Job Openings at Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Job Description    

• The Infrastructure Fund (IF) announced by the President in September 2018 addresses the need for a dedicated blended financing facility for infrastructure programme projects. The aim of the IF is to transform public infrastructure financial provisioning using “blended” finance - combining capital from the public and private sectors and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This will be dedicated to meeting the financing requirements for hybrid projects.
• The mandate of the Infrastructure Fund has been captured in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the National Treasury, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and the DBSA entered into on 17 August 2020.
• The Senior: Fund Specialist (IF) is responsible for supporting the execution of the asset management and treasury functions, which include physical asset management, monitoring and evaluation of financing instruments, facilitating the mobilisation and crowding-in of capital through the structuring, distribution, and syndication of financial instruments in both primary and secondary capital markets.

Key Responsibilities    
Strategic Outputs

• Support the the Infrastructure Fund’s (IF) strategic intent and progressively contribute a robust portfolio of projects, leading to improved funding and implementation opportunities.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation activities of physical infrastructure assets and financing instruments.
• Develop infrastructure investment model, strategies, tools, and products focused on core, stable cash-flow generating infrastructure assets.
• Monitor and provide recommendations to maintain and improve the financial sustainability, stability, and operational effectiveness of the Infrastructure Fund.
• Manage treasury operations including payments, liquidity, and cash management for the Infrastructure Fund.

Investment and Portfolio Management

• Implement, moipresent reports, memoranda, and strategic documents for executive committees, boards, and key stakeholders.

Treasury, Liquidity and Fund Operations

• Manage the design, implementation, and monitoring of blended financing mechanisms for identified infrastructure projects.
• Maintain and build relationships with intermediaries, including rating agencies, global asset managers, and coinvestors.
• Manage accounting reporting, budgeting processes, and financial systems such as SAP.
• Drive the development and execution of the IF’s asset management strategy.
• Advance research and enhance the identification of refinancing and capital mobilisation opportunities.
• Manage liquidity, capital structure, and balance sheet health of the Infrastructure Fund.
• Oversee funding operations, debt issuance processes, and related financial reporting.

Stakeholder Relations and Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and project operators
• Network and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to enhance the mandate of the IF.

Key Measurements of Outputs

• Effective monitoring, evaluation and portfolio management.
• Adequate controls and implementation of the accounting and treasury function.
• Effective syndication and distribution of IF assets.
• Value of infrastructure catalysed.
• Value of private & public sector partnerships and funding.
• Crowding in of capital.
• Effective liquidity and investment management.
• Issuance of capital market instruments
• Clean Audit.
• Expertise & Technical Competencies    

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Accounting/Finance/Engineering/Mathematic/ Statistics/Business Science/Actuarial or equivalent.
• A Post Graduate Qualification.
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience including in portfolio management of project finance/listed and/or unlisted capital market instruments.
• Proven track record in managing finance, investments or assets on a portfolio basis.
• Demonstrated excellence in the field of finance and structuring of financing instruments.
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of finance and accounting, asset management, risk management and portfolio strategy knowledge and skills including understanding of systems such as SAP.

Desirable Requirements

• A postgraduate qualification CA(SA), CFA, MBA Engineer, Actuary.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Detail Orientation

• Reviews all relevant information or aspects of a situation before taking action or making a decision.
• Pays close attention to details that are important to others to make sure they are right.
• Verifies that work has been completed according to the standards and procedures.

Planning and Organising

• Uses time management procedures effectively.
• Can exercise independent judgement regarding all planning and organising issues.
• Uses specialised software to plan and manage own time.
• Plans and manages multiple priorities and deadlines.

Adaptability

• Is able to operate in a rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable environment.
• Gives thought to scenarios impacting the world of work and the world of business.

Written Communication

• Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs in clear concise language.
• Is able to determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals.
• Coaches’ others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.

Asset Management

• Exceptional understanding of monitoring and evaluation, finance, structuring and innovation.
• Ability to function under pressure within a “start-up” environment handling multiple priorities.
• Accuracy and high attention to detail.

Commercial Business Acumen

• A good understanding of business and commercial drivers impacting operations.
• An understanding of general commercial strategy and the role of departmental strategy in the broader context of organisational objectives.
• Is comfortable with commercial discussions notwithstanding the absence of a readily identifiable legal component.
• Has the ability to structure or provide advice on legal instruments (e.g., contracts), based on strategic requirements.

Legal and Regulatory Policy Knowledge

• Knowledge of applicable legislation and the legal policies and procedures pertaining to relevant laws.
• Knowledge of topics such as procurement laws, claims, financing agreements, financial laws, etc.
• Knowledge and ability to enforce conditions and provisions of contracts, grants, agreements and leases.
• Ability to understand legal rights and responsibilities and the possession of authority to make legal decisions.
• Protects the organisation’s legal rights, utilizing a broad knowledge base of all major legal disciplines.

Presentation Skills

• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.

Procurement Services

• Articulates and prepares required documents and related elements of the procurement request including terms and conditions for the sourcing, selection and award process.
• Receives, safeguards, opens, records, tracks, assesses compliance with terms.
• Develops relationships by effective resolution of complaints and concerns.
• Prepares effective correspondence, questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.

Risk Identification & Assessments

• Diagnoses significant and emerging risks to which the business is exposed.
• Advises on applicable aspects of legal risk identification and assessment.

Solution Focused

• Identifies complex problems based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.
• While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
• Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions after they have been implemented and identifies needed changes.

Knowledge of Contracts

• Identify contractual issues related to monitoring and evaluation.
• Has an in-depth knowledge of the legal framework and appropriate regulation. Ability to apply this to develop appropriate contractual terms, conditions and documentation.
• Identifies and resolves risk and liability.

Negotiation Skills

• Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
• Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
• Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
• Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of IF.

Financial Acumen

• Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
• Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
• Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability.
• Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximize revenues and control costs.

Reporting & Communication

• Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
• Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
• Is able to determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals.
• Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
• Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
• Adapts language to the level of the audience in order to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
• Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.

Required Personal Attributes    
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Customer Service Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of sponsors and matches these needs within the project risk framework
• Utilises the feedback received by sponsors, in order to manage new and/or improve existing services / products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

Self-awareness and Self Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress
• Discipline and Rigor to ensure highest standards of governance are maintained

Teamwork and cooperation

• Promotes a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Decisiveness

• Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing
• Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular
• Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions

Driving delivery of results

• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business
• Monitors progress and adapts plans if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the programme
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs and makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost-benefit analysis.
• Based on cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature

Goal Oriented and Solution Driven

• Has an understanding of how immediate tasks contributed towards broader goals and structures activities accordingly.
• Focuses on solutions and goes beyond merely recognising a problem.

Systems Thinking

• Views legal matters as an integral part of broader operations and avoids addressing matters in isolation.
• Is able to recognise patterns and interconnectivity between various matters which are seemingly disconnected.

Decisiveness

• Acts promptly to address urgent needs, quickly taking those decisions which need to be taken.
• Assesses available information to reach a clear view of key options and select the best option at the time.
• Thinks on their feet when necessary.
• Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

Impact and Influence

• Includes careful preparation of data for presentation.
• Makes two or more different arguments or points in a presentation or a discussion.

Achievement Orientation

• Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
• Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
• Makes specific changes to systems and processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.
• Formulates own objectives and action plans in order to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.

