Fresh Openings at Hollywoodbets

Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
• We have an amazing opportunity for a Senior Retail Operations Support Team Leader to be based in Umhlanga, Kwazulu-Natal. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
• The successful candidate will responsible to provide leadership and management of the team of Retail Operations Support Specialists and Retail Operations Administrators. To provide operational assistance to all Regional Management and Teams when required in addition to providing technical/ operational assistance to Operations Management Team.

You Bring:

• Drivers License
• 2 years driving experience
• MS Office experience

A Bonus To Have:

• Diploma\ Degree\ Certificate in Retail Management
• 3 years experience as a Bookmaking Clerk/ Manager or equivalent experience preferred.

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

• General management and technical support and assistance to the Retail Operations Support Specialist and Retail Operations Administrators.
• Setting uniform standards within all functions to Regional and Branch Support.
• Create and implement the continuous upskilling and improvement for the Retail Operations Support Specialist and Retail Operations Administrators.
• Guided responsibility for implementation and updating of all policies and procedures together with the Retail Operations Junior Business Partner. 
• Approve all types and forms of communication to be sent to Retail outlets and Regional Managers.
• Provide assistance to the Retail Operations Business Partner (Junior) and Retail Operations Business Partner for administrative functions.
• Directly liaising with Developers and IT infrastructure team relating to practical problem solving as it affects Branch Operations.
• Meet with Internal Audit on a monthly basis to ensure there is continuous communication and solutions to queries. 
• Build strong working relationships with Regional Managers and Area Managers assisting them when they request. 
• Continuously looking to improve efficiency and effectiveness through ongoing learning and new techniques.
• To assist with  any Operational tasks dispatched by the National Operations Manager.
• Execute on any ADHOC requests from Executive/ Senior Management

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

• Demonstrate good analytical skills.
• Strong computer skills.
• Demonstrate creative skills.
• Strong sense of accountability.
• Work under pressure and able to meet deadlines. 
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail.
• Must be able to plan effectively and efficiently in order to meet deadlines.

Apply Before 10/03/2025

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Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
• We have an amazing opportunity for an Operations Specialist (iBranch) to be based in Umhlanga, Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
• The Operations Specialist will be responsible for attending to all queries, requests and enquiries from all the departments, to ensure effective and timeously resolution of matters impacting operations.  Providing administrative support to the Mobile Department, assistance with project processes, and reporting on daily activities

You Bring 

• Valid driver’s license.
• 2-3 Years of Administrative Experience in Ops

A Bonus To Have: 

• Matric.
• Related Diploma/Degree.

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

• Assist, support and advise Regions on all aspects of iBranch Operations
• Communicate all updates on Policies and Procedures to the Regions
• Assist with marketing, promotions, events and assisting with branding campaigns within the Department from time to time
• Ensuring adequate stock levels of marketing and promotional items within the Regions
• Market research on potential new sites and arrange with all departments to set up promo/events (negotiate with different affiliates for sites/promo etc.)
• Management of ROI on all events/promotions 
• Work closely with the Compliance Department (getting the contracts signed and understanding the legal aspect of the contracts) 
• Reviewing of proposals for all events within the Regions 
• Assist with all internal audit queries and liaise directly with the Audit Team – (Weekend mileage report, vehicle tracker vs. time and attendance and call cycle) 
• Management of all traffic fines and Kazang Masterfile within the Regions (liaise with the relevant departments) 
• Daily reporting to Business Partner 
• Monitoring and analysing of Reports (Promo tracker, PIP, Booster Analysis, Teams Productivity reports, and ad-hoc reports) and providing feedback and recommendations to the regions 
• Finance – Review invoices before the order number is issued and payment is made for promotions/events.  Facilitate monthly regional branding payments 
• Maintaining a database of all branding within regions

Adhoc

• Support regions with training needs and assist with the facilitation and monitoring of the training in the regions 
• Will be required to travel from time to time
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring To The Team: 

• Demonstrate a good understanding of betting procedures and betting types.
• Demonstrate good business acumen skills. 
• Demonstrate good financial management skills. 
• Excellent people management skills. 
• Customer service and orientation experience. 
• Must be able to identify, analyse, organise, and solve problems. 
• Follows through and delivers results despite obstacles.
• Good attention to detail.

