Jobs at South African Airways (SAA)

Closing Date    
2025/09/09
Reference Number    
SAA250901-1

Job Purpose    

• The role is responsible for the Channel Management and Distribution Channels. This roles provides exceptional service delivery, demonstrate integrity and ensure that all sales channels contractual obligations, commercial partnerships as well as distribution are managed effectively and efficiently.

Principal Accountabilities    

• Participate, negotiate, and structure commercial partnerships (Travel Trade, Corporate, GSAs) and Assist with setting up the up-front discount and corporate contracts/pricing
• Analyze, review and Structure GSA contracts
• Assist and provide analysis on key source markets including drafting of reports
• Set up reports, produce and distribute meaningful information to management for the global sales team.
• Provide data analysis on key Markets-including market share, Load Factor and conduct general Market Research with key clients
• Fulfil and manage effective pricing and negotiation of GSA contracts
• Provide data analysis on key Markets-including market share, Load Factor and conduct general Market Research with key clients
• Manage GDS distribution pricing and optimization analytics and research and develop methodology studies from optimal distribution GDS’
• Research system enhancements and developments for GDS and NDC functionality and oversee implementation thereof with IT
• Manage effective pricing and negotiations of GDS channels and negotiate and conclude GDS participation agreements. Negotiate and renew participation agreements with Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport improvement
• Investigate and research new technology trends in distribution and competitor analysis
• Manage data collection and analysis of corporate/travel agents related information, including spend, volumes and trends
• Analyse data on SAA’s customers and create a meaningful presentation document
• Provide passenger revenue/mix monthly
• Working with business Intelligence Tools (Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio) to analyse and distribute reports on an ongoing basis
• Conduct Customer Data Analysis exercises which will provide input for strategic promotions and direct customer engagement, including web promoting to assist the marketing team
• Devise and evaluate methods and procedures for collecting data, such as surveys, opinion polls or questionnaires, or arrange to obtain existing data
• Monitor the health and performance of the web platform and reports received via the web help channel to identify technical issues and raise the necessary incident reports with Amadeus and IT
• Measure and report on website performance (including traffic conversion and revenue-based metrics) and assess these against actual revenue and sales statistics. Identify trends and insights, and provide feedback on optimization for digital advertising and organic search performance
• Play a key role in the set up and technical testing of the additional functionality being developed for the web channel in plan
• Implement and enhance business operations with the use of Amadeus Traveler DNA
• Participate in the development of enhanced commercial reporting utilizing the various Amadeus tools and channels such as Sales Watcher, Amadeus Revenue Accounting, Amadeus Sales and Revenue reporter, business Intelligence Tools (Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio) to perform data analysis and distribute management reports

Qualifications & Experience    

• Grade 12/ Matric
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration / Management and Marketing or related at NQF level 7 
• At least 4 years Aviation experience in a similar role
• Minimum 5 - 8 years previous experience in positions of a similar nature

Knowledge and Skills    

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services
• Knowledge of business and management principles
• Knowledge in marketing trends and consumer behaviour trends
• Aviation regulations
• Project Management
• Google Analytics, Data Studio and Tableau
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Interpersonal skills
• Time management skills
• Planning and organisation skills
• Strong analytical ability
• Complex problem solving skills
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Digital Marketing Analytics including SEO and SEM IT
• System knowledge
• Information processing
• Strong administrative skills
• Strong multi-tasking ability 
• Change management 
• Financial acumen
• Conflict handling
• Decision making
• Research
• Computer literate 
• Critical thinking 

Attributes    

• Manages transformation and change initiatives
• Drives innovation
• Sells/ translates the vision
• Leverages team diversity
• Role models behaviors and values 
• Customer orientated
• Results driven
• Stakeholder relationships
• Ethics and integrity
• Collaboration 
• Relationship building 
• Independent worker 
• Flexible and adaptable 
• Work under pressure
• Self-motivated

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Reference Number    
SAA250818-2

Job Purpose    

• The role is responsible for safeguarding the assets relating to aircraft ownership and leases and accounting for leased assets (particularly aircraft) in terms of IFRS 16. The role includes providing accurate estimates of expected aircraft operating costs, reporting on the efficiency of lease management, and ensuring owned and leased aircraft are properly valued, considering any impairments required in terms of International Financial Reporting Standards. It also involves ensuring all liabilities relating to aircraft ownership and leases are disclosed and accounted for, and that aircraft maintenance costs are correctly recorded.
• Additional responsibilities include accounting for maintenance reserves related to leased aircraft and any associated security deposits, as well as treasury transactions such as long-term loans,  and hedging activities (fuel and forex). The role contributes to route planning by providing input into the profitability of current or future routes and supports fleet management by assisting in the planning of maintenance events to minimize costs for leased and owned aircraft.
• Furthermore, the role oversees the control, reporting, and budgeting of the SAA Group’s capital expenditure, and maintains the SAA Group fixed asset register along with the recording and accounting of any fixed asset transactions.

