Current Vacancies at Sun International

Job Purpose

The Remuneration and Benefits Analyst will be responsible for maintaining, updating and implementing the reward processes based on the analysis of market-related data; and reporting on trends and recommendations on remuneration and reward initiatives to support Sun International’s business objectives and the Group’s total reward strategy, in line with legislation, BBBEE targets and Company standards. 

Education

• 3-year B Degree (Business Management or similar) or HR related qualification with a focus on statistical and / or analytical subjects
• An additional post certification in remuneration and rewards is an advantage

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a remuneration analyst
• Track record in the design and management of pay scales and Job Evaluation
• Strong understanding of employment legislation, HR systems and PAYE taxation

Skills and Knowledge

• Analytical skills
• Managing Customer & Stakeholder relationships
• Plan, prioritise, co-ordinate and manage multiple initiatives
• Integrating (Connecting, Collaborating, Consulting, Conflict Handling)
• Sourcing and Checking information (attention to detail)
• Taking ownership
• Assuring quality
• Managing risk and results
• Collecting Information (listening; asking questions)
• Composure
• Creation of pay and benefit scales
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Applied knowledge in Labour legislation, King IV and relevant governance codes around jobs
• Understanding of market survey techniques and interpretation of compensation surveys
• Working with large graphical and numerical data sets
• Strong administrative and project management skills
• Financial and business acumen
• Reward structures
• Job grading Hay and Paterson
• Retirement and healthcare knowledge, both regulatory and operational
• MS Office (with Advanced skills in Excel)
• Remuneration analytics and statistics

Key Performance Areas

• Analyse data relating to internal and external remuneration and rewards data and statistics
• Analyse survey data as well as information collected from various business units
• Based on the information collected recommend and present appropriate remuneration and reward structures for approval, (including pay scales, grades and titles, JCAs etc.); before developing and implementing any necessary actions
• Provide analytical and general support to the remuneration and benefits team in the effective delivery of remuneration and benefits across the Group including increase and bonus management, and processes
• Support the implementation of initiatives and actions arising from the total reward strategy
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Keep up to date with relevant remuneration legislation and update any authorised changes to remuneration and reward guidelines, policies and procedures
• Tracks business unit compliance against these guidelines
• Protects remuneration operations by keeping information confidential.
• Analyse and submit data-sets and related questionnaires to the various survey houses and external remuneration consultants on a regular and ad-hoc basis
• Conduct job evaluations and recommends grades to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness
• Benchmark the job size of positions externally
• Provides relevant communication on results to HR systems, Talent and relevant HR Practitioners.
• Build strong relationships with Group and Unit HR management, to facilitate consultations on remuneration and benefit policy interpretation, new hire and promotion offers, market analyses, job evaluations and when responding to HR queries on compensation related issues
• Liaise with external market data and salary survey providers on survey requirements and when conducting external benchmarking
• Support with the maintenance and updating of various SIL share plan allocations on the share administration platform on a monthly basis - new appointments, terminations, updating of information and ensuring that new allocations are updated in the system in line with RemCo instruction

Equity

• Preference will be given to employees from the designated groups in line with the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998, SISA internal recruitment policy as well as units employment equity plans.

POPI Statement

• Please note that when applying for any position, reference checks will be completed and personal information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 will be processed.  In applying for this position, applicants will be deemed to have consented to such processing as defined in the included Privacy Statement.
• Please also note that if you have not been contacted within 1 month after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful.

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Job Purpose

• The Accountant will be responsible to process financial accounting entries and review and reconcile transactions for units serviced within the SSC, in line with the policies and procedures of the SSC.