Closing Date    
2026/03/20

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Key Responsibilities    
Key Performance Areas:

Financial Planning and Management

• Provide end-to-end financial planning support for IDD programmes, including the development of detailed budgets aligned with programme objectives and timelines.
• Provide financial support in setting up cost structures that reflect funding sources, expenditure categories, and reporting requirements.
• Monitor budget utilisation, track disbursements against milestones, and ensure timely financial close-outs.
• Maintain accurate financial records and documentation to support transparency, audit readiness, and informed decision-making.
• Track and drive the implementation of the IDD Financial Strategy aimed at providing IDD with a sustainable P&L.
• Coordinate and liaise with dedicated IDD Accountants to ensure all financial, management accounts, cost recoveries, cost charges and reports are accurate, complete and appropriately managed.
• Conduct continued mandate/programme cost analysis and investigate variance to budget.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks and develop financial risk mitigation strategies.

Business Advisory and Optimisation

• Act as a trusted financial advisor to programme and project managers by providing data-driven insights and financial guidance that support strategic and operational decisions.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to assess financial risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to optimise costs, improve efficiency, and enhance value for money.
• Support scenario planning, investment appraisals, and financial modelling to strengthen programme outcomes.

Compliance and Governance

• Ensure strict adherence to internal financial policies, donor-specific requirements, and applicable regulatory and audit standards.
• Support the preparation of financial statements, reconciliations, and audit documentation, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Identify and address compliance gaps and contribute to the continuous improvement of financial governance frameworks and internal controls within the IDD.

Variance Analysis and Reporting

• Perform in-depth variance analysis by comparing actual financial performance against budgets and forecasts,
• identifying key drivers of deviations.
• Prepare insightful financial commentary to support programme reviews and executive decision-making.
• Develop and maintain dynamic financial dashboards and reports tailored to the needs of internal stakeholders (e.g.,
• IDD leadership, finance teams) and external stakeholders (e.g., donors, auditors), ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timeliness.

Operational Execution and Planning

• Analyse existing workflows and processes to identify areas for improvement and implement changes that enhance productivity and reduce waste.
• Prioritise tasks and allocate resources strategically, ensuring that team members have the tools and information they need to perform their duties effectively.
• Promote best practices and continuous process improvement by driving efficiencies that result in cost savings and enhanced service delivery.
• Monitor operational performance through key metrics and adjust strategies as necessary to maintain or improve output quality and timely delivery.

People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning to maximise individual and collective potential.
• Drive talent development initiatives, including coaching, performance management, and career pathing, to build and retain a skilled and motivated team.
• Provide direction and management to the Division, to enable strategy execution.
• Attract, retain, and develop talent and ensure succession planning and sufficient capacity and capability in all critical functions, supporting diversity strategies and initiatives as well.
• Promote DBSA values and a culture of high performance through implementing performance management in line with the planned strategic objectives, goals, quality standards and agreed key performance measures using sound performance management principles.
• Contribute to building synergies & cooperation across functions in the DBSA.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Foster strong working relationships with IDD project teams, central finance, procurement, and external partners to ensure financial alignment and shared accountability.
• Act as a financial liaison, translating complex financial information into accessible insights for non-financial stakeholders.
• Lead or support financial training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one engagements to build financial literacy and promote a culture of financial ownership across the division.

Key Measurements of Outputs:

• Quality and number of financial reports delivered per cycle
• Number of cost optimisation opportunities identified and implemented
• Compliance with donor and internal financial policies
• Stakeholder satisfaction score
• Response time to stakeholder financial queries
• Expertise & Technical Competencies    

Qualifications and Experience:

Qualifications

• A CIMA qualification or a Bachelor’s degree in accounting with three articles in audit or training outside public practice
• (TOPP) as an added advantage.

Experience

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in financial and management accounting in a construction environment.
• In-depth experience in managing the finances of large-scale infrastructure, capital projects, or public sector programmes.
• Experience of setting budgets and undertaking financial forecasts/scenarios.
• Experience in supervising/managing a team within a financial services or construction environment.
• Strong advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills and PowerPoint presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of Management Accounting, IFRS, PFMA and King IV and other applicable regulations and codes of good practice.

Desireable Requirements

Strong understanding of the construction/infrastructure industry
Technical Competencies:

• Financial Analysis
• Interprets, analyses and/or evaluates compliance with applicable legislation, sound regulatory practices and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and other such rules and regulations.
• Analyses or interprets financial records and develops program procedures, financial models, and databases.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, rules, entity/company practices, concepts, and industry issues.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge or experience working with legal and regulatory issues in their subject area.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with regulated industries, government officials, administrators, and civic leaders.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of accounting standards and IFRS standards.

Business Acumen

• Understanding of DBSA mandate and economic priorities of South Africa and Africa, and how they can be implemented to meet the organisation’s strategic objectives. Takes actions to fit business strategy and assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or
• perspectives.
• Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives and understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
• Actively develop short and long-term strategies and think and plan in future-oriented terms.
• Uses methodical problem-solving approach as foundation for effective decision making, considering importance, urgency & risk and can obtain essential information, focus on key objectives and be able to recognise options available for solving strategic and operational problems.
• Be able to select the right approach to overcome those obstacles and be able to set in motion the plan that gets things done.
• Focus, understanding consequences and affinity for problem solving and making sound decisions by combining a lot of factors whilst balancing the
• various stakeholder needs and building relationships by doing the right thing.
• Prepares annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems, or opportunities.
• Develops and establishes broad-scale, longerterm objectives, goals, or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).

Strategic Planning

• Ability to analyse business trends, implications, and options to devise holistic and long-term strategic plans as well as execute the required change is essential to meet an organisation's objectives and future goals.
• Looks to the future with a broad perspective.
• Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.

Financial Acumen

• Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation,partner agencies, and community.
• Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability.
• Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise sustainable development outcomes, revenues, and control costs.

Reporting and Communication

• Designs, reviews, and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Manages report preparation, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
• Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs. Is able to determine which aspects of this
• knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals.
• Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
• Able to communicate complex problems or concepts by making them simple and understandable for others.
• Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
• Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high-level audiences.

Negotiation Skills

• Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
• Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
• Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
• Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.
• Understands and can apply basic negotiating skills and techniques, e.g. obtaining a full understanding of the other party's agenda and needs before disclosing own perspectives.
• Possesses an understanding of various unspoken communications from other parties and can decipher hidden agendas.
• Is able to successfully conclude negotiations which require the development of an emotional as well as factual argument.
• Is able to develop mutually beneficial potential solutions.

Project Management

• Defines, plans, and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity.
• Assembles multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
• Successfully manages project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
• Identifies complex issues that need escalation

Planning & Organising

• Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills.
• Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
• Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
• Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties.

Required Personal Attributes    
Leadership/Behavioural Competencies:

Empowering Others

• Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour, acts on values and beliefs.
• Inspiring teams to achieve results based on integrity, accountability, empathy, and humility.
• Motivate and inspire others to work towards a common goal.

Managing Change

• Re-engineers processes and practices to support and sustain the desired change.
• Generates and implements new and innovative ideas/approaches to improve business outcomes.
• Embraces managing change, providing guidance and support to teams during implementation.

Strategic & Innovative Thinking

• Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices
• Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions.
• Ability to come up with new and novel approaches to problems
• Problem solver to make the world a better place and inspire teams to get unstuck.

Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
• Communicates ideas, information, and business objectives effectively and persuasively, resulting in desired actions/ outcomes.
• Promotes collaboration, information sharing and learning within and across business boundaries.
• Focuses on ensuring stakeholder satisfaction by building mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders. These include the Board,
• Executive team, Management team, staff, and other key stakeholders.
• Inspiring teams to continue to perform at the highest level.

Driving delivery of results

• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image).
• Monitor progress and adapt the plan if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs, and makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost-benefit analysis.
• Based on the cost-benefit analysis, make decisions of an entrepreneurial risk nature.
• Acts consistently with honesty and integrity and in accordance with the standards for right conduct
• Works through teams to be able to deliver the required results consistently and efficiently. Translates business objectives into practical, prioritised & organised action plans, ensuring plans are safely & successfully implemented. Makes effective use of resources when executing, ensuring processes are in place to achieve outcomes aligned to operational excellence standards.

Decisiveness (High Performance, Service Orientation)

• Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing.
• Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular. Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions.

Closing Date    
2026/03/20

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Key Responsibilities    
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Project and Programme Financial Management

• Calculate management fees and project profitability based on project type, including time-based and cost-of-work models.
• Prepare management fee calculations covering subsistence, travel disbursements, and recoverable costs for billing purposes.
• Create and maintain project account codes, cost structures, and budget uploads on the project management system.
• Review and approve project disbursement requests, purchase orders, and payment submissions to confirm correct financial allocation.
• Monitor open commitments by tracking outstanding purchase orders and following up on unresolved items.
• Prepare project and programme financial reports, cost reports, cash flow statements, and close-out reports.
• Manage project and programme financial close-out processes in line with organisational policies.
• Authorise transfers of expenses into and out of project-related accounts where required.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards, construction industry practices, project accounting methodologies, and financial systems to support  effective financial management.
• Interpret financial and project information to translate technical data into practical insights for operational and programme teams.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Facilitate the development of annual project, programme, and operational budgets aligned to approved business and construction plans.
• Compile forecasts and cash flow projections to support proactive financial planning and funding decisions.
• Analyse actual expenditure against budgets and forecasts to identify variances, cost overruns, or underspending trends.
• Provide variance analysis and financial commentary to support corrective action and strategic decision-making.

Transactional Processing and General Ledger Management

• Oversee accounts payable, receivable, payroll-related transactions, and project-related disbursements to support operational continuity and healthy cash flow.
• Maintain accurate general ledger records as the foundation for reliable financial reporting and compliance.
• Perform monthly reconciliations, journal entries, and balance sheet reviews to maintain data integrity and detect errors or irregularities.
• Review transactional postings to confirm correct allocation to projects, programmes, cost centres, and accounts.

Financial Reporting and Compliance

• Prepare accurate and timely inputs to the financial statements in line with IFRS, statutory requirements, and organisational reporting standards.
• Apply regulatory and tax requirements, including SARS compliance, to all financial transactions and reports.
• Maintain audit readiness by compiling supporting documentation and responding to internal and external audit queries.
• Review financial records and supporting schedules to promote transparency, credibility, and consistency in financial reporting.

Internal Control and Risk Management

• Implement and monitor financial control processes to safeguard assets and promote data accuracy.
• Identify financial risks related to projects, programmes, and operational activities and recommend mitigation actions.
• Apply governance frameworks, delegated authorities, and compliance standards across all financial activities.
• Review expenditure patterns and financial practices to detect potential control weaknesses or process gaps.

Stakeholder Management and Reporting

• Provide programme leads, project managers, and business performance teams with relevant financial information to support planning and control.
• Respond promptly to financial queries from internal stakeholders and management.
• Prepare management reports to support oversight of performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Produce financial and project reports to support informed operational and strategic decision-making.

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or a related discipline Experience

Minimum Experience 

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial accounting in a complex organisation with the built environment, working on construction projects and programmes or a large to medium complex organisation with multidimensional businesses
• Working experience in taxation computations and SARS e-filing submissions (value-added tax and PAYE).
• Experience in working with financial management systems, e.g. SAP.
• Strong understanding of and a strong commitment to good corporate governance and specifically international reporting standards, including IFRS, Basel, GAAP and other regulatory requirements, including the PFMA.
• Excellent accounting and reconciliation skills.
• Experience in a corporate, public sector, or audit environment.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and South African tax laws.

Desirable Requirements

• A Postgraduate qualification in Accounting.
• Strong advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills.
• Completion of auditing articles at an audit or TOPP (training outside public practice)  firm.
• Knowledge of SAP FICO and BI.

Closing Date    
2026/03/18

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Job Description    

• The Contracts Management Officer provides end-to-end contract management processes from award through execution, variation, renewal, and close-out. The role continuously monitors contractual agreements to protect organisational interests and enhance supplier performance in line with governance, regulatory, and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities    
Contract Management

• Coordinate contract signature processes and support document filing, version control, and audit readiness.
• Liaise with internal teams and service providers to obtain documentation and inputs needed for contract execution.
• Administer the end-to-end contract management processes from award through execution, variation, renewal, and close-out.
• Manage contract amendments, extensions, and variations in line with governance frameworks and delegations of authority.
• Monitor and audit existing contracts, oversee contract amendments, addenda, variations, and facilitate the full lifecycle of contract modifications include assistance provided with the generation of orders on the ERP System.
• Facilitate and enforce compliance with contractual terms, organisational policies, regulatory standards, and governance frameworks.
• Conduct contract audits and reviews to assess adherence to agreed internal controls and policies.
• Support internal and external audit processes relating to contract management and procurement governance.

Risk Management and Continuous Improvement

• Track contract expiry dates, renewals, and termination periods to support continuity and risk mitigation.
• Identify contract-related risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Review and refine contract management processes, templates, and controls to improve efficiency and governance.
• Support the development and implementation of contract management frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance contract performance, compliance, and value realisation.

Reporting and Document Management

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date contract files, registers and reports, and centralised documentation systems, tracking key milestones, deliverables, compliance requirements, and termination dates.
• Prepare contract status, compliance, and performance reports for executive management, audit committees, and governance structures.
• Analyse contract and service provider performance data to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Monitor adherence to governance, compliance, documentation, record-keeping, and approval requirements.
• Support internal and external audit processes, governance submissions, and management reviews through the preparation of accurate and comprehensive inputs.
• Contribute to the implementation and enhancement of digital tools, trackers, and reporting systems to improve process efficiency, data integrity, and reporting accuracy.

Vendor Management and Performance Support

• Provide support to the contract owner on monitoring contract performance against agreed deliverables, milestones, service levels, and timelines.
• Collate service provider performance data and evidence against service level agreements and key performance indicators.
• Support the scheduling and logistics of performance review sessions with internal teams and providers.
• Prepare draft performance reports, dashboards, and escalation documentation for review.
• Keep a record of reported service provider challenges and the tracking of performance issues, corrective actions, and follow-up activities.
• Management and maintenance of the vendor onboarding process and amendments, and ensure supplier data accuracy for SCM-related reporting.

