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- We are currently recruiting for a Manager within our Financial Services Risk Management – Quantitative Advisory Services (QAS) team. The role will focus on credit risk. This includes credit risk modelling, credit risk model validation and the development of advanced analytical solutions for credit decisioning.
- The practice focusses on financial services across banking, insurance, and corporate treasuries.
Your key responsibilities
The successful applicant will help develop and lead a team which can offer our clients advice and hands on assistance with issues such as:
- Development and validation of credit risk models (PD, LGD, EAD, ECL) under IFRS 9
- Credit impairment assessment and due diligence reviews
- Create visualisations of data and generate in-depth insights
- Review and validation of Basel internal rating-based models
- Regulatory capital modelling
- Design and review of credit risk pricing models
- Development of thought leadership material on relevant industry topics
Client responsibilities
- Participate in and, as required, lead FSRM client engagements
- Develop long-term, sustainable relationships with key client stakeholders in line with our go to market strategies and individual market development initiatives
- Develop client solutions based on a deep understanding and knowledge of clients’ business needs
- Develop informed views for clients on the implications of current and anticipated industry issues
- Generate new business sales through proactively managing key accounts, identifying new client opportunities and playing a significant role in developing and driving sales campaigns/solutions
People responsibilities
- Live the EY values
- Act as a thought leader in the field of credit risk
- Lead engagement teams and accounts
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring all junior levels of staff
- Provide learning and growth opportunities to staff and encourage the potential within all staff to take on challenging opportunities
- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for junior levels of staff
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training FSRM professionals
- Maintain an educational program to continually develop your own personal skills
Qualifications and experience required
- Relevant Masters (MComm / MSc /MPhil) or Honours degree in quantitative field like computer science, engineering, actuarial, statistics, mathematics, or related field
- Professional qualification (CFA / FRM / PRM / FIA / FASSA) a plus
- Sound understanding of quantitative methods and the application of these to financial risk management
- Sound understanding of data science methods
- A minimum of 5 years relevant working experience
Other skills and attributes for success
- Strong analytical skills and statistical aptitude in a modelling environment
- Experience in the development, review and validation of credit risk models (PD, LGD, EAD, ECL) under IFRS 9 and Basel internal rating-based models is a plus
- Proficient in MS office
- Proficient in SAS
- Proficient in VBA, R or Python
- Innovative, creative thinking
- Robust project management skills
- Solid presentation skills
- Effective time management
- Strong writing skills
- Initiative and enthusiasm
- Responsibility and maturity
- People skills
- Professionalism
- Confidence to be client-facing
- Above average linguistic aptitude
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexibility to accept change and adapt
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Your key responsibilities
- As an Assistant Manager within our VM&E team you're likely to spend your day to day advising clients on complex financial and capital decisions. You will be working with them to understand their data, their strategic requirements and create analysis using financial modelling and data analytics techniques aligned to their strategic priorities. You will work directly with clients in ensuring timely delivery of their needs and manage the engagement and the overall quality of work performed. You will also review complex models developed by our clients and critique models both their logical and commercial integrity.
Skills and attributes for success
- Strong corporate finance skills
- Strong financial modelling skills
- Financial instruments experience – working on financial instruments such as equity options, swaps, valuations using simulations and lattice methodologies
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Leadership skills
- Strong client and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Business development experience and skills
- Track record in managing project expenditures against budget and revenue, and providing guidance to team members to ensure the completion of work deliverables
- Excellent analytical, project management, communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Strong knowledge and awareness of other data analytics tools and related software, including data visualization
- Ideally some programming experience in Matlab, R or Python
- Fluent business English – both writing and verbal
- Intellectual curiosity
- Attention to detail
To qualify for the role you must have
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of post bachelor's, progressive related work experience; OR a Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related field, plus 4 years of related work experience.
- Superior financial modelling skills in MS Excel.
