Current Vacancies at IQbusiness

About you and the key skills, we’re looking for.

• You should have a proven track record as Senior Motion Designer, working with local or international clients. You should have at least 8 years’ relevant working experience where you have shown to be an autonomous and independent individual with a strong creative drive and a perfectionist mindset.
• You excel at generating innovative and compelling creative propositions. Moreover, you possess the ability to optimize the video creation process to maximize efficiency, ensuring projects are delivered in the most streamlined and effective manner. You thrive in fast-paced environments, maintaining composure while producing high-quality work.
• Your Proficiency in Adobe After Effects and comfortable with its integration with other Adobe software, as well as understanding technical and artistic knowledge of Adobe's main software, including Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator are key in this role.

Key responsibilities:

As a Senior Motion Designer, you will play a crucial role in bringing static designs to life through movement and visual storytelling. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Demonstrate strong graphic design skills, including a diverse portfolio showcasing print, web, and other mediums.
• Showcasing strong motion design skills with a focus on typeface design, layout, and visual balance of graphic elements.
• Providing art direction to ensure program coherence across all modules.
• Exhibiting strong editing skills using Adobe Premiere, with a keen eye for the best cuts and transitions.
• Taking a proactive approach during review loops by effectively communicating with the producer to clarify changes, offering alternative solutions if needed.
• Capable of managing the entire post-production process, from editing and graphics to rendering and establishing seamless integration between After Effects and Premiere.
• Generating innovative and compelling creative propositions.
• Optimize the video creation process to maximize efficiency and productivity.

Requirements:

• Strong motion design skills; at least 5+ years' relevant experience using Adobe After Effects.
• Graphic design skills.
• Art direction skills to keep a program coherent throughout all modules.
• Strong editing skills using Adobe Premiere) and a flair for best cuts/transitions.
• Pro-active when it comes to review loops (quickly communicating with producer to get clarity if changes are unclear, finding solutions or alternative options if needed, etc)
• Adobe main software advanced technical & artistic knowledge (Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Being able to take care of a whole post-production process (edit, gfx, rendering, link between After Effects and Premiere)
• Autonomous, independent, creative, perfectionist, strong in creative propositions
• Being able to optimize a video creation process to be the most efficient possible
• Strong resistance to stress and ability to handle tight delivery timeframe

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About you and the key skills, we’re looking for.

• As a UX designer, you should not only possess a diverse skill set but a combination of education and practical experience.
• Whilst a tertiary qualification is highly desirable, what is more, important is a qualification that has equipped you with a solid foundation in user-centred design principles and research methodologies.
• You should have a deep understanding of various design tools like Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or InVision, which enables you to create wireframes, prototypes, and visually captivating mock-ups.
• Your expertise extends to information architecture, where you excel in organizing and structuring complex information to create intuitive navigation systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Your main responsibilities will encompass user research, persona development, information architecture, wireframing and prototyping, user testing, interaction design, visual design, usability and accessibility considerations, collaboration with various stakeholders, and iterative improvements based on feedback.

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Main responsibilities

• Follow the website content guidelines and ensure the content is published on time
• Provide content support to the business stakeholder
• Review and evaluate Web page content and information architecture to provide suggestionsfor improvement
• Collaborate with the Graphics Designers to request digital assets for the web pages
• Perform basic HTML updates and changes
• Run broken link reports and resolve content-related issues

Experience

• 3+ years of relevant experience creating and maintaining website content using WordPress CMS.

Competencies

• WordPress CMS experience using Elementor and/or Gutenberg
• Able to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Knowledge of Website design and layout for multi-channel (web and print)
• Detailed and organized with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluency in English (oral and written)

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About you and the key skills, we’re looking for.

As a WordPress Web Developer, you bring a bachelor's degree in computer science and 3 years of expertise. Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and custom WordPress development, you also excel in responsive design, Bootstrap, SEO, hosting, and problem-solving. Your meticulous attention and strong communication skills complete your qualifications.

What you will be doing:

• A web developer's day is dynamic and diverse. It begins with reviewing project requirements and client communications to grasp the day's tasks.
• The day often kicks off with coding, creating, or modifying WordPress themes and plugins for functional, visually appealing websites.
• Meticulous content management for performance and SEO optimization follows. Routine tasks include troubleshooting, testing, and collaborating with team members and designers.
• Effective client communication is crucial, with updates, support, and feedback exchanges.
• Maintenance, database management, and backups ensure site reliability.
• Staying updated on industry trends and WordPress developments keeps their skills innovative and sharp. In a nutshell, this is what you will get to do

Who we are:

Our purpose is to grow people, grow business and grow Africa.

• At IQbusiness, we are creative problem-solvers who never concede defeat.
• Beyond IT and technology, we apply innovative solutions to complex problems.
• We make sure that our clients grow, whether these challenges may be overcome by utilizing research from IQbusiness and our partners, allocating teams to build and implement solutions, or deploying point expertise to address a skills shortage. Whatever the challenges, we support them in overcoming them.

