Jobs at SoluGrowth Pty Ltd

Job Description

About the Position:

• This temporary role supports participation in South Africa’s presidency of a high-level international summit in 2025. It is a junior-level position working under the direction of senior trade and diplomatic leadership.

Key Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):

• Assist in organising official visits for high-level delegates attending summit related events, including scheduling meetings, preparing programmes, and providing logistical support.
• Support high-level visits and events throughout the summit year in various South African cities. · Monitor, research, and report on trade, investment, economic, and other global policy forum-related developments.
• Build and maintain a network of contacts across government, business, industry, civil society, and diplomatic sectors.
• Provide additional research, analysis, and administrative support as required.

Hours of Work:

• Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
• The role requires flexibility, including availability outside standard hours and domestic travel.

Place of Work:

• Offices based in Pretoria and Johannesburg (Sandton area and/or NASREC), with two planned work-related trips to Cape Town.

Job Requirements

Required Experience & Qualifications:

• Relevant qualifications in economics, international relations, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Previous experience in an embassy or diplomatic context is advantageous.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.
• Excellent interpersonal and liaison skills; ability to build strong working relationships across various sectors.
• Strong organisational skills: ability to manage multiple tasks, apply sound judgment, and adapt to change.
• Demonstrated experience managing logistics for meetings and travel arrangements for senior personnel.
• Candidates must have legal authorization to live and work in South Africa at the time of application.

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Job Description

• Are you a strategic leader with a passion for ocean freight, procurement, and commercial development? We are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to drive revenue growth, build critical relationships, and lead a high-performing pricing and procurement team within a dynamic logistics environment.

Job Requirements
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage direct ocean freight sales across Africa and cross-trade regions.
• Develop and maintain key relationships with both customers and carriers.
• Oversee and steer the pricing and procurement team to meet commercial objectives.
• Negotiate competitive ocean freight rates and manage carrier performance.
• Ensure smooth handover of new clients to operational teams.
• Monitor and report on sales targets, quote turn times, and team productivity.
• Manage ocean freight procurement across multiple African offices.
• Compile, maintain, and analyze freight schedules and performance data.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in ocean pricing, procurement, and capacity management.
• Proven track record in senior-level supplier and key account management.
• Strong commercial sales and negotiation skills.
• Background in shipping lines is advantageous.
• Solid understanding of multimodal and cross-border logistics.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to lead diverse teams.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and general administrative tools.

Qualifications:

• Matric is required; a qualification in Supply Chain, Logistics, or International Trade is beneficial.
• A valid driver’s license is essential.
• If you are results-driven and ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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Job Description

• Prepare financial reports required by various stakeholders and accurately reflect business position and performance. Analyse the entity’s financial performance and provide financial data to the rest of the team, allowing them to make budgeting and investment decisions as and when required. Providing professional accounting support to the Finance Manager.

Responsibilities:

Management Accounts

• Ensuring all month end journals are processed expeditiously and accurately.
• Review monthly reconciliations (bank, debtors, creditors, prepayments, and accruals)
• Prepare monthly management accounts (Income statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow statement)
• Input forecasts obtained from the Financial manager into the management accounts
• Liaise with relevant internal stakeholders to manage spend (over or under)
• Ensure accounting treatment of various transactions is in accordance with IFRS
• Maintain accurate reconciliations
• Ability to assist with various inputs required for CEO reports

Cashbook/Financial Accounting

• Capture and document all bank statement transactions accurately
• Prepare and finalize monthly bank reconciliations
• Resolve issues with promptly to ensure month end deadlines are met.
• Ensure adhoc payments and receipts are allocated to the correct accounts.

Tax

• Review of VAT 201
• Review and release SARS (VAT) payments
• Assist with loading provisional taxes bi-annually
• Assist with providing information for annual tax returns
• Review tax
• Liaise with relevant consultants in relation to SARS matters.

Budget

• Assist the FM in preparing the operational expenses budget
• Once approved, load approved budget on the system

Audit

• Ensure all deadlines are met.
• Field off requests from auditors independently and promptly.
• Ensuring all year end journals are processed expeditiously and accurately.
• Source information requested by auditors to support and expedite the audit process e.g. Policies, Financial statements etc.
• Liaison with auditors for query resolutions
• Prepare Annual Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS .

Risk Management

• Assist FM with developing effective financial policies and control procedures.
• Maintaining all internal controls and systems in the department to ensure efficiency whilst supporting the FM
• Monitor, manage and recommend improvements to the current internal control procedures
• Identifying and report any breach in controls with the finance environment

Administration

• Ensure payment policy is followed
• Post and/or authorise transfers for the Financial Manager to review and release
• Liaison with Bankers as and when necessary
• Proper, well-organized, and user-friendly filling system.
• Support data collection processes and ensure financial data quality
• Save correct monthly Trial Balances for each entity on server (Previous year trial balance, Month trial balance, Year to date GL, attach bank statement relevant to the month)
• Support financial administrators with banking/payments when required
• Maintaining effective communication and positive working relationships

Job Requirements

• B Com degree (Accounting)

EXPERIENCE

• 5-8 years post articles finance experience in a similar role
• Tax knowledge beneficial

SYSTEMS AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Intermediate excel skills – ability to maintain integrity of spreadsheets
• Adequate working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Prior experience with SAP is an advantage
• Working Knowledge of the IFRS and IAS reporting policies