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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Coordinate and monitor records management maturity assessments in the SARB departments.
• Conduct records management inspections to monitor compliance with relevant legislation, policies, procedures and standards, and identify gaps and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide records management tools to ensure standardisation throughout the SARB.
• Provide reports for management information and decision-making purposes.
• Provide on-the-job training to sub-records managers and records control officers in support of their roles in the respective departments.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships in line with the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Centre of Excellence (CoE) service catalogue.
• Participate and provide records management expertise in the implementation of the Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) and the Records Centre System (RCS) in the respective departments.
• Provide EDRMS administration and functional support in line with OpenText centre of excellence (CoE).
• Facilitate and coordinate the streamlining of the correspondence processes with the respective departments.
• Facilitate and coordinate the transfer of records from departmental divisions to the records centre, corporate archives and off-site storage.
• Facilitate and coordinate the destruction of records in line with the approved SARB records retention schedule.
• Stay current with industry developments and best practice and apply these in the course of own work.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a National Diploma (NQF 6) in Archives and Records Management or an equivalent qualification;
• at least 5–8 years’ experience in records and information management;
• experience in electronic records and document management (essential); and
• experience in EDRMS and records centre implementation.

The following would be an added advantage:

• a certification in national archives or an equivalent certification;
• AIIM ECM certification; and 
• experience in Open Text. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Support the business in the implementation of the various data management disciplines (i.e. reference and master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data modelling as well as design and data security).
• Provide a consolidated and integrated view of the information landscape within the SARB Group to support different use cases.
• Rationalise the information landscape within the SARB Group for the purpose of continuous improvement and effectiveness.
• Oversee and manage the information life cycle and related interdisciplinary activities, from data acquisition, retention, archival and deletion.
• Facilitate changes related to data and information, analyse the impact thereof, and coordinate the implementation of information management activities based on the changes.
• Ensure alignment between the various data management disciplines to promote cross-functional cohesion in providing business value.
• Lead and participate in engagements with stakeholders within the SARB Group and external parties to ensure service delivery.
• Provide input into how data is stored, maintained and used in the database management implementation process.
• Provide periodic reports, including technical reports, as well as information management reports for decision-making purposes.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management across the organisation and to support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.  
• Participate and provide technical support in cross-organisation activities relating to any of the above-mentioned data management activities.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• A Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Informatics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or an equivalent qualification; and
• five to eight years’ experience in the field of data management.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• continuous learning and/or professional development;
• continuous improvement;
• business continuity planning;
• IT enablement legislation, governance, risk and compliance;
• best practices/methodologies in data warehousing and multi-dimensional data analytics (e.g. OLAP, such as ESSBASE or Microsoft analysis services), systems design and management;
• the most common RDBMS technologies (e.g. Oracle, IBM, SQL Server and MySQL);
• deploying and managing big data environments (e.g. Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL);
• database querying languages (e.g. SQL);
• a variety of programming languages, including but not limited to R and Python;
• development using a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and methodologies; and
• all the data management disciplines.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Engage in short-term planning and perform tasks against work plans as defined in conjunction with the team leader.
• Perform work independently within established practices, processes, rules and regulations and legislation (Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993).
• Take responsibility for allocated portions of assets at various points of their life cycle (capturing/monitoring purchase requests, allocating item asset barcodes, initiating invoice payments and facilitating the delivery and disposal of assets)
• Undertake fixed asset verification in line with South African Reserve Bank requirements and report on the findings of the verification.
• Manage and administer compliance by suppliers where contracts or agreements exist.
• Diagnose problems, choose and/or modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions for problems within a defined context. 
• Provide regular status updates (daily, weekly and monthly as defined) to facilitate accurate reporting.
• Engage relevant stakeholders/clients, inside and outside own department, displaying a service orientation and the ability to convey and explain information coherently.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of functional area, displaying willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices).
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria and identify and address task-specific learning needs.

Qualifications

Job requirements 

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a National Diploma (NQF6) in Financial Management, Accounting, Business Administration or an equivalent qualification; and
• two to five years’ experience in asset management.

Additional requirements include: 

• conceptual thinking skills;
• effective communication skills;
• flexibility;
• a drive for results;
• a learning focus;
• teamwork skills;
• a service and stakeholder focus;
• the ability to build and maintain relationships;
• judgement and decision-making skills;
• impact and influence;
• analytical and problem-solving skills;

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas: 

• Prepare, process, verify and quality-sort banknotes received from internal and external customers. 
• Reconcile processed batches of banknotes to ensure they balance with the amount deposited by customers. 
• Engage in short-term planning and perform tasks against work plans as defined by the team leader. 
• Perform work as part of a team within established practices, processes, rules and regulations, ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines in executing prescribed tasks. 
• Identify, evaluate and solve defined, routine and new problems within a familiar context, applying solutions based on relevant evidence and procedures. 
• Deliver work that meets the time and quality standards set in terms of the processing and destruction of soiled notes. 
• Provide information to the supervisor relating to operational efficiency as well as any deviations from policies, procedures and service level agreements. 
• Engage with relevant internal stakeholders to ensure optimal delivery within the division. 
• Proactively broaden knowledge of the functional area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices). 
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria, and identify and address task-specific learning needs.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have: 

• a Grade 12 certificate or an equivalent qualification; and 
• some experience in a cash-handling environment. 

Additional requirements include: 

• problem-solving skills; 
• service and stakeholder focus; 
• planning and organising skills; 
• flexibility; and 
• computer literacy. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Plan work according to defined priorities.
• Plan, facilitate the delivery and ensure the quality of section-specific outputs and optimise section resources.
• Perform the accounting function in accordance with SARB policies, the relevant accounting standards, cost accounting principles and legislation.
• Coordinate, review, consolidate and report on the SARB’s operational and capital budgets to ensure adequate financial management by the organisation. 
• Maintain the management information system for the consistent and accurate reporting of relevant information to senior management.
• Participate in internal and external stakeholder engagements, displaying the ability to solicit information and deliver a coherent and convincing message.
• Propose and implement the refinement and continual improvement of systems, tools, controls, methods and processes in own area. 
• Stay abreast of developments in own functional area and ensure application thereof.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting; and
• at least three to five years’ experience in a financial services environment.

The following would be an added advantage:

• a Chartered Accountant (SA) qualification.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skills in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continual improvement; 
• continual learning and/or professional development;
• financial strategy; 
• financial planning;
• finance-related legislation, governance, risk and compliance;
• financial accounting;
• financial reconciliation;
• function-specific performance management;
• function-specific information systems;
• business continuity planning;
• analytical and problem-solving skills;
• planning and organisational skills;
• service and stakeholder focus;
• a drive for results;
• the ability to develop and grow others;
• the ability to promote teamwork;
• effective communication skills;
• judgement and decision-making skills;