Education

• BComm Accounting (essential)

Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in financial accounting and reporting

Skills and Knowledge

• Analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Working with information (agreements, laws, regulations, statistics)
• Influencing & Advising skills
• Research & development
• Reviewing / evaluating information and data
• Dealing with customers (including conflict handling skills)
• Problem Solving
• Clerical Administrative functions
• Plan, prioritise, co-ordinate
• Decision-making
• Emotional resilience
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office (Advanced Excel)
• Accounting principles
• Reconciliations
• Month-end accounting requirements
• Management accounts
• Numeracy skills
• IFS Financial module an advantage
• Process improvement
• Tax calculations
• VAT calculations and submissions
• Preparation of AFS

Key Performance Areas

• Approve processing of vouchers completed by the accounts clerks.
• Review accruals / provisions at month end to ensure accuracy and completeness,
• Process month-end revaluations of foreign currency balances,
• Calculate and post required provisions,
• Prepare monthly management accounts whereby all allocations are processed and balance sheet items reconciled,
• Prepare income and deferred tax calculations for the period,
• Prepare VAT returns monthly
• Upload financial information into Cognos and clear all validation errors,
• Control opening and closing dates of periods according to timetable,
• Identify outstanding items on the workflow system and follow up and / or ensure items are cleared by the Accounts clerks.
• Prepare annual financial statements and submit to Financial Accountant: Reporting for review.
• Ensure strict adherence to all policies and procedures
• Meet the Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) for this function (eg: clean TBs, management accounts accurate, deadlines met, vouchers posted, queries resolved etc).
• Ensure all the necessary accounting transactions have been posted for a period to ensure that the trial balance is complete, accurate and valid for reporting purposes.
• Perform reconciliations on balance sheet accounts by the required deadline,
• Reconcile payroll postings and ensure accounts are allocated correctly,
• Ensure that control account reconciliations are completed and outstanding items are identified and cleared within 30 days
• Review departmental allocations and adjust as necessary
• Meet the Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) for this role (eg: daily reconciliations, no variances outstanding, queries resolved etc).
• Keep management updated with regards progress on payments and where necessary escalate unresolved issues
• Respond to and resolve queries with internal and external clients
• Develop and maintain sound working relationships with relevant departments
• Interact with clients and provide professional service standards and solutions
• Maintains employee confidence and protects confidential information
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

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Job Purpose

• The IT Information & Cybersecurity Manager will be responsible for protecting Sun International’s technology assets and information, data and intellectual property regardless of the location by developing and updating information and cyber security strategy, frameworks, policies and processes. Continuously manage, monitor and evaluate system controls and access management with the aim of mitigating risk, in line with business and regulatory requirements and in a manner that is professional and reliable.
• This role will be required to ensure all practices are in line with policy, frameworks and tools based on researched leading and industry practice, technical solutions, specialised projects and innovation, and legislative support to advise, enable and support business operations in achieving their objectives.

Education

• BTech or relevant equivalent
• Security Certification (CISM and CISSP)

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the IT information security environment, including 3 years in a management position
• Extensive experience in the implementation of Cyber security technologies 
• Experience in cyber threat monitoring and response, threat remediation and threat intelligence

Skills and Knowledge

• Analysing
• Creating and improving
• Sourcing information
• Applying expertise and technology
• Taking ownership
• Responding with urgency
• Collaborating
• People management
• Business & Financial Acumen
• SDLC Testing methodologies and practices
• IT Information / data risk & cyber threats management
• In-depth knowledge of the cyber technologies preferably McAfee suite
• Security Architecture
• Risk Management
• Disaster recovery, BCM, back-up testing
• Security and BCM standards, frameworks and methodologies (ISO23001), NIST Cyber Security Framework, CIS, ITIL, Cobit
• Contract management
• Knowledge and application of IT security legislation (Promotion of Access to Information Act, CPA, King IV, Protection of Personal Information Bill, Regulation of Interception of Communications & Provision of Communication-related information Act; Gaming Regulations)

