Job Openings at Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd

The Department:

We are a dynamic and diverse group of individuals working together in a fast-paced environment, with the sole aim of accurate and useful financial information. As the Finance department, we deliver timeously to the senior management and shareholders of the organisation, to assist with their decision-making processes in driving the business.

Purpose of the Role:

This role reports into the Finance Manager and is responsible for the debtors and creditors function, maintaining the intangible asset register, assisting with monthly reconciliations with commentary and other ad hoc duties within the Finance team. The candidate we are looking for is a focused, self-motivated & dynamic individual to take on this role. The individual needs to be highly numerate, well organised and able to work to tight deadlines. Attention to detail and extensive reconciliation experience is crucial.

Duties include, but not limited to:

Creditors Function:

• Capture all invoices, accruals, and prepayments - Ensuring all postings are correct by product, region, platform, brand and game, where appropriate.
• Prepare weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid.
• Match vendor invoices and payments in Navision
• Obtain proof of bank details for all changes to banking details or new vendors
• Run vendor open items reports weekly and provide commentary for any long outstanding items.
• Proactively resolve any queries raised.

Debtors Function:

• Bill brand licenses to relevant entities in line with the contracts - ensuring all postings are correct by product, region & brand where appropriate.
• Ensure timeous receipt of funds
• Match customer invoices and payments in Navision

Asset Management:

• Record all intangible asset transactions including additions and disposals in the accounting system
• Run monthly amortisation
• Reconcile the intangibles asset register to Navision.
• Prepare quarterly reporting package, including disclosure notes and useful live assessment.

Financial Reporting:

Analytical reporting

• Preparation of income statement and balance sheet reconciliations with relevant commentary.

Corporate Governance:

 Audits

• Assist with the preparation of the quarterly and annual audit files.
• Effectively communicate with auditors to ensure all audit queries are adequately resolved.

SOX compliance

• Ensure that all controls are adhered to, documented, and implemented for SOX compliance.

Financial Staffing:

• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
• Communicates clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally to ensure expectations are met and potential problems escalated timeously.

Ad Hoc Duties:

• Draft process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.
• Archive all financial information.
• Assistance with testing of processes before implementation on Navision.
• Other ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time.

Essential Requirements:

• BCom financial accounting degree or similar
• 1-3 years accounting experience
• Experience in performing reconciliations and preparing variance analysis commentary.
• Experience in fixed / intangible asset management
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Performance & Culture.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision.
• Experience in FloQast.
• Experience in IBM Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos.

Person Specifications:

• Ownership & Accountability
• Building Relationships
• Organisation & Planning
• Problem Solving
• Resilience
• Stress Tolerance
• Communication
• Teamwork

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Purpose of the role:

• As the Social Gaming Product Owner, you’ll take complete ownership and responsibility of the success of Betway’s R&D products.
• Working closely with the Product Manager, you’ll set the product vision, strategy and roadmaps based on a deep understanding of the customer. You’ll define key product metrics in order to measure success towards your vision.
• You’ll balance the needs of stakeholders and customers to build innovative features that our customers love.
• You’ll need to forge strong relationships with neighbouring functions such as UI/UX, customer experience and engineering in order to drive towards your product vision.

Duties will include (but not limited to):

• Work with the product manager to measure success by monitoring and continuously improving Product KPIs.
• Work towards the product strategy and vision, and create buy-in both internally and with key external partners
• Create and maintain the high-level prioritised product roadmap based on data/analytics, customer feedback, competition and stakeholder input
• Use customer research and data to create proof-of-concept innovations to the product lifecycle
• Collaborate with external third-party partners, business stakeholders and product teams to ensure delivery timelines for dependencies
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience in order to identify and fill gaps, and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Assess market competition by comparing the company's products to competitors' products
• Scope and prioritise activities based on business goals, objectives and customer impact
• Drive and present product launches working with stakeholders
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Work with technical architects to plan the implementation of the roadmap
• Seek learning from the product community and share findings with the business
• Coordinate and facilitate technical feasibility of solutions
• Keep stakeholders and the wider business informed of progress of the product, vision and goals of the product
• Leads and influences the rest of development team to drive towards product goals

Essential Criteria:

• 2+ years experience as a Product Owner
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven track record of data driven decision making and experimentation
• Capability to make iterative progress towards a product vision
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills (both oral and written)

Desirable Criteria:

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development
• Experience in working with remote teams
• Experience managing 3rd Party relationships

Personal Specifications:

• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Entrepreneurship
• Initiative
• Results Driven
• Stakeholder Management
• Stress Management
• Team Orientation

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Job Description: 

The Intermediate Business Analyst position at DigiOutsource will fulfill a critical part in bridging the gap between business needs and the Technology capability. The Intermediate Business Analyst will also be responsible for the end-to-end responsibilities of the role within the Business Analyst framework, from facilitating workshops and requirements gathering through to documentation.  

You will need to collaborate with relevant stakeholders including, but not limited to, Business representatives, Product Owners, Architects and Technical specialists to analyse business processes, gather requirements and translate the requirements into actionable deliverables. The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation in business analysis methodologies, possess excellent communications skills demonstrate strong technical competencies for delivering projects.   

You will be expected to work in a fast-paced environment where the teams deliver in an agile way.  

Duties will include, but not limited to: 

Requirements gathering 

•  Identify business stakeholders and plan stakeholder engagement sessions to elicit requirements. document business. 
•  Facilitate requirements gathering workshops Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to analyze information needs, functional requirements, and business processes.  
•  Elicit requirements from Business stakeholders.  

