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Zutari: Co-creating an engineered impact.

• Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with almost 90 years' experience. As human-centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across Africa.
• We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

What kind of talent do we pursue?

• We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

About the role:

• The Senior Manager FP&A - is responsible for leading Zutari’s planning, forecasting, operational finance, management reporting, business partnering, and performance insight capabilities across the Group. Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the role serves as the key finance interface into operations and plays a central role in linking financial performance, project performance, business drivers, and management decision-making.
• The role will lead the Project Finance Accountant (PFA) team and the finance data and operational reporting capability, ensuring that finance support to the business is commercially relevant, analytically strong, and operationally embedded. The role is responsible for driving high-quality budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, management reporting, and financial insight, while helping operational leaders understand the drivers of business performance and make better decisions.
• This role requires a senior finance leader with strong commercial acumen, management accounting capability, operational finance experience, and the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insight. The incumbent must be able to operate effectively in a multi-entity, project-based, and increasingly multi-jurisdictional environment, while building strong relationships across finance and the business.

Key responsibilities 

Strategic Finance Partnering and Operational Support

• Act as the primary finance partner to operations, providing insight, challenge, and support on financial and business performance matters.
• Build strong relationships with operational leadership and project-facing teams to ensure finance is embedded in decision-making and performance management.
• Translate financial and operational information into meaningful insight that supports delivery, profitability, resource planning, and business improvement.
• Provide the Group Chief Financial Officer and executive leadership with forward‑looking insights on business performance, key risks, growth opportunities, and strategic trade‑offs..
• Strengthen the quality of finance engagement with the business by ensuring commercially relevant, timely, and practical support to operational stakeholders.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

• Lead the Group’s budgeting and forecasting processes across business units and operational areas, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and operating realities.
• Drive robust planning assumptions, challenge inputs, and improve the quality, consistency, and credibility of budgets and forecasts.
• Coordinate forecasting cycles and ensure meaningful visibility of expected performance, risks, opportunities, and resource implications.
• Inform scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and reforecasting to improve business responsiveness and decision-making.
• Work closely with business leaders and finance teams to ensure forecasts reflect operational plans, commercial realities, and emerging risks

Management Reporting and Performance Insight

• Lead the preparation and continuous improvement of management reporting across the Group, ensuring reporting is accurate, insightful, timely, and decision-useful.
• Oversee monthly management accounts, performance packs, KPI reporting, and analytical reviews that explain financial and operational performance.
• Identify and communicate key performance drivers, variances, trends, risks, and opportunities to support proactive management action.
• Ensure management reporting is clearly linked to operational performance, project outcomes, business drivers, and resource utilisation.
• Provide the Group Chief Financial Officer and senior leadership with executive-quality reporting and analysis for business reviews and performance discussions.

Project Finance and Business Partnering Leadership

• Lead the Project Finance Accountant team and set clear expectations for high-quality finance business partnering across the organisation.
• Ensure PFAs provide effective support to project and operational leaders on profitability, project performance, forecasting, margin management, working capital, and financial discipline.
• Build consistency in how finance supports projects, operational units, and business leaders, including common standards, reporting disciplines, and decision-support practices.
• Strengthen project and operational finance capability across the business through coaching, leadership, and performance management.
• Ensure the finance business partnering model remains responsive to the needs of a growing and increasingly complex organisation.

Data, Reporting and Analytics Leadership

• Lead the finance data and operational reporting capability, ensuring reporting outputs are relevant, reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with business needs.
• Oversee the development of dashboards, KPI reporting, and analytical tools that support management decision-making across finance and operations.
• Work with BI, systems, and reporting teams to define requirements for finance and operational reporting, including data models, business rules, reporting logic, and validation requirements.
• Ensure strong governance over the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of management information used across the business.
• Promote continuous improvement in reporting, analytics, automation, and the use of finance data to support insight and decision-making.

Performance Management and Decision Support

• Drive a disciplined performance management approach by linking plans, actual performance, forecasts, and operational drivers into a coherent management view.
• Provide financial and commercial insight into business performance, cost drivers, project trends, margin performance, and operational efficiency.
• Advise and guide business leaders in identifying corrective actions and improvement opportunities based on robust analysis and performance trends.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenarios, and analytical tools that support planning, decision-making, and business cases.
• Contribute to a stronger performance culture by promoting accountability, transparency, and fact-based decision-making.