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Job Description

This position requires someone who has a wide range of experience across traditional and Agile lifecycles. Key to this position is a strong technology background, specialising in web-based testing, test case design and execution, automation technologies etc. The candidate will make use of critical thinking and communication skills to ensure continual process and discipline improvement.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering
• 4+ years of relevant experience in testing websites and web applications on Desktop, Tablet,
  and Mobile devices
• Experience working on complex websites and applications
• Experience in regression and load/stress testing is a must
• Automation experience
• Known quality assurance/engineering certifications 
• Excellent in verbal and written communication
• Staying updated on new testing tools and strategies
• Must be based in Bellville / Cape Town 

Job Specification

Responsibilities
 

• Develop and Implement Web-App Test Plans: Create comprehensive testing plans that detail the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended testing activities.

• Design, Write, and Execute Test Cases: Based on the requirements, design, write, and execute test cases to verify that the software works as expected.
• Bug Identification and Reporting: Responsible for finding and reporting bugs within the system. Document the bug, how it was found, and steps to reproduce it.
• Test Automation: Where possible, write automated tests or use existing testing tools to speed up the testing process and make it more reliable.
• Regression Testing: After bugs have been fixed or new features added, conduct regression testing to ensure that previously working features still function as expected.
• Collaborate with Development Team and Product Manager: Work closely with the development team to understand the features and functionality to be tested and to discuss any bugs or issues found during testing.
• Maintain Testing Documentation: Document testing processes, results, and discrepancies for future reference and for use by other teams and stakeholders.
• Performance and Load Testing: Test how a system performs under heavy loads and stress, to ensure it can handle peak times.
• Usability & Accessibility Testing: Conduct usability and accessibility testing to ensure the product is user-friendly, easy to navigate and meet accessibility standards.
• Stay Up-to-Date with New Testing Tools and Strategies: Proactively stay updated on the latest testing tools, strategies, and industry trends

Personal Qualifications

• Strong customer focus and passion for doing what’s right for the customer
• Team player
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills
• Great eye for details
• Good understanding of software quality assurance processes is required
• Strong influencer for the test and quality during overall product development cycle
• Has experience and conviction around measures to quantify software quality

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Job Description

IQbusiness is looking for a well-skilled Management Accountant with Insurance experience. This would be for a contract in the Financial Services space supporting the Head of environment and would require experience and skills in general accounting practices, Processes, legal and risk-related aspects and commercial innovation. 
Requirements:

• Minimum B-degree in Finance and/or accounting.
• CA (SA) or CIMA qualification preferred.
• 3+ years professional financial management experience.
• Experience in executing finance processes.
• Experience in commercial innovation environments.
• Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects.
• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

Responsibilities:

• Reporting and planning of all financial and management information within finance.
• Continuously seeking ways to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes, and performing deep dives on several topics and trend analyses.
• Crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives.
• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Own and coordinate the core finance processes for the area and contribute to the effectiveness of these processes for the Group
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
• Validate all financial and management reporting information for flash results, month-end financial results and utilisation and reporting of various key metrics
• Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
• Partner with leaders on financial decisions and implications of business strategies, investments, trade-offs, efficiency, and scale initiatives, including process and systems transformation.
• Ensure alignment of core business with future business and technology changes and align vendor roadmaps to ensure the achievement thereof.

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Job Description

• We are currently looking for Senior Process Specialists and can get their hands dirty across Process, Data and Business analysis. 

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 8+ years’ experience as an all-round Process Analyst
• Must have financial services experience as a Business/Process Analyst specifically in Banking
• Process Mapping -  identification, mapping and implementation of business processes
• Process Design
• Process Improvement - Continuous improvement of processes; analysis of business processes, recommend improvements which would then be implemented as projects
• Process management experience
• Customer Experience - responsible for crafting customer narratives for requirements. Ensured customer experience in both business requirements and continuous improvement Mapping of digital processes
• Process Engineering-Utilizing tools such as Lean six sigma to improve processes (Statistical data analysis to identify and improve processes)
• Experience in various project methods and principles (Agile, Waterfall)
• Engagement across stakeholders and ability to run information gathering sessions
• Participate in the solution design workshops
• Participate in (ensuring/enabling) data integrity, quality
• Identify Risks, controls, and governance of Processes
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Experience

Education Qualification

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution

Skills:

• Multiple process notations
• Lean
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Repository-Based Modelling tools i.e., ARIS
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, Agile, RUP) 

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About you and the skills we are looking for:

• You are available immediately and are a strong and well skilled Project/ Programme Manager who is experienced across various financial services environments.
• You understand People, Process and Technology and you have the ability to make informed decisions and lead projects from idea inception all the way through to activation and launch.  

