We are specialists in prepaid products and the electronic distribution of virtual merchandise. We combine technical innovation with entrepreneurial flair to bring products and services associated with the developed world directly to the doorsteps of people who may be geographically and economically isolated from the mainstream. By so doing, we create jobs...
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JOB PURPOSE
The Payroll and Benefits Specialist ensure that Remuneration, Payroll and Employee Benefits Administration are performed effectively and in line with business needs. This role is also accountable for the administration, implementation and monitoring of the remuneration, employee benefits, job grading principles, procedures and systems in support of the overall group remuneration philosophy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Payroll Processing
- Ensuring the accuracy of payroll preparation and processing for allocated companies within the Blue Label Group, payroll accounting, benefits maintenance and various special payments
- Perform a first review of payroll prior submitting to management for review
- Determine payroll liabilities by managing and approving the calculation of employee taxes, UIF, leave etc
- Balances the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies
- Post Payroll journal on a monthly basis, in line with the monthly timetable
- Reconcile payroll journal with Finance to identify any anomalies
- Deliver accurate and timely processing of payroll, input and maintain payroll data, check payrolls for accuracy prior to submission, prepare complex manual payments when required, and complete financial reconciliations
Benefits Administration
- Prepare and submit reports on remuneration and benefits benchmarking exercises, and other assignments as required
- Prepares and submits the necessary data in order to participate in identified salary survey
- Conduct salary and labour market research to define benchmarks
- Ensure all benefits programs, policies, and procedures comply with current legislation
- Analyze job descriptions, evaluations and classifications Keep abreast with new trends and best practice in the field
- Ensure that compensation practices are in compliance with current laws and regulations
- Conduct periodic audits, prepare and present reports
- Generates required reports for benefits programme administration
- Maintains benefit records and prepares documents necessary for implementing benefit coverage
- Deliver remuneration reports for senior management
- Prepares materials for delivering benefit plan educational information to collate and analyze data using pre-set tools, methods and formats
Payroll Processes and Internal Controls
- Manage and develop the necessary controls to check accuracy and confidentiality of employee records and archives and that HC information is maintained at all times
- Ensure that all audit findings and risks relating to the remuneration and benefits function are addressed and mitigated Implement controls to ensure that all findings raised are addressed and resolved
- Develop review and workshop policies, procedures, process flows, and Frameworks to ensure legal compliance with government regulations
- Develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) for Payroll and Benefits and Records Management
- Conduct functional workshops related to remuneration and benefits policies and procedures to ensure compliance and awareness
Customer Service
- Review processes, identify areas of improvement and recommend changes that will increase accuracy and efficiency
- Provide Finance with monthly GL’s
- Assist Finance with monthly recons, such as Medical Aid, Loans, Garnishees, etc
- Provide assistance to Finance in respect of discrepancies
- Resolve employee queries
- Consult & Advise
- Provide documentation such as pay slips, IRP5’s, letters. Assist with loan & advance requests
Reporting
- Run ad-hoc reports and print for management, such as employee details - tax numbers, cell phone numbers, etc
- Stats SA Reporting
- Month End Payroll Reporting
- Provident Fund Reports
- Group Life Reports
Annual Audit
- Provide payroll information, assistance and documentation as and when required
Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Ensures Accountability
- Tech Savvy
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Manages Complexity
- Balances Stakeholders
- Business Insight
- Collaborates
- Being Resilient
- Organizational Savvy
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Demonstrates Self-Awareness
- Financial Acumen
- Situational Adaptability
- Plans and Aligns
- Self-Development
SKILLS
- Computer Skills
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Compliance Management
- Data Control
- Numerical Skills
- Planning and Organizing
- Verbal Communication
- Assessment
- Costing and Budgeting
- Spreadsheet Expertise
- Database User Interfaces and Queries
- Electronic Mail Expertise
- Policy and Regulation
- Review and Reporting
EDUCATION
- Matric
- Post Matric qualification in Finance/Human Resource/Payroll
EXPERIENCE
- Experienced specialist able to work unsupervised with
- A minimum 5 years experience in a similar role
- Sage 300 People experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Benefits administration experience
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Knowledge of job evaluation methodology and principles, benchmarking techniques, research methodology and survey administration techniques
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JOB PURPOSE
Accountable for the entire financial reporting process, including the day-to-day accounting functions, management of the financial reporting team, management of customers and suppliers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Management
- Identify, draft, develop and implement, operational processes, policies and guidelines
- Timely and accurate monthly financial reporting to management and BLT finance
- Manage the team responsible for the financial reporting and general accounting functions
- Set targets and supervise staff performance, recruit and develop staff
- Manage strategic changes to processes, systems, objectives within the department
- Manage customer queries, customer satifaction, billing and collections
- Manage supplier relationships, queries and settlements
- Recommend changes to policies and procedures that would improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the department and add value to the organization by cost savings and/or revenue maximization or optimization
- Compile and review monthly management accounts, ensuring compliance with