Leadership and Capability Development

• Lead, coach, and develop team members across FP&A, finance business partnering, and reporting / analytics functions.
• Build a strong team culture focused on business relevance, analytical rigour, accountability, collaboration, and service excellence.
• Guide the development of finance talent and succession depth across the operational finance and reporting environment.
• Strengthen ways of working, role clarity, and capability across the team in support of the revised finance structure.
• Bring discipline, clarity, and continuous improvement to the way operational finance support is delivered across Zutari.

Requirements

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• Chartered Accountant qualification or equivalent senior professional finance qualification.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in Finance, Business, Strategy, or related discipline.

Experience   

• 10–12+ years’ progressive finance experience, including significant exposure to FP&A, management accounting, business partnering, and performance reporting.
• Proven experience leading finance teams that support operations, business units, projects, or commercial decision-making.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and performance insight.
• Demonstrated experience translating financial and operational data into practical business insight and management action.
• Experience managing or leading finance reporting, analytics, or data-driven performance reporting capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience, with the ability to influence operational and business leaders credibly.
• Experience in complex, multi-entity, project-based, or matrixed environments.

Advantageous:

• Experience in engineering, consulting, infrastructure, construction, or other project-based professional services environments.
• Exposure to Power BI, data modelling, dashboarding, SQL or related reporting and analytics tools.
• Experience working with ERP, BI, or finance systems development and improvement initiatives.
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional or multinational business environments.
• Experience supporting organisational change, operating model evolution, or finance transformation

Skills 

• Strong FP&A, management accounting, and business partnering capability.
• Strong commercial acumen and operational finance insight.
• Ability to connect project, operational, and financial performance into a coherent management view.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modelling capability.
• Strong management reporting and executive reporting capability.
• Ability to interpret data critically and translate it into actionable insight.
• Strong data, reporting, dashboarding, and analytics orientation.
• Ability to engage credibly with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Advanced Excel capability and strong familiarity with reporting and analytics tools.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team development capability.

Competencies:

• Strategic and Commercial Financial Insight
• Planning, Forecasting and Performance Leadership
• Management Reporting and Operational Analytics
• Business Partnering and Stakeholder Influence
• Project and Operational Finance Leadership
• Data-Driven Decision Support
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Leadership and Team Development
• Change Leadership and Continuous Improvement
• Sound Judgement in Complex and Operationally Dynamic Environments

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Description

Zutari: Co-creating an engineered impact.

• Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with almost 90 years' experience. As human-centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across Africa.
• We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

What kind of talent do we pursue?

• We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

About the role:

The Finance Director: Group

•  Reporting and Control is a senior finance leadership role responsible for strengthening financial control, reporting integrity, governance, and performance insight across Zutari. Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the role provides leadership across group financial reporting, statutory compliance, budgeting and forecasting, finance operations, working capital performance, and financial governance across the organisation.
• The role also contributes to broader enterprise finance priorities by supporting strategic decision making on matters such as business performance, capital allocation, funding considerations, legal entity and jurisdictional complexity, and selected corporate transactions and change initiatives. While the treasury function may not report directly into this role, the incumbent will be expected to provide informed guidance, challenge, and strategic finance input on treasury, liquidity, banking, and capital-related matters.
• The role requires a mature finance leader who can operate effectively across multiple entities, jurisdictions, and business contexts; engage credibly with executive leadership, boards, and governance forums; and bring a broad base of experience from complex, multi-jurisdictional, and ideally large corporate environments

Strategic Finance Partnership and Stakeholder Leadership

• Partner closely with the Group Chief Financial Officer and finance leadership team to support the execution of the Group finance agenda and broader business priorities.
• Provide clear financial insight and advice to support executive decision-making, including the financial implications of strategic initiatives, growth options, restructurings, and business performance improvement actions.
• Act as a trusted senior finance advisor to leadership on finance related matters, balancing strategic perspective with operational and governance discipline.
• Build effective working relationships across business units, functions, and leadership teams to ensure alignment between financial priorities and organisational objectives.
• Contribute to executive, board, and committee reporting through clear analysis of financial performance, risks, opportunities, and key business drivers.
• Partner with the broader finance team to ensure that planning, forecasting, and management insight are appropriately reflected in executive, board, and finance decision-making

