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Description

• At BDO, we believe in investing in our people to help them grow, both professionally and personally. The foundation of our business is strong relationship, with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders and we work hard every day to make this a reality. Our commitment is to create unlimited growth by giving our people continuous opportunities. 
• BDO South Africa has a vacancy for an Audit Manager in our External Audit Division at our Johannesburg office.
• The Audit Manager oversees and ensures that the project runs efficiently and profitably from inception to sign off, by managing all the relevant stakeholders in accordance with the Firm’s policies and procedures. The Audit Manager further supports the Engagement Partner with clients' commercial management and business development initiatives. 

Reporting to the Audit Partner you will inter alia be responsible for: 

• Business Development 
• Negotiating budgets/fees and overruns for clients once fee base has been agreed with the   partner 
• Managing WIP, write offs, fee queries and debtors 
• Ensure Timeous and accurate billing of clients 
• Accurate and Timeous planning of audits. 
• Management and the Execution of audits. 
• Managing staff movements on and off the job and timeously communicate to all relevant parties. 
• Manage and control staff allocations on audit project. 
• Ensure completion and finalisation of audits 
• Building of effective relationships with clients and staff. 
• Ensure Exceptional Client Service. 
• Decide on audit appropriateness of audit opinion by resolving issues which might impact on the audit opinion and ensuring that these are brought to the attention of the engagement partner and documentation thereof. 
• Manage the client and ensure that the project is delivered within the scope agreed on 
• Mentoring of trainees 
• Timeous completion of performance reviews

Qualifications and Experience:

• CA(SA) 
• A minimum of 2 years post article management experience with long term audit ambitions – partner/director 
• Listed companies experience will be an advantage.

Competencies:

• Strong Technical Ability 
• Extremely high level of attention to detail and analytical and problem-solving abilities. 
• Ability to communicate effectively - Verbally and Written
• Ability to relate to clients at executive level
• Ability to apply sound professional judgment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to self-development and growth through research and attending courses relevant to role.
• Promote teamwork within the Audit Teams
• Strong Planning, organising and control skills

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Purpose of the Role :

• As a Finance Consultant Manager within our Finance Transformation division, you will report to the Lead of Finance Transformation Services (FTS).
• Your focus will be on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. You will focus on working with our leading clients and their executive teams to design and define innovative business solutions to respond to transition from the current to the future business state. You will collaborate with partners across the firm and across geographies to ensure a holistic and cross-functional, transformative approach.

Main duties & responsibilities:

• Contributing to the growth in partnerships with key technology partners.
• Ability to use Power BI, a visualization tool to build dashboards

Additional Duties:

Project Delivery and Management

• Lead project planning sessions to set project goals and objectives, determine timelines, define tasks, and outline resources necessary to successfully complete the project
• Monitor the progress of projects, including addressing issues that may arise and ensuring project deliverables are completed on time
• Use an appropriate tracking tool to coordinate different elements of the project
• Organise regular status and review meetings as necessary, including generating and distributing meeting minutes
• Gather resources, identify potential constraints based on activities and timeframes, and define solutions to manage any constraints
• Design a risk management plan to minimize foreseeable disruptions to the project
• Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation, including managing contracts
• Manage a portfolio and resources to ensure stakeholder engagement through project plans, schedules, project tracking, budget and resource allocation, Gantt charts, and workload analysis
• Report regularly to management and relevant stakeholders on the progress of the project, challenges, resolutions, and alterations
• Conduct project reviews, including creating detailed reports for Advisory Leadership and the FTS Lead, and identifying areas for future improvement

Quality Management

• Ensure that projects are delivered within the agreed timelines and in accordance with agreed quality standards
• Consider and recommend enhancements for project performance and processes and initiate remedial action where defects are evident

Business Case Development

• Provide input into the product vision and roadmap for FTS by aligning to FTS’s overall strategy, commercial business unit requirements and key opportunities

Product Development Oversight

• Participate in the conceptual solution design process to make recommendations to enhance solutions that solve complex business problems.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a liaison between key stakeholders such internally and externally to ensure that business development and project management requirements are being met 

