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Black Pen Recruitment is South Africa’s leading recruitment consultancy specialised in BPO services, foreign language recruitment and immigration services. With our outstanding experience in the BPO industry and our own in-house immigration division, we will find the right candidates for foreign language specialist positions as well as immigration solu...
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About the job
Our Client, based in Cape Town, is seeking to employ a highly skilled Head of Development (Insurance Tech) with a background in the tech sector. As the Head of 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.
Job Type: Full-Time | Remote
Requirements
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in managing Development Teams.
- Architect background or experience highly advantageous.
- Experience working within a start-up space considered a bonus.
- In-depth knowledge of Web Systems Architecture, Design and Development.
- 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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Senior Accountant (CA)
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 a Senior Accountant (CA) to join their exciting and dynamic team based in George, South Africa.
Requirements:
- Relevant Finance Degree or Diploma.
- 5 or more years of experience as an Accountant
- Proven ability in providing accurate financial reports, insights and analysis.
- Experience gained within the financial services or investment would be a bonus.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Value Added Tax and other tax legislative requirements locally, and in international jurisdictions.
- Experience with transfer pricing is advantageous.
- Sound working knowledge of accounting practices and principles, IFRS and Companies Act.
- Experience in handling tax and similar tasks related.
- Up to date with financial policies.
- Expertise in the use of spreadsheets and databases.
- Analytical and conducts work in a way that is meticulous and detail-orientated.
- Provide clear and concise communication regarding financial status and liquidity to the team.
- Able to employ critical thinking in managing account transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all accounting transactions
- Ensure all transactions are well documented
- Audit key documents and transaction verification
- Preparing and maintaining payments, budget forecast
- Publish financial statements in time
- Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closings
- Reconcile accounts payable and receivable
- Ensure timely bank payments of tax and other obligations
- Compute taxes and prepare returns
- Manage balance sheet and profit/loss statements across different countries of operations
- Report on the company's financial health and liquidity to the stakeholders
- Ensuring the security of financial information
- Reinforce financial data confidently and conduct database backups when necessary
- Comply with financial policies and regulations
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M&A 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 M&A Attorney to join their well-balanced team of chartered accountants and compliance experts in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This is an internal and client-facing role. The ideal candidate will be an individual experienced in mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, including corporate compliance, corporate structures and negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, who wants to branch out into Tax Law.
Requirements:
- LLB Degree
- LLM considered a bonus
- Admitted Attorney
- 1 – 3 years of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions and/ or Corporate Law
- Skilled in financial modelling, risk-benefit analysis, and Corporate Law
- Highly motivated and driven; self-starter
- Comfortable learning new technologies
- Process-oriented
- Able to work in a high pressure, fast-paced environment
Key responsibilities:
- Contract drafting and analysing terms of agreements.
- Drafting technical opinions.
- 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
- Invoicing clients and tracking billables.
- Miscellaneous assistance to Line Manager/Partner.
If you are interested in the position, apply today!
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The Role
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 a Commercial Attorney to join their Legal Team based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Requirements:
- A qualified lawyer (Admitted Attorney)
- A minimum of 3- 5 years’ post articles qualification experience within private practice or within a commercial environment.
- Interest and or experience in tax advantageous.
- Equipped to handle a high-pressure environment.
- Strong attributes
- Solid experience in Commercial Law, including corporate compliance, corporate structures and negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, who wants to branch out into tax law.
Responsibilities:
- Contract drafting and analysing terms of agreements
- Drafting technical opinions.
- 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
- Invoicing clients and tracking billables
- Miscellaneous assistance to Line Manager/Partner
If you are interested in the position, apply today!
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