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MultiChoice South Africa's activities involve the operation of Pay-Television and internet subscriber platforms. The MultiChoice South Africa group includes the digital satellite Pay-Television business ("DStv"), which has been in operation since 1995. Other businesses in the group are; M-Net (delivers thematic channels and exclusive content to DSt...
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Key Performance Objectives
Controls, Governance & Policies
- Responsible for the development/creation, implementation and maintenance of system of robust controls, procedures and policies
- Responsible for monitoring compliance to accounting policies
- Support the Finance Shared Services Innovation team in governance initiatives
- Ensure compliance to policies, internal control and external audit
- Support internal audit, ensure that any findings are resolved
- Assist in improvement and development of processes and systems for accounting purposes
- Work with cross functional teams in the shared services and business to ensure compliance, accuracy and efficiency in financial areas
Year End Activities
- Preparation and building of Annual Financial Statements, Interim financial statements and disclosures that comply with IFRS
- Preparation of annual and interim reporting packs
- Assist in the external audit process, assisting in resolving queries and review of audit schedules
- Prepare audit schedules relating to Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint
Recording and Maintaining:
Accurate and Complete Accounting Records
- Create and monitor a system of controls and procedures for the recording of Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture, Hedge and Tax Accounting transactions
- Recommend to management any updates to accounting policies related to Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture, Hedging and Tax
- Responsible for General Ledger Master Data Management relating to Accounts and Cost/Profit Centres
- Responsible to set-up Allocation Keys for Related Party Intercompany Charges in the System
- Responsible for the Processing of the Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture, Hedging and Tax journals
- Reconcile the balance in the Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture, Hedging and Tax subsidiary ledger to the summary-level account in the general ledger
- Consulting with the Tax Team on applicable matters related to Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture and Hedge Accounting
- Consult with the Order-to-Cash and Source-to-Pay team to correct anomalies in the business as usual Intercompany, Agencies, Franchises and Joint Venture transactions processed by them
- Responsible for Balance Confirmation of Intercompany, Joint Venture Agencies & Franchises Accounts
- Responsible for uploading to HFM of Actuals
- Responsible for preparation Standard Reporting in the form of Income Statements, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and Supporting Notes and Consolidations for all
- subsidiaries and joint ventures of the NVE Segment on a Monthly and Annual basis
- Venture, Hedge and Tax Accounting, and assist the auditors in their inquiries
- Analysis of trial balance, explanation / commentary for movements compared to previous months
- Responsible for preparation of balance sheet reconciliations
- Analysis of income statement accounts
- Review of processes, identification and implementation of efficiencies
- Support the Finance Shared Services Innovation team in process efficiencies
- Analysis of expense accounts for tax submission to SARS
- Liaising with Head of Finance and Financial Accountant and resolving management accounting queries
- Standardisation of Chart of Accountants and drive correct classification of GL accounts across the business
Qualifications
- BCom in Accounting (Honours)
Experience / Skills
- Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in a similar role
- Sound knowledge of IFRS and Taxation rules
- SAP system experience
- Hyperion Financial Management
- Advanced excel skills
- Intercompany accounting experience would be advantageous
Competencies
- Speed and accuracy with figures
- Stakeholder management
- Attention to detail
- Proactive and ability to plan ahead
- Ability to prioritise in order to meet multiple deadlines
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and pressurised situations
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to think and move quickly in a dynamic fast moving environment
- Excellent communication skills- upward, downward and lateral
- Problem solving
- Customer orientated focus
- Systematic and analytical
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Key Performance Objectives
Security Operations
- Assist the management team in drafting a strategic direction for the function while ensuring that this direction is aligned with that of the CISO.
- Assist with developing the Security Operations specifically improvements in Cyber Threat investigations
- Plan, design and implement an overall security management process for the function.
- The process includes: detection, triage, analysis, containment, recovery and reporting
- Innovate solutions by Investigating and implementing AI solutions to have better capability within the function.
- Mature the network access control initiatives as deemed necessary by management.
- Act as the lead for security incidents and breaches as per the defined processes.
