Job Openings at Siemens Energy

This is a three-year training programme to become certified as a Chartered accountant with SAICA (The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants):

• Based in Accounting & Controlling.
• Rotation in other business divisions, business units or corporate support functions to gain core competencies.,

How You’ll Make an Impact  

• Plans, prepares, and consolidates balance sheet and P&L statements and reports, according to relevant accounting standards (IFRS, GAAP, local standard etc)
• Prepares reports for division or support function management
• Analyse and evaluate assets and liabilities
• Prepares various entities and branches annual financial statements
• Co-operates with vendors, clients in reconciling the account status, on an accountable level
• Keeps abreast with changes of internal guidelines and external accounting standards, and prepares and presents training
• Review and update published guidelines relevant to the Company
• Issue and implement new accounting guidelines
• Investigates project and other adhoc queries from the divisions and support functions
• Plan and prepare budgets and forecast for corporate units
• Capture budget and forecast into Spiridon and ESPRIT
• Allocate Infrastructure costs as per approved budget for distribution to divisions
• Provide support to colleagues in the other African countries
• Provide support to corporate units with respect to specialised reporting required by Head Quarter such as ADSTAR reporting
• Proactively understand and implement Support Function and Financial Reporting Guideline requirements
• Ensures that all SAICA learning requirements technically and professionally are met with in the relevant time period.

Through exposure and training on:

• Financial Management
• Management Decision-Making
• Financial Accounting
• Internal Audit
• Corporate Governance
• Auditing & Assurance
• Taxation
• Commercial project management
• Controlling

The above technical areas will provide the delegate exposure to the entity’s business model providing them exposure to inputs, business activities and outputs leading to outcomes, which have been aligned to the CA2025 Framework.

Including development and training on:

• Interpersonal & communication skills
• Intellectual skills
• Organizational & management skills
• Business and decision-making skills
• Digital and data analytical skills

What You Bring 

• Completed BCom Accounting Honours (CTA) or equivalent
• High performer
• Analytical thinker

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How You’ll Make an Impact

• Identify and drive digitalization opportunities for in the business units, in accounting and controlling and other support function departments
• Implementation of automation of standard processes with Alteryx/UiPath
• Development of new dashboards and enhancement of existing dashboards
• Introduction of new tools for the entire business unit in alignment with accounting function
• Preparation and facilitation of digitalization workshops
• Definition and execution of global trainings for new tools and workflows
• Ensuring data quality for standard reports including their analysis
• Special projects related to data analytics, digitalization, and automation

Communication:

• Effectively communicate highly technical information to functional, technical team members and management.
• Communicate issues and solutions in a clear and concise manner
• Interact with end user, peers, and management personnel to resolve issues
• Effective in interacting with users when designing, documenting, completing, and testing assignments
• Maintain a positive attitude when dealing with others in a pressured environment

Capabilities and Credentials:

• Database and application development experience using formal software development life cycle
• Experience in designing, developing and implementing integration programs between SAP, and Data-lake using API’s
• The ideal candidate has the ability to work with professionalism and confidentiality, and is able to work independently and adapt to change in a very dynamic environment
• Translate company and customer (business) needs into functional and appealing interactive applications
• Technical quality assurance through quality coding standards and automation testing
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware systems or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
• Coding and determining the technical requirements from clients
• Solving code problems

What You Bring 

• IT diploma/bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in Visual studio development
• 2+ years’ experience as a VB/VB.Net/C#/Phyton Developer or equivalent
• 2+ years’ experience developing programs using VB.Net and SQL
• Exposure to both front-end and backend systems
• Agile methodology

Competencies:

• Self-motivated
• Accountability
• Work independently
• Team player
• Attention to detail
• Good Communication Skills