Job Vacancies at DeARX Services (Pty) Ltd

• A leading financial institution based in Sandton is seeking a highly experienced Senior Organisational Development (OD) Facilitator to drive leadership development, organisational effectiveness, and large-scale culture transformation initiatives across senior and middle management.
• This role is ideal for an accomplished OD professional with strong facilitation, coaching, and consulting expertise who can design and deliver impactful interventions that support strategic transformation, leadership capability development, and enhanced organisational performance.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Management

• Build strong, credible, and professional relationships with key internal stakeholders, senior leaders, and business teams.
• Develop ongoing collaborative partnerships with leadership to understand business challenges and desired outcomes.
• Manage multiple client engagements and intervention processes while effectively managing expectations and communication.
• Provide professional advice and feedback on organisational themes, culture dynamics, and improvement opportunities identified during interventions.

Organisational Development & Transformation

• Design, customise, and facilitate Organisational Development (OD) interventions aligned to business objectives.
• Lead leadership development and cultural transformation initiatives aimed at enabling large-scale behavioural and organisational change.
• Support business teams through organisational change by addressing concerns, reducing uncertainty, and reinforcing organisational purpose.
• Adapt OD processes, tools, and methodologies to suit varying stakeholder and group requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of OD frameworks, procedures, policies, and best practices.

Facilitation & Workshop Delivery

• Facilitate impactful workshops, interventions, and coaching sessions for senior and middle management.
• Lead small and large group engagements, ensuring high levels of participation, collaboration, and achievement of intended outcomes.
• Align workshop objectives and deliverables with business leaders and relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure workshop environments, logistics, and room set-up support successful facilitation outcomes.
• Identify risks, resolve obstacles proactively, and implement contingency plans where necessary.

Project Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Deliver OD interventions and projects effectively, on time, and within agreed business expectations.
• Monitor intervention progress to ensure outcomes align with planned objectives.
• Ensure effective utilisation of resources while balancing quality, compliance, cost, and stakeholder expectations.
• Improve business processes and systems by identifying enhancement opportunities that support organisational effectiveness.
• Maintain compliance with governance, risk, and internal operational standards.

Employee Wellness & Support

• Promote employee wellness awareness during facilitated interventions.
• Provide participants with relevant employee support and counselling resources where required.
• Create psychologically safe and inclusive environments during workshops and transformation sessions.

Minimum Requirements

• Postgraduate qualification in Psychology (Industrial Psychology / Clinical Psychology preferred).
• Additional certifications in Coaching, Change Management, Leadership Development, or Facilitation will be advantageous.

5 – 10 years' experience in:

• Organisational Development (OD)
• Leadership Development
• Facilitation & Group Dynamics
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Management Consulting
• Change Management / Cultural Transformation
• Stakeholder Engagement at senior leadership level
   

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• We're looking for a hands-on Learning Architect who can redesign leadership development from the ground up—moving beyond attendance registers, generic workshops, and nice-to-have training.
• You'll help shape how leadership is built, applied, measured, and scaled across a major financial services organisation.
• If words like architecture, impact, behavioural science, learning journeys, ROI, human-centred design, scalability, and transformation excite you keep reading.

Why This Role is Different

• This isn't traditional L&D.
• This isn't advisory-only.
• And this definitely isn't about tweaking old content.
• This is a high-impact build role for someone who wants to create something meaningful that lasts.
• By the end of this assignment, your work will influence how leadership capability is built and measured well into the future.

What You'll Be Building

Enterprise Leadership Development Architecture

Design scalable leadership capability solutions across leadership layers:

• Frontline Leaders
• Middle Management
• Senior Leaders
• Executive Leadership
• You'll create enterprise-level frameworks that connect learning directly to business outcomes.

Flagship Leadership Journeys

Architect three enterprise flagship leadership programmes that are:

• Capability-led
• Application-driven
• Measurement-by-design
• Delivery-ready
• Scalable across the business

Learning That Actually Gets Used

Design end-to-end learning journeys that blend:

• Formal learning
• Digital learning
• Blended learning
• Social learning
• Augmented learning
• Experience-based development
• Cross-functional exposure
• In-role application
• Stretch assignments
• Practical business challenges

Measurement That Matters

Embed impact into design from day one.

