Job Opportunities at BDO South Africa

Description

BDO Global Outsourcing has been developing a Global Payroll Solution that combines best of breed customer service technology platform with the experience of BDO’s renowned global office network.

 In order to provide exceptional service to its clients, BDO has an exciting opportunity for Payroll Professionals to implement global outsourced payroll services for a portfolio of payroll clients, ensuring they meet client requirements and are consistent with BDO Global Outsourcing standards and practices. We are looking to fill the following roles but not limited to:

• Junior Payroll Administrators
• Payroll Administrators
• Senior Payroll Administrators
• Payroll Seniors
• Payroll Supervisors

 As a Payroll Professional you will need to understand client’s requirements and objectives and work with both in-country BDO teams as well as Global Outsourcing in order to advise and implement Global Payroll. This could include drafting of the client’s specifications, advice on local country requirements, and configuration of the appropriate BDO platform along with testing, training and review of the payrolls whilst under the care of the implementation team.

 Depending on your role and level of responsibility you will often be the first point of escalation and will need to be proactive, identifying issues and driving resolution.  

 Candidates should be deadline driven, organised and efficient with an eye for detail and good communication skills. 

 Experience of global payroll and technical payroll knowledge is required.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Manage ongoing projects, working with the UK team to manage daily deliverables, dealing with escalations & queries
• Responsible for the management, delivery and support of Global payroll projects
• Provide regular updates to both internal and external stakeholders, identifying specific issues and action plans for resolution
• Define and maintain country-specific process documentation
• Support and/or lead process requirements workshops with clients ensuring requirements are fully documented
• Configure and test BDO Platforms as needed to match client requirements
• Ensure parallel testing processes and requirements are fully documented and agreed with clients
• Support and/or lead parallel and post-implementation activities: including the review of payroll results, co-ordination with clients and in country teams, and issue identification & resolution
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships within BDO as well as the client and in country teams
• Assist in payroll bids and pre-sales activities including presentations and workshops

Skills

• Ability to work independently, with excellent organisational and planning skills to enable the management of multiple projects.
• An eye for detail and strong numerical skills are essential.
• Competency in IT applications such as Excel, Outlook, Word and Powerpoint
• Experience of comprehending and reviewing file specifications
• Experience of presenting to small groups at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication as well as interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well in a multicultural team and help to develop more junior team members

Education and Experience

• At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in payroll
• Flexibility and a willingness to undertake additional tasks, as required
• A minimum of 2/3 years’ experience with African or International Payroll
• A payroll qualification or studying to gain a payroll qualification an advantage
• Additional language skills would be useful

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Description

BDO Tax is looking for Tax Trainees to join their team. 

As part of your 3 year SAIT registered Traineeship you will get exposure to the following:

• Return preparation and review
• Preparation of first, second and third provisional returns
• Calculation of tax liabilities and finalisation of income tax
• Payroll tax
• VAT returns, registrations and opinions  
• Identifying tax risks for audits on a multi-disciplinary basis
• Draft response to SARS queries
• Write tax opinions and reports
• Demonstrate ethics and professional conduct in a tax environment
• Register tax payers and finalise income tax, payroll tax and VAT returns in a private tax practice
• Draft memorandum and formulate responses to Alternative Dispute Resolutions
• Write tax opinions related to tax disputes, business models and investment and estate planning
• Draft VDP Applications
• Draft articles

Requirements

Qualifications

• Senior Certificate and relevant B.Com degree
• Applicants must have completed or still studying towards their B.com Honours degree specializing in Taxation or equivalent
• Sound Knowledge of the Tax legislation and Tax law

Competencies

• Excellent communications and listening skills
• Professionalism
• Strong client orientation
• Attention to detail
• Creative yet organised
• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure achieving reporting deadlines
• Task driven and delivery focused
• Socially aware and able to work as part of a diverse team
• Innovative and willing to share ideas for new ways of working
• Ability to work with all levels within an organization.

