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PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Sourcing and Supplier Management: Lead sourcing initiatives for goods and services, from identifying supplier options to negotiating contracts, ensuring cost-effective and reliable solutions.
• Supplier Negotiations: Negotiate pricing, terms, and contracts with suppliers to ensure favorable conditions while maintaining strong, productive relationships.
• Purchase Order Management: Create and manage purchase orders in Coupa, ensuring proper documentation and adherence to internal procurement policies.
• Compliance: Ensure procurement activities follow company policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Supplier Performance & Risk Management: Monitor supplier performance, resolve issues, and manage supplier risks, ensuring continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and customer service.
• Collaboration and Cross-functional Support: Collaborate with internal teams to align procurement strategies with business needs and ensure smooth processes across departments.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify and implement process improvements, particularly related to the Coupa platform, to enhance procurement efficiency, data accuracy, and supplier relationships.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) certification or equivalent procurement qualification.

REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Buyer or Sourcing Specialist, with a focus on procurement and supplier management.
• Expertise in Coupa and SAP.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow.
• Strong understanding of sourcing strategies, supplier negotiation, and contract management.
• Excellent analytical and negotiation skills, with a proven ability to drive cost savings and manage supplier relationships.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis).
• Knowledge of procurement processes, including compliance, vendor onboarding, and risk management.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-location organizations based throughout Africa.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of managing supplier relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to prioritise tasks, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and process optimization.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and results-driven.
• Strong negotiation and decision-making skills.
• Collaborative and team-oriented, with a customer-focused mindset.
• Ability to work independently, showing initiative and leadership in driving change.
• Adaptable to changing business needs and external market conditions.

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PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Enhance three-way matching processes for greater quality and accuracy identifying root causes, and resolving through the application of rules, procedure and policy.
• Check invoice quality by applying three-way match processes, comparing submissions with source documentation (purchase orders, contracts) and operating within system (e.g., COUPA) protocols.
• Post correct invoices onto ERP (SAP) system, applying correct procedures and protocols
• Process accurately invoices (order and/or non-order) for payment by working within designated area of responsibility by following procedures within structured ERP (SAP) environment.
• Identify problems and / or mismatches via COUPA and compare submissions with source documentation to identify root causes and take corrective action by formulating appropriate course of action.
• Ensure problem resolution and related courses of action have been taken by monitoring COUPA reports, by taking follow-up action and/or escalating to higher authority.
• Provide administrative support relating to accurate invoicing and accounts payable by solving routine problems within the P2P value chain.
• Follow and adhere to procedures for invoice quality checking, and the efficient application of P2P processes within designated area/s of responsibility to meet related financial objectives, delegations of authority and transaction approvals.
• Adhere to all compliance and other requirements relating to invoice checking and P2P value chain within designated areas/s of responsibility for accurate payments to be made at the right time for delivery of product/service to end-user/s.
• Responsible to work efficiently and effectively within designated areas/s of responsibility (relating to invoice quality checking and accounts payable function) by adhering to processes and working within control environments in line with financial and systems operating procedures.
• Engage with stakeholders (finance teams, suppliers) as appropriate to communicate data/information gaps and discrepancies with the view to problem identification and /or resolution.
• Communicate proactively with suppliers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Diploma in Commerce, Accounting, Business Processes or equivalent

EXPERIENCE & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• 3 years’ experience in a similar role in accounts payable function
• Root cause analysis and error resolution
• MS Office
• SAP
• COUPA (preferred)
• Exposure to working in Africa (preferred)

