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Position Purpose

• Gartner describes effective BCoE’s as, “…concentrating existing expertise and resources in a discipline or capability to attain and sustain world-class performance and value.
• The TNPA BCoE will strive to ensure that TNPA implements a continuous improvement mindset and delivers on its mandate. This involves the enhancement of entity level controls and management reviews to ensure quality is delivered throughout the organization and thereby facilitating the achievement of TNPA’s strategic goals.
• The BCoE will also seek to enable upskilling and development of all TNPA employees to sustain organisation enhancements.
• The TNPA BCoE will be located at the TNPA Head Office Finance department but will render a service transversally across TNPA.

The establishment of the BCoE operating unit within the Finance department will:

• Have the capability to provide support to up skilling employees in relevant areas;
• Ensure that TNPA complies to set norms, standards and best practices;
• Perform quality control functions; and
• Scrutinize and establish patterns and tends of areas requiring systemic attention by TNPA.

Position Outputs

• Expediting the process of consideration and approvals of submissions through enhanced quality control. clearing house for submissions to any governance structures.
• Performing financial due diligences.
• Develop appropriate policies and procedures to manage and provide assurance on the integrity of TNPA processes.
• Preparations and or reviewal of business cases.
• Technical quality control on all business cases, commercial proposals, any submissions to various governance structures
• Establishment of patterns and trends to develop systemic solutions to manifested weaknesses.
• Reviewing Financial, IT and Operations and recommend best practices.
• Create queries and reports to support ongoing monitoring of initiatives as well as ad-hoc reports as required. Develop key recovery metrics Perform data manipulation and analysis using tools such as Power BI, ACL, SAS, SQL and MS-Access. Analyse data/reports to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Create executive level reporting with 100% accuracy and advanced level presentation.
• Benchmarking best practice and transplanting thereof.
• Providing training, mentoring and coaching of staff members in the various roles in order to strengthen the delivery capacity of the TNPA system, as a whole.

Qualifications and Experience

• CA(SA) ➢MBA qualification (Added advantage) At least 10-15 years’ experience in an operational, commercial or financial environment.

Competencies

• Knowledge & Skills required: Effective Communication at Senior and Executive level (internally and externally) Compliance monitoring and Audit methodologies Ability to maintain strong relations Dispute resolution principles Broad business acumen, to be able to make independent and balanced decisions that support business objectives Business & environmental awareness Broad understanding of IT systems Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure Communication skills, both verbal and written Computer literacy, MS Office as a minimum, with advanced spreadsheet & database skills Interpersonal skills People management Planning and organising Report writing Time management skills Problem solving skills Research skills Presentation skills Solutions focused Analytical skills Logical thinker Detail orientated/Attention to detail

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Position Purpose

• The Specialist Big Data Science & provides guidance and support in the design, development, release, and maintenance of Data Warehouse and Data Mart systems, and related applications or services (e.g. reporting) for Transnet Freight Rail (TFR).
• The individual works closely with customers, vendors / service providers, colleagues, and other stakeholders to identify and maximise opportunities for using Data Warehouse systems to improve business processes, promote strategic use of Information Technology across TFR and enable the workforce to use technologies.
• The incumbent provides the leadership, vision and direction for Data Warehouse/data Mart systems and Big Data and analytics, ensuring support of TFR’s business objectives and requirements.
• A key responsibility is ensuring organisational balance and system coherency between desktop/client and Data Warehouse back-end processing activities. 