- Experience with any of the following software packages: SQL Server; Data Visualization applications (e.g. Tableau, MS Power BI); Statistical packages (e.g. MATLAB R or Python), VBA.
- At least 3 - 5 years of experience developing financial models and analytical solutions from scratch, utilizing best practice methodologies and performing quality control procedures.
- At least 1 year of experience managing project expenditures against budget and revenue, supervising teams and scoping project requirements.
- At least 1 year of experience of managing projects from start to finish.
- Ability to provide sound guidance to team members to ensure the completion of work deliverables.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Experience working in venture capital, investment banking, commercial banking, or consulting businesses.
- CFA certification or significant progress towards these or similar certifications.
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- As a senior consultant in EY Government Grants and Incentives team, you will have the opportunity to advise some of the largest companies in the world on the incentives available from the department of Trade Industry and Competition (dtic).
Key Responsibilities
- Th Assist clients with quantifying opportunities to benefit from investment incentive grants and tax allowances.
- Assist clients with investment incentive and tax allowance compliance:
- Completing incentive grant and tax allowance applications.
- Advising clients on the identification of opportunities that their investments may qualify for investment incentive grants or tax allowances.
- Developing and operationalizing grant applications for investment projects.
- Completing incentive grant and tax allowance claims and managing to receipt of benefits.
- Understanding the impact of programme changes and investment project developments and impacts to accessing the investment incentive grant and tax allowance benefits.
- Assisting and advising clients with remedial actions.
- Identify new opportunities for new investment grant and tax allowance projects.
- Developing relationships with clients and administering authorities.
- Assisting the team with updating the consolidated tracker to monitor approvals and claim deadlines.
- Assisting the team the ad hoc administration, quality risk process and code management process.
Skills and attributes for success
- Organisational, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- An excellent communicator, analytical, organised, structured, and result orientated approach to work.
- strong writing skills, ability to read, interpret and organise financial data
- Attention to detail.
- Good planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- High multi-tasking and project management
- Self-driven, dynamic, and professional.
- An ability to work with people and always maintain a work / people skills balance.
- An effective time manager and project planner who is focused on delivering exceptional client services.
- An ability to maintain and develop relations with clients and administering authorities
- An ability to multi-task and manage a diverse portfolio of clients
Requirements
- B. Com Degree (preferably accounting major (or similar).
- Business acumen.
- Experience in understanding different industrial and manufacturing processes is preferential.
- Experience in an Advisory environment is preferred.
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The opportunity
- We are looking for an experienced individual who has a broad understanding of internal risk and governance processes and can actively support a rapidly growing business to consistently deliver exceptional client service to our clients across Africa. You will be motivated to keep up with the fast pace of the professional services industry, and as such, be able to assist staff and senior management to deliver solutions that align with business objectives whilst ensuring quality is always maintained.
- Your role will focus on further strengthening and innovating our existing processes, whilst enabling sustainable growth and consistent high-quality service delivery to our clients.
You will be required to:
- Engage with leaders across our Africa business.
- Provide consultation support for pursuit governance and engagement quality controls.
- Support quality, independence and risk management programmes and processes.
- Innovate existing processes, in response to our rapidly changing environment.
- Team with a wide stakeholder group across service lines, competencies, functions and geographies.
- Guide teams on best practice service delivery methods, tools and practices.
- Interpret and apply EY Service Quality policies.
Your key responsibilities
The responsibilities listed in this document are not exhaustive and are flexible to accommodate the needs of the business, Africa Quality Projects and overall Firm requirements.
Amongst other things your role will include:
- Managing business risk through driving compliance to firm risk management policies and procedures, whilst achieving an appropriate balance between risk and control.
- Designing and implementing effective processes for the monitoring and management of compliance with the firm risk and quality management processes in the business.
- Enhancing and innovating the Africa Tax Service Line's current processes, promoting sustainable growth and ensuring clients consistently receive high-quality services.