Key Performance Areas

• Develop, and drive the implementation of  Sun International’s cyber security plans in consultation with key stakeholders.
• Oversee and participate in  proactive investigations and analyses into potential technology security threats, and deliver an IT cyber and security architecture to support current and future business products, and processes
• Lead and monitor information security health-check assessments and testing of Sun International’s security measures, such as firewalls, anti-virus software and passwords, to identify any weak points that might make information systems vulnerable to attack.
• Be able to advise the business and scope assessments/penetration tests to ensure the protection of data.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest intelligence, including hackers' methodologies, to anticipate security breaches; anticipate new security threats and stay-up-to-date with evolving tools, architectures and infrastructures.
• Recommend and manage the implementation of security measures to protect computer systems, networks and data.
• Be able to perform threat modelling, threat-based assessments (Red and Blue), control effectiveness and KPIS on threat exposures
• Manage and respond to engaged resources for immediate response and recovery of an application or service.
• Assemble and analyse risk scenarios to estimate the likelihood and impact of significant events on the organisation
• Oversee and provide guidance on the implementation of large governance, security and business continuity projects and deployment efforts
• Facilitate the design, development, implementation and maintenance of high calibre governance and risk management solutions according to standards and best technologies that meets the current and future business needs
• Ensure security projects are approved, implemented, and meets appropriate security standards
• Oversee the installation and updating of software and ensure database back-ups are executed in line with regulatory requirements
• Oversee all security system maintenance by providing system validation procedures, maintenance reports, deactivation plans, and other documents, plans and report; continuously analysing the systems to determine when deactivation or replacement is required
• Check the conformance of the delivered platforms to standards and architectural decisions and resolve governance, risk and security architectural conflicts
• Lead the team in identifying treatments for control gaps and remedial actions related to cyber security incidents ensuring the adoption or development of relevant security services
• Provide guidance and timely recovery following the occurrence of an outage or major disasters, such as fires, earthquakes, floods, biochemical attacks, pandemics, electrical disruptions, and network disruptions which result in the partial or complete disruption of business operations support
• Manage the development, maintenance and availability of governance standards and processes for the IT Information & Cybersecurity function and align and embed practices with new legislative compliance, regulation requirements and security protocols
• Facilitate IT audits in own area of responsibility to ensure correct governance over the use of technology and the protection and control of information to meet audit requirements.
• Shared accountability for developing and managing the budget and expense management for the portfolio
• Relationship agreements with key suppliers, business partners and sponsors are built, negotiated and managed to achieve the business objectives and leverage new opportunities and joint initiatives
• Provide inspirational leadership and change management interventions to enhance engagement and motivational culture across the business
• Provide oversight of and manage any outsource service provider in the context of information and cyber
• Ensure the IT functional heads adhere to security practices.
• Provide reporting and dashboards on state of security across the group.

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Job Purpose

The IT Cloud Specialist will be responsible for providing specialist, high-level technical advice and support on the Cloud computing systems for all aspects of the day-to-day infrastructure including the design, testing, deployment and monitoring of the system; system performance and reporting, resolution of system problems, provision of system diagnostic information and system security in line with agreed service levels and in a manner that is professional, reliable, and in line with business and regulatory requirements.

This role will be required to ensure all practices are in line with policy, frameworks and tools based on researched leading and industry practice, technical solutions, specialised projects and innovation, and legislative support to advise, enable and support business operations in achieving their objectives. 

Education

• BTech or Equivalent
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) an advantage
• Certification in CompTIA Cloud

Experience

• Minimum of 8 years relevant IT industry experience in Cloud administration
• Demonstratable experience with Cloud servers in virtualized environments
• Demonstratable experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
• Demonstratable experience of Server hardware
• Demonstrable experience in the fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages

Skills and Knowledge

• Analysing
• Creating and improving
• Sourcing information
• Applying expertise and technology
• Taking ownership
• Responding with urgency
• Collaborating
• Cloud servers in virtualized environments
• Fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining services viz Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
• Configuration management tools, such as Puppet and Chef
• Load balancing, firewalls, etc.
• Proficiency with network tools such as iptables, Cloud IPVS, HAProxy, etc.
• Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
• Knowledge of servers and switches and client infrastructure setup
• Project Management