Principal Accountabilities    

• Ensure all liabilities relating to aircraft maintenance such as return conditions and other lease liabilities are accurately calculated and recorded
• Continuously engage with the relevant subsidiary financial controllers regarding maintenance issues
• Accounting for lease assets and liabilities in terms of IFRS 16
• Accounting for external currency denominated and South African Rand denominated loans
• Accounting for maintenance reserves and security deposits
• Analysis of fuel costs
• Analysis of maintenance costs to ensure they are correctly accounted for
• Accounting for Fuel and Foreign Exchange and other derivative instrument transactions when required
• The design and alignment of policies and procedures across the relevant work streams in area of accountability
• Monitor and enforce adherence to all relevant legislation
• Facilitate and maintain effective, amicable and professional relationships with various stakeholders and service providers through appropriate relationship building, networking and reporting activities
• Clearing of general ledger accounts within area of responsibility and adhering to proper “housekeeping” in terms of accounting best practice
• Scrutinise and follow up on any abnormalities in general ledger accounts within area of responsibility
• Drives and supports people development initiatives
• Manages and implements change initiatives with the vision and strategic direction of the Airline
• Oversight of Capital expenditure processes which include:
• Manage and control the capital expenditure budget
• Maintain the group fixed asset and impairment register
• Reconcile of all related balance sheet and income statement accounts with the fixed asset register for all companies and subsidiaries
• Prepare and report monthly on the fixed assets including consolidation of various entities up to the final group consolidation
• Extensive support and reporting to internal and external auditors in the financial year-end audit to ensure that the annual audit is effectively performed as well as ensure that audit findings are resolved and corrective actions are implemented
• Sound liaison with internal and external auditors
• Monitor and track capital work in progress
• Capitalization of completed Capital Expenditure projects and analysis of any capital work in progress
• Setting, maintaining and reporting on rates of depreciation
• Performance of monthly depreciation calculation and prepare monthly and annual report of fixed assets, depreciation
• Processing of asset transfers between departments or subsidiaries
• Monthly calculation of profit and loss on disposal of assets for the various stages of consolidation
• Control of physical verification of all fixed assets
• Preparations of statutory reports

Qualifications & Experience    

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting at NQF level 7
• Qualified Chartered Accountant SA(CA) registered with SAICA
• At least 5-7 years’ experience in a financial accounting environment of which 3 years is in a management level
• Experience and knowledge of the aviation industry and exposure to fleet and maintenance accounting/fixed asset accounting will be an advantage
• Exposure to financial reporting, particularly International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as relates to assets, maintenance costs and leases

Knowledge and Skills    

• Knowledge of IFRS, Companies Act, PFMA & relevant legislation
• Accounting principles and procedures
• Good knowledge of standard costing systems and principles
• Understanding of Capital Expenditure projects
• Computer literate (MS Office and advanced Excel, SAP FI, TM1)
• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
• Ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines
• Analytical
• Strong numeric skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong problem-solution skills
• Innovative
• Good administrative, planning and organising skills
• Reliable and team player
• Confidentiality and accountability

Attributes    

• Leads with purpose
• Manages output of indirect reports
• Drives innovation
• Role models behaviours and values
• Organisational resilience
• Commercial and financial acumen
• Building alliances
• Results focus and self-driven
• Judgement and decision making
• Analytical thinking
• Proactive
• Assertive

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Reference Number    
SAA250818-1

Job Purpose    

• The Manager Financial Accounting role is responsible for compiling and distributing the Final Income Statement, high level narratives for the month & Balance Sheet for the Group, balancing of final Group Trial Balance in SAP with Final Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Manage and set month end closing deadlines for all SAP users (Group), as well as manage the opening and closing of accounting periods in SAP (Group). 
• The role will run the foreign currency revaluation program in SAP and reconcile to detail, ad hoc tasks and sound liaison with other finance departments. In addition, the role is responsible for the preparation of the annual financial statements as well as relevant interaction with both internal and external auditors. 
• The incumbent will be responsible for creating new, changing, blocking and unblocking GL accounts in SAP (Group), Maintain Trial Balance in SAP (Group). The role will ensure that reconciliations are done, reviewed and signed off, ensure that all Inter-Company consolidations are done, reviewed and signed off, as well as to ensure that all month end closing exchange rates are loaded in SAP. 
• Furthermore, the role is also responsible for converting and uploading of non-SAP subsidiaries Trial Balances in SAP, supervising of subordinates and co-ordinate leave, coordinate the period 13-year end journal process and provide updated Trial Balances etc. to auditors and internal customers.