Knowledge of Contracts

• Through a broad and deep understanding of contracting best practice, can define DBSA contracting policy.
• Develops contract award documents, ensuring DBSA's interests are protected.
• Drafts, monitors and ensures performance of special terms of contract. Ability to apply remedy to protect DBSA’s rights. Ability to enforce compliance.
• Monitors contractor compliance to identify, document and resolve potential or actual problems. Determine which contractual remedy, if any, applies and employ that remedy.
• Conducts post-award orientation, monitors contract performance and takes necessary action related to delays in contract performance.
• Analyses and negotiates modification and termination of contracts.
• Evaluates the impact of selected issues to determine the need for top management involvement.

Procurement Services

• Detailed understanding of relevant procurement processes and procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of local vendors for a specific area of procurement.
• Collects and analyses relevant market information.
• Develops terms of reference, prepares proposal request documents.
• Extensive knowledge of the offer soliciting process, tendering process, evaluation of bids, negotiation and award process.
• Generates appropriate documents and reports for effective decision making.

Business Acumen

• Aligns current actions with organisation goals.
• Develops work plans that prioritise work in alignment with business goals.
• Acts in accordance with established organisation objectives or goals.

Reporting

• Designs / customises reports to meet user needs.
• Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
• Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

Project Management

• Demonstrates a practical knowledge of project management principles and techniques.
• Plans, defines, and manages projects within a department or area.
• Identifies resources required and their appropriate role and skills.
• Assists in the management of projects where the objectives, milestones and time scales have been defined.

Minimum Qualification

• A Bachelor’s Degree (NQF 7) in Supply Chain Management, Law, Business Management or related field.

Minimum Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in contract management, procurement support in the public sector procurement processes or a similar environment.
• Demonstrated experience in administering and managing contracts across the full contract lifecycle, including contract execution, monitoring, variation management, renewals, and close-out.
• Proven experience in contract compliance monitoring, governance reporting, and audit support.
• Experience in supplier performance management, service level monitoring, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience working on high-volume contract management environment.
• Demonstrated experience and proven proficiency in the use of ERP systems for vendor and contract management (e.g., SAP or equivalent systems).

Closing Date    
2026/03/20

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Key Responsibilities    
Invoice Management

• Receive invoices accompanied by signed payment certificates and supporting documents.
• Verify goods and services against the invoice, budget control and the system records.
• Confirm customer banking details and address discrepancies by requesting updates.
• Obtain invoice approval as per IDD Payment control procedures before capturing on SAP.
• Capture invoices in the SAP system under the appropriate company code and check accuracy.
• Ensure the SAP General Ledger (GL) used corresponds with the goods or services specified in the invoice.

Tax Compliance

• Assess whether services have tax (VAT) implications and notify the tax (VAT) function if there are any discrepancies identified.
• Validate invoices for compliance with tax / VAT regulations.

Accounts Reconciliations

• Request and review vendor statements.
• Reconcile vendor accounts weekly and during month-end processes.
• Follow up on and resolve outstanding invoices to ensure that all valid and authorised invoices are paid within 30 days.
• Maintain and update reconciliation for submission purposes.

Accounts Payment Processing

• Process payments for suppliers.
• Distribute remittance advice to internal and external clients.
• Process accrual documents received from the business.
• Prepare workings for accrual postings and reversals at month-end.

Record Keeping and Reporting

• Ensure all Invoices, Payment certificates, and proof of payments are filed on the shared drive in accordance with the required standards.
• Submit information as required for audit purposes.

Key measurement of output:

• Accurate and timely processing of all invoices, including verification of goods and services, validation of supplier details, and precise SAP capturing using the correct General Ledger accounts.
• Full compliance with VAT and tax regulations through thorough assessment of tax implications, accurate validation of tax-related information, and prompt escalation of discrepancies to the relevant tax function.
• Effective vendor account management demonstrated by regular reconciliation of supplier statements, timely resolution of outstanding invoices, and consistent maintenance of up-to-date reconciliation records.
• Efficient processing of supplier payments, including prioritisation of critical vendors, accurate distribution of remittance advices, and timely preparation and posting of accruals during month-end cycles.
• Reliable administration of general payments by verifying study aid requests, ensuring supporting documentation for employee claims is valid, confirming payroll-aligned banking details, and monitoring GRIR accounts to clear discrepancies.
• Timely and accurate processing of travel advances and expense claims in line with DBSA’s Travel and Subsistence Policy, ensuring all claims are properly supported and compliant with internal requirements.
• Contribution to achieving and sustaining a clean audit outcome by maintaining robust financial controls, ensuring strict adherence to policies and regulations, and providing complete, accurate, and auditable accounts payable records.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, B-Tech in Accounting, National Diploma in Accounting or a related field.

Experience

• A Minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience in financial accounting, accounts payable processing, and the use of integrated financial systems, preferably SAP or similar ERP platforms.
• Demonstrated excellence in reconciliation, financial analysis, and problem-solving, with the ability to identify discrepancies and maintain high levels of accuracy.
• Robust practical understanding of internal financial processes, controls, compliance requirements, and audit-ready record keeping.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook, with the ability to prepare, analyse, and present financial information effectively.

Closing Date    
2026/03/10

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Job Description    

• The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing and forecasting all costs associated with infrastructure projects, from planning through to completion, ensuring cost efficiency and value for money while maintaining quality and regulatory standards. The role involves monitoring project finances, adhering to statutory building regulations, and delivering professional Quantity Surveying services that meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery Division. Additionally, the Quantity Surveyor provides expert guidance and inputs for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, and technical standards.

Key Responsibilities    
Quantity Surveying and Quality Assurance

• Calculate and verify project costs to enhance value and cost efficiency for infrastructure projects in line with regulatory standards and quality.
• Estimate and monitor all costs that relate to the infrastructure project from the planning stage until the final stage, when all actual costs are levied.
• Verify the accuracy of deriving costs for project ancillaries, labour and material for each item or activity, especially for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works.
• Advise contract custodians on bill of quantities and activity schedule composition for large volume, high-value or high-risk services and works.
• Monitor execution and update of processes for site audits, where required, to verify quantities and claims for work executed.
• Monitor and maintain adherence to local statutory building regulations and the applicable built environment standards and regulations.
• Provide surveying inputs and guidance for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, functional/technical norms and standards.
• Provide a professional quantity surveying service and continuous quality assurance to meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery division.
• Vet bills of quantities and variation orders as received before payment and approve payments to contractors.
• Advise on standards, practices and governance relevant to contractual documentation.
• Prepare and conduct financial close-out and review project/programme close-out costs.
• Compile and present special reports when required.
• Prepare quantity surveying inputs for the preparation of the User Asset Management Plan, the final project lists, the budgets and the infrastructure Programme Management Plan.

Continuous Improvement of Estimating Services and Cost Engineering

• Conduct research and keep abreast of new technologies and procedures, including interaction with professional Councils/ Boards.
• Liaise with external quantity surveying firms and the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors regarding documentation, benchmarking rates and alternative procedures to ensure improvements and cost savings.
• Contribute to Master Planning, Project Briefing documents, accommodation schedules and operational narratives.
• Optimise standard guides, methods and techniques to evaluate the utilisation of available resources.
• Evaluate and identify new initiatives or enhanced/ improved products for inclusion in programmes or projects.
• Formulate standards and improved bills of quantities and activity schedules for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works.
• Identify all risks and devise risk mitigation strategies.