Group Financial Control, Reporting and Compliance

• Lead and oversee the integrity of financial reporting across the Group, ensuring accurate, timely, and decision-useful reporting.
• Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes to ensure strong balance sheet discipline, accurate profit and loss reporting, and robust cash flow reporting.
• Ensure high-quality group consolidations across multiple entities, including the treatment of intercompany balances, eliminations, and multi-jurisdictional reporting requirements.
• Ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), applicable local statutory requirements, and internal financial policies and standards.
• Oversee the preparation and review of annual financial statements and other statutory reporting deliverables.
• Drive consistency in financial accounting treatment, reporting policies, and control practices across the Group.
• Coordinate effectively with joint venture partners and other relevant external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting where applicable.
• Ensure alignment between financial reporting outputs and the assumptions, risks, and implications arising from planning and forecasting processes

Governance, Board Management, Controls and Audit

• Strengthen and maintain an effective financial control environment across the Group, with clear accountability, sound governance, and appropriate segregation of duties.
• Provide significant support to boards, audit committees, and governance forums through high-quality reporting, insight, and management of finance-related matters.
• Prepare, review, and present finance content for board and committee packs, ensuring clarity, accuracy, relevance, and strong linkage to strategic and governance priorities.
• Manage board and committee finance matters effectively, including follow-through on actions, escalation of key issues, and timely resolution of finance-related risks and decisions.
• Oversee the effectiveness of key financial controls, reconciliations, review processes, and financial risk mitigation practices.
• Support internal and external audit processes and ensure that findings are addressed appropriately and timeously.
• Monitor compliance with delegated authorities, financial policies, reporting timetables, and governance requirements across entities and jurisdictions.
• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer in Audit and Risk Committee and other governance engagements, as required.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, control maturity, and reporting quality.
• Support clear articulation of financial outlook, risk, and key assumptions in board and committee reporting, in partnership with the wider team where appropriate.

Treasury, Liquidity and Capital Guidance

• Provide strategic finance guidance and challenge to the treasury function on liquidity planning, cash forecasting, banking structures, guarantees, facilities, and related risk matters.
• Partner with the Group Chief Financial Officer and relevant treasury stakeholders on matters relating to funding requirements, capital structuring considerations, covenant implications, and banking relationships.
• Review and challenge cash flow forecasts, working capital assumptions, and liquidity planning to ensure alignment with Group priorities.
• Provide informed finance input on foreign exchange, interest rate, counterparty, and cross-border cash management risks.
• Ensure that appropriate governance and oversight are in place over banking and treasury-related processes, even where direct line management does not reside in the role.

Working Capital, Cost Discipline and Finance Operations

• Monitor and improve key working capital drivers, including receivables, payables, contract-related balances, and other relevant cash conversion metrics.
• Provide leadership oversight over accounts payable and related finance operations to ensure strong controls, policy compliance, timely execution, and efficient service delivery.
• Support business leaders in identifying opportunities to improve cost discipline, margin performance, and financial efficiency.
• Ensure accurate recording of revenues, expenses, provisions, accruals, and other key accounting balances across the Group.
• Promote a culture of accountability, accuracy, discipline, and continuous improvement across the finance function.

Corporate Finance and Transactions

• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer on strategic finance matters such as legal entity structuring, capital allocation, business restructuring, and selected investment or transaction related initiatives.
• Contribute financial analysis, business case evaluation, and scenario modelling for major strategic decisions and special projects.
• Support financial workstreams linked to acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, integrations, or other corporate activity where relevant.
• Contribute to finance transformation, systems improvement, and process enhancement initiatives across the Group.
• Apply broad finance judgement across a range of complex and evolving business issues beyond routine controllership responsibilities.