You'll create enterprise measurement frameworks that track:

• Learning transfer
• Behavioural application
• Business value
• Leadership readiness
• Succession impact
• ROE / ROI
• Capability uplift
• Performance outcomes

What You'll Do

You'll operate across strategy, architecture, design, and execution:

• Translate leadership strategy into delivery-ready learning solutions
• Build enterprise leadership development pathways by leadership level
• Design practical programme blueprints, facilitator guides, templates, and learning assets
• Create application-driven assessment and evidence frameworks
• Lead large-scale learning architecture initiatives end-to-end
• Shape UI/UX and learner experience across digital learning platforms
• Embed behavioural science, adult learning, and instructional design best practices
• Partner with business leaders, SMEs, HR, Learning CoEs, and analytics teams
• Build scalable systems, not one-off interventions
• Drive continuous improvement, governance, and quality assurance
• Manage vendors and learning partners
• Turn learning into measurable commercial value
   

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• In this role, you'll be the financial detective + data storyteller for the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business. You'll make sure everything adds up, balances out, and stands up to scrutiny from SARB-PA and internal stakeholders.
• Think of yourself as the person who makes sure the bank's financial storyline is accurate, clean, and audit-ready — no plot twists allowed.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, consolidate, and validate financial and regulatory data from multiple internal stakeholders and source systems.
• Reconcile Balance Sheet and Income Statement data against management accounts and regulatory submissions (e.g., BA returns).
• Analyse financial information to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies or issues impacting regulatory reporting outcomes.
• Conduct detailed financial analysis to identify anomalies, trends, and key insights for stakeholder decision-making.
• Provide meaningful commentary, explanations, and recommendations based on financial and regulatory analysis.
• Ensure all regulatory reporting is completed in line with required standards, policies, and deadlines.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to enhance reporting processes, controls, and systems.
• Recommend improvements to financial processes, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with internal banking policies, external regulations, and governance frameworks.
• Support risk management within the finance and regulatory environment by adhering to defined controls and standards.
• Contribute to business strategy execution by aligning reporting outputs with organisational objectives.
• Engage with stakeholders to communicate findings, resolve queries, and influence decision-making.
• Share knowledge, industry insights, and best practices with team members and stakeholders.
• Support personal development through training, feedback, and continuous learning initiatives.

Role requirements

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Diploma or Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field

Bonus points if you have:

• CA(SA) OR
• BCom in Financial Management OR
• Financial Risk Management qualification

Experience level

• 2–4 years in Banking or Financial Services
• Experience in financial reporting, regulatory reporting, or financial analysis
• Comfortable working with complex financial data (and not afraid of Excel chaos)

Superpowers you'll use daily

• Data analysis & financial investigation skills
• Strong reconciliation abilities (yes, you will make numbers behave)
• Regulatory reporting knowledge (or the ability to learn it fast)
• Critical thinking & problem-solving
• Clear communication (especially when explaining why the numbers don't match)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (your best friend in this role)
• Governance, risk & compliance awareness
• Research & business writing skills
   

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• We are seeking an experienced Senior Payments Business Analyst to join a high-performing banking and payments team responsible for delivering strategic payment initiatives across the organization. This role will play a critical part in shaping and enabling next-generation payment capabilities, with a strong focus on SWIFT payments, ISO 20022 migration, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation.
• The successful consultant will act as the bridge between business stakeholders, compliance teams, architecture, engineering, and delivery squads, ensuring that payment solutions are client-centric, scalable, compliant, and aligned to agile delivery principles.
• This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to large-scale payment modernization initiatives while working alongside industry-leading professionals within a dynamic banking environment.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Engage with business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, validate, and document business requirements.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop detailed use cases, user stories, business process models, workflow diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Conduct gap analyses and recommend process improvements.