Key Performance Areas

• Act as the owner and technical expert for creating and maintaining the Cloud computing system and the resolution of technical issues for the Sun International group and provide cloud hosting services support
• Design and implement logging, application monitoring, and capacity performance planning of cloud solutions, enhancing the current cloud hosting service request and incident management solution
• Design system installations and develop and administer configuration management solutions for the cloud computing system
• Evaluate and monitor system performance and ensure compliance with security standards, including centralized logging, threat analysis and remediation
• Produce and deliver support and advice, documentation and training around security patching and ‘hardening’ of Cloud installations, undertaking security analysis and hardening to any systems administration
• Diagnose Cloud operating system faults, troubleshoot and provide working solutions
• Manage enterprise cloud platform and perform migration from System Center to VMware cloud environments
• Conduct the migration and operationalisation of workloads to new cloud solutions
• Collaborate with architects, engineering, client managers, project managers, applications and infrastructure teams to plan and coordinate changes
• Work with other IT and application teams to implement automation of their processes and improved monitoring of their systems
• Implementation and/or working in Cloud Brokarage environments
• Analyzes and resolves problems associated with the operating system's servers, hardware, applications, and software
• Design and develop infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
• Develop test automation frameworks in collaboration with rest of the team
• Define, document and enforce system standards
• Provide systems administration and software support for Cloud based systems
• Develop support processes and provide advice and support on back up, data storage, data recovery and meeting regulations on data management using Cloud
• Investigate new Cloud technologies and applications, sharing technical knowledge and expertise with colleagues and providing technical coaching and mentoring to colleagues in the use of Cloud operating systems
• Report on the Cloud operational status by gathering and prioritising information and managing projects
• Manage SLA process, performance and billing with vendors around Cloud requirements and support

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Job Purpose

• The IT Applications Support Technician will be responsible for the installing, configuring and repair of gaming and hospitality software applications, platforms and programs as well as enhancements to existing products for the business unit in line with business needs in a manner that is professional, reliable, and in line with business and regulatory requirements.
• This will include the maintenance and updating of the applications to ensure sustained and optimal system performance which enables the effective use and application of the systems within the business.

Education

• 2-Year Diploma in IT or equivalent NQF Level 6 in IT
• ITIL Foundation Certification is an advantage

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Job Purpose

• The Finance Administration Clerk will be responsible to provide financial administrative support to the department and to ensure the seamless implementation and consistent delivery of transactional services provided by the department to its stakeholders including the compiling, capturing, auditing and reconciling of hospitality data in food and beverage and hotel room operations with the Micros and Opera system on a daily basis for reporting and verification purposes, in line with policies and procedures and service level agreements

Education

• Grade 12
• Certificate in cost management, stock control and / or finance administration is an advantage
• Education
• A minimum of 2 years finance experience

Skills and Knowledge

• Operational Product knowledge (F&B, Housekeeping, Operating supplies & equipment)
• Cost control processes
• English Written and verbal communication skills
• Numerical skills
• Vendor Relationships
• Proficient computer skills (MS Office; Opera, Micros, IFS)

Key Performance Areas

• Finance Administration 
• Monitor workflow from the Kofax Total Agility(“KTA”) and deal with all queries raised via KTA – covering all areas of finance including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash books, fixed assets, intercompany.
• Liaise with relevant departments to resolve queries within SLA, ensuring all tasks are being addressed.
• Collate and check concessionaire PLD dockets/House account Vouchers with service level agreement and send to SSC for processing
• Collate and check CAF forms to third party hotel billings and send to SSC for processing
• Collate supplier invoices and send to SSC
• Check TA invoices and send to SSC for processing.
• Complete Purchase Requisitions /Purchase Orders /Receipting for departments that require support, including service contracts
• At Head Office, capture purchase requisitions for all departments and ensure that the charging splits to the units are allocated and captured accurately and correctly.
• Capture expense claims for the unit, including attaching all slips
• Check suppliers aged analysis monthly
• Assist the Accountant with monthly accruals
• Review “received not yet paid” report monthly and follow-up long outstanding items.

