Latest Openings at South African Reserve Bank

JOB DESCRIPTION

The main purpose of this position is to perform administrative duties and provide support to facilitate the administration of the payroll on behalf of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

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 supervisor.
• Perform work independently within established practices, given processes, rules and regulations, ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines in executing own tasks.
• Identify, evaluate and solve defined, routine and new problems within a familiar context.
• Perform basic accounting duties in accordance with accounting and SARB policies, relevant accounting standards and legislation.
• Prepare and provide payroll information within a defined context to relevant stakeholders.
• Perform general administration tasks, including the preparation of payment instructions, data capturing and record keeping to ensure the smooth running of the divisions operations.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders/clients within the SARB and external parties, displaying a service orientation in own work and the ability to handle basic queries and explain information fluently.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of functional area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices).
• Evaluate own performance against the given criteria and identify and address task-specific learning needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

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

• a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, an Advanced Diploma in Financial Accounting (NQF 7) or an equivalent qualification; and
• a minimum of six months to two years’ experience in a financial services environment, specifically in the area of payroll administration.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and/or professional development;
• finance strategy;
• finance project management;
• management accounting;
• financial reconciliation;
• taxation;
• payroll administration;
• function specific – information systems; and
• business continuity planning;

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JOB DESCRIPTION

The main purpose of this position is to buy goods and services from suppliers on behalf of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

Detailed description

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

• Plan and prioritise tasks that need to be completed on a daily and weekly basis with the Tactical Buying Lead.
• Buy goods and services from suppliers, which include but is not limited to the preparation of requests for tender/proposal/quotation/information (RFXs), commercial negotiations and recommendations for supplier awards.
• Manage the entire value chain of the requisitioning and ordering cycle.
• Perform general administration in a timeous, accurate and complete manner throughout the buying cycle.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders, including requisitioners and suppliers, displaying a service orientation towards own work as well as the ability to handle queries and explain information fluently.
• Ensure that all buying activities and deliverables are of high quality and are executed in accordance with the SARB Procurement Policy.
• Collate and analyse procurement data for reporting.
• Keep abreast of developments in the procurement field and propose improvements to methods and practices in tactical procurement.

QUALIFICATIONS

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

• the minimum of a National Diploma (NQF 6) in Commerce/Supply Chain Management or an equivalent qualification; and
• the minimum of two to five years’ experience in the procurement or supply chain management environment

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and/or professional development;
• procurement strategy;
• procurement planning;
• procurement markets; and
• contract management;

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Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to maintain and install mechanical sub-systems to optimise building systems at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

Detailed description

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

• Engage in short-term planning.
• Perform tasks independently against well-defined work instructions and in accordance with set standards and procedures. 
• Perform fault-finding for mechanical sub-systems by applying a set of modified techniques within a defined context.
• Conduct preventative and corrective maintenance in the mechanical sub-systems and/or equipment and determine possible component failure to enhance system capability.
• Test all work and close off the assigned job cards on maintenance and project work.
• Interpret the work instructions and drawings relating to construction, alterations modifications, enhancement maintenance and operational projects.
• Apply statutory principles to comply with the safety, health and environmental requirements.
• Perform quality assurance on the work done by external service providers for adherence to industry requirements and report to the supervisor.
• Prepare and submit weekly reports using standard templates (job cards and non-conformance reports), highlighting the work completed and problem areas.
• Engage positively with clients and other stakeholders, including dealing with complaints and compliments.
• Address any gaps in your own performance of tasks and activities against the required standard(s).
• Do maintenance standby duties as and when required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

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

• a National Trade Test Certificate in Mechanical – Fitter &Turner, or Fitter;
• an N4 or NQF4 technical qualification or an equivalent qualification will be an advantage;
• Five to seven years’ experience in a technical trade environment.

Additional requirements include:

working experience in:

• the dynamics of a high-rise and/or high-tech commercial office environment;
• refrigeration and air conditioning; 
• maintaining water pressurised systems (pressure reducing valves, pilot valves, pipe work, and so forth).
• Basic welding and metal work.

knowledge of:

• mechanised doors (roll-up, sliding);
• general mechanical maintenance procedures;
• the reading of mechanical and civil drawings;
• the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and its regulations; and
• risk management related to occupational health and safety.

skills in:

• problem-solving;
• computer literacy (i.e. the Microsoft Office suite); and
• verbal and written communication.

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Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to support, maintain and enhance the Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD) applications to ensure systems availability, systems health and optimal performance.

Detailed description

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

• Support the BSTD applications by monitoring the underlying environments (databases and application servers) to ensure capacity management, systems availability and optimal performance. 
• Maintain the BSTD applications by applying corrective measures (e.g. patches, upgrades, bug fixes, etc.).
• Proactively monitor all application upgrades, new releases and product replacements that could affect the assigned application.
• Configure the application infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and install new features to enable new functionality.
• Investigate and resolve medium-high complexity technical issues by interacting with users, developers and other stakeholders on allocated applications.
• Provide reporting and recommendations on solution performance and systems availability to senior management and relevant stakeholders. 
• Proactively manage business and stakeholder relationships with respect to application support.
• Keep abreast of best practices and technologies related to BSTD as well as ensure the application thereof where relevant.
• Impart knowledge of the technical environment to the systems development team. 
• Maintain compliance to security and application standards.

QUALIFICATIONS

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

• a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (NQF 7), Information Management or Information Technology or an equivalent qualification; and
• six to eight years’ experience in deploying, supporting, maintaining and enhancing the application server environments for document management applications. 

The following will be an added advantage:

• Solid knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, IIS, TCP/IP, VLAN.
• Solid knowledge of MS SQL server and SSRS.
• Solid knowledge in Appworks or workflow management environments.
• Experience with the Vizor product suite
• Experience in administering document management applications.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• business continuity and planning;
• IT enablement planning;
• IT transformation and innovation;
• release management;
• application design, configuration and development;
• application support and maintenance;
• infrastructure design and development;
• systems integration;
• workload estimation; and 
• technical analysis.