- Improve ability to minimise and prevent further incidents by accurate documentation and post analysis of all system incidents. Forensics and Breach Management
- Assist by leading the incident response process and execution including unauthorized access, security policy violations and Data Loss Incidents
- Manage and execute processes responsible for the advanced analysis of security threat intelligence (malicious code, hackers and zero-day exploits, etc.) in order to proactively prepare for security events. Develop communication channels with the business units to ensure solid incident response and risk assessment processes
- Ensure continuous testing of all breach management processes
- Conduct red and blue team exercises as directed by management
People Management
- Manage specialists and external Consultants team to ensure effective delivery of business unit objectives.
- Assist the manager to ensure a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching. Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members.
- Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognised
- Coach and mentor junior practitioners within the defensive systems field in principles and processes
Qualifications
Experience
Technical Competencies
- Security Incident Monitoring and Response Strategy
- Incident Management
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Business Acumen
- Stakeholder Influence
- Project Management
Behavioral Competencies
- Relationship Building
- Conflict Resolution
- Decision Making
- Critical Appraisal
- Holistic Thinking
- Persuading & Influence
- Coaching
- Degree (NQF 7) in Security/Information Technology/ OR equivalent
- Certification required – CASP, CyberSec First Responder or Comptia CySA+,
- CISSP and CISM
- Minimum of 8 - 10 years of experience in an Information Security environment with specific focus on working with security incident and event management
- Forensics and breach management experience is critical
- A proven track record of experience in the IT and Information Security Industry is critical.
- Understanding the influence of service support services on successful service delivery is critical.
- Proven knowledge and experience in the Technology Operations Environment will be an advantage.
- Project Management experience is an advantage
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Key Performance Objectives
Data & Measurement strategy, implementation, and management.
- Develop and execute comprehensive measurement plans for digital marketing initiatives, in alignment with the digital marketing team.
- Lead the adoption of the existing measurement framework.
- Partner with measurement teams from leading media vendors such as google and meta, to constantly improve and adapt measurement strategy based on their recommendation.
- Play a key role in the planning, implementation and interpretation of incrementality studies e.g. conversion lift, brand lift studies.
- Be a trusted partner in sourcing and sharing market and competitor intelligence insights from a digital marketing perspective.
- Champion digital marketing data and measurement standards and best practices governance).
- Collaborate with product and business performance analytics team in the linking of digital and mother marketing efforts to overall business performance.
- Own marketing analytics and media tag implementation and management processes across web and app assists. This includes thoroughly capturing business requirements and briefing development teams e.g. on building data element / data layer variables.
- Lead the implementation and utilisation / adoption of analytics suites - mainly Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics 4.
- Lead the implementation of server-to-server measurement techniques in line with Google’s plans to sunset third-party cookies.
- Set-up, manage, and drive the adoption of automated dashboards on – mostly on Looker Studio.
- On-going monitoring & management of consent management platform e.g. One Trust
Stakeholder Relations
- Work closely with data engineering team in building and maintaining the data pipelines that feed reporting suite / automated dashboards.
- Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of organisational goals.
- Create executive buy in and trust for digital marketing reporting.
- Oversee data and measurement relationship with external agencies, internal teams, group projects and consultants.
- Run data and measurement knowledge sharing sessions within the business.
Reporting
- Provide timely and accurate updates, ensuring deliverables are aligned and with business and management requirements for specific projects.
- Report on status, risk and timelines regarding projects to provide visibility and line of sight.
- Design and build custom dashboards that provide real-time insights into campaign performance and overall digital marketing health.
- Regularly create reports on the performance of digital marketing campaigns across various channels (website, social media, email, etc.). This includes metrics like clicks, impressions, conversions, and ROI.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Science/Mathematics/Engineering/Data Science/Data Analysis/Marketing/Digital Marketing
Advantageous
- Post Graduate qualification in Engineering/Data Science/Business Management/Marketing]/Digital Marketing
Experience
- 5-8 years in digital marketing analytics or engineering field working with large data sets
- Solid tag management experience, working with tools such Adobe launch and Google tag manager - A MUST.
- Good understanding of analytics related coding languages, JavaScript, SQL, Python to effectively liaise with dev teams.
- Proficiency in GA4 and Adobe Analytics implementation and utilisation – GA4 / Adobe Analytics certification important.
- Experience in implementing server to server integrations between CDP, CRM and Analytics suites / properties.
- Understanding of common integrations across the Adobe Experience Cloud and the Google Marketing Ecosystems.
- Experience working with data warehouses/large databases – especially Google Cloud’s Big Query - would be advantageous.