- Support the Tax Quality Leader’s and other Tax Quality Managers.
- Supports strategic projects aimed at simplification of the firm’s quality and risk management policies and processes.
- Facilitates Global Tax Quality Reviews and Local internal quality reviews.
- Provides teams with best practices methodologies, tools and practices for service delivery.
- Spearheads key quality and risk management programmes and procedures.
- Improves existing procedures considering the continually changing environment.
- Collaborates with diverse stakeholders across service lines, competencies, functions and locations.
- Develops controls and governance and identifies, evaluates and manages tax-related risk.
- Advises engagement teams on tax quality-related issues.
- Aids in the creation of local policies and the implementation of global policies.
- Creates routine Tax Quality alerts and similar publications.
- Supports the maintenance of Tax Quality databases.
- Assist in supporting the near shore Regional Delivery Centre based in Mauritius.
Skills and attributes for success
- Effective communication and organizational skills.
- Use business knowledge to make recommendations that facilitate embedding processes and programs.
- Confident in identifying and raising concerns to the Regional Tax Quality Leader, regarding risks and exceptions.
- Ability to execute to plan.
- Knowledgeable on how professional services firms operate.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable with change and being a strong change agent.
- Skilled at handling multiple projects concurrently and prioritizing appropriately.
- Ability to work in a team to achieve a common goal in the interest of the EY Global organisation.
- Ability to remain objective and independent in all risk related matters.
- Not easily influenced by domineering personalities so that the interests of EY Global is always maintained.
- Comfortable working with individuals at all levels and creating a network of relationships built on trust.
- Ability to teach others new skills.
- Ability to perform under pressure.
- Competent at interpreting, comprehending, and applying Ernst & Young policies, giving accurate and consistent guidance to others.
- Strong listening skills.
- A strong focus on quality, risk management and efficiency.
To qualify for the role, you must have.
- Minimum 5 years’ work experience in a large professional services firm environment.
- Should be a confident and dynamic individual with excellent written and verbal business communication skills.
- Be able to learn, innovate and take initiative to better enable the business.
- Initiative-taking, high-energy levels, enthusiastic
- Strong managerial and organisational skills
- High levels of integrity and confidentiality.
- High levels of assertiveness and resilience.
- Diligence and commitment to following a process with care.
- Analytical thinker
- Be proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
Ideally, you will also have
- Experience in working in a Big 4 Quality and Risk Management environment.
- Have a suitable degree/certification aligned to risk management, project management or business management.
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- We’re seeking a Senior Tax Technical resource to play a pivotal role at the heart of our Tax practice. You’ll shape how we interpret complex legislation, support our engagement teams with critical technical queries, and define how our firm builds, curates, and shares its tax knowledge.
- This is a rare opportunity to combine deep technical expertise, strategic influence, and intellectual leadership - helping EY stay at the forefront of the UK and global tax landscape.
Your key responsibilities
- Be the trusted voice on tax: Advise engagement teams on the most complex and high-stakes technical matters, providing clarity and confidence.
- Lead our knowledge agenda: Drive EY’s tax knowledge management strategy - ensuring insights are captured, structured, and shared across our South African network.
- Shape the firm’s point of view: Draft EY’s house views, technical briefings, and budget synopses that guide our people and inform our clients.
- Engage with change: Monitor emerging legislation and policy, assess business impacts, and communicate what it means for our firm and our clients.
- Support strategic engagement: Work with EY policy specialists and leadership to develop responses to government consultations and influence policy debate.
- Enable excellence: Build tools, frameworks, and communities that help our people access and apply the firm’s collective knowledge with confidence.
What we’re looking for
You combine technical mastery with the ability to connect ideas, people, and purpose. You’re a natural communicator who can translate complexity into clarity, and who sees knowledge not as an archive, but as a strategic asset.