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the relevant finance team members to build capability, accountability, succession depth, and high performance.
• Foster collaboration across finance and non-finance stakeholders in a matrixed and professional environment.
• Create a strong team culture grounded in integrity, responsiveness, technical excellence, and sound judgement.
• Support the ongoing development of finance talent within Zutari while bringing an external lens on leading practice and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or equivalent, CA, CPA, CGMA, FCCA
• Chartered Accountant
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in finance, business, strategy, or leadership.
• 15 years’ progressive finance and accounting experience, with substantial senior leadership exposure.
• Proven experience in complex group environments involving multiple entities, jurisdictions, currencies, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong experience across group financial reporting, consolidations, statutory compliance, budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, and performance analysis.
• Significant experience in supporting and managing board, audit committee, and governance-related finance matters.
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at senior leadership level and engage effectively with executives, boards, and other senior stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and applicable statutory reporting requirements.
• Experience in large corporate, multinational, or similarly complex organisational environments

Advantageous:

• Experience across more than one industry or business context.
• Experience in professional services, engineering, infrastructure, construction, or other complex project-based environments.
• Exposure to treasury, funding, capital structuring, banking relationships, or liquidity management at a strategic level.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, legal entity rationalisation, post-merger integration, or other strategic corporate finance initiatives.
• Experience leading or contributing to ERP, finance transformation, or process improvement programmes.
• Experience engaging with joint venture structures, financial institutions, and external advisors.
• Advanced financial reporting, consolidation, and control capability.
• Ability to interpret financial information strategically and translate it into actionable insight.
• Strong commercial judgement and business partnering capability.
• Ability to guide and influence across a broad finance agenda, including areas not directly reporting into the role.
• Strong understanding of governance, board reporting, risk, internal control, and audit requirements.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced ERP, finance systems, and reporting tools proficiency.
• High attention to detail, balanced with the ability to maintain a strategic and enterprise-wide perspective.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team development capability.

Competencies

• Strategic Financial Leadership
• Executive Stakeholder Influence
• Board and Governance Management
• Financial Control, Governance and Reporting Excellence
• Planning, Forecasting and Performance Leadership
• Treasury, Liquidity and Capital Insight
• Commercial Acumen and Value Optimisation
• Cross-Functional Leadership and Collaboration
• Change Leadership and Continuous Improvement
• Sound Judgement in Complex and Ambiguous Environments

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Description

Zutari: Co-creating an engineered impact.

• Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with almost 90 years' experience. As human-centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across Africa.
• We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

What kind of talent do we pursue?

• We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

About the role:

• The Group Treasurer is responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, and management of Zutari’s treasury function across the Group. The role is accountable for ensuring effective liquidity management, funding readiness, financial risk management, banking strategy, treasury governance, and capital management across multiple entities, jurisdictions, and currencies.
• Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the role plays a critical part in supporting the Group’s financial resilience, operational agility, and long-term growth ambitions as Zutari evolves into a larger multi-national engineering consulting business. The Group Treasurer will provide specialist expertise on liquidity, guarantees, facilities, foreign exchange, interest rate risk, cross-border cash management, banking structures, treasury controls, and capital planning, while ensuring treasury activities are aligned with the Group’s strategic, operational, and governance requirements.
• This role requires a seasoned treasury specialist with proven experience in leading a dedicated treasury function within a complex, multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional environment. The incumbent must bring deep technical treasury expertise, strong judgement, and the ability to engage credibly with executive leadership, boards, governance forums, banking partners, and internal stakeholders across the organisation.

Key responsibilities 

Strategic Treasury Leadership

• Develop and lead the Group treasury strategy to support Zutari’s growth, resilience, and evolving corporate requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Partner with the Group Chief Financial Officer on treasury priorities including liquidity resilience, funding capacity, banking structures, capital efficiency, and financial risk management.
• Provide specialist treasury advice to senior leadership on matters relating to cash, liquidity, guarantees, facilities, financial risk, and capital-related decision-making.
• Ensure the treasury function evolves in line with the needs of a growing, multi-national, project-based business operating across multiple legal entities and currencies.
• Contribute to the broader Group finance agenda by ensuring treasury priorities are aligned with business strategy, governance requirements, and operational realities.