- Experience in data visualisation tools such as Looker Studio [key], as well as others such as tableau and PowerBI.
- Mobile Measurement Partner experience would be advantageous e.g. Platforms such Kochava, AppsFlyer, Adjust.
- Comfortable presenting and sharing actionable insights at key internal / functional alignment sessions.
Technical Competencies
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Numerical capability
- Campaign Tagging
- CX Measurement Tools
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Dashboard Development and Reporting
- Marketing Automation
- Data Governance
- Marketing Analytics
- A/B Testing
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Key Performance Objectives
Analytics, Automation and Engineering
- Perform complex user journey analysis using standard funnels, machine learning, and process mining techniques to understand customer flow through the product.
- Actively extract data from various sources, including Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, and other data platforms. This includes understanding which areas of the website receive the most attention, tracking the user journey through different pages, and assessing engagement with various elements. By examining these metrics, highlight insights into user preferences, pain points, and opportunities for improving the user experience and optimizing website performance.
- Take responsibility for Digital Product analytics, defining key metrics and collaborating with relevant stakeholders to develop tracking and reporting systems.
- Partner with the Marketing team, providing in-depth analysis on requests and through independent data exploration, offering insights, conversion rates, and interpretations to guide strategic decisions regarding digital product priorities.
- Maintain, build, and improve data consolidation and automation from media platforms, publishers, web analytics, internal data, and CRM platforms to enable an integrated data view.
- Prepare AB testing analysis across multiple channels to understand the impacts of campaigns on customer behaviour.
- Conduct ad hoc deep dive analyses, present results and recommendations to Executives, and provide detailed documentation and informal reports.
- Develop reporting in Tableau, Adobe Analytics, and similar tools to provide business insights.
- Manage stakeholder expectations regarding reporting and the automation of deliverables.
- Create and maintain data models and structures in Data Warehouses and Data Lakes.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes using modern technologies and automation.
- Modernize and maintain the internal Tableau portal, ensuring high standards of accuracy and usability to drive business decision-making.
- Source, clean, and combine data from various sources to design reports that provide holistic views of the business and its environment.
- Create anomaly detection and alerts for key metrics.
Stakeholder Relations
- Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relationships, implementing remedial actions as needed to achieve organizational goals.
- Create executive buy-in and trust for digital product and analytics reporting.
- Manage data relationships with external agencies, internal teams, group projects, and consultants.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
- Share data-related knowledge within the business.
Reporting
- Provide timely and accurate updates, ensuring deliverables are aligned with business and management requirements for specific projects.
- Report on status, risk and timelines regarding projects to provide visibility and line of sight.
- Test data solutions and pipelines (unit testing and system integration testing) and verify that they meets business, functional and technical specifications.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Science/Mathematics/Engineering/Data Science/Data Analysis
Preferred
- Post Graduate qualification in Engineering/Data Science/Business Management
Experience
- 5-8 years in an analytical or engineering field working with large data sets (streaming and batch)
- Excellent analytics skills, SQL capabilities, data mining, data visualization and Python
- Cloud experience – GCP, Databricks
- Experience working with data warehouses/large databases
- Experience with Spark/Hadoop/Big Data Systems/Non-relational Databases/Data Lakes
- Experience in Tableau , Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics
- Maintenance of data integrity and accuracy
- Analyse, report and surface insights and feedback
- Experience working with large data sets including data cleansing and validation
- Ability to identify trends/behaviours from complex data sets and suggest where they can be applied
Technical Competencies
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Numerical capability
- A/B Testing
- Conversion Rate Optimization
- Customer Journey Optimisation
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Behaviour
- Data Mining and Management
- Data Warehousing
- Data Visualisation
- Digital Analysis
- Funnel Analysis
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Analytics, Automation and Engineering
- Perform complex user journey analysis using standard funnels, machine learning and process mining techniques to understand the flow of customers through the product.
- Take responsibility of the CVM analytics, defining key metrics to track with the relevant stakeholders in developing tracking and reporting.
- Act as a partner to the CVM leadership team, providing in depth analysis on requests and based on own data exploration, giving insights and interpretation of the data to guide strategic decision making around payment and partnership priorities.
- Maintain, build and improve data consolidation and automation from media platforms, publishers, web analytics, internal data and CRM platform to enable an integrated view of the data in one environment.
- Comprehension and execution of AB testing within multiple channels to understand impacts of campaigns to customer behaviour.
