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Duties and Responsibilities

• Receive deposits
• Process withdrawal instructions and arrange for authorisations
• Open new accounts
• Ensure clients are FICA compliant
• Liaison with clients, staff and partners
• Liaison with bank staff
• Resolve queries with various parties
• Monitor system and balance interest daily
• Perform daily reconciliations
• Attend to banking details
• Assist with ad hoc duties in the Money Market department.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12 qualification
• Administrative qualification will be advantageous
• At least 2 - 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Previous Financial services experience will be advantageous
• Quality and detail orientated
• Strong administration skills
• Computer literate (MS Word, Outlook and Excel)
• Knowledge of banking procedures
• Strong people and communication skills
• Be able to operate under pressure and meet daily deadlines
• Be able to deal with and resolve problems
• Client focused

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Job Description

• Are you hungry to become the CA(SA) of the future acquiring the digital, business and professional acumen needed for the fast pace and ever-evolving world that we live in?
• Do you aspire to grow your skills in a dynamic and stimulating work environment?
• Do you want to be part of a firm with a track record of uninterrupted responsible growth?
• Are you innovative and adaptable, with an appetite for teamwork?
• Would you like your voice to be heard and your contribution to be valued?

If you answered ‘yes’ to the above, here are some facts you may also want to say ‘yes' to

• An international audit firm
• 40 000+ professionals in over 95 countries
• Clients across various specialisations
• Strong focus on training and development
• 52% of our workforce is 30 years old or younger
• Innovation hubs in South Africa and globally
• Secondment opportunities on completion of your training contract
• Forvis Mazars in South Africa are recruiting aspiring professionals to join our 3-year training programme and be part of our dynamic audit team.

What can Forvis Mazars offer you:

• A learning experience that encompasses an integration of your theoretical knowledge into a practical experience allowing you to perform audits across various industries and sectors.
• Preparation towards your examinations (ITC and APC).
• Access to resources such as training material, partners, managers, other service lines to upskill yourself.
• A culture that embraces diversity and inclusion allowing you to feel safe to share your ideas and opinions that will be respected.
• Fun and support during your time at Forvis Mazars.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To perform audit procedures on various clients in different sectors/industries.
• To progress steadily throughout your articles to qualify as a Chartered Accountant (SA).

Minimum Requirements

• Matric with university entrance.
• Graduates with a completed Accounting degree at a SAICA-accredited university. 
• Candidates will be required to have successfully completed PGDA prior to joining the firm. 

Other attributes:

• Manage personal performance
• Work effectively in teams
• Communicates clearly and succinctly
• Uphold ethics and values, and act with integrity
• Computer literacy

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Duties and Responsibilities

• The team lead for ESG DD service offering
• Providing technical consultation support to reporting and assurance teams
• Delivery of high-quality client and internal reports on the DD value chain
• Understand the investment cycle for ESG integration.
• Develop proposals and take an active role in the business development activities including prospect meetings, preparation of proposals and project plans.
• Support in the further development of our advisory/consulting offering
• Facilitate strategy sessions at C-Suite level.
• Research and project management essential
• Team and project management essential
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis on ESG standards, data, and trends.
• Analyse ESG data, evaluating its quality and performance to draw insight useful for investors and decision-makers as an authority on the subject.
• Create thought leadership and engagement tools, presentations, and documents for private market investors and other stakeholders.
• Engage with clients and partners in the financial sector to help them understand ESG.
• Ensure policy and regulations compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.
• Be creative in generating ideas and recommendations in pursuit of new and improved products and services.
• Be proactive and independent in task management and contributing to the objective sector and decision-maker as an authority on the subject.
• Have a strong analytic mindset and exceptional reporting and writing.
• Ensure policy and regulation compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.

Minimum Requirements

Candidate requirements:

• Relevant post-graduate qualification essential (sustainable development, business, finance or accounting)
• Knowledge of the universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards highly advantageous
• Confidently hold C-Level client engagements
• In addition to the technical qualifications, experience and/or qualifications in a business management-related field would be beneficial (e.g. financial, change management, strategy etc.)
• A minimum of 5 years focussed ESG DD experience for private and listed entities
• Commercially focused and adept in applying your sustainability knowledge to differing client situations.
• Good business developer with a good network within the ESG value chain
• Commitment to the B-BBEE transformation agenda
• Ambition to grow withing Mazars and participate in working groups

Essential competencies:

• Self-Starter and pragmatic leader
• Team player with good communication, interpersonal and client servicing skills
• Proven ability to manage people and clients
• Excellent technical ability on business transformation
• A strong support to the head of the department
• Strong project management, research, analytical and report writing skills
• Problem solver and effective, efficient decision maker
• Solutions Oriented
• Catalyst for changes
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, shaping and reshaping teams / services to meet evolving needs

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Proven project management capabilities and building team capacity.
• Strong knowledge of key sustainability frameworks and requirements in Africa, the EU, and the US.
• Ability to understand our client’s business model, develop a sustainability strategy for them and assist in sustainability report compilation. The reports to demonstrate the requirements of various frameworks such as GRI, SASB, ISSB, TCFD, to mention a few.
• Compiling annual responses to investor questionnaires such as CDP and DJSI and providing clients with guidance to improve their scores and their practice.
• Assessing the client’s current sustainability performance and working with key stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and strategically manage key sustainability issues.
• Identifying and tracking ESG and sustainability trends, best practices, frameworks, and standards communicating those relevant to internal and external stakeholders and using information to develop new services and client offerings.
• Competency in carbon footprint measurements and report writing to provide the client with key reduction strategies.
• Ensuring appropriate controls and measurement systems are in place for clients to support and maintain sustainability reporting integrity and assurance.
• Working closely with various specialists to implement strategies and annual environmental and social performance for clients.
• Knowledge of value drivers within Sustainability
• Project management skills with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple engagements effectively.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in managing and coaching junior team members.
• Clear and effective communication skills
• Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients

Minimum Requirements

Educational / Professional Qualifications

• Relevat post-graduate qualification essential (sustainable development, business, finance, or accounting)
• Knowledge of the universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards is highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of the GRI Standards is an added advantage.
• In addition to the technical qualifications, experience and/or qualifications in a business management-related field would be beneficial (e.g. financial, change management, strategy, etc.)
• A minimum of 3 - 5 years of professional services experience within the sustainability field with a proven consulting background
• Commercially focused and adept in applying your sustainability knowledge to differing client situations.
• Good business developer with a good network within the business sustainability sector in South Africa
• Commitment to the B-BBEE transformation agenda

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work independently and a passion for learning.
• Self-starter and team player with good communication, interpersonal, and client servicing skills
• Proven ability to manage people and clients.
• Excellent technical ability in business transformation
• Motivating/Communicative leadership style with excellent verbal and written skills
• Strong project management, research, analytical and report-writing skills
• Problem solver and effective, efficient decision-maker
• Solutions Oriented
• Catalyst for change
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, shaping and reshaping teams / services to meet evolving needs.