Cash, Liquidity and Working Capital Management

• Lead the forecasting, monitoring, and optimisation of Group-wide cash positions, liquidity headroom, and funding requirements.
• Ensure adequate liquidity is maintained across the Group to meet operational, contractual, regulatory, and strategic requirements.
• Optimise cash deployment across entities and currencies, taking into account repatriation constraints, cross-border flows, and local market realities.
• Provide insight into working capital drivers and cash conversion implications in partnership with finance and business leadership.
• Strengthen cash visibility and liquidity planning across the Group through robust processes, controls, and reporting.

Funding, Facilities and Guarantee Management

• Lead the assessment, negotiation, implementation, and ongoing management of short-term and long-term funding facilities as required.
• Manage the Group’s guarantee and bond requirements, including bid bonds, performance guarantees, retention guarantees, advance payment guarantees, and other security instruments relevant to a project-based engineering consulting environment.
• Maintain oversight of facility utilisation, covenant compliance, expiry profiles, pricing, and related obligations.
• Support funding readiness for strategic initiatives, growth opportunities, legal entity requirements, and major project pursuits.
• Advise on the structure and optimisation of banking and guarantee facilities to improve flexibility, cost efficiency, and risk management.
• Contribute to debt portfolio management, refinancing planning, and funding diversification strategies in line with the Group’s growth ambitions.

Financial Risk Management

• Develop and implement treasury risk management frameworks aligned to the Group’s risk appetite and governance standards.
• Identify, assess, and manage treasury-related financial risks, including foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, and selected balance sheet risks.
• Recommend and execute appropriate hedging or mitigation strategies where approved and appropriate.
• Monitor market, regulatory, interest rate, credit, and foreign exchange developments and advise the Group Chief Financial Officer on implications for funding strategy, liquidity resilience, hedging, and treasury risk positioning.
• Ensure treasury risk decisions are well governed, documented, and aligned with policy and delegated authority.

Banking and Treasury Operations

• Lead the design and oversight of efficient banking structures across the Group, including account rationalisation, signatory governance, access controls, and service optimisation.
• Manage strategic relationships with banks and other financial institutions to ensure strong support, competitive pricing, and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Oversee treasury operations, systems, and controls to ensure accuracy, efficiency, resilience, and compliance.
• Ensure strong governance over bank account management, payment controls, mandates, and treasury-related operational processes.
• Drive the development of treasury reporting, dashboards, controls, and systems capability to support increased scale, visibility, and decision-making sophistication across the Group.
• Support the evolution of treasury technology, ERP integration, and cash visibility tools in line with the Group’s growth and complexity.
• Drive the continuous improvement of treasury processes, reporting, controls, and use of treasury related systems.

Treasury Governance, Policies and Compliance

• Develop, implement, and maintain treasury policies, frameworks, procedures, and internal controls that reflect best practice and the Group’s evolving needs.
• Ensure compliance with treasury related regulatory requirements, internal policies, delegated authorities, and banking obligations across jurisdictions.
• Support internal and external audit processes relating to treasury and ensure timely resolution of treasury control findings.
• Prepare and present treasury updates, risk exposures, facility positions, and key funding matters for executive and governance forums, including board and committee structures where required.
• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer in articulating treasury related risks, opportunities, and strategic choices at board and committee level.
• Maintain strong documentation and governance discipline across treasury decisions, facilities, instruments, and approvals.

Capital Structure and Corporate Finance Support

• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer in evaluating and optimising the Group’s capital structure, funding mix, tenor profile, and balance sheet resilience over the medium to long term.
• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer on intercompany funding arrangements, legal entity funding requirements, and balance sheet optimisation.
• Manage intercompany loans, cash movements, and related treasury arrangements across the Group in line with governance, tax, and legal requirements.
• Provide treasury input into mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, integrations, and other strategic corporate activity where relevant.
• Assess the treasury and funding implications of major strategic decisions, business expansion into new jurisdictions, and changes in the Group’s operating model.
• Contribute specialist treasury insight to long-term financial planning and strategic decision-making

Requirements:

Qualifications

Education / Certification / Memberships  

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.    
• Postgraduate qualification in Finance, Treasury, Business, or related discipline.         
• Specialist treasury certification or treasury association membership.           

