Job Opportunities at Bidvest International Logistics

• The successful incumbent should have a passion for Employee Benefits, and provide support and guidance to our employees to enhance their lives.  

Qualifications & Experience    

• Grade 12/Matric
• Min 3 years Benefit Administration and provider liaison, Financial/Human Resources tertiary qualification or minimum 3 years degree qualification
• Minimum 3 years experience as Benefits Administrator and further 2 years experience as Benefits/Officer
• Minimum 5 year experience in Life Insurance, Retirement Fund and Medical aid administration
• Computer literate (MS Word, MS Excel and Outlook)
• Minimum 5 year experience of Sage 300 Payroll, and WSS
• Progressive demonstration of establishing and implementing appropriate remuneration structures and strategies with in corporate environment
• Ability to demonstrate, influence and execute remuneration and benefit strategies at a senior level
• Data Management (PowerBI) and trends interpretation will support the execution of this role
• A strong financial skill set in the Employee Benefits and administration environment

Key Responsibilities    

• Administering and managing the day to day function.
• Updating and reconciliation of contribution payments
• Process withdrawals from the Retirement funds and medical aid for resignations, retirements, death and disability
• Attend to queries- both written and telephonic
• Presenting to staff on request whenever administration presentation are required
• Assist HR in the facilitation of the induction process for employee benefits and advise employees of their benefit options and plans (where necessary)
• Facilitate the application / removal of all members and their dependents Ensuring compliance with applicable legislation e.g. Basic Conditions of Employment, LRA, Income Tax Act and COIDA
• Facilitate and promote sharing information around employee benefits and reward in the induction process and employee life cycle.
• Dealing with post retirement and death, resignation withdrawals forms for the medical aid and retirement funds
• Assisting with Staff queries and Employee education around Employee Benefits
• Processing of Temporary & Permanent Disability Claims
• Maintenance and updating of WSS
• Sharing information, educating and providing effective feedback where required around this speciality
• Ensuring all relevant benefits information is regularly updated, shared and distributed to all stakeholders e.g. employees, managers etc.
• Ensuring that new updated information is shared and promoted to all employees and pensioners.
• Reconcilliation of all service provider schedules
• Facilitation of Workmans Compensation processes and payments

Skills & Competencies    
Knowledge:

• Deadline driven
• Ability to prioritise and work systematically
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work with both people and data

Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively with staff, management and Service Providers
• A team player with strong leadership abilities
• Ability to work with minimal human supervision other than requirements per official procedures
• Microsoft products - v-lookups, pivots, mail merging, reports, professional letter writing
• Ability to effectively manage own time and high volumes of admin related documentation
• An established reputation for professional discretion when dealing with confidential and personal employee information
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with individual at all levels
• The ability to support our people through sharing information, educating and providing effective feedback where required High levels of empathy

Closing Date    
2023/05/23

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• The successful incumbent should have at least 8 years experience within a Learnership and Learnership and Compliance space in a medium to large organistation. 
• The position will be for a fixed term period, with a possibility of permanent employment.   

Qualifications & Experience    

• National Diploma or degree in Human Resource Management or a National Diploma in Occupational Directed - Education Training and Development            
• A Registered SDF will be highly advantages          
• Minimum 8 years experience as a Learnership and Compliance Specialist within a medium to large organisation

Key Responsibilities    

• Administration, coordination and project management of all learnership programs            
• Participate in learner selection and recruitment for the learnership programs            
• Ensure learnership and bursary information is accurately captured and readily available for compilation of monthly reporting, skills development, employment equity and BBB-EE reporting            
• Ensure learnership and bursary documents are accurately filed and maintained both manually and electronically            
• Reconciliation of bursaries and employee AODs            
• Administration of all TETA related activities (track DG progress and prepare reports for TETA activities, ensure all learners are enrolled on TETA database)            
• Ensure payment of invoices are in line with organisational financial policies and procedures            
• Recommendation of training providers in line with compliance requirements            
• Obtain and maintain accurate records relating to service providers            
• Assist and support the Learning and Development Manager with general training queries and requests            
• Assist employees with LMS related enquiries            
• Co-develop WSP/ATR submission to TETA            
• Orientation and Onboarding of learners, assessors and moderators onto the Elearning platform            
• Track the monthly submission of learner logbooks, attendance registers, assessments and progress reports            
• Monitor the learners progress and take remedial action when required            
• Ensure that external Assessors and Moderators have the required learner and programme information timeously            
• Ensuring TETA requirements are timeously met (External Moderations, Application for Discretionary Grants, Enrolement of learners )  
• To ensure that all BU Managers are familiar with the value added by the BIL Academy to the business and to promote a culture of learning within BIL            

