Job Openings at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Closing Date: 2020/03/27
Reference Number: SHO191113-5

Job Objectives    

• You have already moved from a full stack developer or seniors ops engineer into a devops engineer role in a linux based environment. Maybe you are working at a smaller organisation where you are a bit of a jack of all trades but you yearn for something more challenging? You want to work at scale with large diverse team of specialist supporting a 24X7 operation. You will be used to taking responsibility for deploying applications into production and, with the assistance of appropriate monitoring, proactively troubleshooting any issues that arise. You have an understanding of at least one develops tools chain. You have experience with at least one of the following architectural patterns:
• Scalable multi-tier applications deployed on VMs
• Complex serverless applications
• Container based application with at least some exposure to kubernetes

Key performance outputs:

• Work with specialist in operations to ensure applications are secure and available in production
• Work with the development teams to deploy and ensure the deployability of infrastructure, packaged applications and custom applications
• Work with application owners to manage the cost of infrastructure deployed to support applications both in development and production
• Qualifications    
• 3 year degree / diploma in technology field or in exceptional cases 6 years equivalent experience
• AWS DevOps Professional Certification

Advantageous:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Experience    
• 1-year work experience as a DevOps engineer responsible for the deployment and availability of applications
• 3-5 years of work experience in the technology-related field either as full stack developer or operations engineer for Linux hosted application managed through scripted automated deployment
• Experience working in a retail and/or Ecommerce environment would be advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills    

• 2 years knowledge deploying and managing applications in the cloud
• 2 years knowledge or digital application patterns
• 1 year knowledge of devops
• 2 years knowledge of agile
• 2 years knowledge of application troubleshooting and root cause of failure analysis

Advantageous:

• Knowledge of SQL and No SQL databases
• Knowledge of Legislation relevant to IT
• 1 year ability to implement SDLC automation and Testing using git based repositories, code build and pipeline or equivalent open source technologies
• 1 year ability to configure and deploy infrastructure using cloudformation, ECS and lambda
• 1 year ability to implement login and monitor application using cloud trial, cloud watch and application specific logging
• 1 year ability to automate management of polices and standards using trusted advisor, Secrets manager and certificates manager
• 1 year ability to implement mechanisms to detect and respond to incidents
• 1 year ability to implement high availability, and disaster recovery using cloudfront, Route53, and RDS

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Closing Date: 2020/04/08
Reference Number: SHO200323-5

Job Objectives    
Internal and External Audit Management

• Prepare annual valuations of various HR related and submit timely and accurate completion of financial transactions to external auditors.
• Communicate external auditor requirements with the payroll managers to promote timely delivery of information.

Financial Statement Preparation

• Ensure all countries are compliant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) where applicable to Human Resources accounting.
• Audit and check financial statem
• ents from the various countries to ensure their accuracy.

Budget planning and control (COE and HR related expenses)

• Assist in Planning Preparations, coordinating and review of COE and HR related budgets.
• Prepare reports for the Group on COE and HR related budgets.

Financial Month End Accuracy Procedures

• Review income statements for the Group entities on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and Review balance sheet reconciliations and file and record for balance sheet purposes.

Schedules Submission

• Submit relevant Group reporting information to Group HR Accountant.
• Perform calculations, analysis and general ledger submissions for group reporting schedules.

Reporting

• Assist Group HR Accountant to prepare monthly Group COE report.
• Prepare monthly management scorecards per branch reports.

Payments

• Ensure that the supplier invoice is accompanied by commercial invoice and approved accordingly on a daily basis
• Manage the releasing of payments via online the platform.

Cost of Employment and HR related Reconciliations and transactions

• Review training SDL levies and grants and control timeous claims and rebates.
• Review and reconcile HR related balance sheet accounts.

Project accounting and other Ad Hoc system implementations

• Manage financial control on new system and process implementations
• Project report preparation and presentation to the project committees.
• Ensure efficient and accurate financial governance and oversight on project implementations.

Qualifications    

• BA Accounting and Financial Management
• SAICA registered

Experience    

• 1-2 years of experience in a Specialist role (Financial Accounting, Management Accounting)
• 2-3 years of experience in a Management Accounting role
• 2-3 years experience within a Retail environment
• 3-4 years Management experience

Knowledge and Skills    
Knowledge of:

• IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)
• Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC)
• SAP
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Advanced Google Suite -Sheet skills
• 1-2 basic Project Management skills
• Valid Drivers Licence