Experience   

• Minimum 10 -12 years’ progressive finance experience, including significant specialist treasury experience and leadership of a dedicated treasury function in a senior treasury role.
• Proven experience leading treasury in a complex, multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional, and multi-currency environment.
• Demonstrated experience in liquidity management, cash forecasting, banking relationships, facilities, guarantees, treasury controls, and financial risk management.
• Strong experience in foreign exchange, interest rate, and liquidity risk management.
• Proven experience negotiating and managing banking facilities, guarantee instruments, covenant obligations, and refinancing processes.
• Proven track record of designing, leading, and maturing treasury capability in complex corporate environments.
• Experience designing and implementing treasury policies, controls, governance frameworks, and treasury reporting for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with senior executives, boards, banks, auditors, and other key stakeholders.
• Experience in large corporate, multinational, or similarly complex organisations

Advantageous

• Experience in engineering, infrastructure, construction, professional services, or other project-based environments with significant guarantee and cross-border funding requirements.
• Exposure to capital structure planning, intercompany funding, M&A, restructuring, or post-merger integration.
• Experience with treasury systems and finance ERP integration.
• Experience operating in African and other emerging market environments

Skills

• Deep technical treasury expertise across liquidity, funding, guarantees, and financial risk management.
• Strong understanding of banking products, treasury instruments, balance sheet management, and cross-border cash management.
• Ability to assess and solve complex treasury issues in a practical and commercially sound manner.
• Strong financial modelling and cash flow forecasting capability.
• Strong governance, control, and policy development capability.
• Ability to prepare and present clear treasury insights for executive, board, and committee audiences.
• Excellent negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical capability and sound judgement.
• Advanced Excel and strong treasury systems / ERP capability.
• Leadership and team development capability.

Competencies 

• Strategic Treasury Leadership
• Liquidity, Funding and Cash Management Expertise
• Financial Risk Management and Hedging Insight
• Banking, Facilities and Guarantee Management
• Treasury Governance, Controls and Compliance
• Capital Structure and Balance Sheet Insight
• Stakeholder Influence and Relationship Management
• Cross-Functional Leadership and Collaboration
• Change Leadership and Continuous Improvement
• Sound Judgement in Complex and Multi-Jurisdictional Environments

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Description

• Engineering is more than design and delivery at Zutari; it is the craft of shaping possibility.
• As a leading buildings, infrastructure engineering, and advisory practice with over 90 years of heritage across Africa and the Middle East, we work across the full infrastructure lifecycle to deliver innovative, digitally enabled solutions. From bridges and dams to energy systems and smart infrastructure, our work connects communities and unlocks long-term value.
• We are looking for technical minds who see beyond constraints and are driven to engineer solutions that matter, today and for generations to come.

Role responsibilities

• In this role, you will be involved in a range of business improvement projects and perform tasks related to the efficient and effective delivery these projects including research, data analysis and validation, stakeholder engagement and understanding of the status quo, project planning and management, and change management. You will also drive quality control of all deliverables you are responsible for.
• Effective and efficient processes are important to us. You will therefor join the co-hort of Lean Methodology Champions and help embed the culture in Zutari by driving use of the relevant tools on your projects.
• We believe that success and innovation is built on sharing what we know. Therefore, you will contribute to the growth of our knowledge database and you will transfer skills and knowledge within your relevant area of expertise through your ability to communicate effectively.

Minimum requirements

• Degree in Industrial Engineering or other relevant field. Post graduate degree will be an advantage.
• +3 years’ experience in process improvement, business analysis, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, project planning and management, and change management.
• +2 years experience on technology and data related projects will be highly beneficial.

Skills, and characteristics (add if applicable)

• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Consultation and facilitation skills
• Detail-oriented and capable of delivering tasks with high level of accuracy
• Leadership and management skills
• Stakeholder analysis
• Requirements engineering and process mapping
• Costs benefit analysis
• Understanding of dashboards/reports, networks, databases and underlying technologies
• Commercial awareness
• Time management and organisational skills

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Description

• Zutari is a leading buildings, engineering and advisory firm with over 90 years of experience across Africa and the Middle East. Within our Buildings practice, we design resilient, sustainable, and high-performance spaces that shape how people live, work, and connect.
• From structural and civil engineering to façade, fire, and building services, we bring together integrated expertise to deliver environments that are intelligent, future-ready, and built for lasting impact.
• We are looking for individuals who are passionate about shaping spaces that go beyond function and create environments that inspire, enable, and endure.