Position Outputs

• Strategy & Planning Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for BI development in conjunction with end users, managers, clients, and other stakeholders. Conduct research on emerging technologies, best practices, languages and standards, and make recommendations on Big Data & Analytics products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Acquisition & Deployment Evaluate and select database/data warehouse components, including hardware, relational database management systems, ETL software, metadata management tools, and database design solutions. Setting business requirements for BI tools, translating them into technical ones and participating in data warehouse design. Leading BI software development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Operational Management Direct, organize, and lead projects in the implementation and use of new Big Data & Analytics software tools, systems and solutions. Lead the integration efforts for merging Big Data & Analytics platforms with enterprise systems and applications. Analyse user requirements, design, code and test according to Agile, DevOps methodologies. Produce ETL design guidelines to ensure a manageable ETL infrastructure for the BI system. Ensure optimal end user performance by establishing and consistently executing overall system performance assessment processes and associated action plan. Provide technical support and ensure optimal end user performance by executing overall system performance assessment processes and associated action plan, troubleshooting BI tools, systems, and software and performance-tuning these applications as necessary.
• Collaborate across departments Collaborate across both business and IT and act as evangelist for Big Data Science & Analytics benefits across the organization; promote Big data Science & Analytics usage to relevant departments. Follow and enhance Big Data Science & Analytics standards and best practices across the team. Collaborate and mentor team members on methodology, design and architecture. Provide consultation on complex projects and act as a top level contributor. Educate and train Continuously educate business/IT stakeholders on basic BI principles and techniques Train peers/staff on BI specialist topics Network with internal and external partners. Upskill self and collaborate with other BI Specialist teams. Participate in the design and delivery of end-user training and training materials.
• Management Play a managerial role where he/she oversees the activities of junior Specialists Big Data Science & Analytics, ensuring proper execution of their duties, and alignment of activities with business’s overall vision and objectives. Consistently building effective working relationships and building data-fuelled solutions that drive the business closer to its overall goals and objectives. Provides mentorship, leadership and guidance to Specialist Big Data & Analytics.
• Dev-Ops Culture Facilitate the principle of Flow: i.e. make work visible, limit work progress, reduce batch (deployment) sizes, reduction in the number of handoffs, identify and elevate constraints and eliminate hardships and waste in the value stream. Principle of Feedback: i.e. working safely within complex systems, seeing problems as they occur, swarm and resolve problems to build new knowledge, push quality closer to the source, and enable optimizing for downstream work centers. Principle of continual learning and experimentation: i.e. enabling organizational learning and safety culture, institutionalize the improvement if daily work, transforming local discoveries into global improvements, inject resilience patterns into daily work, and reinforce a learning culture.

Qualifications and Experience

• Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in IT or Computer Science. Certifications (advantageous if the incumbent has at least one of the following certifications): Business Intelligence/Analytics certification. Big Data/Big Data Analytics certification. DMBoK. ITIL foundation or ITIL Service Management. Experience: 8+ Years’ working experience in at least one IT discipline (such as Data Warehouse development/Business Intelligence development/ Business or Information Analytics/Application Development or Big Data Analytics) with at least 4 years’ experience at Management level.

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Position Purpose

• To assist in ensuring implementation of supplier development strategies aligned to the broader national policy and regulatory framework with specific emphasis on Competitive Supplier Development Programme (CSDP)
• To liaise with supply chain community across TPL to ensure that there is consistent implementation, monitoring and reporting of Supplier Development (SD).
• To assist in training initiatives for SD policies and procedures to drive compliance TPL when entering into SD transactions.

Position Outputs

• Conduct research to support implementation of PPPFA regulations including Local Content, sub-contracting and designation for EME’s/QSE’s
• Develop and maintain a monthly register for Local Content transactions
• Conduct Local Content evaluations in line with PPM, legislative and governance requirements
• Ensure adherence to reporting requirements of Local Content transactions to DTI and any other Local Content reporting requirement
• To collate information and compile reports on Local Content transactions in TPL
• Support Supplier Development Manager in embedding Local Content strategies within TPL and Conduct analysis to support opportunity identification for SD with strategic suppliers
• Support Local Content strategy and process development policies and procedures formulation
• Collate success stories and learnings on Local Content 20/09/2021
• Track Local Content strategy and policy implementation within TPL Assist with monthly compilation of Supplier Development COE dashboard (which includes Local Content and Collate information and compile reports on Local Content activities within TPL
• Support Local Content Manager in embedding Local Content strategies within TPL
• Conduct analysis to support opportunity identification for Local Content with strategic suppliers
• Support Local Content strategy and process development policies and procedures formulation
• Support Local Content training initiatives within TPL and
• Support commodity-specific initiatives in respect of Local Content
• Track LOCAL CONTENT strategy and policy implementation within TPL
• Assist with monthly compilation of Local Content COE dashboard and
• Collate information and compile reports on Local Content activities within TPL.
• Collate success stories and learnings on supplier development
• Assist with audits taking place within SD (including BBBEE, preferential procurement, Local Content and sub-contracting) and within supply chain

Qualifications and Experience

• A relevant Bachelor’s degree (management studies/supply chain) or B-Tech qualification (management studies/supply chain). At least 2 years’ experience in a SCM function or BBBEE or BEE strategy development. Driver’s license code 08.​Recognition of Competence requirements Years of Experience with a formal qualification Min 5 years applicable experience Supervisory experience (advantageous)​Number of years with certificates or no formal qualification Min 8 years experience relevant to the position applied for.