Please ensure to attach the following documents on your application:

1) CV

2) Full Academic Records

3) Matric Certificate

4) ID Copy

Salary is market-related and commensurate with experience.

The appointment will be made in terms of the firm’s Employment Equity Policy.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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Description

• BDO South Africa has a vacancy for an Audit Manager in our External Audit Division at our Durban office.
• The Audit Manager oversees and ensures that the project runs efficiently and profitably from inception to sign off, by managing all the relevant stakeholders in accordance with the Firm’s policies and procedures. The Audit Manager further supports the Engagement Partner with clients' commercial management and business development initiatives. 

Requirements

Reporting to the Audit Partner you will inter alia be responsible for: 

• Business Development 
• Negotiating budgets/fees and overruns for clients once fee base has been agreed with the   partner 
• Managing WIP, write offs, fee queries and debtors 
• Ensure Timeous and accurate billing of clients 
• Accurate and Timeous planning of audits. 
• Management and the Execution of audits. 
• Managing staff movements on and off the job and timeously communicate to all relevant parties. 
• Manage and control staff allocations on audit project. 
• Ensure completion and finalisation of audits 
• Building of effective relationships with clients and staff. 
• Ensure Exceptional Client Service. 
• Decide on audit appropriateness of audit opinion by resolving issues which might impact on the audit opinion and ensuring that these are brought to the attention of the engagement partner and documentation thereof. 
• Manage the client and ensure that the project is delivered within the scope agreed on 
• Mentoring of trainees 
• Timeous completion of performance reviews

Qualifications and Experience:

• CA(SA) 
• A minimum of 2 years post article management experience with long term audit ambitions – partner/director 

Competencies:

• Strong Technical Ability 
• Extremely high level of attention to detail and analytical and problem-solving abilities. 
• Ability to communicate effectively Verbally and Written
• Ability to relate to clients at executive level
• Ability to apply sound professional judgment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to self-development and growth through research and attending courses relevant to role.
• Promote teamwork within the Audit Teams
• Strong Planning, organising and control skills

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Description

Primary Purpose of the Job

• The main responsibility is to provide regional leadership and related management practises in accordance with the BDO ICT ITIL, Security and ICT Governance frameworks. Align initiatives and compliance to the National business strategy. Align with best practise disciplines, governance, ethics, risk standards, policies, processes, procedures and compliance for the firm.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver services and support in with the defined National ICT service catalogue, security framework & CMDB
• Assist with the testing and implementation of emerging technologies and solutions in the service management automation, experience monitoring and self-service space.
• Development of self-service capabilities for the BDO business entities reducing staff based dependencies.
• Compile and document ICT service management governance requirements around incident management, request fulfilment, asset management, change management, problem management & security management.
• Ensure service catalogue & CMDB assets has SLA criteria engaged and defined and is resolved, escalated and/or managed and closed out as expected by business.
• Ensure all business requests are managed in the most effective way (reducing the amount of incidents occurring over time)
• Change Management by following due process. 
• Financial Management - compilation and management of national ICT budget, business engagement, approvals and budget reporting to business units.
• Providing strategic service management input to business champions and HoD’s
• Execute initiatives with adequate return on investment
• Actively engage with key stakeholders in the business to understand needs 
• Overall IT management and governance
• Focus on the continual improvement of service to the business
• Realising and management of national strategy regionally & nationally
• Develop and deliver initiative and service management reports as and when required
• Ensure the engagement of service management processes by all team within the Service Now Service Desk
• Developing workflow capabilities or improvements within the Service Now Service Desk
• Management of suppliers and the assets of the firm (hardware and software)
• Engagement of supplier and vendor security due-diligence processes as defined in the BDO information security policy and Spotica ISMS
• Staff Management & development in line with emerging technologies for automation, service experience monitoring
• Staff engagement and training of the BDO Nexthink platform to improve service delivery, identify problems proactively and deploy solutions via Nexthink engage capabilities.

