Latest Vacancies at Spartan

Job Description

As a Marketing Consultant you will be responsible for key marketing activities, including externally focused as well as internally focused communications.

The expectation of the candidate will include, but not limited to:

• Manage our online marketing presence
• Manage the marketing online ad spend
• Brand custodian, corporate ID management
• Assist in go-to market efforts of tailored products
• Database managed segmentation of customers by a meaningful insight
• Account Nurturing by creating journeys for specific segments
• Creating content for these journeys as well as general content for social media
• Digital marketing collateral management (internal and external platforms)
• Events creation, coordination and attendance of internal designed programmes, as well as 3rd party hosted gatherings
• Internal communications
• Content creation and facilitation

 Desired Skills and Experience

• Marketing related degree or Philosophy Politics Economics degree [PPE] or similar
• Minimum 5 year experience working in a marketing function
• WordPress Themes experience
• Excellent Content Writing skills
• Research knowledge
• Google Analytics
• CSS knowledge
• CRM software systems
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Video editing
• Screen recording

 Required Disposition

• Someone who is happy to work alone, but also comfortable in a team
• Curiosity with constant holistic learning
• Problem solver
• Good communicator
• Take initiative and responsibility
• Managing time efficiently
• Someone who is self-aware
• An eye for detail
• Techno savvy
• Team player
• Someone who wants to contribute to South Africa
• Empathetic to the struggles of entrepreneurs and SMEs

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Job Description

Legal Associate - a junior associate, with commercial litigation experience, for our internal legal department.

Spartan requires a Junior Legal Associate to fulfil the legal function in transaction execution, post-transaction monitoring and project management for recoveries: 

This is NOT a legal advisor role NOR a regulatory compliance role.

• Assisting with the vetting of the terms and conditions of deals from a legal perspective prior to the Credit Committee approving a deal
• Drafting legal agreements and related documents from standard templates (e.g. Loan Agreements, Pledge and Cession Agreements, Guarantees, etc.)
• Instructing attorneys to attend to the registration of securities (e.g. mortgage bonds, special notarial bonds, etc.)
• Liaising with colleagues regarding conditions, implementation, and execution of deals
• Ensuring compliance with all other conditions of a deal prior to disbursing funds on a deal
• Assisting with general recovery matters (e.g. Sending letters of demand/breach, liaising with external attorneys, etc.)
• General monitoring of portfolio 
• Provide legal advice and services to the organisation in corporate and commercial matters
• Performing KYC/FICA/AML/PEP checks on clients
• Drafting finance facility Term Sheets, ensuring they encapsulate the terms of the credit approval and perform general administration in respect of the facility agreement preparations and finalisation
• Attend to queries from credit analysts, operations, and clients, providing legal expertise to the Credit Committee
• Draft documentation including regulatory required documents, non-standard security agreements and resolutions.
• To ensure that all client documents are up to date and signed off correctly and all required information is loaded onto the system 

We’re more effective as a team that works closely together and engages with its customers and stakeholders, face-to-face – consequently we are entirely office based [i.e. no work-from-home mode].

Required Qualifications

• Admitted Attorney
• Law Degree
• 1-2 year’s post articles work experience

 Desired Skills

• Obsessive about controlling documentation - understands the impact of incorrect paperwork
• Attention to deal
• Organized & professional work ethic
• Ability to take initiative and learn quickly
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Comfortable in engaging with customers at all levels
• Comfortable dealing with conflict and litigation related to recoveries
• Techno Savvy

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Job Description 

As a Funding Readiness Consultant, you will be expected to manage your portfolio by identifying and preparing tailored made communications and clearing the way for SMEs to receive funding.

 The candidate will be expected, but not be limited to: 

• Engage with our database of SMEs who have applied
• Identifying SMEs that could qualify for funding but are just not ready yet
• Identify problems in the SMEs path to funding and solution finding
• Preparing communication plans
• Acting on those communication plans
• Work closely with your colleagues in the Portfolio team and Credit team
• Preparing Action Plans for SME Owners
• Report on activities and successes
• Perform site missions
• Write up selected successful SME case files/studies

We’re more effective as a team that works closely together and engages with its customers and stakeholders, face-to-face – consequently we are entirely office based [i.e. no work-from-home mode].

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or similar
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in relationship banking or similar or previously running your own business

Desired Skills, Experience and disposition

• Experience with various finance/funding products
• Understanding of business models
• Communications management
• Financial understanding 
• Caring disposition 
• Excellent communication skills [verbal and written] 
• Problem Solver 
• Conscientious with follow-up & feedback  
• Strong team player
• A disarming and non-threating personality 
• Managing own time efficiently
• Self-awareness
• Good judgement of character   
• Experience on Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) or similar
• Embody Spartan’s mission statement (Helping SMEs Grow)

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This role is:

• Not merely a desktop based analytical role – but rather one that also engages regularly with CEOs, founders and entrepreneurs
• Not a data science role but you will heuristically connect the dots
• Not a purely mathematical endeavour - and will also rely on your EQ and communication skills.