Reporting and Analytics

• Generate detailed and insightful reports and analyses that support strategic decision-making and drive organisational improvement.
• Develop and deliver accurate, relevant, and stakeholder-focused reports, presenting data in a clear, concise, and actionable format using appropriate visualisations and analytical tools.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and key insights that influence strategic planning and operational adjustments.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders to align expectations, gather insights, and ensure successful outcomes.
• Build strong relationships, communicating clearly and consistently, and addressing stakeholder needs and concerns with responsiveness and professionalism.
• Facilitate cooperation and support for initiatives within the area of expertise, contributing to overall project and organisational success.
• Compile and present technical reports, briefing notes, and special reports as required.

Key Measures of Performance

• Accuracy in project costing and quality assurance
• Adherence to applicable regulations and built environment protocols
• Accuracy in the approval of bills of quantities and variation orders
• Accuracy and completeness of cost estimates and financial planning documents
• Number and quality of Bills of Quantities and Variation Orders vetted
• Timeliness and accuracy of financial close-out reports and programme cost reviews
• Compliance with statutory building regulations and internal standards
• Mitigation and prevention of key cost-related risks
• Stakeholder feedback on strategic cost advice and technical support
• Clean audit
• Expertise & Technical Competencies    

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or a B-Tech in Quantity Surveying.
• Registration with the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP).

Minimum Experience

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience with quantity surveying in engineering and construction contracts, preferably in the public sector.
• Experience in estimating and cost engineering of construction services and implementing cost control measures in projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Quantity Surveying Professions Act of 2000, National Building Standards Act of 1977 and Regulations, Construction Industry Development Board Act of 2000 and Regulations, and Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993.
• Understand how to apply the Provincial Infrastructure Delivery Management System (PIDP) and the IDM Toolkit.
• Understand how to prepare budgets, extract and interpret information from related information systems.
• Understand the service delivery platform, indicators and service plan and how that links with Infrastructure.
• Understand how to undertake a risk analysis and undertake a risk mitigation strategy.
• Understand how to interpret existing and develop new Functional- and Technical Norms and Standards.
• Ability to process and analyse new and complex information quickly and to prioritise issues for consideration.
• Ability to build strategic alliances with key players for business.
• Capacity to clarify the needs of others and work with them to develop and implement cost-effective and practical solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully managing projects within tight schedules.

Desirable Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification in Quantity Surveying.
• Qualifications in health and safety.

Closing Date    
2026/03/12

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Job Description    

• The Mechanical Engineer provides operational mechanical engineering expertise across the full project lifecycle. The role contributes mechanical engineering inputs and guidance in the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, projects, functional/technical norms and best-practice engineering standards while supporting continuous improvement, quality assurance, cost efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities    
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Engineering Advisory

• Provide strategic mechanical engineering design input and advice from project inception through planning, implementation, and operations.
• Development, interpretation and customisation of functional and technical norms and standards for engineering services.
• Lead and maintain mechanical engineering norms & standards
• Advise on best-practice mechanical design, maintenance, and operational approaches to support long-term asset performance and sustainability.
• Investigate proposals for innovative service delivery mechanisms.
• Contribute mechanical engineering expertise to project feasibility studies, and provide reports detailing technical evaluations, investment decisions, service impact, financial impact, infrastructure impact, constraints, alternatives and attainability.

Design and Develop Mechanical Engineering Solutions for Infrastructure Projects 

• Prepare, review, and approve briefing documentation and specifications (technical specifications, mechanical design principles, preliminary costing per installation, performance-based standards, standard drawings).
• Coordinate with other disciplines to integrate mechanical services within the overall project designs.
• Provide mechanical engineering support to maintenance and operations activities for new and existing facilities and installations.
• Perform load calculations for HVAC, heating, ventilation and cooling systems and size pumps and piping for building services.
• Specify HVAC equipment, pumps, valves, boilers, chillers and fire-protection systems appropriate to project requirements and local conditions.
• Liaise with contractors and service providers to ensure mechanical installations operate optimally and meet performance standards.
• Assess mechanical designs to accommodate constructability and ease of maintenance throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Investigate mechanical engineering installations and equipment, undertake design work and implement corrective measures, where necessary.
• Oversee the implementation [construction] and commissioning of mechanical engineering installations.

Quality Assurance & Project Delivery

• Oversee the quality, accuracy, and compliance of mechanical designs, prototype drawings, service layouts, plans, and as-built documentation produced by clients and professional service providers.
• Provide discipline-specific quality control during project execution to ensure compliance with approved designs, standards, and specifications.
• Review and provide technical input into project implementation plans and standard contractual documentation, ensuring alignment with best practice and governance requirements.
• Support project schedule and cost control, seeking to minimise project costs while enhancing value for money without compromising quality or regulatory compliance.
• Monitor and advise on applicable statutory, regulatory, and industry standards, ensuring their incorporation into relevant programmes and projects.

Support Lifecycle Building and Maintenance Planning

• Develop maintenance strategies for mechanical systems that reduce downtime and extend equipment life.
• Provide maintenance and spares specifications and operation manuals to support asset management.
• Recommend materials, coatings and installation methods to improve durability in local operating conditions.
• Incorporate preventative maintenance requirements into design documentation and tender packs.

Integrate Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Principles

• Identify energy-efficient HVAC and plant solutions that reduce operational carbon and meet ESG targets.
• Recommend water-saving fixtures, greywater reuse opportunities and sustainable materials where feasible.
• Assess environmental and social impacts of mechanical systems and recommend mitigation measures.
• Support selection of low-Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerants and systems aligned with environmental regulations.

Provide Technical Support and Continuous Improvement

• Recommend innovative materials, methods, or technologies for improved performance.
• Participate in lessons-learned reviews and incorporate outcomes into future designs.
• Identify opportunities for standardisation, value engineering and cost reduction without compromising safety.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies, methodologies, and innovations in mechanical engineering and advise on their applicability.
• Liaise with external engineering firms, professional bodies, and industry associations to benchmark documentation, rates, and alternative delivery approaches to drive improvements and cost savings.
• Optimise standard guides, tools, methods, and techniques for evaluating resource utilisation and engineering efficiency.
• Identify, investigate, and analyse problem areas, recommending practical and innovative engineering solutions.
• Evaluate and propose new initiatives, technologies, or enhanced products to improve mechanical engineering outcomes.
• Research, benchmark, and advise on best-practice delivery methodologies and standards.

Reporting and Analytics

• Generate detailed and insightful reports and analyses that support strategic decision-making and drive organisational improvement.
• Collect, process, and interpret complex data using advanced analytical techniques and tools.
• Develop and deliver accurate, relevant, and stakeholder-focused reports, presenting data in a clear, concise, and actionable format using appropriate visualisations and analytical tools.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and key insights that influence strategic planning and operational adjustments.
• Provide comprehensive analytics and high-quality reporting, the specialist enables informed decision-making and contributes to the organisation's ability to achieve its objectives and adapt to changing conditions.

8. Stakeholder Management

• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders to align expectations, gather insights, and ensure successful outcomes.
• Build strong relationships, communicating clearly and consistently, and addressing stakeholder needs and concerns with responsiveness and professionalism.
• Facilitate cooperation and support for initiatives within the area of expertise, contributing to overall project and organisational success.
• Compile and present technical reports, briefing notes, and special reports as required.