Requirements

Qualifications, Recognition of Prior Learning, Work Experience, and Knowledge 

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Applicable degree and IT Technical qualification or equivalent e.g. (A+; N+; MCSE)
• ITIL Practitioner/ITIL Expert
• COBIT Foundation &

Work Experience

• 3 Years Managerial Experience/ 5-10 Years Technical

Knowledge

• Service Management SLA & MSA Definition
• Detailed ICT Service Management Reporting
• Workflow analysis, definition and drafting
• ICT Problem management
• ICT Contract, SLA & MSA review
• ICT Procurement Management
• Service Now (Beneficial)
• Nexthink (Beneficial)
• EndPoint Detection, Response & Patching (Beneficial)
• Office 365 AutoPilot

Competencies: Technical & Behavioural

Technical Competencies

• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Benchmarking
• Budget Planning
• Service Management Tools and Services
• Functional Service Management Strategy
• Workflow automation & self service
• Specification documentation
• Service management operations
• Performance review
• Quality control
• Scheduling & Time Management
• Project Planning
• Video & Audio Conferencing
• ICT Problem Management
• ICT Change Management
• Information Management (CMDB)

Behavioural Compentencies

• Excellent communication (both verbal and written)
• Excellent Interpersonal skills
• Client focused
• Attention to Detail
• Holistic and Logical Thinking
• Disciplined
• Proactive Personality
• Team coordination & management
• Problem-solving skills or solution seeker
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Task Delegation
• Task Management

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Description

BDO has a vacancy for a suitable qualified and experienced Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager/Manager. Reporting as part of the national Transfer Pricing and International Tax team, you will inter alia be responsible for.

Project involvement:

• Act as a point of contact within the firm, for the client together with the director. This will include responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients
• Manage advisory engagements under the supervision of the director, such as, transfer pricing setting strategies or advising foreign multinational companies on the tax implications of their operations in the region
• Manage compliance documentation engagements under the supervision of the director, such as, country-by-country reporting, master files and local files
• Manage accrual reviews and due diligences under the supervision of the director
• Drafting/managing proposals under the supervision of the director for engagements bearing in mind the expectations of our clients
• Developing and pursuing creative strategies while using latest technologies available or to be programmed with our technology department
• Manage billings and cash collection within the firms criteria
• Regular involvement with transfer pricing, tax planning and complex tax issues in conjunction with directors
• Ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets and keep client/director informed of overruns and plan staff assignments in order to give an appropriate spread of experience
• Ensure that the BDO’s quality control procedures are adhered to including second director review
• Identify risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the director, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters

Management:

• Must provide overall support to directors on client matters and assist in the management of clients and the team, this will include support at times for the recruitment and appraising of staff
• Will work as part of management team and be a vital member in the national transfer pricing and international tax team with other tax managers/directors within the business group, and provide support to the rest of the Tax team
• Actively participate in the management of the national transfer pricing and international tax team through director/manager meetings and by attendance at social functions
• Training must be provided to more junior staff both on the job and through monitoring and on the job performance, whilst consistently providing feedback
• Counsel, appraise, develop and motivate staff as appropriate

Responsible for coaching and developing junior members of staff

Sales and Marketing:

• Should be able to recognise business and sales opportunities and progress these forward with director support
• Participate in bids/proposals for new work
• Able to take advantage of marketing/PR opportunities
• Develop own network of contacts internally and externally

Communication and representation:

• Develop contact with clients at senior level and maintain contact with other levels as appropriate to ensure the firm has the confidence of the client
• Act as a liaison between the client and other specialist service groups within BDO
• Contribute centrally by lecturing on internal courses
• Consult with colleagues and directors on technical and risk matters