This Role will:

• Allow you to consistently engage with entrepreneurs to gain an intimate knowledge of their businesses
• Allow you to explore and profile owners’ personalities
• Allow you investigate trends in industry and sectors and apply those determinations
• Expand your general business & industry knowledge exponentially
• Get you to directly make a difference to entrepreneurial businesses and build our country
• Engage with the Credit Committee

Job Description

As a Credit Analyst, you will analyse financial statements of multiple SMEs in South Africa across various industry sectors with the aim of providing balanced feedback to the Credit Committee.

The candidate will be expected to:

• Engage and interview the entrepreneurs
• Prepare credit papers for review
• Use inhouse and external rating agency credit rating tools and other economic indicators to supplement analysis
• Prepare detailed evaluation reports, assess cashflow forecasts and prepare a balanced view credit paper to the Credit Committee
• Oversee and evaluate these lending/investment decisions
• Conduct on-site evaluation missions
• Perform ongoing risk management activities on successfully funded SME's
• Promote and reinforce the role of Spartan as the financier to SMEs, constantly improving relationships with entrepreneurs and potential partners

Required Qualifications

• Preferable the candidate should have an undergraduate Commerce or Engineering degree or a Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degree.

Required Disposition

• A keen interest in SMEs, impact investing and socio-economic growth
• Someone who wants to make a contribution to South Africa
• Someone who is self-aware
• Big picture thinker, but with an eye for detail
• Curiosity with constant holistic learning

Desired Skills and Experience

• Worked in a family business
• Ability to take initiative, learn quickly and strive for results
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong team player and motivator
• Analytical mind, organized, attention to details
• Project management skills
• Techno savvy

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Purpose of the Role

This opportunity requires a self-aware, conscientious, and precise team-player who has general accounting experience with exposure to debtors, creditors, banking, journals and reconciliations.  Experience with loan amortisations is preferred but not essential however a conceptual understanding of loan and lease amortisations is essential.

The individual will report to the Group Finance Manager and will work closely with their likeminded team.

This role offers an opportunity for learning and growth to a competent individual with the right aptitude even though they may have limited experience.

We’re more effective as a team that works closely together and engages with its customers and stakeholders, face-to-face – consequently we are entirely office based [i.e. no work-from-home mode].

Required Qualifications

The individual must have a BCom degree, which includes  a major in Accounting and Finance as a subject.

Job Description

As an Accountant, you will prepare journals, reconcile accounts and prepare management account information for multiple companies within the group.

The candidate’s role will be drawn from the following outputs (the final job specification will be tailored to the chosen candidate’s experience and aptitude):

• Ensuring the accuracy of loan drawdown repayment calculations, including calculations of interest on arrears, early, settlements, and detailed amortisations.
• Balance sheet reconciliations related to customer accounts 
• Generate invoices and credit notes
• Customer (borrowers) payment allocations and loan reconciliations
• Sending invoices with statements and payment reminder emails to customers
• Preparation and loading of debit orders
• Management and resolution of unpaid obligations 
• Resolving customer queries 
• Work with Spartan’s internal Legal Team on defaulting customers
• Ad Hoc assignments

Performing accounting functions including:

• Journals
• VAT Calculations and Reconciliations
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Balancing Intercompany loan accounts
• Cash Flow Management
• Checking/preparing bank reconciliations daily
• Loading banking transactions
• Audit Assistance – Prepare audit packs and liaise with auditors

 Minimum requirements

• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting as a major and Finance as a subject) or equivalent tertiary qualification
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an accounting/bookkeeping  role
• Experience on Microsoft 365, Xero, Microsoft Teams, and Standard Bank Business online an advantage

Desired Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of accounting / bookkeeping experience
• Financial understanding including loans, leases and amortisations
• Xero (Preference but not requirement)
• General Microsoft office tools
• Excel – Above-average
• Online Banking Systems
• Analytical mind, organized, precise and meticulous

 Required Disposition

• Conceptual understanding of loan and leasing calculations, amortisation and net present value
• Techno Savvy  
• Good communicator [verbal and written] 
• Ability to listen, interpret and understand 
• Conscientious with follow-up & feedback  
• Trustworthy and dependable 
• Problem solver 
• Strong team player 
• Take initiative and responsibility 
• Managing own time efficiently
• Self-awareness 
• Listen, interpret and understand
• Curiosity with constant holistic learning
• Someone who wants to make a contribution to South Africa and assist SMEs