Job Opportunities at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Manage and execute IT audits with a specific focus on Industrial/ Operational Technology information and cyber security within the Sasol Group in order to mitigate information management and cyber security risks impacting Sasol’s operations and to provide subject matter expertise. Manage audit budget as well as resource allocations on assigned audit tasks when required and ensure timely reporting. Monitor the quality of executed audits against Sasol Assurance Services Operating Manual (SASOM).

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Compile and review planning memorandums and audit programs, re-direct focus to high risk areas, and follow-up on meeting strategic objectives.
• Execute audits by identifying risks and weaknesses and ensuring that processes and systems comply with applicable policies, standards, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and execute planned and ad-hoc audits (own and managed audits) as well as resources in line with planned budgetary requirements and set timelines to contribute to the completion of the integrated risk based annual assurance plan (IRBAAP).
• Conduct audits to provide assurance that the internal system controls established by management to safeguard assets and liabilities of the company are adequately designed and operating effectively.
• Ensure the submission of factual and timely reports (own and managed) within the required reporting protocol, and integrate changes as required from stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure that all audit working papers including the evidence supporting audit report findings and results are adequately captured/ documented.
• Review audit reports and working papers of audits managed when requested by Senior Manager or Head of Function.
• Plan, manage, execute and report on overseas audits, when required.
• Conduct quality peer reviews and adhere to quality improvement practices.
• Complete task assessments of all team members of audits managed and take appropriate corrective actions.
• Contribute to the compilation and submission of reports to the Group Executive Committee, Governance Committees, Executive Committees and Sasol Limited Audit Committee.
• Monitor progress against annual audit plan, identify significant governance issues, and escalate to top management as required.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders, attend relevant stakeholder forums and provide specialist advice.
• Contribute to the development and drive implementation of the integrated risk based annual assurance plan.
• Keep up to date with and share knowledge in respect of new/ emerging developments in the internal audit profession and technological solutions.
• Execute and provide support for non-audit activities as allocated.

Formal Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Min Experience

• 11 relevant years of experience relating to auditing and information and cyber security in the Information Technology and Operational Technology (Industrial plant) environments
• Certification & Professional Membership
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP),
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and/or
• Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) and or certifications in Plant Operational Technology security is advantageous.

Competencies

• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success. At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management such as CEO [Chief Executive Officer], CIO [Chief Information Officer], and CFO [Chief Financial Officer].
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Manage and execute IT audits with a specific focus on information and cyber security within the Sasol Group in order to mitigate information management and cyber security risks impacting Sasol’s operations and to provide subject matter expertise. Manage audit budget as well as resource allocations on assigned audit tasks when required and ensure timely reporting. Monitor the quality of executed audits against Sasol Assurance Services Operating Manual (SASOM).

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Compile and review planning memorandums and audit programs, re-direct focus to high risk areas, and follow-up on meeting strategic objectives.
• Execute audits by identifying risks and weaknesses and ensuring that processes and systems comply with applicable policies, standards, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and execute planned and ad-hoc audits (own and managed audits) as well as resources in line with planned budgetary requirements and set timelines to contribute to the completion of the integrated risk based annual assurance plan (IRBAAP).
• Conduct audits to provide assurance that the internal system controls established by management to safeguard assets and liabilities of the company are adequately designed and operating effectively.
• Ensure the submission of factual and timely reports (own and managed) within the required reporting protocol, and integrate changes as required from stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure that all audit working papers including the evidence supporting audit report findings and results are adequately captured/ documented.
• Review audit reports and working papers of audits managed when requested by Senior Manager or Head of Function.
• Plan, manage, execute and report on overseas audits, when required.
• Conduct quality peer reviews and adhere to quality improvement practices.
• Complete task assessments of all team members of audits managed and take appropriate corrective actions.
• Contribute to the compilation and submission of reports to the Group Executive Committee, Governance Committees, Executive Committees and Sasol Limited Audit Committee.
• Monitor progress against annual audit plan, identify significant governance issues, and escalate to top management as required.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders, attend relevant stakeholder forums and provide specialist advice.
• Contribute to the development and drive implementation of the integrated risk based annual assurance plan.
• Keep up to date with and share knowledge in respect of new/ emerging developments in the internal audit profession and technological solutions.
• Execute and provide support for non-audit activities as allocated.

Formal Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Min Experience

• 11 relevant years of experience relating to auditing and information and cyber security
• Certification & Professional Membership
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP),
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and/or
• Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) is advantageous.

Competencies

• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success. At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management such as CEO [Chief Executive Officer], CIO [Chief Information Officer], and CFO [Chief Financial Officer].
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging tec

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The Snr Specialist Tools & Systems will be responsible for the overall management of the Retail infrastructure from a business perspective in collaboration with the Sasol IT team to drive a uniform and innovative infrastructure environment at retail site level.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Planning, coordination and execution of installations, moves, additions and changes to the Retail IT infrastructure
• Management, maintenance and updates of the Retail IT infrastructures and Cyber Security
• Troubleshoot, repair and support hardware and software issues related to supported internal Retail IT systems and business applications related to the environment
• Monitor performance of the Retail IT infrastructure equipment and related systems, with corrective recommendations for improvement
• Ensure availability and business continuity of the Retail IT based infrastructures
• Retail IT infrastructure configuration management and physical asset management
• Help define IT infrastructure strategies and processes
• Enforce Sasol IT group governance policies
• To ensure consistent development and maintenance the infrastructure at site level
• To develop, maintain and improve relevant decision-making tools that are required to deliver an optimised plan in a data-driven manner.
• Works with relevant work teams to identify and prioritise list of suggested improvements such as, but not limited to, operational changes, capital projects, and environmental regulations.
• Management of associated partner relationships
• Management of the end to end payment solutions with relevant partners
• To ensure innovate development of the infrastructure to drive sales