Requirements

Qualifications, experience and requirements

• Preferably a degree or post-graduate degree in economics; Attorney with completed M.Com, LLM (Tax Law) or HDip; CA(SA) or TA(SA) is a bonus – but NOT required. Suitable on-the-job experience will be considered.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in Transfer Pricing and preferably International Tax
• Maintain an in depth, up to date, knowledge of transfer pricing (specifically) and taxation (in general)
• Specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex transfer pricing issues
• Project management experience
• Staff management experience
• Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio profitably
• Actively seek opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients

Competencies:

• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Open-ness to working with new technologies
• Strong analytical and research skills – be an out-of-the-box thinker
• Ability to build strong and effective relationships internally and with clients to ensure a professional and quality service that meets required expectations and needs
• Innovation skills to improve systems, processes and procedures
• Confidence and decisiveness with excellent planning and organising abilities
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve reporting deadlines
• Adherence to principles and values – ethical behaviour is non-negotiable
• Willingness to work in an honest and transparent environment

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Description

Engagement Quality Reviewer reviews engagements that require an Engagement Quality Review prior to the finalisation of the audit report to ensure that the quality objectives of the quality review process are achieved.

• Reviewing engagement files that require engagement quality reviews. This will include the review of the annual financial statements.
• Attend meetings with the engagement partner and manager to determine the scope of the review;
• Present feedback to the engagement partner and manager;
• Collate findings of various reviews to present to the firm for remedial action and future learning;
• Collating and recording of recurring themes;
• Training of audit managers and partners on recurring themes where necessary;
• Liaising with various firm departments on findings.

Requirements

• CA(SA); RA
• 7-10 Years post articles experience in auditing; EQR experience advantageous
• ISAs; ISQM 2

Strong Technical Ability

• Extremely high level of attention to detail and analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Keep abreast of relevant changes in own field of work i.e. law amendments, new practice notes, attend technical meetings, etc.
• Ability to communicate effectively with partners and managers both verbally and in writing
• Ability to communicate effectively with partners and managers under potentially difficult circumstances
• Ability to apply sound professional judgment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to self-development and growth through research and attending courses relevant to the role.
• Strong planning, organising, leading, and control skills
• People management (coaching and mentoring)..

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Description

Primary Purpose of the Role

The primary objective for the Offshore IT Administrator is to proactively investigate, monitor, analyse and resolve services in accordance with the ICT ITIL Framework and BDO Strategy for the Offshore Division. Adhere and comply with the National ICT service strategy also align with best practise disciplines, governance, ethics, risk standards, policies, and compliance for the firm.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Primary focus and Key deliverable to this vacancy is to proactively monitor and  analyse issues pertaining to network connections which include but not limited to latency as well as application experience using BDO monitoring and analytical tools
• Deliver services and support in a pro-active approach to mitigate and or eradicate major incidents from occurring
• Eliminate recurring incidents by displaying a thorough organized and methodical approach to root cause analysis using a dynamic approach
• Apply innovative thought and solutions to drive 99% Application Uptime and user satisfaction to offshore division
• Interpreting live, historical analytics to resolve and prevent Major and Minor Incidents
• Daily Live monitoring and a hunt for work approach to identify problems and anticipate issues before it happens
• Daily investigations using Nexthink and pro-active maintenance on Offshore Department devices using dex scores to improve efficiency
• Remote, office, Teams, and Telephonic support
• Virtual Desktop assistance and Escalation to UK, USA, Belgium, Australia, and New Zealand support desks
• Monthly meeting with offshore firm division department champion and ICT service supervisor for updates and escalations
• Network support for Offshore division (Ping tests, tracerts, azure gateway tests, roundtrip tests, speedtests)
• Provide related service feedback to the management team and leadership – Weekly report- repeat incidents/problem areas/proactive trends for the Offshore division

Requirements

Qualifications, Work Experience, and Knowledge

Qualifications

• A+, ITIL V3
• SDI certificate (beneficial)
• NQF Level 5 IT related Qualification, higher and or equivalent work experience