Budget Management

• Manage own client account/s within approved budget and profitability targets
• Guide and assist other staff on how to manage their client accounts with regards to approved budget

Requirements:

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in a finance. A Master’s degree or accounting qualifications are not a hard requirement but will be looked upon favourably, namely:
• BCom Accounting Sciences degree, or
• BCom Hons CTA, or
• Qualified CA(SA)
• Financial acumen: Ability to review financial datasets and glean actionable insight and patterns.
• Accounting: History of understanding and applying knowledge of
• Company financial statements and accounting principles into commercial functions.
• Forecasting, planning, and budgeting: Comfortable with the forecasting process and demonstrable ability to comprehend the inter-relationships between income statements and balance sheet items.
• Communication skills: A proven track record of translating financial performance and goals into written strategies and gameplans for targeting new businesses.
• Judgment: Sufficient statistical nous to test null hypotheses, derive trends, and discard causational relationships.
• Gravitas: Owning decisions and having the confidence to decisively convey opinion to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work on multiple projects to tight timescales.
• Communication skills: A proven track record of translating financial performance and goals into written strategies and gameplans for targeting new businesses.
• Judgment: Sufficient statistical nous to test null hypotheses, derive trends, and discard causational relationships.
• Gravitas: Owning decisions and having the confidence to decisively convey opinion to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work on multiple projects to tight timescales.

Work Experience:

• Proven expertise in implementing EPM projects.
• 1-2 years management experience

Additional Work Experience Required:

• Experience in a managerial capacity, either within the Finance organisation or as part of a Consultancy
• Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal) with a focus on the ability to influence and drive change through complex organisations
• Strong troubleshooting/problem-solving skills
• Strong meeting facilitation/presentation skills
• Strong client relationship skills and team development skills
• A track record in implementing project plans, either as a consultant or within a finance function.
• Solid understanding of financial principles
• Experience in business development would be advantageous

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Description

• This is an entrepreneurial opportunity to become part of the founding team and participate in / lead the establishment of the actuarial team.
• The primary focus for the initial phase will be the delivery of actuarial audit support on a portfolio of existing clients including several blue-chip names.  Depending on the candidate’s interests and experience, the role will also offer opportunity to broaden expertise through a range of interesting projects outside traditional actuarial fields working with BDO Audit and Advisory Teams who provide advisory, consulting and audit services across South Africa. 
• BDO’s service offering and client portfolios provide an exciting and challenging environment.  This is a unique prospect in a newly established team within a dynamic successful growing firm.  We seek candidates who are energised by operating in a professional environment using their actuarial training and experience to deliver quality audit support whilst participating in establishment of a broader set of actuarial services to take to market.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Day-to-day responsibilities will include any number of activities such as, but not limited to:

• Actuarial audit support to a portfolio of clients across the insurance (general and life), retirement funding and medical scheme industries
• Reviews of technical provisions / IAS 19 liabilities / IFRS 17 liabilities including report drafting
• Involvement in IFRS 17 engagements including transition aspects, assisting clients understand impacts of various policy decisions, actuarial audits etc.
• Actuarial modelling and valuation work from a variety of perspectives including liabilities, remediation, due diligence, audit, reinsurance, capital optimisation, dashboards etc.
• Actuarial function assessments, assisting insurance and other clients to transform & enhance actuarial and risk management processes including model reviews, operating structures
• Research, data collection, analysis, production of actionable recommendations
• Professional engagement with internal and external stakeholders including clients and suppliers
• Operational activities underpinning establishment of the actuarial business unit
• Business development initiatives, proposal writing, thought leadership collateral.