Apply Before 10/02/2025

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Skill Set

• Must be able to identify, analyse, organize and solve problems and issues in a timely and effective manner.
• Impressive planning, organisational, project management and time management skills. 
• Must be able to take accountability. 
• Must show strong leadership skills. 
• Must be able to take initiative. 
• Must be results oriented. 

Responsibilities

• Ensure daily, weekly and monthly reporting is done accurately and timeously and contains appropriate content to enable effective decision making. Ensure achievement of company’s strategic objectives, goal plans and targets. From time to time lead special projects. Performance management of your direct reports. Timeous backup of financial records (hard copy and data). Effectively deal with internal audit, external audit, SARS audit, BEE audit. Provide a support role to the Group Financial Manager
• Preparation of annual budgets
• Preparation/review of monthly management accounts including analysis/commentary
• Preparation/review of the annual financial statements
• Preparation/review of monthly working paper files and high-risk balance sheet reconciliations
• Ensure that routine transactions (expenses, asset purchases, cash book entries, sales etc.) are processed timeously by junior team members
• Preparation/review of non-routine transactions (depreciation, impairments, provisions, finance costs/income, discounting, lease straight lining, management fees, administration fees etc.) and complex transactions
• Review of and approval of payments, together with accurate capturing of invoices in the accounting system, ensuring IFRS and tax compliance
• Review of annual taxation computations
• Timeous preparation and payment of provisional taxation payments
• Review of the monthly VAT and Payroll returns
• Timeous settlement of inter-company trade accounts, loan accounts, shareholder loans, bank loans, bank facilities, creditors, SARS (Income Tax, PAYE, VAT) in line with agreed payment terms
• Ensure that all inter-company balances are reconciled monthly
• Liaise with the various departments and regional/operational managers to ensure efficient reporting
• Liaison with external auditors during interim and year end audit to ensure all queries are responded to
• Timeous collection of loans receivable, inter-company trade accounts and trade debtors
• Effective management of working capital. (Assist in the continuous improvement in supplier terms and customer terms).
• Effective tax planning and cash flow management
• Identification of control weakness, designing of internal controls and implementation thereof
• Timeous corrective action against internal audit and external audit findings
• Adequate provisioning of impairments on stock (slow moving, damaged, loss of market share, obsolete, expired, NRV < cost) , debtors (long outstanding, close to credit limit, defaulting terms, disputes etc.), tangible (damaged, not in use, loss making, loss of market share etc.) and intangible assets (reputation damage, loss making, loss of market share)
• Reassessment of useful lives, depreciation methods and residual values for tangible and intangible assets quarterly
• Review of profit and loss on asset disposals transactions
• Review of general ledger transactions monthly to confirm accurate account allocations, IFRS compliance between capital and expense nature transactions and taxation compliance
• Ensure that annual stock take is performed (including monthly/quarterly as dictated by company policy)
• Review of stock count variances
• Review of petty cash expenses
• Review all loan, creditors, facility, instalment sales reconciliations to external statements
• Review and approve accruals (test estimation accuracy by reference to trends and comparison of actual results to previous estimates)
• Ensure that monthly standing debit orders (rent, insurance, telephone, subscriptions etc.) are processed
• Management of operating costs
• On a quarterly basis - execute a mini audit to test compliance with supplier payment terms, claiming of supplier rebates at the correct % and claiming timeously, similarly for supplier settlement discounts and general discounts, similarly for customer rebates and settlement discounts and general discounts, validity/relevance of debit orders, use of correct interest rates, wear and tear rates, depreciation rates. 
• Retain proof of work that will be submitted to Group FM for approval
• Ensure that logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place
• Assist the BEE project team to ensure the improvement and sustenance of the company’s BEE score
• Optimization of the company’s financial position and financial performance
• Liaise with the various departments and regional/operational managers to ensure efficient reporting
• Liaison with external auditors during interim and year end audit to ensure all queries are responded to
• Minimise audit overruns by ensuring diligent preparation of audit files/compliance with auditor requests
• Support the GFM and CFO and CEO with specific projects and reports and data extractions
• Assist the GFM and CFO and CEO with building financial models/billing models/project costing
• Ensure that appropriate templates and models are created and saved to substantiate decision making