Principal Accountabilities    

• Provide input to the design of the Department Strategy and implement strategy within area/s of responsibility
• Manage the implementation of the Department’s strategy
• Recommends and standardises policies, processes and systems to support implementation of the strategy
• Drive profitability in area of responsibility and overall department
• Manage and control budget for the cost centre and contribute to department budget management
• Provide recommendations to actively support cost and headcount containment
• Analyse cost centre report monthly to ensure that costs are correct
• Prepare Group consolidated annual financial statements (AFS) using Accounts Production financial statement software
• AFS must be prepared in terms of IFRS, Companies Act, PFMA and other relevant legislation
• Liaising with external auditors regarding the AFS, as well as the external audit in general
• Benchmarking SAA’s AFS against the AFS of other industry leaders in order to keep up to date with best practices followed by leading airlines
• Preparation of information for inclusion in the annual report and Directors’ Report
• Prepare Final Income Statement & Balance Sheet working paper (Excel), which includes commentary and high level narratives, check consolidation entries for correctness
• Run forex revaluation every month, ensure that the amounts are posted correctly to the various GL accounts and perform a reconciliation of the calculation 
• Ensure that all accounts, which are your responsibility, are reconciled and cleared monthly and that there are no unresolved issues older than 3 months on the reconciliations
• Create / Change / Block / Unblock General Ledger (GL) Accounts in SAP after following the relevant department policies and procedures
• Responsible for updating the table with any changes to the accounting clerks for all company codes
• Ensure that all new accounts are correctly grouped in the TB
• Reconcile TB groupings, after year end, to groupings on AFS to ensure that the TB and AFS are in sync, feasibility regarding reallocating accounts on the TB should be considered
• Exercise control over the opening and closing of the accounting periods in SAP for the whole group, as per the month end timetable
• Use discretion in opening and closing the accounting period as per the request of various companies/departments to ensure that the specific month- / year end deadlines are met
• Conduct March year end closing (period 12 & 13 closing) and normal month end 
• Control period 13 opening and closing after consultation with management 
• Summarize period 13 journals entries posted
• Liaison with external and internal auditors to ensure successful audit
• Maintain good working relationship with internal and external clients to improve the image of SAA, Finance and Financial Accounting in particular
• Ensure that the Policies and Procedures for Final Accounts, are updated regularly
• Complete the Quarterly Group PFMA Compliance Checklist & PFMA Disclosure Template in respect of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure when requested by the Financial Controller Shared Services
• Advise Finance team regarding changes to IFRS and the accounting impact thereof
• Liaise with subsidiary finance departments regarding accounting policies
• Submission of populated templates to the shareholder as required
• Scrutinise and follow up on any abnormalities in the Trial Balance on a regular basis
• Review monthly journals captured in SAP by subordinates for correctness
• Review monthly and year to date Sundry Income analysis before distribution (Account 810500)
• Verify and signoff of monthly and year to date FOREX analysis (Account 944010)
• Verify and sign off monthly recurring journals prepared by subordinates
• Ensure journals marked for reversal have been reversed
• Ensure Trial Balance variants in SAP are updated for the new month
• Compile internal month end closing schedule and hand to Team Leader for distribution
• Update the SAP News monthly with the new closing dates once available
• Back up Shared files between Manager and Team Leader after each month end

Qualifications & Experience    

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting at NQF level 7
• Qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA) registered with SAICA
• At least 5 - 7 post articles years’ experience in financial accounting environment of which 3 years is in a management level
• Experience with people management
• Exposure to financial reporting, particularly International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Knowledge and Skills    
• Good knowledge of SAP FI (Financial) essential
• Good knowledge of TM1 will be an advantage
• Application and understanding of accounting principals
• Public Finance Management Act
• Good knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Companies Act and other relevant legislation
• Accounting principles and procedures
• Working knowledge of Accounts Production software will be an advantage
• Computer literate (MS Office and Advanced Excel, SAP FI, TM1, Accounts Production)
• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
• Ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines
• Analytical and accuracy in work output essential
• Strong numeric skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong problem-solution orientation
• Effective decision making
• Good administrative, planning and organising skills
• Confidentiality and accountability

Attributes    

• Leads with purpose
• Manages team performance
• Manages transformation and change initiatives
• Drives innovation
• Sells/ translates the vision
• Leverages team diversity
• Role models behaviours and values
• Innovative
• Self-starter
• Reliable and team player