What kind of talent do we pursue?

• We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.
• Based at our Rosebank offices, Zutari is currently seeking an experienced senior Structural Engineering professional who will be accountable for the technical integrity, delivery performance, commercial outcomes, client satisfaction, pipeline support, and capability growth of the structural discipline across assigned built environment projects. The role leads and manages structural design packages across commercial, mixed-use, transport buildings and upgrades, public venues/stadia, data centres, and mission-critical facilities, ensuring that solutions are safe, buildable, efficient, and aligned with client requirements, applicable codes, and Zutari standards. 
• The Associate owns the quality and compliance of structural engineering outputs from concept through detailed design and construction support. The role drives coordinated multidisciplinary delivery, manages scope, programme, risk, and financial performance, and acts as the primary technical representative for the discipline in client and stakeholder engagements.
• Through technical excellence, trusted relationships, and disciplined project delivery, the Associate contributes to repeat business and sustainable pipeline growth. The role also strengthens structural engineering capability by mentoring team members, enforcing discipline standards, and promoting continuous improvement in methods, governance, digital delivery, safety in design, and innovation.

Key Role Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Engineering Integrity

• Lead and manage structural design packages for built environment projects, from concept design through detailed design and construction support.
• Deliver and oversee structural analysis and design for reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, and structural steel systems in accordance with applicable codes, standards, and project specifications.
• Interpret and apply client standards and national/international design codes to develop safe, buildable, efficient, and technically robust structural solutions.
• Oversee and approve structural calculations, reports, design briefs, specifications, design risk notes, and other technical documentation to ensure engineering integrity and clarity of design intent.
• Drive continuous improvement in structural engineering methods, technical standards, digital delivery, governance, and risk-based engineering decision-making.

Pipeline Contribution & Opportunity Support

• Identify future opportunities during project delivery by maintaining strong client engagement and understanding evolving client needs.
• Provide discipline-specific input to bids, proposals, and fee estimates, including design strategies, assumptions, risks, and competitive differentiators.
• Ensure high-quality delivery that strengthens Zutari’s reputation and drives repeat business from satisfied clients.
• Advise discipline and sector leadership on emerging market trends, capability gaps, and opportunities aligned with the business strategy.
• Support early pursuit discussions by providing informed, technically grounded perspectives on feasibility, scope, risks, and value creation.

Team Capability, Leadership & Technical Development

• Lead and mentor engineers, technologists, and technicians, ensuring clarity of expectations, disciplined delivery, and strong technical development.
• Assign work effectively based on capability, workload, and risk, ensuring quality and performance standards are consistently met.
• Provide structured technical feedback, support performance reviews, and identify development needs across the team.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning to strengthen long‑term structural discipline capability.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration across the team.

Client Leadership, Technical Advisory & Relationship Management

• Act as the primary structural representative for assigned projects, leading client discussions, workshops, reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Provide clear, structured advice that helps clients understand trade‑offs, technical risks, value‑optimisation options, compliance requirements, and performance outcomes.
• Maintain strong, trust‑based relationships by ensuring transparency, proactive communication, timely decision inputs, and reliable delivery performance.
• Represent Zutari with professionalism and authority in all external technical engagements, enhancing client confidence and enabling future work.

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications

• BSc/BEng/BTech in Civil/Structural Engineering from a recognised institution (postgraduate qualification advantageous).
• Professional registration with ECSA.

Experience

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience delivering and leading structural engineering design on complex building or infrastructure projects across multiple sectors (e.g. commercial, industrial, mission critical, healthcare, mixed-use, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience acting as the structural lead on projects, with accountability for technical integrity, delivery performance, multi‑disciplinary integration, and client-facing coordination.
• Proven experience in the analysis and design of complex or large-scale built environment projects, including steel and concrete structures.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant design codes and standards (South African, Australian/New Zealand, American and/or European), with the ability to work across different code environments where required.
• Proficiency in common structural analysis and design software and a solid understanding of CAD/BIM workflows and model-based coordination.
• Demonstrated experience across tender, detailed design and construction support phases, including technical responses, design development, and construction-phase query resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly and confidently.
• Experience in complex finite element analysis and/or specialist assessments (e.g. complex modelling, advanced staging/sequence modelling, seismic analysis and design/ detailing to applicable codes where required).
• Exposure to dynamic/vibration assessments (modal/harmonic/time-history or vibration studies).
• Experience with scripting/coding and automation to improve design workflows and quality checking.