SWIFT Payments & ISO 20022

• Provide subject matter expertise across SWIFT payment messaging standards.
• Analyse and document MT and MX message flows and transformations.
• Support ISO 20022 adoption, migration, and optimization initiatives.
• Define data mapping requirements between legacy and target payment systems.
• Ensure alignment with industry standards and best practices.

Regulatory Compliance & Risk

• Collaborate with compliance, risk, and regulatory teams to ensure adherence to local and international payment regulations.
• Analyse regulatory impacts on payment processes and systems.
• Support the implementation of controls that mitigate operational and compliance risks.

Integration & Solution Design

• Work closely with architects, developers, and integration teams to design effective payment solutions.
• Facilitate requirements clarification sessions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Review solution designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and payment standards.

Testing & Implementation

• Define business test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Support SIT, UAT, and production rollout activities.
• Validate delivered solutions against business requirements.
• Assist with post-implementation reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

Agile Delivery

• Participate actively within Agile delivery teams.
• Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure requirements are adequately defined and prioritized to support delivery outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with business, technology, compliance, operations, and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement gathering sessions, and decision-making forums.
• Communicate complex concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Deliverables

The consultant will be responsible for producing and maintaining:

• Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
• Functional Specifications
• User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Process Flow Diagrams
• Use Cases
• Data Mapping Specifications
• SWIFT MT/MX Message Analysis Documentation
• ISO 20022 Transformation Artefacts
• Test Scenarios and UAT Documentation
• Stakeholder Presentations and Reporting
• Risk and Impact Assessments

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• Minimum 8+ years Business Analysis experience within financial services.
• Proven experience in banking payments environments.
• Strong exposure to SWIFT messaging standards (MT and MX).
• Experience with cross-border payments and payment modernization initiatives.
• Practical experience supporting ISO 20022 migration programmes.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Technical Skills

• SWIFT Payments (MT & MX Messaging)
• ISO 20022 Standards
• Business Process Modelling
• Requirements Engineering
• Data Analysis and Data Mapping
• SQL for data interrogation and analysis
• Power BI or similar data visualization tools
• Understanding of API and systems integration concepts
• Basic Java or software development knowledge to facilitate collaboration with engineering teams

AI & Digital Capability

• Practical experience using AI-powered tools, specifically Claude, to enhance:
• Business analysis activities
• Requirements gathering and documentation
• Process modelling
• Data analysis
• Stakeholder communication
• Productivity and delivery efficiency
   

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• A leading bank in Sandton is looking for a Java Developer (12-month contract) to join a talented engineering team responsible for building and enhancing digital banking solutions that serve millions of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to work with modern technologies, cloud-enabled platforms, and enterprise-scale systems while contributing to strategic digital transformation initiatives.
• If you're a developer who enjoys solving complex challenges and building quality software that makes a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

As part of a high-performing technology team, you will:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-grade Java applications and microservices.
• Build scalable RESTful APIs and backend services using Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Architects, DevOps Engineers, QA teams, and Product Owners to deliver innovative solutions.
• Participate in solution design sessions, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Ensure applications meet security, performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation.
• Support application deployment, monitoring, optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote software engineering best practices and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.

What We're Looking For

Experience Required

• 3–5 years of software development experience, with a strong focus on Java development.
• Minimum 2–3 years' experience working with Spring Boot and Microservices architectures.
• Proven experience developing RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Exposure to Agile delivery methodologies and collaborative development practices.
• Experience using Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, particularly AWS, will be advantageous.

Essential Technical Skills

• Java 8+ (Java 11+ preferred)
• Spring Framework
• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• RESTful API Development
• JPA / Hibernate
• SQL and Database Development
• Git Version Control
• Maven or Gradle
• Unit Testing (JUnit)
• Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns

Additional Advantageous Skills

• AWS Cloud Services
• EC2
• Lambda
• ECS/EKS
• S3
• RDS
• API Gateway
• CloudWatch
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
• Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Cloud-native development and deployment practices

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Java-related certifications advantageous.
• Spring Framework certifications advantageous.
• AWS certifications advantageous.
• Agile or Scrum certifications beneficial.