- Conduct ad hoc deep dive analyses and present results and recommendations to Executives, provide detailed result documentation and informal reports.
- Develop reporting in Tableau, Adobe Analytics and similar tools to provide insights to the business.
- Strong stakeholder management to manage expectations around reporting and automation of deliverables.
- Create and maintain data models and data structures in Data warehouses and Data Lakes
- Identify opportunities to improve business as usual processes using modern technologies and automation.
- Modernize and maintain the internal Tableau portal, keeping to a high standard of accuracy and usability to drive business decisions making.
- Source, clean and combine data from various sources to design reports connecting the dots and provide holistic views of the business and the environment in which we operate.
- Create anomaly detection and alerts for key metrics.
- Drive CVM operational and data processes to effectively support audience creation and optimisation.
- Analyse marketing engagement metrics and campaign performance to inform ongoing strategy and optimisations.
Stakeholder Relations
- Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of organisational goals.
- Create executive buy in and trust for the CVM reporting.
- Manage data relationship with external agencies, internal teams, group projects and consultants.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
- Provide data related knowledge sharing within the business.
- Establish and maintain a close relationship with the CVM team and ongoing operational processes to deliver meaningful support and insight.
- Strong stakeholder management to manage the Showmax CVM Marketing executive`s expectations around reporting and automation deliverables.
Reporting
- Provide timely and accurate updates, ensuring deliverables are aligned with business and management requirements for specific projects.
- Report on status, risk and timelines regarding projects to provide visibility and line of sight.
- Test data solutions and pipelines (unit testing and system integration testing) and verify that it meets business, functional and technical specifications.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Science/Mathematics/Engineering/Data Science/Data Analysis
Preferred
- Post Graduate qualification in Engineering/Data Science/Business Management
Experience
- 5-8 years in an analytical or engineering field working with large data sets (streaming and batch)
- Excellent analytics skills, SQL capabilities, data mining, data visualization and Python
- Cloud experience – GCP, Databricks
- Experience working with data warehouses/large databases
- Experience with Spark/Hadoop/Big Data Systems/Non-relational Databases/Data Lakes
- Experience in Tableau and Adobe Analytics
- Maintenance of data integrity and accuracy
- Analyse, report and surface insights and feedback
- Experience working with large data sets including data cleansing and validation
- Ability to identify trends/behaviours from complex data sets and suggest where they can be applied
Technical Competencies
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Numerical capability
- A/B Testing
- Base Management
- Campaign Analysis
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Behaviour
- Data Mining and Management
- Data Visualisation
- Data Warehousing
- Marketing Automation and Personalisation
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Key Performance Objectives
Payroll Compliance
- Payroll compliance is essential to ensure that we meet all legal and regulatory requirements related to payroll accounting practices. Non-compliance can result in fines, legal actions, and damage to the company’s reputation. It also means fair treatment of employees, leading to better morale and trust within the organization.
- Assist in the development/creation, implementation, and maintenance of system of robust controls, procedures and policies relating to the payroll function.
- Responsible for monitoring compliance to accounting policies, payroll legislation, internal controls, and policies.
- Support internal and external audits process and ensure that any findings are resolved.
- Work with cross functional teams in the shared services and business to ensure compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in financial areas.
- Review and approve all payments prepared by the payroll teams.
- Ensure accuracy and compliance of journals, payments and reconciliations through quality assurance reviews and advise team of corrective action to be taken.
- Ensure SOP’s and internal procedures are adhered to and updated when there is a change.
- Maintain confidentiality and ensure adherence to POPIA.
Accounting Activities
Preparing, Reviewing, Creating Journals:
- Extract and balance payroll journal for posting into SAP for the Multichoice Companies
- Calculate and process leave provisions.
- Calculate and process bonus provisions.
- Prepare, post, and reconcile the cashbooks.
- Review and process reallocation journals from business.
- Recognising the salary costs of associate companies on SAP and submitting the invoice to the relevant Finance Managers
- Allocating Payroll deductions to the GL (Income statement, Balance sheet or staff debtor accounts)
- Ensure SLA requirements are met by posting journals requested on SMAX.
Balance Sheet Reconciliations:
- Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations on Blackline (approx. 50).
