• AWS cloud
• Queuing technologies (RabbitMQ / AWS SQS)
• Docker
• Git
• Jira
• SQL
• Redis
• Broad understanding of coding, programming languages and frameworks
• Extensive understanding of Microservices and Web API integration 
• Extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and corresponding agile methodologies
• Experience working on large-scale, scalable, and performance critical software projects,
  (ecommerce platform building experience is a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills, highly developed attention to detail, and the ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment

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About you 

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security. 

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you: 

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment 
• Enjoy collaborating in office among your colleagues 
• Cherish a good work-life balance 
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again 
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done 
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation 
• Don’t need to be micromanaged 
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement 
• Welcome change and new ideas 
• Value the importance of diversity 

What you'll be doing 

• Translation of business requirements into detailed designs for implementation
• Participating in estimation discussions with the product team
• Writing and debugging code
• Full stack, Back-end as well as Front-end development using the below technologies
• Testing and documentation of developed code
• Maintaining integration tests, unit tests and user acceptance tests
• Identify and close any potential security risks
• Refactoring code to improve quality
• Attending developer meetings, and participating in code reviews and quality assurance activities

What you'll need 

• Minimum of 3-8+ years’ experience in software development

Main Language

• Extensive Experience in Java essential
• Knowledge of .net or PHP beneficial

Experience in any or all of the following advantageous

• Microservices and Web API integration
• JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js
• CSS, HTML
• Go (programming language)
• js (or similar frameworks)
• PCI - Data Security Standard
• AWS cloud
• Queuing technologies (RabbitMQ / AWS SQS)
• Docker
• Git
• Jira
• SQL
• Redis
• Broad understanding of coding, programming languages and frameworks
• Extensive understanding of Microservices and Web API integration 
• Extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and corresponding agile methodologies
• Experience working on large-scale, scalable, and performance critical software projects,
  (ecommerce platform building experience is a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills, highly developed attention to detail, and the ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment

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About you

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. 

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing:  

Systems monitoring

• Continuous monitoring of various systems’ stability and uptime.
• Afterhours monitoring requires standby shifts on a rotational basis.
• Respond to incoming alerts and notifications by evaluating the nature of the alert to determine the appropriate action.
• Assist deployment teams with focused monitoring and testing.

System incident administration

• Track and escalate system issues for timeous resolution based on business SLA.
• Adhere to incident escalation procedures and guidelines to meet and exceed business standards.
• Collaborate across multiple teams, for example by establishing bridges with technical teams, management, and customer services regarding incidents, while displaying professionalism on all interactions.

Incident communication and documentation

• Provide relevant incident notification.
• Publish timeous online notifications to client base on public domains.
• Continuously maintain incident reporting documentation

Perform system health checks

• Perform system health checks.

Incident investigations

• Deliver front-line incident investigation.

Incident analysis

• Proactively analyze incidents, systems, services, and applications to predict, detect and quantify incidents.
• Monitor acceptance ratios and report system glitches to relevant stakeholders.

Improvements

• Deliver pro-active solutions to avoid reoccurrence of issues relating to monitoring dashboards and alerts.
• Identify and suggest new / improved alerts and dashboards to assist with quick issue identification.
• Provide insights on trends with suggestions on improvements.
• Participate in automation or innovation effort to improve monitoring efficiency.
• Mentor and train new team members.
• Maintain and enhance technical skills through ongoing self-development

What you'll need

• Grade 12
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Basic SQL skills
• Experience in a technical / data / analytical role
• Experience with monitoring of systems
• Experience working in the payment industry
• Experience detecting, troubleshooting, and driving mitigation for degraded service or outages
• Ability to work afterhours, late-shifts, weekends, and public holidays
• Proven technical aptitude
• Attention to detail, vigilant and observant
• Critical thinker
• Ability to resolve issues independently
• Innovative and solution driven
• Proactive problem solver
• Reporting and analytical skills
• Ability to analyze transactional logs
• Verbal/written and organizational skills
• Desire to learn
• Adapt well to change
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks under pressure
• Good time management
• Ability to collaborate and partner with people to overcome challenges
• Interpersonal skills and a desire to excel as part of a team