Revenue Administration

• Receive and Follow-up revenue declarations from Concessionaires in line with the Group Retail policy monthly
• Receive and follow up annual turnover declarations from concessionaires, reconcile annual calculations and send to SSC any top-up billings required as per Group Retail  Policy
• Prepare calculations in respect of rental charges to align to Tenant contracts and send to SSC
• Receive invoices from suppliers related to concessionaires, service providers, venue rentals, and banqueting service providers that as per contract needs to be “billed back” to clients.
• Opera Entertainment billing is received from Entertainment co-ordinator, obtain all back-up required from AP in respect of “Bill Backs”,  create a final all-inclusive manual Pro- Forma Invoice this will be sent to SSC to finalise the billing on IFS.
• Receive and follow up on utility and maintenance costs to be billed to tenants and send to SSC
• Prepare monthly and quarterly turnover and rental reports for concessionaires and send to Operations manager.
• Prepare calculations and post payment proposals as per contractual agreement in IFS
• Review and reconcile any deposit refund request from Banqueting/Eventing advance deposits after billing has been finalised and send to SSC to process on IFS

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Job Purpose

• The Software Integrations Engineer is a technical expert responsible for designing and developing new products or major enhancements to existing products that incorporate software in the overall functionality of hospitality and gaming business systems e.g. point of sales, reservation, casino management, etc. The role will be part of the integration development team and will address problems on systems integration, compatibility and multiple platforms with the ultimate aim of ensuring the availability of technology applications, in a manner that is professional, reliable, and in line with business and regulatory requirements.

Education

• BTech or Equivalent

Experience

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in systems development, including:
• Node.js (2 to 3 years)
• C# (Dotnet) (2 to 3 years)
• Java Dev (2 to 3 years)
• SOAP Services (4 to 5 years)
• Rest Services (2 to 3 years)
• RDBMS Design and CRUD operations (2 to 3 years)
• Additional experience working with the following programmes will be an advantage: Azure AKS; Azure Dev-ops; Kubernetes and Docker; a front-end framework such as Angular/View/React; and / or Linux cmd line ( bash / shell)
• Demonstrated understanding and track record working within SDLC frameworks
• Experience in hospitality and gaming software solutions is an advantage

Skills and Knowledge
Analysing
Creating and improving

• Sourcing information
• Applying expertise and technology
• Taking ownership
• Responding with urgency
• Collaborating
• Integration implementation
• Technical writing and coding .NET, C#, Java
• Node.js, SOAP services, Rest Services, RDBMS Design, CRUD operations
• Strong SQL scripting and ETL
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Project management skills
• Solutions design
• Control frameworks and procedures – COBIT, ITIL and TOGAF
• Hospitality and Gaming Product and Service knowledge

Key Performance Areas

• Collaborate with business operations, to understand the multiple and integrated business requirements, delivering new functionality required by the business while protecting the integrity of existing services
• Identify and integrate software solutions and tools to meet business changes and requirements into technical specifications to deliver required tools and platforms in line with client’s operating requirements within the source control system
• Conduct analyses of current systems and evaluate productivity and performance of current system set-up
• Follow the framework, plans and resource requirements for the development and amendment to technology and dashboards 
• Configure software solutions, identifying any issues and challenges and identifying any risk areas; and define, document and enforce system standards
• Undertakes feasibility analysis for potential future projects; plan and project manage the implementation process for outside software while also designing, coding and maintaining in-house applications 
• Install, integrate and update software
• Test new applications to ensure functional requirements are met in line with business needs
• Plan, schedule, and control the build, test, and deployment of releases
• Conduct post implementation and quality assurance reviews
• Provide system validation procedures, maintenance reports, deactivation plans, and other documents, plans and report; continuously analysing the systems to determine when deactivation or replacement is required
• Provide training, coaching and support to system users on any amendments, upgrades or new system applications