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Admitted Attorney

Are you an Admitted Attorney with a passion for Tax Law? Are you currently interested in pursuing a new and exciting opportunity? then we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Our client in the Financial Services Industry dealing with all aspects of South African and international tax and tax-related law, is currently looking to hire an Admitted Attorney to join their well-balanced team of chartered accountants and compliance experts in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Requirements: 

• LLB Degree
• Experience in Litigation 
• Admitted Attorney
• Ability to research in-depth and able to hold technical arguments
• Highly motivated and driven; self-starter
• Comfortable learning new technologies
• Process-oriented
• Able to work in a high pressure, fast-paced environment

Key responsibilities:

• Managing your own clients.
• Drafting legal and technical opinions.
• Research on various areas of law.
• Advisory and compliance.
• Ability to research in-depth and able to hold technical arguments.
• Providing general tax advice.
• Invoicing clients and tracking billables.
• Assisting consultants and other internal staff with legal research.
• Miscellaneous assistance to Line Manager/Director.
• Reviewing opinions and articles drafted by internal staff/attorneys.
• Contract drafting and analysing terms of agreements.
• Sound judgment and outstanding analytical and contractual skills.
• Excellent communication skills, initiative and confidence.  
• Ability to provide practical legal advice and risk assessment.
• Ability to work to tight and/or conflicting deadlines.
• Drafting contracts, including internal company contracts on an ad hoc basis.

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About the job

Our Client, based in Cape Town, is seeking to employ a highly skilled Head Of Software Development (Insurtech) with a background in the tech sector. As the Head of Software Development, you will be responsible for developing and executing an execution strategy to meet the company’s goals and objectives and to improve the quality of the service it delivers internally and externally.

This everchanging, collaborative, fast-paced insurance tech company wants to accelerate the build of both the core platform and start researching a few deeply interesting support systems and tools. These will rely on various types of machine intelligence to turn the complicated (and frustrating) chore of purchasing insurance into an effortless task.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in managing Software Development Teams.
• Architect background or experience highly advantageous.
• Experience working within a start-up, SAAS, PAAS space is considered a bonus.
• Python, Java, AWS, cloud based are essential.
• In-depth knowledge of Web Systems Architecture, Design and Development.
• Previous experience within Insurtech, fintech considered a plus.
•  Hands-on experience with complex project management.
•  Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Effective negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Proactive problem solver.
• Proven experience in leading a team.
• Ability to mentor team members.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Demonstrable coding ability - Must be able to show public code repositories.
• Experience using cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS.

Responsibilities

Team leadership, strategy & planning

• Lead and manage a technical team of Developers.
• Technical recruitment, identifying personal development needs, motivating and performance managing the team.
• Drive the strategic outcome of products & services taking into account emerging and legacy technologies.
• Oversee strategy for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation.
•  Devise and execute a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team – to implement improvements to our products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Facilitate the smooth delivery of all projects, enhancements and support delivered by the team.
• Facilitate the technology and methodology decision making throughout the team, including standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes.

Software Development

•  Keep up to date with the latest software development technologies and methodologies.
• Drive consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, including security.
•  Write clean and healthy structured, well-documented code.
•  Build future-proof reusable core code libraries, which can be shared, in order to drive further efficiencies throughout the team.
•  Deliver code which is well tested and consistently error-free.

Communication and Problem-Solving

• To use your experience when reviewing and auditing code.
• To assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution.
• To take control of critical support instances and putting into place the correct escalation and process to manage and resolve the issue as soon as possible.
• To encourage pro-active discussions with client delivery and account management teams.
• To contribute regularly to discussions regarding the internal process and system improvements in order to ensure maximum efficiency across the company. Including suggesting technical solutions to problems.
• To instigate cross-team ideas and initiatives – to bring products and services together

Benefits

• Work for an amazing tech startup that is disrupting the industry.
• 18 days of annual leave.
• 100% remote.
• Work with some of the most amazing people doing awesome things!

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Programmatic Media Buyer

Are you seeking to be part of a fast-paced project environment where change is constant?  If you’re up for the challenge, you’ll have opportunities to try new things and broaden your skills quickly through exposure to the executive team and new experiences!

Our client, global leader in online trading, is currently looking to hire a Programmatic Media Buyer to join their marketing team in Johannesburg, South Africa. Reporting directly into the Head of Media Planning and Buying, you will form a key part of setting the tone for the way they ‘do marketing’, balancing speed of delivery with quality, flexibility, performance and cost.

If you consider yourself an exceptional, well-rounded marketing professional with the ability to lead a responsive network of internal and external capabilities in delivering against a wide range of complex, fast-moving business and marketing requirements, then this is the right opportunity for you! 

Requirements:

• 4 years experience in campaign management focusing on AdOps, DV360, DCM and DBM, Google Ads/Analytics 
• A qualification in Media/Communications and Digital Marketing 
• Media Planning and Buying experience an advantage 
• Naturally analytical with the ability to think strategically
• A self-starting, enthusiastic problem solver
• A global team player, able to work collectively as part of the marketing team, whilst having the confidence to work independently and deliver objectives and responsibilities
• A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills, making the complexity of a modern digital marketing function simple to understand

Key responsibilities:

• To support the Head of Media Planning and Buying with the centralised media planning strategy.
• Negotiate with media owners and work with media agencies to execute our media plans.
• Manage programmatic and direct digital activity.
• Implement tagging and tracking across our digital activity.
• Coordinating online campaigns.
• Manage online campaigns by monitoring results to ensure full delivery.

Benefits:

• You’ll work in a friendly and dynamic environment. In the comfortable, cutting-edge offices containing  everything you need to succeed
• Agile workspaces and hot desks
• Private quiet rooms
• Breakout and refreshment areas
• You’ll be rewarded for hard work, with support to get better at what you do