People

• Living HW values of Service Excellence, Commitment, Integrity, Accountability, Enthusiasm, Ubuntu and Innovation
• Direct supervision and mentoring of the junior finance team
• Creation and maintenance of roles and job descriptions and KPIs for your direct report subordinates, including annual performance reviews
• Sourcing, attendance and performance of training as and when needed for staff
• Adequate recognition of staff efforts
• Sustainable morale and team building initiatives
• Talent retention
• Promote declaration of all gifts and non-acceptance of kickbacks. Instances to be reported immediately 
• Promote declaration all conflicts of interest upfront
• Promote a culture of confidentiality within the business with regards to the protection of personal information
• Ensure all personal information of loan applicants and suppliers and other stakeholders is not shared and is maintained in a secure environment

Qualifications

• +2 Years commercial experience
• Pastel Evolution (or similar software)
• Microsoft Office

Apply Before 09/05/2025

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Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
• We have an amazing opportunity for a Betting Helpdesk Manager to be based in Umhlanga, Durban. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?

You Bring:

• Knowledge of horse racing
• Basic computer skills

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

• Making sure that all team members work carefully providing the branches with correct information and complete their daily tasks efficiently.
• Completing both technical support and supervisory duties.
• Troubleshooting.
• Supervisory duties may include determining personnel requirements, setting schedules and ensuring that team members reporting into Helpdesk Manager have all the resources to complete their jobs in a professional manner.

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

• Strong verbal and written skills
• Follow process in order to ensure high quality output
• Approaches own work with dedication and high sense of responsibility
• Consistently delivers required business results and meet deadlines
• High attention to detail
• Good communication skills 

Apply Before 10/02/2025

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Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
• We have an amazing opportunity for Building Maintenance to be based in Umhlanga, Kwazulu-Natal. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
• The purpose of this role is to perform basic maintenance of buildings, grounds, equipment and other small jobs that may be required from time to time.

A Bonus to Have:

• Matric
• Diploma/ Degree
• Drivers License

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

• Maintain the branches and its environs in a safe, clean and secure condition.
• Liaise regularly with the administrator and perform daily/ weekly checks as prescribed.
• Schedule complete regular maintenance, servicing and repairs.
• Maintain and repair air-conditioners and plumbing.
• Order equipment and parts through the.
• Work with the administrator to ensure spending is within budget.
• Ad hoc duties and projects as needed.

Apply Before10/04/2025

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Responsibilities

• Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.
• We have an amazing opportunity for a Team Leader (Mobile) to join our team in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
• The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring growth targets for mobile betting are achieved. Analyze financial information to identify trends, manage costs, and increase revenue in the team Ensure proactive reporting on these areas

You Bring:

• A minimum of 12 months in a leadership role
• Track record of over-achieving quota
• Ability to understand customer needs and handle different personality types
• Strong listening, communication, presentation and social skills

A Bonus To Have:

• Relevant qualification

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

• Work closely with Area Managers to meet required targets on Active and Qualified accounts
• Plan marketing campaigns with the assistance of the Area Manager and Marketing Team
• Facilitate promotional activities daily
• Ensure marketing material is available and in good condition for CSI handovers at Regional and National campaigns, all campaigns should be completed successfully and professionally
• Measure effectiveness of promotions (ROI) use Promo Tracker to measure the effectiveness of the promotion or events
• Conduct market analysis/research to make suggestions for improvements
• Recruitment, interviewing, and coordinating with AM/Trainer for induction.
• The performance and team management of Mobile Clerks includes the setting of daily targets, completing performance reviews, (twice a year), and conducting day-to-day people management functions such as HR/IR and the poor performance management (PIP) function
• Growth, branding, and rollout of Top Up Voucher outlets in all distributor networks. Visiting outlets where required
• Organize continuous training to ensure mobile clerks have been trained to understand betting types, betting processes, mobile betting, and TUV
• Ensure that cash-ups are done following cash-up procedures. Responsible to ensure that there are no shortages. Report all shortages to management
• Weekly completion of all Moodle/Betstrike and Voice note training and Trainer on Wheels
• Provide day-to-day operational support to Area Managers
• Daily Reports
• Management of the team members leave, absenteeism, and attendance.
• Management of stock (daily report on stock levels and usage)
• Any other related duties that might be required

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

• Clear insight into how sales work
• Be comfortable communicating with your management, customers, subordinates
• Understand the fundamental knowledge of their products and be able to communicate these points to potential customers
• Understanding of upselling or finding additional products and services to benefit the customer
• Solid negotiation skills
• Build great relationships
• Task-driven or results-driven

Apply Before 10/04/2025