Jobs at Liquid Thought

Purpose of the position:

• The Finance Manager will be responsible for overall financial management, audit and compliance, reporting, Stakeholder Management and staff management. This role focuses primarily on Centres for Disease Control (CDC) projects within the organisation.

Minimum requirements:

• CA (SA) and at least 3 years experience in finance, accounting, budgeting and management; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 2 years post articles experience.
• Knowledge of financial accounting systems (e.g. SAP).
• PEPFAR audit experience will be a great advantage.
• Ability to work with and create financial modelling tools within Microsoft Excel (advanced).
• Report writing.
• Clear credit and criminal record.
• Ability to communicate in English.
• Valid code 08 drivers licence.

Responsibilities:

Financial management and accounting

• Supervise and manage project bookkeeping including cashbook processing and journals.
• Ensure the preparation of bank reconciliations and reviews.
• Provide oversight and compliance on project debit cards, staff debtors and expense claims.
• Ensure all funder and statutory deadlines are met.
• Provide financial management support to programme directors.
• Provide assistance to departments for finance-related activities.
• Review and release electronic payments and transfers.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of the fixed asset register. 
• Overall responsibility of the financial management / trial balance as allocated.

Auditing and compliance

• Ensure accurate accounting for VAT Overall responsibility for the preparation and execution of all fund related audits (internal and external).
• Assists with preparation and execution of statutory audits.

Cash flow management

• Ensure adequate cash-flow management.
• Ensure loan account and inter account transfers are done.

Reporting and budgeting

• Ensure all monthly expense claims and financial reporting are prepared and submitted to funders on time.
• Provide insight to senior management, board and external parties through review of financial reporting for projects.
• Ensure that all reports are reconciled to the underlying financial system.

Stakeholder management

• Maintain and build relationships with internal and External Stakeholders. 

People management

• Ensure high level plans are communicated and assigned to the team.
• Engage in the performance review process.

Skills, competencies and abilities:

• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Non-judgmental
• Problem solving
• Excellent organisational and administration skills
• Reporting and statistics

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• A leading payment aggregator and provider of Secure Payment Solutions is looking for a Client Support Specialist to fulfil various administrative and support duties within a fast-paced environment. As a key entry point for networks and billers, the role will provide support across various business development and sales functions. 
• This role requires quick turn around times and willingness to assist with various tasks impacting client relationships.

Responsibilities will include:

• Onboarding of our client's billers, ensuring that workflow and system requirements are met (this includes completing documents, performing compliance and KYC checks, and uploading of all supporting information).
• Identify correct onboarding process for billers and direct accordingly.
• Manage various portals and inboxes, ensuring compliance with specifications for applications.
• Escalate any issues to the Customer Relationship Manager where applicable.
• Updating of biller details on the Onboarding and Integrations workflow system.
• Perform compliance checks on billers requesting changes to their current profile.
• Forward relevant documentation to Accounts department for sign-off.
• Assist with preparing Tender files according to our client's standard for Tenders.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar customer support role.
• Full understanding of the Microsoft suite, specifically Excel (including formulas and pivots).
• Experience in the Financial Services industry with focus on the payments industry is advantageous.
• Valid drivers license and reliable transport.
• Fluent in English and a good understanding of Afrikaans. Any additional language will be seen as beneficial.

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Overview:

• Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing applications. Develop customizations and extensions to our client's product suite for the companies clients.
• Possess a strong Technical understanding of various Front-end and Back-end technologies, and are eager to continue learning new ones.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Software Development for Retail environments a plus.
• Min 2+ years of experience in Java Development role.
• Min 4+ year of experience in Java Development.
• Min 1+ years of Software Development experience.