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Professional registration by the Engineering Council of South Africa

Desirable Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services, Energy Systems
• Certification in Building Information Modelling and in relevant mechanical modelling tools Experience

Minimum Experience

• A minimum of 8 years post-registration experience in mechanical / building services design and project delivery
• Practical experience preparing HVAC, plumbing, pump and plantroom designs, equipment schedules, and tender documentation
• Demonstrated experience in construction support, site inspections and commissioning of mechanical systems
• Proficiency in mechanical design and BIM tools
• Knowledge of risk management, including the ability to conduct risk analysis and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies
• Knowledge of interpreting existing Functional and Technical Norms and Standards, as well as developing new ones to support infrastructure delivery.

Desirable Experience

• Involvement in projects integrating ESG or sustainability objectives
• Experience in public sector infrastructure projects, with knowledge of PFMA, Treasury Regulations, and municipal infrastructure guidelines
• Knowledge and understanding of: Health Act and Regulations, National Building Standards Act of 1977 and Regulations, Construction Industry Development Board Act of 2000 and Regulations, Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993
• Knowledge of the application of the Provincial Infrastructure Delivery Management System [PIDF] and the IDM Toolkit.

Closing Date    
2026/03/10

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Job Description    

• Provide end-to-end administrative support, consolidate reports and maintain the records management system for the unit. Provide end-to-end administrative support, consolidate reports and maintain the records management system for the unit.

Key Responsibilities    
General Administration

• Provide administrative support to the unit:
• Manage day-to-day administrative activities
• Manage diaries and arrange meetings
• Organise refreshments when required for meetings
• Make logistics arrangements for internal and external engagements
• Take minutes, distribute for inputs and follow up on actions required
• Perform administrative duties including typing and editing of reports, confidential correspondence and general documentation, filling, faxing, photocopying, and administrative work.
• Perform secretariat functions for the internal committees that are part of the unit structures, ensuring compliance with governance prescripts.
• Draft, format, and proofread correspondence, reports, presentations, and other documents.
• Coordinate and assist in the preparation of cluster/unit submissions to the board, business review, management committees, and ad-hoc resolutions from division-specific committees (secretariat).
• Administer the local and international travelling arrangements and the processing of claims for the units.
• Attend to general queries made to the Head and team members, answer and screen incoming calls.
• Support ongoing team projects by updating trackers, following up on deadlines, and organising documentation.
• Administer procurement processes and facilitate the submission and processing of invoices and claims.
• Coordinate, collate and assist in the preparation of reports and presentations for unit submissions.
• Coordinate internal audit and monitoring activities, including periodic review of the division and units.
• Manage office supplies, stationery, and equipment, ensuring stock availability.
• Collaborate with the events unit to coordinate plans for external stakeholders’ events.
• Assist with processing invoices, purchase orders, travel requests, and claims.

Reporting and Database Administration

• Assist in the coordination/preparation and alignment of unit/s balanced scorecard (BSC), and track and monitor plans to provide reports to the team.
• Coordinate the preparation of the divisional/unit budgets and monitor the spending together with the budget owner.
• Undertake project management tasks and provide project administration support on allocated projects.
• Prepare and present reports concerning activities, expenses, budgets and other items affecting the division/unit.
• Develop and maintain an advanced record-keeping (manual/electronic) and filing system to ensure an updated central repository and database for unit documents.
• Coordinate service providers’ database administration to ensure a central repository of information on service providers.
• Maintain updated contact lists, distribution lists, and team databases
• Undertake other administrative duties as assigned, from time to time.

Key measurements of outputs:

• Timeous and efficient team administration support.
• Quality of presentations and reports.
• Management of budget, including operational expenses.
• Documents generated accurately.
• Minimal errors with regard to administration.
• Effective record-keeping management and retrieval systems.
• Expertise & Technical Competencies    

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Office Administration, Project Management or Business Administration.

Desirable Requirements

• Postgraduate Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or Project Management.

SAP Procurement experience.
Experience

Minimum Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in providing administrative support to Teams.
• Experience in communicating (verbal and written), and drafting reports and presentations for Executives and Board level.
• Experience in coordinating, consolidating and tracking cross-functional projects and stakeholder engagements.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office (MS-Word, MS Excel (at an advanced level of proficiency), MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook).

Desirable Experience

• Experience in the banking and/or financial services sector.

Closing Date    
2026/03/10

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Job Description    

• The Data and Systems Officer is responsible for supporting the rollout, optimisations, and daily functioning of the procurement system within the Finance division. This role enables data and systems capabilities by maintaining system performance, analysing procurement and tender-related data, and serving as the first line of support for users across the
• DBSA. The role plays a critical role in ensuring seamless procurement operations in an environment of increasing transaction volumes and complex stakeholder needs.

Key Responsibilities    
Key Performance Areas:

Support and Maintain e-Procurement System

• Provide first-line support to users across the business on e-Procurement and Supply Chain Management related system issues.
• Monitor system functionality, uptime, and user access, and resolve or escalate issues promptly.
• Perform configuration changes, testing, and system data updates as needed in collaboration with ICT.
• Contribute to the implementation and rollout of new system features or modules.
• Support training and user onboarding activities during the implementation of the new procurement system.

Perform Data Analytics and Reporting

• Analyse procurement, tender, and contract-related data to generate insights for decision-making.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track procurement activity, compliance, and service delivery.
• Identify data quality issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide support in monthly and quarterly reporting requirements within the Finance division.

Support High-Volume Tender Operations

• Assist in the management and processing of large volumes of tender enquiries, including data extraction, validation, and tracking.
• Ensure data accuracy and completeness throughout the tender lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to the SCM personnel and stakeholders during tender events.

Stakeholder Support and Operational Coordination

• Act as the primary point of contact for system-related support queries within SCM
• Liaise with internal teams, service providers, and vendors to troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
• Support procurement teams in day-to-day operational tasks requiring systems or data input.
• Coordinate with the finance and compliance teams to ensure alignment with policies and regulations.

Reporting and Communication

• Collect relevant data from various sources, verifying its accuracy, and presenting it in a clear and organised manner.
• Establish deadlines to ensure management has up-to-date information for decision-making.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy and timeliness to deliver reports that are timely and precise.
• Support effective communication and strategic planning within the organisation.
• Utilise appropriate technologies and tools to enhance reporting efficiency and clarity, while also safeguarding
• the confidentiality and sensitivity of the information included.
• Ensure effective communication and seamless coordination within the team and across departments.
• Convey information, expectations, and updates to team members, ensuring they are well-informed and aligned with organisational objectives.
• Promote an open and inclusive communication environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas, feedback, and concerns.
• Coordinate activities with other teams or departments, facilitating collaboration to achieve shared goals.
• Act as a liaison and foster strong interpersonal relationships.
• Utilise appropriate communication tools and platforms to maintain efficient and transparent information flow

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
Qualifications and Experience:

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Information Systems, Finance or Supply Chain Management.

Desirable Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or ERP System Administration.

Experience

Minimum Experience

• A Minimum of 5 years of experience in systems support, data analysis, or procurement systems.
• Experience with e-Procurement platforms (SAP, Oracle, Coupa or similar).
• Experience in supporting high-volume procurement or tender environments.
• Proficiency in Excel, Power BI or other data tools.
• Understanding of financial systems, reporting standards, and data structures.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations and cybersecurity principles.