- IFRS, accounting policies and BLT reporting requirements
- Critically review the financial exposures within the organization to ensure expenditure is in line with business requirements and that expenses are reasonable
- Management of cash requirements and forecasting of cash flows in order to facilitate cash management
- Monitoring of management assumptions versus actual performance in order to assess reasonability of management assumptions and possible required amendments of these assumptions for financial reporting and financial management purposes
- Reconciliation of NAV to underlying transactional systems and/or databases
- Creating and implementing new financial processes as and when required for new business ventures, changes in accounting policy, changes in IFRS or other instances where necessary
- Liaising with other business units to ensure that the finance department and its functions remain updated with the latest business processes and are integrated with these processes where required
- Assisting with cost assessment and profitability models for new business opportunities and assisting in the assessment of its financial feasibility
- Preparation of annual budgets, including Sales, Cost of sales, Opex, Capex, cash flows and other as may be required
- Management of internal audits
Financial Controls
- Continuous improvement through standardization of manual processes
- Monitoring and measurement of work output against credit policy
- Identify risks in processes and controls and mitigate these risks through various mediums
- Responsible for financial internal controls and effective completion of all financial audits
- Ensure adherence to processes and controls put in place by management
- Ensure internal controls are up to date, improved and implemented and trained
Reporting
- Preparation of the monthly financial review for management
- Preparation of the monthly management pack for BLT finance
- Preparation of working schedules for audit purposes
- Ensure accurate and complete month end analysis of financial results
- Preparation of financial forecast packs where required
Work collaboratively
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
Self-Management
- Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs.
Leadership
- Be an effective inspirational leader to facilitate the creation of motivated, accountable, full-service teams who understand and strive to meet the needs of all stakeholders
- Coach, counsel and train digital team, operational managers and staff to apply, support, sustain and develop a continuous improvement culture
- Role model behaviour and motivate team members in line with the Blue Label Telecoms values and ethos
- Guidance of others and active development of self to improve on their technical and communication abilities so that capabilities and deliveries are better understood and thus trusted and applied through the business
- Translates strategy into goals for performance and growth helping to implement organisation-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operating planning
- Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of the organisation
- Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities
Requirements
Behavioural Competencies
- Ensures Accountability
- Tech Savvy
- Manages Complexity
- Plans and Aligns
- Communicates Effectively
- Business Insight
- Decision Quality
- Financial Acumen
- Customer Focus
- Instills Trust
- Cultivates Innovation
- Collaborates
- Situational Adaptability
- Develops Talent
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, CA(SA) (SAICA) preferred
Experience
- Minimum 3 years experience in a Financial Management role
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JOB PURPOSE
The incumbent is assigned responsibility for activities to analyse, define, implement, monitor and support stock and recon operational control and processes; technology change requests development and maintenance activities to improve efficiencies, including specification of functionality required in conjunction with finance, management overall effective running of the Stock and Reconciliation processes and controls.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Stock and Recon
- Daily review of recons relating to 3rd party integrations setups and related exceptions
- Drive resolution of exception management with relevant stakeholders both internal and external
- Weekly review of stock trending analysis
- Management of stock ordering and approval process being followed
- Clearly define controls required for any new recon processes and maintain a robust control environment with minimal exceptions or escalations
- Manage internal controls around audit time to ensure strong control environment is maintained and reported
- Regular interactions with key Corporate accounts for the Group to escalate discrepancies and drive swift resolutions between business, operations and technology
Finance Reporting
- Identify through analytical review incomplete/inaccurate capturing relating to AR, AP, Stock with ad hoc queries arise, manage and review reconciliations, calculations and reports where necessary
- Review and management of stock processes and this is being applied consistently monthly with minimal fluctuations
- Effective management of stock invoice capturing and reporting with set deadlines
- Manage any corrections timeously prior to reporting final numbers being reported
- Review of controls around NAV capturing to ensure accurate capturing of invoices
- Preparation of forecasts and budgets in line with Group reporting and agreed intercompany stakeholders
Functional Delivery
- Review reconciliation of data to ensure integrity (daily, weekly, monthly and annually), including, but not limited to:
- Navision Stock reports, General Ledger Accounts versus Inventory Valuation report
- Electricity reconciliation and commission review process
- Debtor reconciliation process
- Control accounts vs General ledger accounts (AP, AR, Stock)
- Stock reconciliation process
Team Management
- Take full responsibility for performance of all direct reports, motivating and managing them in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives, focusing on all aspects of sound people management
- Establish and evaluate Key Performance Indicators
- Implement and encourage staff development activities, identify training needs
- Provide support and guidance on career path planning, on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring to direct reports
Customer Focus
- Manage internal and external customer satisfaction relating to Stock and recon processes and exception management, including the following.