Good knowledge and interest in Frameworks and Tools:

• Spring Framework
• Junit
• Apache CXF (Rest, SOAP)
• Jenkins / Nexus / Gitlab or Github pipelines
• JavaScript, Node.js, Angular.js, OpenUI5, HTML5, CSS
• SQL Databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, SAP HANA)
• NoSQL Databases (MongoDB)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Windows and Linux
• Azure/ AWS/ Google Cloud
• Strong Analytical skills
• Design Patterns
• Agile Development Processes

Responsibilities:

• Implement and customize our client's Product Suite in a customer project context.
• Investigate new technologies and trends and make recommendations to the management.
• Write technical documentation.
• Design and Architect the solutions to implement.
• Share your knowledge and experience with a Global team of Developers.
• Maintain existing Applications and provide resolution for software defects.
• Create and maintain unit tests for new and existing applications.
• Perform peer code reviews.
• Work closely with team members, QA personnel, and Project Managers to ensure quality delivery of software.
• Attend internal meetings to provide updates on current projects.
• Attend customer meetings when necessary to provide technical expertise.

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The Role:

• Our client is looking for an exceptional Senior Business Analyst to join their dynamic team based in Johannesburg. This role is about solving problems with fit-for-purpose analytics techniques. 

The Role Includes:

• Define business needs by engaging with the Product team and any other relevant Stakeholders (young people, employers, partners, funders).
• Define experiments and success metrics to determine the best approach to meet the business needs.
• Conduct experiments and monitor metrics to decide the best way forward.
• Translate business needs and experiment outcomes into detailed documented business requirements for the technical development teams to build the technical solutions.
• This includes but is not limited to, processes, data flow requirements and functional requirements.
• Confirm business requirements with Business to ensure alignment, actual users to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions and alignment to the user journey, and the Technical Development team to ensure clear understanding and technical sizing.
• Work closely with the Product team to prioritise business needs and business requirements, in line with the client's product roadmap.
• Identify dependencies, assumptions, and risks, both business and technical, and include in-detailed requirements definitions.
• Define acceptance criteria for testers to ensure thorough software testing Support testers specifically in User Acceptance Testing.
• Support the client's business and users in adopting new processes and solutions.
• Work closely with the Product and Development teams in defining new internal operating processes and standards to ensure continuous improvements in way of working.
• Other related duties required to deliver a quality technology platform and data environment for our client.

The Technical Challenge:

• Our client is building a ground-breaking, scalable, future-fit technology platform that changes lives by helping young first-time work-seekers find jobs and work experiences. Their technology needs to cater for the unique, personalised employment journey of each work- seeker ultimately using the power of big data to help them find their first job.
• They run an Agile Development Programme in a DevOps infrastructure and culture. Their cloud- native technology stack is predominantly hosted in Google Cloud Platform with services written in .Net Core and Python. The data landscape includes MYSQL and Big Query. This technology stack is currently being revised to drive a strategy of simplification, business user enablement and data integrity.

The Ideal Candidate has the Following Skills and Traits:

• 6-10 years of hands on business analysis experience.
• Some exposure to building software and working with data Proven track record of exceptional quality delivery.
• Knowledge in analytics techniques and mathematical concepts.
• Comfortable explaining analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Willingness to learn.
• A passion for knowledge sharing and upskilling other team members.

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• Are you a results-driven sales leader with a passion for driving business growth? A well-established industry leader in Office Automation and Business Solutions, is seeking a dynamic Sales Manager to join their team.
• This is an excellent opportunity to lead a high-performing Sales Team, develop strategic initiatives, and make a lasting impact in a fast-paced environment. If you have a proven track record in sales leadership, a strong ability to mentor and motivate sales teams to exceed targets, and a drive for success, we want to hear from you! Apply now and take the next step in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute strategic sales plans to achieve company goals.
• Build and nurture strong client relationships.
• Analyse market trends and competitor activities to identify new opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and motivate the sales team to exceed targets.

Requirements of Candidate:

• Proven track record of success in Sales Leadership.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to inspire and motivate a team.
• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset.
• Adaptability in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Industry related experience.