Closing Date    
2026/03/10

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Job Description    

• The Principal Investment Officer is responsible for screening, appraising, structuring, and executing complex climate and Green Fund project proposals to mobilise funding. The role also oversees post-investment project management, including rescoping projects as required to address emerging needs and ensure continued alignment with climate objectives.

Key Responsibilities    
Strategic Planning

• Contribute to the formulation and enhancement of DBSA’s infrastructure strategy with a strong focus on climate resilience, low-carbon development, and adaptation priorities.
• Align programme initiatives with national climate commitments, sectoral decarbonisation pathways, and DBSA’s climate-investment objectives.
• Identify climate-related risks, transition risks, and green-growth opportunities to inform strategic direction and portfolio positioning.

Transaction Assessments and Structuring

• Evaluate the feasibility of investment opportunities and project transactions with a view to ensure they are commercially viable and align with the Fund's strategic objectives and mandate.
• Lead multi-dimensional due diligence (technical, commercial, environmental, financial, institutional), including credit risk analysis and climate investment diagnostics.
• Oversee and/or develop sophisticated financial models and scenario analysis to ensure investment viability and optimal structuring.
• Lead the financial climate-impact evaluation using recognised methodologies (e.g., GHG accounting, climate vulnerability criteria).
• Structure climate finance transactions, debt, equity, blended finance, and guarantees in alignment with DBSA policies and international accreditation standards.
• Develop and prepare early-stage review proposals and related documentation in the specified as and when required.
• Prepare and present detailed investment appraisal reports, risk assessments, climate rationale, GHG reduction estimates, and financial evaluations.
• Negotiate term sheets, shareholder agreements, financing agreements, and related transaction documents with clients, sponsors, and legal teams.
• Drive deal closure by ensuring optimal financial, institutional, and legal structuring of transactions.

Transaction Execution and Credit Approval

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to structure and negotiate detailed deal terms with Treasury, Legal, and Loan Administration teams, ensuring transaction approval.
• Secure internal approvals and lead or participate actively in closing transactions through successful negotiations.
• Manage the credit approval process from early review to final decision by the relevant committees.
• Review proposals submitted to approval committees to ensure they are well-structured and documented for informed decision-making.
• Manage the preparation of complex multi-jurisdictional documentation and ensure compliance with procedures, laws, and regulations for transaction implementation.
• Resolve potential constraints in the lending value chain in collaboration with the responsible Head
• Implement risk management procedures across continent-wide financing functions, ensuring investment risks are appropriately structured and mitigated during operations.
• Manage financial capital responsibly, ensuring efficient utilisation and stewardship of capital under management.
• Capture and apply learning opportunities post-transaction to drive continuous improvement and successful deal delivery.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients at global, regional, and local levels, including businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials, to further develop specific project preparation opportunities.
• Manage expectations from programme owners and ensure third-party programme mandates are understood by the DBSA teams.
• Support partnerships, joint platforms, and networking initiatives that advance DBSA’s climate finance positioning at national, regional, and global levels.
• Represent DBSA in high-level forums, technical working groups, and climate-finance industry engagements.
• Work closely with Transacting and other investment divisions to build a strong pipeline and ensure seamless integration of prepared projects into the deal cycle.
• Enhance DBSA’s brand and reputation as a partner of choice for end-to-end climate-responsive infrastructure development.

Reporting and Governance

• Provide accurate and timely reports to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), and other climate finance sources in line with accreditation, fiduciary, and safeguard requirements.
• Support the management, administration, and operationalisation of DBSA-accredited climate funds, systems, and reporting frameworks.
• Maintain essential documentation, data integrity, and audit-ready records across the climate finance portfolio.
• Implement and refine reporting formats, portfolio dashboards, and decision-support tools to strengthen climate investment oversight and management.

Key Measurement of Outputs:

• Revenue performance in terms of Interest Income and Fees generated.
• Delivery on the agreed Operations Mandate; these include:
• Growth rate in assets of the loan book:
• Annual disbursements, commitments and approvals
• Quality of loan book
• % of loan book in priority geographies and sectors
• Number of new clients
• Number of potential deals/ pipeline
• Value of funds catalysed towards projects approved and committed.
• Coaching and mentoring to transfer skills
• Clean Audit

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• A postgraduate degree in Finance, Commerce, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Economics or a relevant field.

Desirable Qualification

• A postgraduate qualification, CA or CFA or MBA or similar

Experience

Minimum Experience

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in appraising, negotiating, due diligence and closing project finance in a financial institution specifically for climate and environmental financing.
• Strong experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency, water security, sustainable transport, or related low-carbon sectors.
• Experience in securing infrastructure investment deals in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa and doing business across Africa.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments.
• Proven experience in working with senior stakeholders in highly political environments in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
• Proven expertise in climate investment metrics and GHG accounting tools.
• Understanding of GEF/GCF operations, climate definitions, eligibility criteria, and fiduciary standards.
• Demonstrated ability to structure complex financial instruments (debt, equity, blended finance, guarantees).
• Extensive knowledge of climate-related markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and international best practices.
• Experience engaging senior executives in governments, DFIs, the private sector, and financial institutions.
• Strong track record in client relationship management and transaction execution.

Closing Date    
2026/03/10

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Job Description    

• To implement sound financial management, reporting, and control of DBSA’s treasury assets and liabilities portfolio by maintaining strong governance, compliance, and operational efficiency. The role executes treasury accounting processes, financial reporting, regulatory submissions, and system integrity by providing accurate insights to support strategic decisionmaking and adherence to IFRS, PFMA, and other applicable standards.

Key Responsibilities    
Financial Management

• Monitor and maintain the treasury asset and liability portfolio, ensuring accurate financial control and compliance with internal policies, regulatory, and tax requirements.
• Apply financial policies, procedures, and controls consistently to safeguard assets and support treasury operations.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning to provide insights for corporate and divisional financial strategies.
• Effect accurate processing and monitoring of payments, maintain strong internal controls, and mitigate fraud risk.
• Assist in the preparation of financial reports, audits, regulatory submissions, and contribute to continuous improvement in financial control, working capital, and risk management practices.

Management Reporting and Systems

• Prepare and review management, financial, and statistical reports for executive decision-making.
• Support the development of budgets and financial forecasts for DBSA’s operations and investments.
• Contribute to the enhancement and alignment of financial systems (SAP FICO, Quantum) with business and reporting needs.
• Drive continuous improvement of management information systems and reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with finance teams to ensure timely and accurate management reporting.
• Participate in ad hoc financial projects, task groups, and committees.

Treasury Operations

• Draft accurate and compliant in month-end, interim, and year-end financial statements and reports.
• Prepare and review journal entries and ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Review treasury deal activities, payments, and interest rate resets.
• Maintain oversight of settlement processes and segregation of duties.
• Monitor access logs and system activities to strengthen internal controls.
• Manage the independent review of system logs and where changes are made to deals, there are supporting documents which would have followed through the governance processes as part of internal control monitoring.
• Prepare hedge accounting documentation and reconciliations.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and track findings to resolution.
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring controls are implemented effectively.
• Lead process improvements to enhance efficiency and cost savings.
• Conduct analytical reviews to ensure data integrity in balance sheet and income statement items.
• Draft accurate and compliant financial statements and reports, prepare and review journal entries, and ensure the integrity of treasury data.
• Review treasury deal activities, payments, interest rate resets, and maintain oversight of settlement processes and segregation of duties.
• Monitor system access logs, document governance changes, and maintain strong internal controls, including hedge accounting reconciliations.
• Coordinate internal and external audits, track findings to resolution, and identify and mitigate operational and financial risks.
• Lead process improvements, conduct analytical reviews, and enhance efficiency, cost savings, and data integrity across balance sheet and income statement items.

Stakeholder Management and Finance Partnerships

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, including National Treasury, rating agencies, investors, and funders, to support strategic and operational objectives.
• Prepare and provide inputs for covenant reporting, SENS announcements, investor communications, and regulatory submissions, ensuring compliance with JSE Debt Listing and other requirements.
• Collaborate with Treasury and Debt Sponsor teams, providing guidance and support to colleagues to strengthen financial operations, decision-making, and investor relations activities.

Reporting and Analytics

• Provide comprehensive analytics and high-quality reporting that support strategic decision-making and drive organisational improvement.
• Analyse complex data and deliver accurate, stakeholder-focused reports with clear, actionable insights and visualisations.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and key insights that influence strategic planning and operational adjustments.
• Produce accurate, insightful reports and continuously monitor key metrics to assess progress against objectives.
• Analyse data to identify trends, inform strategic decisions, and provide stakeholders with clear, actionable information that supports ongoing performance improvement and accountability.

Qualifications

A Bachelors Degree in Accounting
Experience

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in management accounting in medium to large, complex organisation with multidimensional businesses within the banking sector.
• Experience in a treasury or back-office role in a complex banking environment.
• Experience in treasury, investment banking or financial services or secondary market activities.
• Demonstrated experience in IFRS 9, 13, 7, 1, 18 among other standards.
• External audit experience in banks, investment banks or financial services external audit experience.
• Financial instruments valuation experience.
• Working knowledge and understanding of key financial markets both locally and globally and knowledge of market risk dynamics, knowledge on management of distressed assets, restructuring of assets and non-performing loans.
• Understanding of debt capital markets, JSE & JSE debt listing requirements, market risks such as interest rate risk, current risks and price risks and ability to manage accounting for financial treasury liability products.
• Financial Modelling: Supports strategic planning through scenario analysis and forecasting.
• Demonstrated advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills and PowerPoint presentation skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of IFRS, PFMA and King IV and other applicable regulations and codes of good practice.
• Proven understanding of internal control systems and the operations of front, middle, and back-office Treasury functions.

Desirable Requirements

• Articles in an external audit environment would be an added advantage (external audit of treasury environments).
• A CA or CFA qualification.
• Exposure to African and global financial markets
• Understanding of SAP and Quantum treasury system and other accounting tools.

Closing Date    
2026/03/13

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Job Description    

• The Infrastructure Fund (IF) announced by the President in September 2018 addresses the need for a dedicated blended financing facility for infrastructure programme projects. The aim of the IF is to transform public infrastructure financial provisioning using “blended” finance - combining capital from the public and private sectors and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This will be dedicated to meeting the financing requirements for hybrid projects.
• The mandate of the Infrastructure Fund has been captured in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the National Treasury, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and the DBSA entered into on 17 August 2020.
• The role of the Infrastructure Finance Specialist is to provide financing and advisory solutions for infrastructure development.

Key Responsibilities    
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Strategic Outputs

• Support the expansion of IF’s project pipeline, especially in infrastructure that is being targeted to mobilise public and private sector financing.
• Ensure long-term financial planning and modelling in collaboration with the Treasury and Finance teams.
• Support public sector in the development of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and in financing of large infrastructure projects in order to assist government’s efforts to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Prepare various documents and management reports for Executive Committees, Boards and Stakeholders.

Infrastructure Financing

• Prepare a project finance model using Microsoft Excel / workbook and calculation algorithms premised on accounting rules. The project finance model should be suitable for investment analysis, debt structuring and operational scenario evaluation.
• Utilise project finance models to conduct financial and sensitivity testing which are critical in determining the effects and changes in input variables on key financial outputs.
• Advise clients internally and externally on the development and effective implementation of public / private investments for sustainable development in infrastructure with a specific focus on financing solutions.
• Support Leads during preparation, structuring, negotiation, and closing of transactions of investment and policy operations.
• Conduct the financial analysis and modelling tasks within project teams working on guarantees operations and other financial structures to mobilise commercial capital for development purposes.
• Work as an integral part of the project / programme team, to conduct due diligence for infrastructure finance operations with a special focus on structuring financial solutions for raising new funding and debt restructurings.
• Develop and deliver sustainable financing structures, models and solutions for IF clients through various products which include (amongst others) blended finance structures Public Private Partnerships (PPP) structures, B-BBEE funding structures, local currency funding, guarantees and derivative hedges.
• Develop and implement various innovative financing instruments to unlock and accelerate infrastructure delivery. These instruments include (amongst others) blended finance instruments, working capital facilities, bridging finance facilities, project bonds, CPI-linked debt, green bonds, project preparation facilities, construction performance bonds, price risk management and hedging products, customised vendor financing solutions.
• Develop and implement financial advisory solutions for the IF including (amongst others) technical, financial, environmental, insurance bank services.
• Access financial markets to fund IF investments and operations to foster sustainable economic development, create wealth and improve infrastructure in South Africa by investing in infrastructure and other productive sectors.
• Ensure that all investment projects are taken to bankability through amongst others, evaluation of the feasibility of investment opportunities with a view of ensuring that they are commercially sound for financing. This must be performed in alignment with the agreed strategy and mandate, due diligence process, deal structuring, facility agreements with clients, risk mitigation, etc.
• Assist with the execution of transactions and the credit approval process to facilitate the structure and negotiate the detailed terms of the deal / transaction in liaison with Treasury, Legal, Portfolio Management teams to ensure the approval of transactions through the various approval committees.

Stakeholder Relations and Engagement

• Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers (in government entities, development banks, private companies and commercial banks) to contribute to economic and infrastructure development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and project operators
• Network and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to enhance the mandate of the IF.

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

 Minimum Requirements

• Post-graduate qualification in Development Finance, Finance, Business, Engineering or Economics.
• A minimum of 8 years demonstrable experience in project finance, the financial and infrastructure finance arena at a mid-tier professional level.
• Experience in investing in infrastructure in emerging markets, ideally in a diversified portfolio in different sectors of infrastructure (energy, transport, etc.).
• Exposure to working on new or innovative projects and programmes.
• In-depth experience in working with deal teams private and public sector investments.
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure finance and development.
• Proven ability to build a project finance model using Microsoft Excel / workbook and calculation algorithms premised on accounting rules for investment purposes.
• Proven experience in project risk identification, management and mitigation.
• Knowledge of the banking sector and financial markets.
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment for infrastructure procurement in SA.
• Good understanding of infrastructure investments. 
• Demonstrable experience in assessing investment transaction opportunities and projects from early review to bankable debt financing deals.
• Ability to provide value to transactions for the benefit of and/or the client through knowledge of the subject, innovation and lateral thinking.
• Knowledge of legislation, regulations, policies, processes and procedures governing the infrastructure planning and development in South Africa (e.g. PFMA).

Closing Date    
2026/03/10