- Investigate reconciling items and resolve the current outstanding items (including but not limited to passing adjusting entries, following up with payroll administrators, investigating non-payroll related entries and tracing to the source)
- Ensure KPI’s are meet by meeting balance sheet reconciliation quality requirements every month.
Income Statement Reconciliations:
- Prepare monthly Income Statement reconciliation for payroll expense accounts.
Payments:
- Process confidential payments, as per Management request.
- Process bursary payments.
- Maintain debtor’s book for payroll related debt.
SMAX:
- Ensure adherence of SLAs by monitoring and allocating SMAX calls.
- Resolving payroll related queries
Payroll Analytics
- Payroll Analytics is a value adding activity to ensure accurate payroll data and to provide meaningful report to our customers.
- Extraction of all month end reports from Sage 300.
- Analysing payroll data and providing meaningful reports to business.
- Preparation of month end payroll management reports
- Extract and distribute cost centre reports.
- Prepare and request monthly funding for salary costs and agree to costing reports received from various payroll administrators.
- Supporting customers with payroll analytics
- Assist in preparing the Monthly Management Packs and Month End Close Packs
- Distribution of agreed monthly payroll reports.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Shared Services drives a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Ensure standardisation of payroll accounting processes across all countries.
- Collaboration across teams to streamline processes to improve ways of working.
- Adhoc projects that arise on a continuing basis.
- Support Shared Services initiatives of process improvements, people practices, business efficiencies, and improved governance.
Continuous Learning & Development
- Keep up to date on changes in related legislation.
- Ensure all company-initiated courses are completed on time.
- Self-development to stay relevant in the accounting profession.
Qualifications
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Controls, Governance & Policies
- Responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of system of controls and procedures
- Responsible for monitoring compliance to accounting policies
- Consider recommendations to update accounting policies and revising where applicable
- Support the Finance Shared Services Innovation team in governance initiatives
Month End Close & Year End Activities
- Guarantee the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all accounting actuals
- Assisting the Financial Manager in leading the Pre & Post month end close meetings
- Review of month end results with Head of Finance Shared Services
- Responsible for updating the month end calendar and ensuring it agrees to Group timelines
- Responsible for reviewing and approving Central Accounting journals
- Custodian of SAP
- Manage the monthly HFM process including Loading Numbers, Validations, Clearing mismatches, Disclosures and Promotions
- Ensure the accurate, complete and timely accounting of intercompany transactions
- Supervise the effective and efficient accounting processes and management of intercompany
- Responsible for reviewing Balance Confirmation and Reconciliation of Accounts
- Manage Intercompany Dispute Resolution, Funding and Settlement
- Ensure that Balance Sheet values are accurately recorded and reconciled as per the reconciliation policy
- Review the reconciliation of the balance in the subsidiary ledger to the summary-level account in the general ledger
- Review Reports prepared by the Central Accounting Team and send them to the applicable Head of Finance
- Timely & relevant delivery of analysis, insight and actions
- Monitor Record to Report KPI’s and dashboards
- Provide direction, oversight and management of the Central Accounting Accountants
- Standardisation of Chart of Accountants and driving correct classification of GL accounts across the business
- Initiate and manage the improvement of processes such as month end and intercompany, and work towards standardisation of relevant aspects such as reports, data analysis etc.
- Standardisation of processes across Central Accounting
- Work with cross functional teams in the shared services and business to ensure compliance, accuracy and efficiency in financial areas
- Preparation of reporting packs and Financial Statements and disclosures at interim and year end
- Review audit schedules and assist the auditors in their inquiries
- Represent the company during any audits that involve Intercompany, journals and reconciliations
Project Management
- Assisting the Central Accounting Finance Manager on strategic finance projects as determined by the Head of Finance Shared Services, including optimization of internal finance process to achieve efficient and effective processes and internal control
- Ad hoc projects that arise on a continuing basis
- Support the Finance Shared Services Innovation team in process improvements
Qualifications
Experience / Skills
- Minimum 2 years’ relevant experience in a similar role
Competencies
- Speed and accuracy with figures
- Stakeholder management
- Attention to detail
- Proactive and ability to plan ahead
- Ability to prioritise in order to meet multiple deadlines
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and pressurised situations
- Ability to think and move quickly in a dynamic fast moving environment
- Excellent communication skills- upward, downward and lateral
- Conflict management
- Problem solving
- Coaching and mentoring
- Systematic and analytical
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