- Internal:
- CFO, Financial Managers and other finance staff (Navision Users)
- Fellow supplier subsidiaries of Prepaid Airtime (PPA) and Prepaid Electricity (PPE)
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External:
Financials
- Manage escalations to relevant stakeholders timeously to ensure minimal financial and /or reputational loss through daily review of reconciliation and trend analysis expectations
Work Collaboratively
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
Self Management
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs
Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Ensures Accountability
- Collaborates
- Customer Focus
- Communicates Effectively
- Being Resilient
- Builds Effective Teams
- Providing Leadership
- Entrepreneurial Orientation
SKILLS
- Navision
- Qlik Sense
- Microsoft Office
- AEON Knowledge
- AMS Knowledge
EDUCATION
- Matric
- BCom Accounting
- Relevant Postgraduate qualification
- CA (SA) qualification
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in a similar role
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Job Purpose
The Sales Representative must acquire and manage new agents as prescribed by the Sales Manager in line with the overall business acquisition strategy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Sales and Revenue Targets
- Ensure that all new business acquisition and revenue targets as set by the business within the territory assigned are met within the specified timeframe
- Grow revenues significantly through new business acquisition by selling the right solutions to the right customer and achieving the greatest possible product mix
- Optimize merchant referrals by exploiting key relationships within the assigned territory
- Evaluate the customers’ business needs and propose/present an appropriate solution
- Educate potential customers/Agents on the benefits of our products and services by means of a compelling articulation of our business model and value proposition
- Ensure visibility in competitor sites by persistent and constant calling and ongoing customer engagement
Business Development and Growth
- Perform an opportunity assessment of the territory in consultation with the Sales Manager and Regional Managers
- Develop and execute a targeted sales strategy, supported by tactical and execution plans
- Meet the required standards set for calling on new prospects
- Ensure that specific sales briefs are executed whether within or outside the territory assigned to the Sales Representative
- Act and follow up on all sales leads provided by the Sales Manager
- Sign up new Agents on a weekly basis
- Liaise with the Sales Manager and Ubelong Specialist on areas to target
- Effective communication with the Sales Manager when new Agents are signed up
- Assist with allocation of Agents if necessary
- Ensure all paperwork for the new agents is submitted to admin for capturing.
- Ensure continuous participation in product updates/enhancements/new requirements
Client Onboarding and Retention
- Ensure that new business initiatives/sign-ups are executed effectively and efficiently in cooperation with Regional and Head Office Teams
Reporting and Sales Administration
- Ensure weekly call reports are completed accurately and submitted within the required deadline(s)
- Ensure that all cold calls and appointments are reported on in accordance with company procedures
- Ensure all applications are submitted in a timeously and orderly manner
- Ensure that a diary is kept of planned and executed activities on a daily basis
Work collaboratively
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
Self and People Management
- Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs
- Manages agents in an orderly and structured manner and ensures that reporting is clearly communicated to the Sales Manager, UBELONG Specialist and/or Regional Manager
Requirements
Behavioural Competencies
- Ensures Accountability
- Communicates Effectively
- Plans and Aligns
- Action Oriented
- Drives Results
- Customer Focus
- Instills Trust
- Cultivates Innovation
- Collaborates
- Situational Adaptability
Education
- Matric
- Tertiary education in Sales, Marketing and/or business may be advantageous
Experience
- At least 2 Years of sales and marketing experience
- Proven Track Record in Sales
- Valid Driver's License required
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JOB PURPOSE
The Credit Analytics and Modeling Manager is a modeling expert that apply a credit risk background in the telecommunications industry, mainly on the Cell C postpaid contracts. The role requires a good understanding of credit risk, out of the box thinking and analyzing large quantities of data in order to positively affect profitability and credit losses. The incumbent will have the opportunity to manage established, but evolving processes and bring her/his own unique perspective on ways to develop new and improved existing mission critical models and analytical frameworks. The incumbent will demonstrate strong ability to understand data structures, formulate hypotheses, develop and conduct tests of these hypotheses, and effectively communicate results.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Credit Analytics and Risk
- Preparing, analyzing and validating data to perform quantitative analysis for statistical and modeling data
- Analysis of historical data, data cleaning, sampling, variable selection, modeling and performance evaluation
- Develop analytic solutions using outputs from models in credit decision, business strategies, risk appetite setting and provisioning and capital assessment
- Active stakeholder engagement & development of analytic solutions
- Monitor credit risk settings & appetite of the organization