You are open to a contracting opportunity.
Experience and Skills:

• 10 years’ solid Project/Programme Management experience on financial services projects
• 3 or more years’ experience managing multiple teams across multiple projects
• Advanced budget management and stakeholder management skills
• Effective communication skills
• Exposure to Agile and alternative delivery methodologies
• Exposure to Business and Process Analysis
• Hybrid way of work (Client, IQbusiness, Home)

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

Program Initiation:

• Identify stakeholders
• Consult broadly with clients (executives and delivery teams) and other stakeholders
• Analyse business value
• Identify delivery cadences
• Program planning
• Identify and plan teams (project and shared resource teams) and teams’ capacity
• Plan procurement
• Estimate costs and determine budget
• Identify functional and non-function dependencies
• Identify program risks
• Perform qualitative and qualitative risk analysis
• Identify program metrics
• Develop program guidance

Program Management and Execution:

• Organisation and coordination of teams across the program
• Build relationships across project teams and shared resource teams
• Build relationships with key stakeholders
• Communicate program guidance and establish support team
• Prioritisation and coordination of work
• Balance priorities
• Attend to administration and reporting relating to procurement
• Schedule and manage releases
• Negotiate and manage dependencies
• Manage program finances
• Monitor and control risks
• Coordinate and monitor schedules
• Monitor and manage teams’ health and performance
• Monitor and measure projects’ performance
• Report on projects’ performance and overall program metrics

Program Close-out:

• Close program or phase
• Ensure that all relevant documentation and reports have been disseminated
• Close procurement arrangements
• Off-board program team members and complete close-out

Education:

• Matric
• Qualification in Project / Program Management
• Degree or Diploma in Business Management, Computer Science, Business Science or Engineering would be advantageous
• Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified PMP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified in SAFe, Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer

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Job Description

• The purpose of the position is to perform various consulting engagements in the finance and accounting field, providing input and assistance to the client, being the financial manager or the CFO. The role also encompasses being a senior member of the Financial Insights team within IQbusiness, assisting with the development of other team members and offerings to clients.

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to: 

Management of delivery of finance projects

• Guiding and mentoring of team members
• Management of delivery of project
• Management of and maintenance of client relationship

Consults with clients on various accounting/tax/business matters

• Has a detailed understanding of finance and can assist clients in various areas, including (but not limited to) the performance of valuations; Activity based costing and other costing analysis; tax structuring; restructuring of the finance function and related processes; the preparation and review of business cases; the evaluation of capital investment decisions; etc.

Performs various accounting and tax functions on behalf of clients, with a detailed understanding of the end-to-end finance function including:

• Ensures legislative compliance and implementation of recognized accounting standards and principles
• Assists with planning and coordinating external audit
• Internal control custodian
• Performs statutory returns, including tax related submissions
• Prepare monthly shareholder loan schedules, calculating interest and distribution of shareholder certificates
• Preparation of journals
• Maintenance of cashbook
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist with managing month end and year-end financial processes
• Manages cash & asset administration

Requirements

• Matric
• BComm Accounting or Financial Management
• CA (SA)/ ACCA / CIMA would be advantageous
• 5+ years’ relevant experience in group reporting in banking or large scale business envinronments
• Project delivery and people management and leadership experience
• MS Office with advanced Excel skills

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Role overview

• The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader based at our client.

Responsibilities and KRA’s

• Build solutions from requirements received from product owner
• Be able to work in agile environment.
• Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
• Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user
• requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a
• pragmatic and elective technical solution.
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, code
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Review and debug code
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with
• users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating
• problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition,
• requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.
• Be able to elaborate and document his work in confluence.
• Communicative and proactive.

Requirements

• AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DB
• AWS API Gateway
• Terraform
• Python 3.9
• Pytest
• Knowledge of Rest API integrations
• Openapi, swagger
• GitHub actions for CI CD
• Docker and Docker compose
• Makefile
• Apache velocity language
• Proven experience as a Back-end developer

Key competencies required:

• Strategic
• Leading with Influence
• Collaboration (Relating)
• Customer First
• Execution
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Personal Mastery (Learning)

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About you and the key skills, we’re looking for.

• You have gained 3 years of hands-on SEO experience, preferably in agencies, and a strong track record of successful campaigns, you are proficient in English, and you excel in communication and using major SEO tools.
• You grasp how SEO interacts with other marketing channels, especially Paid Search.
• You have handled large websites and understanding search engine algorithms is second nature to you, continually fine-tuning strategies for maximum effectiveness.
• Organised with keen attention to detail, you work well independently and collaboratively, meeting deadlines and driving collective success.
• Your familiarity with WordPress, HTML, and CSS aids seamless website optimisation.
• Passionate about staying up to date with SEO trends, you are eager to contribute to a business.

Key responsibilities:

• As an SEO Specialist, you will conduct comprehensive keyword research, optimise content for higher search engine rankings, manage on-page SEO elements, and provide data-driven recommendations. You'll collaborate with content creators, analyse website performance, stay updated on SEO trends, and utilize major SEO tools for actionable insights. 

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Assist the digital marketing manager and various stakeholders in delivering SEO-friendly content and campaigns.
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in SEO algorithms and ranking methods to drive innovative strategies that yield tangible results.
• Leverage major SEO tools and analytics platforms, including Google Analytics, SEMrush and Google Search Console, to monitor website performance and provide actionable insights.