- ACA, CTA, or equivalent professional qualification
- Significant experience in corporate, international, or policy-focused tax
- Strong technical judgment with the confidence to take a position and the humility to test it
- Exceptional written and verbal communication - able to articulate EY’s point of view clearly and credibly
- Proven ability to build networks and work collaboratively across teams and disciplines
- Passion for continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and helping others grow
- The ideal candidate will have 15 to 20 years of relevant work experience in tax, technical advisory, or related fields, demonstrating progressive responsibility and expertise.
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The opportunity
- We are looking for an experienced individual who has a broad understanding of internal risk and governance processes and can actively support a rapidly growing business to consistently deliver exceptional client service to our clients across Africa. You will be motivated to keep up with the fast pace of the professional services industry, and as such, be able to assist staff and senior management to deliver solutions that align with business objectives whilst ensuring quality is maintained at all times.
- Your role will focus on further strengthening and innovating our existing processes, whilst enabling sustainable growth and consistent high-quality service delivery to our clients.
You will be required to:
- Engage with leaders across our Africa business;
- Provide consultation support for pursuit governance and engagement quality controls;
- Support quality, independence and risk management programmes and processes;
- Innovate existing processes, in response to our rapidly changing environment;
- Team with a wide stakeholder group across service lines, competencies, functions and geographies;
- Guide teams on best practice service delivery methods, tools and practices;
- Interpret and apply EY Service Quality policies.
Your key responsibilities
The responsibilities listed in this document are not exhaustive and are flexible to accommodate the needs of the business, Africa Quality Projects and overall Firm requirements.
Amongst other things your role will include:
- Working closely with the Africa Consulting Quality Team with a focus on driving the Quality strategy;
- Increasing awareness to Consulting Quality policies;
- Acting as the primary contact for client service personnel in resolving queries or issues (Consultation support) under the direction of the Consulting Quality Senior Managers;
- Increasing awareness to, and embedding, existing quality programmes and processes where appropriate;
- Supporting the Consulting Quality Senior Managers in educating the client-serving individuals in Africa on risk and quality related matters and programmes, to help them better manage risk;
- Providing first review/content support on independence consultations as required;
- Monitoring quality initiatives and programs in Africa and reporting the status on a monthly basis;
- Teaming with Quality Management colleagues in the Clusters and Sub-Service Lines:
- Assessing and developing a response to Africa Consulting’s specific Quality needs in consultation with the Quality Senior Managers/Regional Consulting Quality Leader.
Skills and attributes for success
- Good communication and organizational skills;
- Use business knowledge to make recommendations that facilitate embedding processes and programs;
- Confident in identifying and raising concerns to the Regional Consulting Quality Leader, regarding risks and exceptions;
- Ability to execute to plan;
- Knowledgeable on how professional services firms operate;
- Strong presentation skills;
- Strong problem-solving skills;
- Comfortable with change and being a strong change agent;
- Skilled at handling multiple projects concurrently, and prioritizing appropriately;
- Ability to work in a team to achieve a common goal in the interest of the EY Global organisation;
- Ability to remain objective and independent in all risk related matters;
- Not easily influenced by domineering personalities so that the interests of EY Global is always maintained;
- Comfortable working with individuals at all levels and creating a network of relationships built on trust;
- Ability to teach others new skills;
- Ability to perform under pressure;
- Competent at interpreting, comprehending and applying Ernst & Young policies, giving accurate and consistent guidance to others;
- Strong listening skills;
- A strong focus on quality, risk management and efficiency.
To qualify for the role you must have
- Minimum 3 years’ work experience in a large professional services firm environment;
- Should be a confident and dynamic individual with excellent written and verbal business communication skills;
- Be able to learn, innovate and take initiative to better enable the business;
- Self-motivated, high energy levels, enthusiastic
- Strong managerial and organisational skills
- High levels of integrity and confidentiality;
- High levels of assertiveness and resilience.
- Attention to detail and commitment to following a process with care.