Skills and Characteristics

• Technical excellence: strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate and resolve complex structural design challenges in the built environment.
• Strong ability to lead design strategy, make informed engineering decisions under uncertainty, and provide authoritative technical direction.
• Excellent delivery management skills, including programme planning, work sequencing, risk identification, interface management, and quality assurance control.
• Solid commercial understanding: scope definition, fee alignment, change control discipline, margin awareness, hours forecasting, and rework avoidance.
• Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to present design options, explain trade-offs, negotiate technical decisions, and build client confidence.
• Competent in digital design workflows and audit of digital outputs, with the ability to guide automation (e.g., Dynamo/Python) and drive digital delivery improvement (not hands-on modelling).
• Effective leadership and delegation skills, ensuring delivery quality, balanced workloads, and capability development within the team.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and structured decision-making skills.
• Technical Mastery: Demonstrates authoritative engineering judgement, advanced knowledge of codes and systems, and high-standard technical outputs.
• Delivery Leadership: Owns structural delivery performance; ensures predictable, high-quality outcomes across scope, programme, risk, and quality dimensions.
• Commercial Discipline: Protects commercial outcomes through fee alignment, change control, risk management, scope clarity, and avoidance of cost leakage.
• Client Leadership: Builds trust, shapes decisions, manages expectations, and takes accountability for client satisfaction and repeat business.
• People Development: Mentors, upskills, and supports team growth; contributes to performance input, capability uplift, and succession planning.
• Cross‑Disciplinary Collaboration: Works effectively across mechanical, structural, architectural and specialist teams to ensure coordinated and integrated design delivery.
• Digital Fluency: Promotes high standards of digital engineering, QA/QC, and automation adoption to improve accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
• Risk‑Based Thinking: Identifies technical, delivery, and commercial risks early, takes proactive corrective action, and exercises sound judgement in complex decisions.
• Ownership & Accountability: Takes responsibility for outcomes, not tasks; maintains high standards of professionalism, integrity, and reliability.

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Role Responsibilities

• Creating conceptual, preliminary, and detail designs in the ports and coastal engineering environment.
• Perform complex engineering designs, calculations, and analysis of ports and coastal related infrastructure across the full lifecycle of the project, i.e., planning, design and implementation.
• Assist in the preparation of project specifications, BoQ’s, cost estimates and tender documentation.
• Prepare reports required by the project, implementation of all relevant codes of practice and ensuring that all work complies with Zutari ‘s quality control procedures.
• Undertake ad-hoc or part-time construction supervision duties where required.
• Active coordination and interfacing with different stakeholders, teams, and clients on multi-disciplinary projects, e.g. environmental services, local municipalities and authorities, architects and developers, and other engineering disciplines.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc/BEng/BTech in Civil Engineering. A postgraduate qualification related to Port & Coastal engineering would be advantageous.
• Evidence of professional registration progress with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
• At least 3 years’ experience in the relevant field.
• Coastal and/or Port engineering experience deemed critical.
• Structural analysis and design experience would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with numerical modelling in the coastal engineering environment.
• Familiarity with international codes and standards related to marine and coastal design as well as structural analysis.
• Experience in using a variety of software packages e.g. Autodesk Civil3D, Revit, Navisworks, etc.
• Proficient in computer software such as Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).
• Demonstrated commitment to delivering exceptional client service and a passion for technical excellence.
• Must be able to work well in a team, in both a supporting and leadership role.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with exposure in writing technical reports and/or project correspondence.
• Excellent organisational skills (ability to plan and implement) and time management skills.

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent).
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 5 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Solid understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Solid experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities.

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent) OR clear evidence of registration progress.
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 3 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Solid understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities.

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent).
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 7 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Extensive understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Solid experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities