Job Vacancies at Core Group

About the Role

• We are seeking a commercially minded Financial Business Partner to join our growing team based in Sandton. This is a hands-on, in-office role for a qualified management accountant who thrives in a fast-paced retail and wholesale environment and enjoys translating financial insights into meaningful business decisions.
• You will partner closely with senior leadership and operational teams, providing financial guidance, performance analysis, and strategic support to drive profitability, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to commercial and operational stakeholders
• Deliver accurate management accounts, budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis
• Provide insightful financial modelling and business cases to support strategic initiatives
• Analyse margins, costs, and working capital across retail and wholesale channels
• Support pricing strategies and profitability optimisation
• Develop dashboards and reporting to track key performance indicators
• Identify risks and opportunities through detailed financial analysis
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting

Requirements

• CIMA qualification (completed or near completion)
• 3–8 years’ experience in management accounting within retail, wholesale, distribution, or consumer electronics
• Retail and wholesale experience is essential
• Expert-level Excel skills (advanced formulas, pivot tables, financial models; Power BI advantageous)
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to convert data into commercial insight
• Highly detail-oriented, proactive, and results-driven
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Comfortable working in a fully in-office environment in Sandton

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Job Description

• Core Group is a leading consumer technology business, distributing iconic brands including iStore across a complex, multi-site retail and enterprise environment.
• We are looking for a hands-on CIO to lead and evolve our technology landscape. This role is about doing as much as directing, ensuring technology enables growth, resilience, and stability across the Group.
• This is not a purely strategic role. While you will partner closely with ExCo and the Group CTO and take accountability for IT strategy, governance, and performance, you will also be expected to roll up your sleeves when needed, whether that’s supporting operations, unblocking delivery, or getting into the technical details.

The role

• The CIO will define and execute the Group IT strategy in line with business objectives, while ensuring day-to-day operational stability across the Group. You will optimise IT investment, strengthen cyber and data capabilities, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems that support our distributed retail and enterprise environment. 
• You will act as a trusted business partner and people leader, while remaining closely involved in major initiatives and critical operational areas. This role spans retail, warehousing, head office, and enterprise systems, supporting 60+ stores, multiple head offices, and distributed operations.

Key responsibilities

Strategic leadership

• Define, own, and drive the Group IT strategy in alignment with business priorities.
• Partner with ExCo and the Group CTO on architecture, roadmap planning, and delivery.
• Act as executive sponsor and change agent for major IT and digital initiatives.

Financial management

• Own and manage the Group IT budget.
• Drive cost optimisation and reduce business-as-usual expenditure.
• Ensure clear ROI on all major technology and innovation investments.

Operational excellence

• Ensure stability, performance, and scalability of all core systems across the Group.
• Lead infrastructure modernisation and actively reduce technical debt.
• Oversee end-to-end vendor management, contracts, and SLAs.
• Ensure seamless IT delivery for new store and site rollouts.
• Govern hardware, software, licensing, and device lifecycle management.

Data, BI & governance

• Build and maintain a modern, scalable data architecture.
• Ensure data governance, integrity, availability, and regulatory compliance.
• Enable high-quality business insights through reliable BI platforms.

Cyber security & risk

• Define and execute the Group cyber security strategy.
• Oversee EDR, SIEM, backups, disaster recovery, and IT risk policies.
• Drive strong audit outcomes and proactive risk management.

Leadership & culture

• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing technical teams across disciplines.
• Ensure clear KPAs, performance goals, and accountability.
• Drive a strong performance and succession culture within IT.

Experience & qualifications

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary Degree in IT, Computer Science, or Business Management
• Postgraduate qualification (Honours or MBA) is highly advantageous.
• 10–15+ years in senior IT leadership roles.
• Strong experience in complex retail or wholesale environments.
• Proven delivery and governance of large ERP and WMS platforms.
• Experience leading diverse, multi-disciplinary technology teams.

Key competencies

• Strategic and commercial thinking
• Strong financial and budget management capability
• Change leadership and transformation delivery
• Executive-level stakeholder management
• Deep understanding of how technology impacts customer experience and retail performance

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About the role

• Core Group is looking for an experienced AI & Automation Engineer to help drive real, practical AI adoption across the business. This role is hands-on and impact-driven, you’ll be designing, building and rolling out enterprise AI solutions and automations that reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times and unlock efficiency across our group of companies.
• You’ll play a key role in shaping how AI is used at Core Group: from building secure, scalable solutions, to enabling teams through training and guidance, and setting the standards for responsible AI use. This role will also take ownership of Master Data across the business, ensuring accuracy, governance and consistency.
• If you enjoy turning new technology into tangible business outcomes (not just proof-of-concepts), this role is for you.

What you’ll be responsible for

AI solutions & automation

• Design, build and deploy enterprise AI solutions that solve real business problems.
• Deliver automations that reduce manual work, improve customer experience and speed up processes.
• Lead the rollout, testing and continuous improvement of AI solutions across the business.

Technical ownership

• Define and maintain technical standards for AI and automation builds.
• Ensure solutions are scalable as the business grows towards a dedicated AI capability.
• Integrate AI solutions with existing systems and approved data sources using secure access controls.

Master data ownership

• Own and manage Master Data across Core Group.
• Ensure data quality, consistency and governance across all entities.

Security, compliance & governance

• Ensure all AI solutions comply with POPIA and relevant data privacy legislation.
• Align AI usage with internal AI policies and responsible AI practices.
• Apply practical security controls around access, data protection and auditability.

AI enablement & capability building

• Help design and deliver training to upskill teams on AI tools.
• Support a culture of responsible AI adoption and self-service innovation.
• Contribute to the growth and coordination of an enterprise AI team over time.

Experience & background

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or a related IT field.
• At least 6 years’ experience in IT roles.
• At least 4 years’ experience working with enterprise AI solutions and automation.

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft Foundry
• Copilot Studio
• LLM platforms such as ChatGPT and/or Gemini
   
• Experience building AI solutions in retail or wholesale environments is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable working with APIs, integrations and secure deployments.
• Experience leading change and helping non-technical teams adopt new technology.

You’ll thrive in this role if you

• Are curious, practical and excited by new technology.
• Have a strong bias for action and enjoy turning ideas into working solutions.
• Can work across different business units and levels.
• Care deeply about ethical AI, data security and doing things properly.
• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Communicate clearly and can lead, guide and influence others.

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Job Description

• Sales Coordinator Wanted to join the Core Group Africa
• Are you a sales whiz who knows how to balance support and administration with top-notch performance? Do you love working in a dynamic and exciting environment where your career can soar? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
• Core Group Africa is a leading provider of cutting-edge electronic consumer products within Africa. We are passionate about enhancing people's lives through our products, and we're looking for a Sales Coordinator to join our innovative team.
• As a Sales Coordinator, you will be responsible for optimising sales functions and providing support and administration. You will be working with pre-sales, sales reporting, Africa rating support, and new account application administration.

What We Offer:

• A challenging and stimulating work environment that will stimulate your growth and offer fulfilling rewards.
• A diverse and driven team of professionals to learn from and collaborate with.
• Endless growth opportunities within the department, business unit, and Group as a whole.

What we're Looking For:

• A minimum of a Grade 12 education.
• 2 years of administrative experience.
• A track record of meeting and exceeding targets and deadlines.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• The ability to implement and execute effectively.
• Syspro experience is a must.

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Job Description

• This is not a typical graduate role.
• We are looking for an exceptional graduate from one of South Africa’s top universities to work directly with the Group CEO of a large, fast-moving consumer technology business. 
• This role is designed for a high-potential individual who wants to build a commercial, strategic career and gain rare exposure at Group Executive level.
• You will work closely with the CEO on a day-to-day basis, shadowing key meetings, preparing executive-level materials, and supporting large local and international engagements with global partners and clients.
• This role offers a front-row seat to how complex businesses are run, commercially, financially, and strategically.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Support & Exposure

• Shadow the Group CEO in executive, board, and senior leadership meetings
• Prepare high-quality reports, briefing packs, and executive presentations for global clients.
• Capture key decisions, actions, and outcomes from meetings and ensure follow-through

Commercial & Financial Analysis

• Support financial and commercial analysis to inform executive decision-making
• Assist with preparing summaries on performance, risks, opportunities, and strategic initiatives
• Work with finance and business leaders to consolidate inputs into clear executive insights

Reporting & Tracking

• Prepare executive-level reports for clients, the CEO and ExCo, including dashboards, summaries, and performance updates
• Track key Group initiatives, priorities, and deliverables, providing regular status updates
• Consolidate information across multiple business units into concise, decision-ready reporting
• Ensure reporting is accurate, well-structured, and aligned to executive and board expectations

Who We’re Looking For

• Completed BCom Degree (Finance would  be advantageous) 
• Strong academic record from any of the following universities. 
• University of Cape Town (UCT)
• University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
• Stellenbosch University
• University of Pretoria (UP)
• University of Johannesburg (UJ)
• University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
• North-West University (NWU)
   
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to work with numbers and narrative
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills (non-negotiable)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Commercially curious, analytical, and confident engaging with senior executives
• High levels of professionalism, discretion, and maturity
• Able to work under pressure

What Makes This Role Different

• Direct reporting line to the Group CEO
• Exposure to Group ExCo, board-level discussions, and international stakeholders
• Involvement in real commercial, financial, and strategic work.
• Accelerated learning and development rarely available at graduate level
• Ideal for a finance graduate seeking a commercial leadership path, rather than a traditional accounting or audit route