- Active stakeholder engagement & development of analytic solutions
- Monitor credit risk settings & appetite of the organization
- Ensure that risk analytics and credit risk management, align to business strategies & provisioning
Model creation and management
- Development of models in multiple programming languages
- Develop and maintain user requirements, parameters and configurations of rating systems
- Monitor, back test and report performance of the models
- Support models throughout the model lifecycle, including governance, model reviews and model refinements
- Conceptual design of modelling approaches and model architectures including model principle, quantitative methods and underlying assumptions
- Develop predictive and decision models to be deployed in systems
- Maintain credit rating models for the measurement and management of credit risk
- Work closely with model validators to ensure adherence to the governance framework for model deployment and ensure timely closure of validation issues
Work Collaboratively
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which result from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with stakeholders to develop joint solutions
Self Management
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Manages Complexity
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Ensures Accountability
- Business Insight
- Decision Quality
- Financial Acumen
- Courage
- Instills Trust
SKILLS
- Planning and Organizing
- Action Planning
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Verbal Communication
- Data Control
- Numerical Skills
- Review and Reporting
- Risk Management
EDUCATION
- Matric
- Bachelors Degree in Actuarial Science/Mathematics/Statistics/Engineering
EXPERIENCE
- 5 to 10 years’ experience in telecommunications or credit risk
- Experience in credit risk modelling including IFRS9 is preferable
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JOB PURPOSE
The primary purpose of the role is to implement the organization's sales and new business development strategy for the Postpaid product portfolio, so as to align to business plan expectations, in consultation with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that we identify potential revenue leakages and opportunities to improve profitability and revenue growth. The incumbent will provide insights, strategical plans and support to the commercial and marketing team through modelling and analysis of product costs, revenue and other financial parameters to develop competitive pricing and product strategies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial
- Determine competitive pricing strategies to gain market share and achieve revenue goals
- Analyse data from multiple sources, develop complex pricing models, and collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop sales strategies
- Assess data from a variety of sources to gain insights into pricing strategies and market trends
- Analyse competitor pricing and market trends to increase market share and profitability
- Track customer engagement to develop effective pricing strategies for products and offerings
- Apply statistical modelling methods to determine the potential impact of pricing strategies on profitability
- Recommend pricing strategies that align closely with market trends and identify new market segments
- Forecast revenue and market share based on market trends, production costs, profit margins, and sales volumes
- Collaborate with sales and marketing departments on developing and implementing competitive pricing strategies
- Develop dynamic pricing tools to effectively respond to changing market needs and trends
- Prepare and present pricing analysis findings to executives, marketing teams, and sales staff
- Keeping informed on pricing analysis methods and industry trends
- Manage the product portfolio in line with CEC strategic objectives
- Develop monthly, quarterly and annual product reports
- Analyse product portfolio and identify opportunities for revenue growth or potential leakage
- Keep abreast of market developments on pricing and product strategies
- Perform product & pricing competitor analysis and present outcomes, opportunities and potential risks
- Identify trends and customer needs, building both the existing and the new sales pipeline for short/medium/long term in accordance with targets
- Work with the Cell C product development team in implementing product changes and enhancement
- Assists Commercial Executive in preparation of proposals and presentations, stakeholder & vendor management and engagement
Work Collaboratively
- Recognize outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication
and collaboration across the organization
Self-Management
- Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs
Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Customer Focus
- Manages Complexity
- Persuades
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Organizational Savvy
- Instills Trust
- Communicates Effectively
- Builds Networks
- Collaborates
- Drives Results
- Action Oriented
SKILLS
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Verbal Communication
- Commercial Acumen
- Understands Customer Needs
- Understands Issues/Motivations
- Customer and Market Analysis
- Diagnoses Needs with Questions
- Managing Change
- Negotiates Strategically/Tactically
- Policy and procedures
EDUCATION
- Matric
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or Finance
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Marketing/Telecommunication/ business strategy and/or analysis/ Technical Product Development, of which 2 years should be customer facing/ consulting to external Marketing environment
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