Key accountabilities

• To undertake continuous improvement and gap identification
• To maintain a collaborative relationship with all internal and external stakeholders
• To design, build and implement a unified environment
• Clearly executed governance to sustain consistency internally and externally
• To develop and maintain modelling standards and related documentation
• Ensure documents exist which reflect latest infrastructure and process
• Conduct audits to assess asset verification
• Manage project related to the environment
• Compliance with IM governance regarding modelling technology update and licensing management
• Continuous reporting to management on the overall performance of the environment

Formal Education

• B Com Degree
• Honours Degree will be an added advantage

 Min Experience

• 11 years relevant experience in the payments and retail IT environment

Certification & Professional Membership

• None 

Competencies 

• One-Sasol mind-set-
• Interprets operational strategy
• Drives accountability and high performance
• Business Acumen
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Customer focus
• Leverages diversity and inclusion
• Nurtures and coaches
• Builds partnerships
• Develops self
• Business process management
• Project and program management

Closing date: 31 March 2023

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for preparing and analysing large data sets in order to apply appropriate data science techniques (statistics / simulation / optimisation/ machine learning, etc) to drive predictive & prescriptive intelligence for business applications.
• Responsible for the design, engineering, development, operationalisation and modification of complex and/or specialised data science products in accordance with sound analytical principles and standards to drive critical value-adding business decisions.
• The Senior Data Scientist will forge strong relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to understand business needs; develop data science products in a way that maximises user buy-in while recognising and capitalising on new improvement opportunities to extract business value.
• He/she will stay abreast of new/alternative techniques and/or tools for relevant application in the Sasol Energy business.
• In addition, the senior data scientist will support and mentor junior data scientists in team.

Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

• Translate business questions and opportunities into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using appropriate data science techniques (statistics/ simulation/ optimisation/ machine learning, etc).
• Define, apply and update Data Science best practices and standards.
• Ensure that solutions are sustainable and adequately packaged for support handover.
• Peer review junior data scientists' work to identify possible areas for improvement of efficiency, effectiveness to ensure and improve the quality and accuracy of the data science products.
• Conduct written and verbal presentation to share insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.
• Actively seek customers where support could be offered and proactively identify real business needs.
• Research trends in data science tools and techniques for continuous improvement
• Contribute to the data science community specific data science topics
• Participate in and contribute to the Sasol Data Science CoP sessions and share own ideas / knowledge / experience within the Sasol Data Science community.

Formal Education

• Bachelor’s degree ideally in Statistics / Mathematics / Data Science / Operations Research / Engineering. Master’s degree in above will be advantageous.

Min Experience

• At least 8 years of applied experience using advanced analytics, statistical methods and data science.
• Advanced in coding capability in R/Python and SQL.
• Applied data science delivery in any of the following areas will be preferred: retail / customer loyalty, price & cost optimisation / inventory optimisation / sales and operations planning / digital twins.
• Experience in Agile project delivery is required.
• At least 2 years experience in any of the following: distributed computing, Databricks, Spark, containers, Git, and building effective CI/CD pipelines, PowerBI, web frameworks
• Applied experience in deep learning techniques (e.g. NLP, computer vision, etc.) is an advantage, but not essential.
• Good presentation and communication skills with a knack for explaining complex analytical concepts to people from other fields
• Azure certifications will be preferred.

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The Principal Data Scientist is responsible for preparing and analysing large data sets in order to apply appropriate data science techniques (statistics / simulation / optimisation / machine learning, etc.) to drive predictive and prescriptive intelligence for business applications.
• The Principal Data Scientist will be responsible for the design, engineering, development, operationalisation and modification of complex and/or specialised data science products in accordance with sound analytical principles and standards to drive critical value-adding business decisions.
• The Principal Data Scientist will forge strong relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to understand business needs; develop data science products in a way that maximises user buy-in while recognising and capitalising on new improvement opportunities to extract business value.
• He/she will lead research and development efforts in the advancement of new data science techniques and and/or tools for relevant application in the Sasol Energy business.
• In addition, the principal data scientist is a subject matter expert and will lead own projects as well as provide support to and mentor other data scientists in the team.

Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

• Translate business questions and opportunities into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using appropriate data science techniques (statistics/ simulation/ optimisation/ machine learning, etc).
• Define, apply and update Data Science best practices and standards.
• Ensure that solutions are sustainable and adequately packaged for support handover.
• Peer review other data scientists' work to identify possible areas for improvement of efficiency, effectiveness to ensure and improve the quality and accuracy of the data science products.
• Conduct written and verbal presentation to share insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.
• Actively seek customers where support could be offered and proactively identify real business needs.
• Research trends in data science tools and techniques for continuous improvement and lead relevant piloting work to test and implement these tools/techniques.
• Contribute to the data science community as the subject matter lead on specific topics

Formal Education

• Master's degree ideally in Statistics / Mathematics / Data Science / Operations Research / Engineering. PhD in one of the above fields will be advantageous.

Min Experience

• At least 13 years of applied experience using advanced analytics, statistical methods and data science.
• Fluency in computer programming and data structures, with expert coding capability in R/Python and SQL.
• Applied data science delivery in any of the following areas: retail / customer loyalty, price & cost optimisation / inventory optimisation / sales and operations planning / digital twins will be preferred.
• Experience in Agile project delivery is required.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in the field of data science
• Applied experience in deep learning techniques (e.g. NLP, computer vision, etc.) is preferred, but not essential.
• Good presentation and communication skills with a knack for explaining complex analytical concepts to people from other fields
• At least 4 years experience in any of the following: distributed computing, Databricks, Spark, containers, Git, and building effective CI/CD pipelines, PowerBI, web frameworks
• Azure certifications are preferred.

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.