- Analytical thinker
- Be proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Experience in working in a Big 4 Quality and Risk Management environment
- Have a suitable degree/certification aligned to risk management, project management or business management
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The Opportunity
- The role provides the chance to lead and deliver Cloud Security assessments, architecture reviews, cloud control implementations, and cloud‑focused cyber transformation initiatives. You will work within multidisciplinary teams and gain exposure to EY’s global cloud frameworks and cloud risk standards.
- Our structured career framework ensures continuous development, global exposure, and opportunities to grow into senior leadership roles.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Security Delivery & Technical Leadership
- Lead and deliver Cloud Security assessments using EY’s proprietary cloud security frameworks and industry standards (CSA CCM, NIST 800‑53, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, CSP-native security frameworks).
- Perform CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) reviews, identifying misconfigurations, compliance gaps, and risks across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews, ensuring cloud solutions follow secure-by-design principles and align to EY Cloud Architecture & Landing Zone frameworks.
- Support clients in implementing cloud risk and security controls, including IAM, network security, data protection, logging & monitoring, DevSecOps, and encryption.
Cloud Transformation & Advisory
- Guide clients on multi‑cloud security strategies, migration security, and operational governance.
- Provide assurance over cloud transformations, using EY methodologies for program assurance and cloud governance.
- Support clients in establishing Cloud Operating Models, policies, and standards aligned with regulatory and industry requirements.
Risk, Compliance & IT Audit Support
- Lead cloud-related IT risk assessments and integrate cloud controls into financial audit IT general controls and program assurance work.
- Evaluate cloud security control compliance against frameworks (CSA CCM, CoBiT, ISO 27001, CIS Foundations).
Client Engagement & Stakeholder Management
- Present findings and recommendations to senior client stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value.
- Manage junior staff, review deliverables, and ensure high‑quality outputs.
Practice Development & Thought Leadership
- Contribute to proposals, cloud cyber service offerings, methodologies, and accelerators.
- Act as a subject matter specialist in Cloud Security within the Cyber practice.
Skills and Attributes for Success
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their native security services.
- Deep knowledge of cloud security architecture, cloud IAM, network segmentation, logging and monitoring, key management, encryption, and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Experience in CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, or Cloud Security Best Practices.
- Strong grounding in IT governance, IT risk, and general cybersecurity frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and report‑writing abilities.
- Logical thinker, problem solver, and confident in leading engagements and teams.
- Experience in project management across multiple engagements.
- Business development experience is advantageous.
To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
- Business / Audit background advantageous.
Experience:
- Assistant Manager: Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in Cyber Security with at least 2 years in Cloud Security.
- Manager: 5 to 8 years of experience with deeper leadership in cloud engagements.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud security tooling.
- Exposure to management consulting, cloud security architecture, CSPM / CIEM tools, and program assurance.
Certifications (Highly advantageous):
Cloud Security:
- CCSP, CCSK, Azure Security Engineer Associate, AWS Security Specialty, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
Cyber & IT Audit:
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer / Auditor.
Cloud & Project Delivery:
- Azure / AWS / GCP certifications, PMP, PRINCE2, COBIT, ITIL.
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- EY is seeking an experienced Talent Assistant Manager / HR Business Partner to oversee and deliver comprehensive human resource services that drive business performance, foster employee engagement, and promote organizational effectiveness. In this role, you will collaborate closely with leadership to shape and implement people strategies, maintain compliance with employment legislation, and cultivate a high-performing, inclusive workplace culture. You will provide holistic HR operational and people support to designated service lines, ensuring the seamless execution of core HR processes, employee lifecycle management, recruitment, and engagement initiatives. As a trusted advisor to leadership, you will champion sound HR practices and contribute to the ongoing success of the Bloemfontein and Gqeberha offices.
Key Responsibilities
HR Operations & Employee Lifecycle
- Manage the full employee lifecycle across the Bloem & Gqeberha offices (onboarding to exit).