Work Experience

• Minimum 3years in a Corporate IT team providing end-user support (preferred)
• Monitoring Support or network monitoring support exposure
• QA testing (Beneficial) 

Knowledge

• Level1 troubleshooting anLnd escalation (Must have)
• Office 365 support
• Level 1 network support including home router support where applicable
• Audio and Visual boardroom solutions support
• VDI support (Citrix and AVD)
• Nexthink (Beneficial)
• Exposure to Servicenow ticket management (Beneficial)
• Thousand eyes
• Network Monitoring Tools

Competencies: Technical & Behavioural

Technical Competencies

• Working experience on System Centre Service Manager or similar IT Service Management tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot network issues - LAN Routing and Switching troubleshooting (VLANs, IP Sub netting, DHCP, DNS)
• Basic Mimecast administration
• MS Teams Voice
• Active Directory administration
• Attention to Detail

Behavioural Competencies

• Holistic and Logical Thinking
• Disciplined
• Flexible/Dependable
• Proactive Personality
• Must be a team player
• Methodical

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Description

Having just completed your articles, a Junior Associate, is responsible to the audit engagement manager for daily work contact, conduct of the audit work and for ensuring that the fieldwork is executed within the required time frame.        

• Completion of execution on sections
• Completion of analytical reviews on an overall entity basis as well as on specific sections
• Completion of planning and finalisation (including SEC reporting documents)
• Manages time and is held accountable for productivity
• Provides frequent progress updates to the audit manager or partner
• Regular online training is required to ensure US legislation compliant

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

Minimum requirements:

• Newly qualified CA(SA) registered or eligible to register with SAICA
• Less than 1-year post-articles experience
• Full IFRS practical audit experience
• Preferred requirements:
• Independent review experience 

Competencies

• Ability to handle and manage stress
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work well under pressure
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for internal and external stakeholder relationship management
• Flexible in terms of working hours when required
• Supervisory experience
• Must be able to work on your own
• Project management skills
• Quality and detail oriented
• Team player

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Description

Having just completed your articles, the Experienced Audit Senior, is responsible to the audit engagement manager for daily work contact, conduct of the audit work and for ensuring that the fieldwork is executed within the required time frame.        

• Completion of execution on sections
• Completion of analytical reviews on an overall entity basis as well as on specific sections
• Completion of planning and finalisation (including SEC reporting documents)
• Manages time and is held accountable for productivity
• Provides frequent progress updates to the audit manager or partner
• Regular online training is required to ensure US legislation compliant

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

Minimum requirements:

• Completed 3-year SAICA training contract
• CTA (Completed)
• ITC (Completed)
• Full IFRS practical audit experience
• Preferred requirements:
• Studying towards APC
• Independent review experience

Competencies

• Ability to handle and manage stress
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work well under pressure
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for internal and external stakeholder relationship management
• Flexible in terms of working hours when required
• Supervisory experience
• Must be able to work on your own
• Project management skills
• Quality and detail oriented
• Team player

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Description

Job description:

• Assist with an admin oversight role for large audit teams
• Completion of execution on sections (normally the significant risk or complex sections)
• Completion of analytical reviews on an overall entity basis as well as on specific sections
• Completion of planning and finalisation (including SEC reporting documents)
• Compiling of technical memos
• Review of technical memos
• Manages time and is held accountable for productivity
• Provides frequent progress updates to the audit manager or partner
• Regular online training is required to ensure US legislation compliant

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

Minimum requirements:

• Qualified CA(SA) registered with SAICA
• 1-year post-articles experience
• Full IFRS practical audit experience
• Preferred requirements:
• Independent review experience 

Competencies

• Ability to handle and manage stress
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work well under pressure
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for internal and external stakeholder relationship management
• Flexible in terms of working hours when required
• Management / supervisory experience
• Must be able to work on your own
• Project management skills
• Quality and detail oriented
• Team player