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Overview:
- Our client is looking for an experienced Accountant to join their finance team. This role is ideal for someone with solid Sage Accounting experience who enjoys working across the full accounting function in a fast-paced environment.
- You will be responsible for financial reporting, reconciliations, tax compliance and ensuring accurate financial records while supporting the ongoing success of the business.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the full accounting function using Sage Accounting.
- Prepare monthly management accounts.
- Perform bank and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Prepare and submit VAT, PAYE, UIF and SDL returns.
- Assist with corporate income tax compliance.
- Maintain the fixed asset register.
- Liaise with SARS, auditors and external stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with South African accounting and tax legislation.
Requirements:
- Diploma or Degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 3-5 years’ accounting experience.
- Sage Accounting experience is essential.
- Experience with SARS eFiling and tax submissions.
- Strong knowledge of VAT, PAYE and Corporate Income Tax.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills.
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About the Role
- Our client is looking for an experienced and commercially-minded Director of Data Engineering to lead the strategic direction, delivery excellence, and growth of their Data Engineering capability.
What They’re Looking For
Essential Experience
- 8+ years’ experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Data Platform leadership
- Expert-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams
- Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale data solutions in client-facing environments
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including executive-level engagement
- Advanced SQL & Python
- Strong R programming skills
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Overview:
- Our client is looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Accountant to join their Head Office finance team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys a varied accounting position, with exposure to branch accounting, inventory management and financial reporting.
- You will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring tax compliance and supporting the day-to-day financial operations across the business.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage bookkeeping through to Trial Balance.
- Prepare management accounts and branch financial reports.
- Perform cash flow management and bank reconciliations.
- Oversee debtors, creditors and payment processing.
- Manage inventory accounting, stock takes and multi-warehouse reporting.
- Prepare and submit VAT, Income Tax and Provisional Tax returns.
- Perform VAT reconciliations and group loan interest calculations.
- Support new branch set-ups and assist with ad hoc finance projects.
Requirements:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum 2 years’ post-qualification accounting experience.
- Experience with IQ Retail and/or Sage Evolution.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting and tax compliance.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Willingness to travel locally when required.
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- Our client is looking for a data analytics lead to join their company.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead campaign analytics, audience insights and performance reporting.
- Build dashboards and reporting solutions using SQL, BigQuery, Looker Studio and BI tools.
- Deliver actionable recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Drive data quality, automation and reporting improvements.
Requirements:
- 7-10 years’ experience in Analytics, BI, Marketing Analytics or Customer Insights.
- Strong SQL and dashboarding skills.
- Experience with campaign measurement, audience analysis or marketing analytics.
- Exposure to BigQuery, GA4, Power BI, Looker Studio or similar tools.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Summary of Role
- The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data solutions that transform raw data into trusted, accessible, and actionable information. This role focuses on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architectures, and data platforms that support analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, and operational reporting requirements.
- The successful candidate will work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Architects, and Business Stakeholders to design and implement modern data engineering solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Data Management
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures to support business and analytical requirements.
- Build and optimize databases, data warehouses, and data lakes for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Extract, transform, and load (ETL/ELT) data from a variety of structured and unstructured sources.
- Develop and implement automated processes for data acquisition, integration, cleansing, transformation, and storage.
- Define and implement data storage solutions based on business and technical requirements.
- Create and maintain physical and logical data models to support enterprise data initiatives.
- Support data migrations across multiple databases, servers, and cloud platforms.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, integrity, and governance across all data assets.
Analytics & Machine Learning Support
- Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analytics teams to operationalize machine learning models.
- Develop data pipelines that support predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads.
- Deploy machine learning models into production environments.
- Build robust testing frameworks to validate data transformations and model outputs.
Data Architecture & Solutions Development
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available data platforms.
- Evaluate and recommend data solutions, technologies, and tools to address business requirements.
- Develop databases optimized for analytics, reporting, and advanced data processing.
- Build and manage cloud-based data solutions utilizing modern cloud technologies.
Quality Assurance & Change Management
- Perform root-cause analysis and troubleshooting for data-related issues.
- Design and execute testing scenarios to validate data quality and transformation accuracy.
- Assess, document, and implement changes in accordance with change management processes.
- Ensure release processes, procedures, and documentation are maintained and updated.
- Support configuration management and release management activities.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with business, analytics, and technical teams to improve data accessibility and usability.
- Translate business requirements into technical data solutions.
- Provide recommendations regarding data architecture, integration, and optimization strategies.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Advanced SQL development skills, including:
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- Relational database technologies
- ETL/ELT processes
- Data pipelines
- Data warehouses
- Data lakes
- Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
- Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and metadata management practices.
- Experience building and maintaining highly available and scalable systems.
- Understanding of cloud platforms such as:
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Hadoop
- Cassandra
- Storm
- Similar distributed processing frameworks
- Python
- Bash
- Shell Scripting
- Perl
Analytics & Reporting
- Working knowledge of Power BI for dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions.
- Understanding of:
- Data visualization
- Data virtualization
- Augmented analytics
- Business intelligence solutions
Qualifications
- Matric and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology
- Certified Data Engineer certification.
- Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
- Professional data and analytics certifications.
Experience
- Proven experience in a Data Engineering role within a fast-paced technology environment.
- Experience developing modern data and analytics platforms that deliver actionable insights from large and complex datasets.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python development.
- Experience designing and supporting ETL/ELT frameworks and data integration solutions.
- Experience working with SQL Server, MySQL, and enterprise database solutions.
- Experience with cloud technologies, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments.
- Experience with automation, scripting, and data process orchestration.
- Experience building secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available data platforms.
- Experience supporting machine learning and advanced analytics initiatives.
- Experience with big data technologies and distributed computing environments.
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Overview:
- An established multinational business is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to join their finance team. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone with a strong technical finance background who enjoys taking ownership of the full finance function while supporting the broader business.
- Working closely with senior leadership, you’ll be responsible for financial reporting, tax compliance, statutory requirements and managing the monthly close process. This role also offers the opportunity to become a trusted second-in-command, stepping in to support the business whenever required.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the full accounting function and monthly financial close.
- Prepare financial statements and management reports.
- Oversee tax compliance, including VAT, PAYE and Corporate Income Tax.
- Coordinate external audits and ensure statutory compliance.
- Review financial controls and identify process improvements.
- Support and mentor junior finance team members.
- Partner with senior leadership to provide financial insights and business support.
Requirements:
- Relevant Finance or Accounting qualification.
- 5+ years’ finance experience.
- Strong financial reporting and tax experience.
- Experience with audits and statutory compliance.
- Advanced Excel and ERP systems knowledge (SAP advantageous).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
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- Are you an expert-level SQL Developer and Data Engineer who thrives on building high-performance, scalable data solutions?
- Our client is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their Technology & Innovation team in Cape Town. This is a hands-on role for a seasoned professional with deep expertise in SQL Server, T-SQL, data modelling, database performance tuning, and Azure Data Factory (ADF).
What you’ll bring:
- 10+ years’ experience in Data Engineering, ETL, or related disciplines
- Advanced SQL Server and T-SQL development skills
- Strong experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Expertise in data modelling (3NF, star and snowflake schemas)
- Proven track record optimizing large-scale databases and data pipelines
- Experience with Azure SQL, Synapse, Data Lakes, APIs, JSON/XML, and modern data integration patterns
- A passion for quality, performance, scalability, and mentoring others
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- Our client is looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join their growing Data team. You will design, build, and optimise data pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting solutions that help clients make smarter, data-driven decisions.
Requirements:
- 3+ years’ Data Engineering experience
- Advanced SQL and Python
- Strong GCP experience (BigQuery essential)
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Data warehousing and data modelling experience
- Dashboarding experience (Looker Studio, Tableau, or Power BI)
- Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills
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- Our client is looking for an experienced Quality Controller to manage quality assurance across a wide range of promotional products, manufactured in factories across various regions. This is a hands-on, factory-facing role for someone who’s comfortable travelling on-site to inspect production runs and hold suppliers accountable to spec, across the full mix of promotional product categories.
What You’ll Be Doing
Product Testing & Certification (Promotional Products)
- Work with 3rd party laboratories to determine the required test plan for each promotional product – covering safety, regulatory, performance, and local country importation/certification requirements
- Review test plans with internal teams and Client Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) for sign-off, balancing product compliance against cost across the various promotional product categories
- Review lab test reports from 3rd parties and manufacturers to confirm tested items match the required test plan and Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Conduct label reviews on promotional items, checking symbols, instructions, and language requirements for accuracy
- Manage pre-purchase, production, and intervention testing to keep results on track with project timelines – and guide corrective action when a test fails
Factory-Based Inspection & Auditing
- Conduct on-site QC checks, in-line inspections, and final AQL inspections at factories manufacturing promotional products, ensuring items conform to agreed specifications and quality standards
- Develop product inspection checklists and protocols tailored to different promotional product categories, for use by internal QC teams and appointed 3rd party inspection providers
- Lead and conduct on-site factory audits to assess capability and capacity
- Coach and support suppliers/factories on audit requirements and corrective actions
- Review inspection reports and follow up on findings with vendors and manufacturers
Compliance & Documentation
- Provide technical support on Chain of Custody (CoC) and Declaration of Conformity (DoC) requirements to suppliers, factories, and procurement/merchandising teams, down to raw materials level
- Generate and review product specifications, including test plans and inspection protocols
- Conduct preliminary failure analysis on field-reported issues and track these through to resolution
- Stay current on global product recall databases to proactively build recall-prevention checks into test plans and inspections
What You’ll Need
- At least 8 years’ experience with 3rd party labs in a customer support/service capacity, plus 2-3 years in sourcing offices covering hard goods and softlines promotional product categories
- Previous experience as a QC Manager or QC Supervisor across hard goods and softlines promotional products is an advantage
- Practical experience managing projects into markets with local importation/certification requirements (e.g. Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia) is a plus
- Solid knowledge of product safety, regulatory, and performance requirements against international and market-specific standards
- A methodical, detail-driven approach – able to apply quality tools and methodologies consistently
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and timelines at once
- Comfortable travelling to factories/production sites as part of the role
Method of Application
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