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The successful candidate will be an effective communicator and collaborator, have high attention to detail and a pragmatic and “can-do” attitude. Experience in working with Agile technologies and will have good knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques.
• Design, launch, and maintain a secure, scalable, and robust Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform for automated setup and Ansible for managing configurations. Supervise source code management, coordinate CI/CD workflows with GitHub and GitHub Actions, and handle application hosting and containerization with Docker or equivalent tools in partnership with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Additionally, leverage Helm charts for managing releases of the applications on the AKS.
• Utilize release management tools such as Octopus Deploy or similar, contribute technical insights to infrastructure project proposals, and develop standardized patterns or blueprints for secure design, scripted deployment, and maintenance tasks.
• Provide support to operations infrastructure teams, facilitate knowledge transfer, assist in problem resolution, and maintain detailed documentation of cloud procedures and artifacts.
• Demonstrate proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell, which are essential for automation and scripting tasks. Have experience with monitoring and logging tools for cloud environments, such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or third-party solutions like Elastic Search.
• Familiar with various cloud connectivity models such as Public, Private, and Hybrid. Possess understanding of networking principles in a cloud setting, including elements like VNETs, subnets, NSGs, VPNs, Virtual Appliance and ExpressRoute. Have knowledge of strategies for disaster recovery and high availability in the cloud environment
• Understand and implement security measures in the cloud, including managing access controls, implementing encryption, and understanding compliance requirements. Possess the ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues and have experience with cost management and optimization in the cloud environment.
• Collaborate with internal departments and development teams to ensure that solutions are in line with best practices and the architectural target state. Promote the adoption of engineering best practices and optimize the software development lifecycle.

QUALIFICATION & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Tertiary Qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer)

Work Experience:

• Experience with monitoring tools and logging frameworks.
• Understanding of the Well-Architected Framework and Landing Zone principles, and possesses at least three years of experience in provisioning, maintaining, and supporting infrastructure in Azure.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Possesses substantial knowledge and experience in managing cloud infrastructure, which includes elements such as servers, storage, networking, applications, and PaaS offerings like Azure SQL, Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Web Apps, App Services, Private Links, Private endpoints, and container orchestration tools.
• Possesses extensive experience in the design and management of complex Kubernetes environments.
• Demonstrates a proven track record in building, managing, and migrating solutions within a private cloud environment.
• Proficient in DevOps practices, including scripting and automation (IaC), with a skill set that includes Terraform.
• Has a deep understanding of cloud design patterns and best practices, particularly the Microsoft Migrate and Modernise approach.
• Shows a solid understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such as Azure AD, ADFS, Azure AD Connect, SAML, etc.
• Has a track record of architecting and implementing enterprise-level, highly reliable solutions, and possesses the ability to think strategically and conduct risk analysis.

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Key responsibilities

• Providing technical and administrative support to HSEC catastrophic hazard campaign audits.
• Organising Independent Tailing Review Board (ITRB) meetings, maintain the ITRB calendar, track meeting readiness and document upload, take minutes and update tracking systems.
• Tracking, quality control and processing of Tailings and Dams Assurance Workbooks.
• GISTM Disclosure Factsheets tracking of uploaded and reviewed evidence.
• Tracking of audit reports and corrective actions.
• Maintenance of action tracking systems and tailings databases, including data entry tasks.
• Integration and execution of the new campaign audit methodology.
• Data analytics and risk assessments.
• General and ad hoc administrative duties.

The ideal candidate

• Demonstrated track record in collating, managing and reporting geotechnical/mining data sets.
• Flexible to work in a global team across various time zones.
• Good team player with a can-do and positive attitude.
• Well-organized and efficient working style.
• High facilitation, analytical and negotiation capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Relationship building skills both including internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, highly pro-active and resilient attitude.
• Comfortable at performing recurring/repetitive tasks.

Minimum Requirements

• Higer, Advanced or Diploma in Civil, Geotechnical or relevant discipline (minimum NQF level 6 qualification).
• 2 years’ experience in a similar role in the civil/geotechnical/mining industry
• Fluency in English (corporate language) with any other language (French, Spanish, Russian and/or German) advantageous
• Advanced MS Office knowledge (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, SharePoint, and DocuSign)
• High level of attention to detail, critical thinking and problem solving