- Own BAU HR operations, metrics, and administration.
- Ensure accurate HR records, reporting, and compliance with labour legislation.
- Coordinate payroll inputs, benefits administration, and employee documentation.
Recruitment & Talent Support
- Lead graduate recruitment for the regions and support experienced hiring with the central recruitment team.
- Drive onboarding and retention initiatives.
- Coordinate talent processes including onboarding, performance management, and compensation planning.
Business Partnering & Employee Relations
- Partner with service line leaders on workforce planning, talent management, and engagement.
- Provide coaching and guidance to leaders on employee-related matters.
- Manage disciplinary processes, performance issues, and general employee relations working with the employee relations team.
Learning, Engagement & Wellbeing
- Coordinate with Learning & Development on programme implementation.
- Support engagement, wellbeing, and flexible working initiatives.
- Advise leaders on compensation, benefits, and employee experience practices.
Strategic HR Support
- Support the HR Lead with strategic people planning and key HR initiatives.
- Participate in and lead special HR projects to improve processes and employee experience.
Office & Facilities Oversight
- Oversee office management activities and supervise facilities staff where applicable.
Skills and attributes for success
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to remain efficient and extremely organized while handling a high volume of work
- Ability to prioritize and execute multiple tasks
- Strong communication and listening skills
- Demonstrated initiative and ability to seek out answers to questions and problems
- Extremely trustworthy and capable of handling highly sensitive and confidential information
- Ability to learn new applications and techniques quickly and effectively
What we look for
- People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. You should possess excellent communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills. The role expects you to be flexible, adaptable, and creative, with willingness to travel.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree in Human Resources (or a related field)
- 5+ years’ experience in Human Resources is preferred
- Strong PC proficiency including MS word, Excel and PowerPoint
- The ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic team-oriented environment
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- As a Senior Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping clients unlock value, manage risk, and navigate the tax implications of their most strategic decisions. You’ll collaborate closely with senior leaders and some of the most recognised tax minds in the profession - while developing the next generation of high-performing professionals around you.
The opportunity
- EY’s Transaction Tax practice is growing rapidly, supporting a dynamic market where tax is increasingly central to deal strategy and execution.
- You’ll be part of a team that advises on all stages of the transaction lifecycle – from due diligence and structuring, to post-deal integration and internal reorganisations. The role offers exceptional breadth and visibility, working across sectors and borders, often on landmark deals shaping South Africa’s economic landscape.
Your key responsibilities
- Lead complex engagements across buy-side and sell-side transactions for both corporate and private equity clients.
- Advise on structuring, diligence, and modelling, providing commercially focused tax insights and identifying value opportunities.
- Review transaction documentation (including sale agreements, merger terms, and financing structures) and provide technical input on tax exposures and mitigations.
- Collaborate with cross-border teams, coordinating global advice and integrating international tax considerations.
- Coach and develop your team, ensuring technical excellence and high-quality client delivery.
- Contribute to business development and thought leadership by staying across emerging trends in corporate and international tax.
Skills and attributes for success
- Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage complex engagements.
- Strong technical knowledge of corporate and transaction tax, including restructurings and M&A-related issues.
- Deep understanding of South African tax legislation, and awareness of international principles impacting cross-border deals.
- Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
- Commercial acumen and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
To qualify for the role, you must have
- CA(SA), Admitted Attorney, or equivalent professional qualification.
- Relevant experience in corporate, M&A or transaction tax within a law firm, professional services or in-house advisory environment.
- Demonstrated experience in tax due diligence, deal structuring, and post-acquisition planning.
- Proven experience managing budgets, projects, and people.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Experience advising private equity and multinational clients.
- Exposure to cross-border tax structuring or international tax planning.
- A passion for mentoring, developing talent, and sharing technical knowledge.