Skills & Competencies    
Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of the Skills Development legislation    
• Expert knowledge and understanding of SETA Legislative requirements for Learnerships/Discretionary Funding            
• BBBEE / EE            
• Experience with e-learning platforms and digital learning            
• Management of Unemployed Learners            
• Experience in Learnership monitoring and tracking            
• Management of External Stakeholders (Assessors, Moderators, Training providers et al)            
• Processing and control of invoices for services rendered            
• Expert understanding of Assessor / Moderation Concepts and procedures      

Skills

• Ability to communicate fluently both verbally and in writing            
• Ability to work in a team in achieving agreed objectives            
• Ability to create rapport at all levels in different divisions            
• Organising skills- documentation and electronic records            
• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) at an expert level            
• Strong financial acumen            
• Good project management skills           

Closing Date    
2023/05/23

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• The successful incumbent will be responsible for timely and accurate reporting to Bidvest Freight/IL in line with monthly, quarterly and yearly financial, ESG and transformation reporting requirements as well as adhoc requests.  BBBEE financial reporting components also forms a key part of this role.

Qualifications & Experience    

• Matric (Grade 12)
• CA (SA) qualification essential
• Minimum 3 years post articles experience
• Knowledge of Cargo Wise One / Edi-Enterprise and Assetware would be advantageous.
• Power BI experience preferrable
• Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Outlook at an advanced level

Key Responsibilities    
Key responsibilities, but not limited to:-

• Responsible for Financial Reporting and analysis - reports for National Functions, Bidvest Freight and BIL
• B-BBEE Reporting and tracking of BIL B-BBEE objectives on a timely basis
• Procurement spend reporting 
• ESG reporting 
• Provide support to national functions BU managers with reports and analysis monthly and attend to their ad hoc requests
• Driving efficiencies and process improvements in key deliverables.

Main activities of this role:

• Year end audit and compliance
• B-BBEE audit including compilation of the scorecard
• Compilation of the B-BBEE scorecard (monthly, quarterly and yearly)
• B-BBEE point of contact for reporting to Freight Division and for client requests
• ESG reporting. 

Skills & Competencies    
Knowledge:

• Keeping abreast of accounting and financial reporting updates.
• Thorough understanding of B-BBEE codes and keeping up to date with changes relating to same.

Skills:

• Strong numerical and analytical ability
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Deadline driven
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as a team and independently
• Adaptability
• Quality management
• Self starter       

Closing Date    
2023/05/23

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• The incumbent will control procedures to process the flow of cargo from the time that the order is placed on an overseas supplier until the goods are delivered.

Qualifications & Experience    

• Matric
• Relevant tertiary qualification essential
• 5 7 years industry related experience 5 10 years marine experience
• Sound knowledge of Shipspares and Marine Product (Specialist)
• Knowledge of NPA Tartiff rates (related charges) and Customs requirements; spefically RIT/WH/WE/EAS/XES

Key Responsibilities    

• Forwarding of import cargo in accordance with Client requirements
• Track Client consignments from time of receipt or shipping instruction to arrival at destination in accordance with Incoterm
• Forwarding and clearing of import cargo in accordance with Client requirements
• Co-ordinate movement of cargo with the transport operators
• Report on shipment status to Clients and other stakeholders
• Process and distribute documentation in accordance with Client requirements
• Obtain master/house transport document information from carriers/consolidators
• Expediate cargo with carriers, terminals, depots and other transport operators
• Keep system updated with all communication and applicable documentation received
• Forward invoice to Invoicing Quality Controller to confirm correct rates
• Hand file over to Invoicing Clerk to generate pro-forma invoice

Skills & Competencies    

• Developed computer literacy skills (MS Office)
• Knowledge of Power BI
• Inter-personal skills coupled with expert written and verbal communication
• Systematic, logic and analytical approach
• CargoWise1 (CW) expert
• Proven working knowledge of International Forwarding
• Understanding of estimates
• Developed Geographic knowledge
• Knowledge of Customs requirements
• Financial knowledge regarding file profitability and losses

Closing Date    
2023/05/19