Our client, a well established financial and fiduciary services provides investment advisory services to trusts, companies, private individuals, and funds is offering an exceptional opportunity for a recently qualified,CA(SA) or CIMA finance professional to join their business. As Assistant Finance Manager, and having an enthusiastic and positive approach to every day challenges, you’ll have strong multi-tasking abilities, along with being a confident and effective communicator. You will be relied upon to juggle several companies accounting needs at once. Reporting to the Finance Manager, your main duties and responsibilities will include:

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing or producing financials for Trust, Funds and Companies (property owning/investment/nominee etc)
• Providing a back-office function for trust administration (bookkeeping rental statements and reconciling investment reports)
• The preparation of various formal accounts according to IFRS or GAAP (FRS 102) current knowledge is a must because the candidate will be required to apply their knowledge to accounts preparation
• Supporting the corporate reporting function
• Supporting the business in delivering a strong finance function and assist in improving systems and processes across the business  

CA Financial Appointments is seeking immediately available Chartered Accountants. We have a few exciting roles with various clients all needing a different range of experience (1 - 5 years post articles). A number of clients are needing individuals that are immediately-available. If you are a CA(SA) that is immediately available or know anyone that is please contact us. Several consultants will be able to assist and provide you with roles that may suit your profile.

Requirements:

• CA(SA)
• 1 - 5 years experience 

A Multinational Asset Management organization is seeking a Business Analyst to fill a 12-month contract. This role will sit in the Fund Operations team who supports the business by facilitating flows into the funds. Fund Operations also own the relationship with the Transfer Agent as well as being responsible for the oversight of their processes. As the Business Analyst, you will be responsible for working with stakeholders across multiple business units and the Transfer Agent, to gather and record business requirements for new and existing initiatives, as well as changes to processes and systems.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, gather, analyse and document business requirements and translate these into high level specifications and design.
• Effectively communicate business specifications to internal teams, developers and/or the Transfer Agent.
• Define/review business rules and guide the implementation of these rules in the development of the various application systems
• Consider impact of projects on forms, web and communicating changes to client timeously
• Conduct data analysis to investigate ongoing/ad hoc operational issues
• Understand, enhance and deliver improved business processes.
• Strong emphasis on delivery and having the ability to run small projects with tangible milestones and delivering against them

If you are a Project Costing and Budgeting professional with business partnering skills, then this is a unique opportunity to join a wonderful team of people in a dynamic and sought-after industry!

Responsibilities:

• Detailed review of project expense forecasts
• Compilation of a fully developed detailed group budget for projects
• Management of spend against budget for projects
• Regular and ongoing budget variance analysis
• Control of all cost-related activities for projects
• Cashflow forecast and cashflow management for projects
• Financial analysis and reporting on all key data for projects

Requirements:

• Degree in Accounting / Finance
• Strong cost and budgeting experience in a project-based environment such as construction / energy
• Strong reporting skills using BI tools
• Superb communication, business partnering and influencing skills

I have a really great opportunity for a Lead Data Engineer to join a really awesome forward-thinking and innovative business. If you thrive in an environment that applies data engineering and data management then look no further.

Responsibilities:

• Sourcing data
• Loading data
• Sorting data
• Enhancing data
• Managing data

Requirements:

• Degree in information technology / mathematics / engineering / actuarial science or related discipline
• 8+ years in a technical data role, preferably in a formal data, data warehouse or business intelligence environment
• Previous management experience desirable but not essential
• SQL
• Data analysis
• Data visualisation
• Data modelling
• Microsoft business intelligence data technologies (SSIS, SSAS, SQL Server)
• Data warehouse concepts and best practices

One of SA’s fastest growing credit institutes is seeking the skills of a Quantitative Analyst for the role of Provisioning Analyst. This role sits in the greater Financial Management division. The purpose of this role is to ensure that the allocated components of the provisions model are IFRS compliant and trusted by the business to drive decision-making as well as to apply the provisioning framework through building new models and/or interrogating existing models in order to generate new insights that contribute to optimising the credit business.

Responsibilities:

• IFRS compliance and business acceptance
• Modelling-related responsibilities
• Strategic and tactical insights
• Budgeting and forecasting

Requirements:

• Degree in Mathematics or Statistics or Actuarial Science
• 1 years’ experience in an analyst role

Our client is offering an incredibly exciting contract opportunity (6-12+ months.) The role will be to support a dedicated, cross-functional finance team in managing various accounting functions for this internationally-recognised industry leader. This role is ideally positioned for an energetic, independent, degree-qualified accounting professional. It is best suited to an agile finance enthusiast with the ability to adapt to changing requirements at short notice.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with a variety of internal & external teams and stakeholders
• Collate and analyse financial information for reporting and decision purposes
• Manage and keep track of large volumes of data and documents

Requirements:

• CA(SA) with articles
• A background in tax and understanding of audits is preferable
• Immediately-available or available in 2 or less weeks
• SA citizen

My client in the financial services industry is seeking a strong Business Analyst. The purpose of this role is to understand business change needs, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements to relevant parties. Someone who is able to solve complex problems, get new perspective using existing solutions, and work independently will suit this role perfectly.  

Responsibilities:

• Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
• Solution Assessment and Validation
• Life Cycle Management
• Project Planning

Requirements:

• Degree in relevant technical/financial/analytical related field of study
• 6-8 years’ experience in a similar role in a formal business analysis environment
• Experience in a financial services environment
• Experience in agile development practices