 Requirements documentation 

•  Create high quality, lean fit for purpose specifications as needed on the project for business stakeholders. 
•  Define functional requirements of systems to improve quality, performance, external interfaces, and constraints. 
•  Outline requirement specifications with the use of standard organizational templates and tools. 
•  Collaborate with subject matter experts to understand and define the requirements landscape in order to address the business need.  
•  Interpret high level Business brief into detailed requirements.  
•  Produce requirements documentation in a format that stakeholders understand. 
•  Have thorough knowledge of documentation methods, processes and best practices as described in the BABOK. 

Requirements vision 

•  Manage requirements and ensure they are stored in a central repository and kept up to date. 
•  Make contributions in the development of test plans and perform test execution if required. 
•  Understand the commercial importance of changes or new features. 
•  Drive and challenge Business Units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.  
•  Review and improve existing processes. 

 Career development 

•  Share personal growth learnings within the Business Analyst team. 
•  Mentor / facilitate personal growth of other Business Analysts. 
•  Assist the seniors and leads to improve processes and documentation techniques. 

 Aptitude 

•  Serve as the intermediary between the Business and the Software Development Team. 
•  Maintain awareness of broader context of assigned work. 
•  Understand the impact of the change within the broader context. 

Essential Criteria: 

Education 

•  Matric Certificate 
•  IT-related tertiary degree or diploma. 
•  CCBA – Certification of Capability in Business Analysis with IIBA or  
•  AdBA – Advanced Business Analysis Program through FTI 

Experience 

•  3+ years experience in an IT industry. 
•  3+ years experience as a Business Analyst. 

Software skills 

•  Proficient with MS Office applications. 
•  MS Visio  
•  Proficient with wire framing tools. 
•  Proficient with BA modelling tools. 
•  Proficient with Confluence   

Communication skills 

•  Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and written 
•  Great relationship management skills across and within the team  
•  Able to facilitate meetings effectively 

Personal skills 

•  Ability to familiarize with technical concepts of projects. 
•  Excellent planning and time management. 
•  Excellent organization skills. 
•  Excellent communication skills. 
•  Have a keen eye for attention to detail. 
•  Good analytical and problem-solving skills. 
•  Results driven.  

People management 

•  Proficient in managing controversial situations. 
•  Proficient in managing conflict in a high-pressure environment. 

Person Specifications: 

•  Customer Focus 
•  Initiating Action 
•  Planning and Organizing  
•  Stress Tolerance 
•  Technical Knowledge  
•  Thinking Skills  
•  Decision Making  

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Purpose of the Role:

• This role reports into the Finance Manager: Betway and is responsible for accounting for all gaming transactions, reconciliations and reporting for the client gaming operations and related entities.

Duties include, but not limited to:

Financial reporting:

 Monthly management reports

• Check to ensure that data is posted correctly by product, region, platform, brand and event name.
• Reconcile gaming data imported into NAV to the Casino Reconciliation Report and Player Activity Report.
• Match all open items in gaming-related vendors and customers, excluding cash-in and purchase control balances.
• Investigate anomalies and open items timeously.
• Run weekly open item reports and follow up on long outstanding items.
• Calculation of usage fees and rebates and checking that this agrees to the terms of the contract.
• Posting all invoices, accruals and prepayments.
• Posting all intercompany and intergroup billing.
• Run depreciation.
• Run FX.
• Proactively resolve any queries raised.

Analytical reporting

• Ensure that all relevant data is split by product, region, platform, brand and game, where appropriate.
• Preparation of monthly income statement with relevant commentary.

Corporate Governance:

 Audits

• Preparation of internal and external audit files.
• Liaise with other contributors to ensure completeness of all audit files.
• Liaise with the manager regarding all queries from the external auditors.
• Resolve queries from external auditors in a timely manner.

Tax management and compliance

• Preparation of gaming tax and gaming VAT calculations per region..
• Prepare all gaming-related reporting for annual returns, Regulatory reports etc. for all gaming entities.
• Reconciliation of all VAT and tax vendors and matching to ensure submission and payments to the authorities have been timeously made.
• Ensure all calculations are submitted for review in a timely manner.

Funds and Assets Management:

Cash flow

• Run vendor open items reports weekly and request payment of open items due for payment.
• Check cash available for required payments.
• Ensure timeous supplier and intergroup payments.
• Prepare weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid.

Robust and critical systems and controls:

Policies and procedures

• Assist in the drafting of process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.

Financials staffing:

 KPI management

• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
• Effectively communicate to manager and team members to ensure key deliverables are met on time and potential problems escalated.
• Communicates clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally.
• Effectively feeds information to required members of the team to ensure all important updates are shared appropriately.
• Manages other’s expectations appropriately and proactively communicates any potential problems.
• Bi-annual setting of objectives.

Ad hoc:

• Other ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time.

Areas of responsibility:

• All gaming accounting processes and reporting for the Betway brand up to Variable Operating Contribution.

Essential Requirements:

• CA(SA)
• 1- 3 years' experience in a similar role.
• Advanced Excel experience.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Performance & Culture.

Advantageous Requirements:

• Experience in Navision.

Person Specifications:

• Accountability and execution
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Effectiveness and delivery
• Initiating action
• Organization and planning
• Communication
• Building relationships
• Team orientation