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The opportunity
- The work we do isn’t about providing ‘off-the shelf’ solutions; so, we will train and coach you to develop a set of core skills that will be transferable across a broad range of projects. You’ll work as part of high-performing teams on a broad range of financial services clients and assignments that will stretch and challenge you. You’ll be encouraged and expected to take accountability and make an impact.
Your key responsibilities
Regional Financial Crime Lead – Africa
- Lead the financial crime strategy across the Africa region, ensuring alignment with global compliance frameworks and local regulatory requirements.
- Provide guidance on AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) and insider trading
- Drive regional initiatives to enhance financial crime controls, risk assessments, and training.
AML Officer – South Africa
- Serve as the designated AML Officer for South Africa, ensuring compliance with FICA
- Ensures compliance with the RMCP
- Maintain and update AML procedures in line with evolving regulatory expectations.
- Co-ordination of training programmes across the SA firm to enhance awareness and understanding of the legislation
AML Folder Review and Monitoring – South Africa
- Daily review of high and moderate risk AML folders to ensure documentation completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulatory standards. Confirm that we may still proceed with the client relationship given the risk triggers noted
- Identify recurring errors, trends, and areas requiring enhanced focus or remediation.
- Daily liaison with RDS, engagement teams, SLQ and EPs around the interpretation of AML legislation and requirements
- Provide feedback and guidance to relevant teams to strengthen the quality and consistency of AML documentation.
Compliance - Africa
- Develop, implement and manage the company's compliance programs. This role involves monitoring and reporting on compliance issues, providing guidance to management and staff, and ensuring that the company operates within the legal and regulatory framework.
- Develop and implement compliance policies and procedures.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies.
- Conduct regular audits and assessments to identify potential compliance risks.
- Provide training and guidance to employees on compliance-related matters.
- Investigate and resolve compliance issues and complaints.
- Prepare and submit compliance reports to regulatory bodies as required.
- Stay up-to-date with changes in laws and regulations that may affect the company.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure a cohesive approach to compliance.
Skills and attributes for success
- Legal academic and/or risk background or demonstrated affinity would be an advantage
- Previous experience of exposure to regulatory requirements across pan-African jurisdictions would be an advantage
- Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
- Complex problem-solving capabilities
- An interest in continuous self-development
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in AML and/or Compliance role, preferably within Professional Services environment.
- Strong knowledge of relevant laws and regulations.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Professional certification in AML and Compliance
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- We are looking to expand our Financial Services Risk Management – Quantitative Advisory Services (QAS) team. QAS focusses on providing credit risk, market risk and data science solutions to banking, insurance and other corporate clients. Our services cover statutory, regulatory and other quantitative areas from both a consulting and an assurance perspective. The role will focus on market risk valuations.
Your key technical responsibilities
The successful applicant will work within a team which offers our clients advice and hands on assistance with issues such as:
- IFRS 13 fair value measurement focussing on the valuation of exotic derivatives across a range of underlying asset classes and the valuation of fixed income and money market instruments
- IFRS 2 share-based payment and BEE deal valuation
- xVA modelling (credit and debit valuation adjustment, funding valuation adjustment, etc.)
- IRRBB and FRTB regulatory compliance
- Alternative reference rate transition
Your client and business responsibilities
- Participate in and lead client engagements
- Manage the build and delivery of client solutions, based on knowledge of clients’ agendas
- Develop informed views for clients on the implications of current and anticipated industry issues
- Assist with new business sales through proactively managing accounts, identifying new client opportunities and playing a role in developing and driving sales campaigns
- Maintain an educational program to continually develop your own personal skills
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring all junior levels of staff
- Provide learning and growth opportunities to staff and encourage the potential within all staff to take on challenging opportunities
- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for junior levels of staff
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training QAS professionals
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Qualifications: Relevant Honours or Masters (MCom / MSc /MPhil) level degree
- Professional qualification (CFA / FRM / PRM / FIA / FASSA) a plus
- A minimum of 5 years relevant working experience
- Proficiency in VBA, R or Python
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