Requirements:

Qualifications/Recognition of Prior Learning equivalent:

• Qualified or nearly qualified actuary

Work Experience:

• Experience in audit support environment across insurance (general and life), retirement funds, medical schemes

Knowledge:

• Relevant actuarial skills gained within audit environment or consultancy.  Knowledge of IFRS17, capital and solvency calculations, ORSA, reserving, reinsurance advantageous
• Familiarity with and practical experience in assignments under relevant audit standards, professional guidance and legislation including
• International Financial Reporting Standard 17 (IFRS 17)
• Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) Quantitative Impact Study 3 (QIS 3)
• International Standard on Auditing 540 (ISA 540)
• International Accounting Standard 19 (IAS 19)
• International Financial Reporting Standard 13 (IFRS 13)
• Knowledge of relevant analytics platforms advantageous (Prophet, SQL, Python, SAS, Power BI, MATLAB)

Competencies: Technical & Behavioural:

Technical:

• Business writing skills including actuarial reports, proposals, client correspondence
• Outstanding communication skills (written and oral), ability to credibly engage clients and senior colleagues
• Ability to take on projects (familiar as well as new) and structure task allocations around critical goals
• Ability to prepare client recommendations utilising industry knowledge, tools and technology
• Confident and credible taking the lead in client interactions, undertaking research and building market profile

Behavioural:

• Proactive, self-driven, entrepreneurial
• Attention to detail, organized
• Hard-working with demonstrated ability in problem solving and managing multiple complex tasks

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Description

• Financial Planner, Cape Town
• BDO Wealth Advisers (www.bdowealth.co.za) is seeking a Financial Planner to join the BDO Financial Planning team. This role involves supporting a national client base, with the flexibility to be based at one of our regional offices located in Cape Town. The position is full-time and permanent.

What this position offers:

• The chance to join an established national Financial Planning team and align with the firm’s policies, processes, and compliance standards as an FPI Approved Financial Planning Practice.
• Providing advice on investments, retirement planning, long-term insurance, and tax strategies, and reviewing and adjusting plans as needed.
• Opportunities to participate in networking prospects to expand the existing client base through referrals and the acquisition of new clients.
• This position services an established client base and offers a competitive base salary, with a lucrative incentive fee-share structure linked to the profitability of the client portfolio. 

Minimum Requirements to apply:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Financial Planning, completion of RE5 exams, and appropriate Class of Business accreditation for Investments, Pension Fund Benefits and Long-Term Insurance.
• Certified Financial Planner Professional.
• A minimum of 20 years of experience as a Representative on the licence of a Financial Planning practice, specifically the following licence categories:
• Long-Term Insurance A, B1, B1-A, B2, B2-A & C, Retail Pension Benefits, Pension Fund Benefits, Participatory Interest in Collective Investment Schemes. (1.1; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; 1.7; 1.14, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22)
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Financial Planning and behavioural finance coaching to clients.
• Proficiency in using Elite Wealth or similar financial planning software is essential.
• Strong skills in MS Office 365.

Requirements
Required Skills & Measurement of Performance:

• The ideal candidate will be a well established and experienced Senior Financial Planner who has built a successful career as a professional Wealth Advisor.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills, along with expertise in financial products, regulations, and client relationship management.
• Experience with financial software and a client-centric approach are also important.
• Strong ability to manage workload and a diligent work ethic, ensuring high accuracy in tasks and adherence to specified turnaround times, with a keen attention to detail.

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Description
Primary Purpose of the Job

• The Talent and Culture Specialist will play a critical role in cultivating a positive and inclusive work environment and enhancing the overall organizational culture. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills and a passion for people development.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Talent Management: Develop and implement talent management strategies to attract, retain, and develop top talent within the organization.
• Employee Engagement: Create and execute programs that enhance employee engagement and satisfaction, fostering a positive workplace environment.
• Conduct Exit Interviews: Design and conduct comprehensive exit interviews to gather insights from departing employees.
• Analyse the data obtained to identify trends and areas for improvement and utilize this information to drive changes in culture within BDO South Africa.
• Culture Development: Promote and sustain a culture that aligns with BDO South Africa’s values and objectives. Facilitate initiatives that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• HR Metrics and Reporting: Collect and analyse HR data to track the effectiveness of talent and culture initiatives. Prepare regular reports for senior management.

Requirements
Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR, with a focus on talent management, employee engagement, and culture development.

Behavioural Competencies

• High level of integrity and professionalism.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Empathy and the ability to build strong relationships.
• Adaptability and a willingness to embrace change.
• Passion for fostering a positive and inclusive work culture.