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SUMMARY:

A reputable and growing business is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive

Accountant (Financial Services)

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NFR /Angie

Date posted:

Friday, June 27, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:

A reputable and growing business is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Accountant , with strong tax experience, to join their finance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the full accounting function, tax compliance, and supporting the business with accurate financial reporting and analysis. This role is ideal for someone with a solid foundation in accounting, paired with a deep understanding of tax legislation and requirements, who is eager to grow in a fast-paced and professional environment.

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly management accounts and financial statements
• Handle VAT, PAYE, and other statutory submissions
• Prepare and submit corporate income tax returns (ITR14)
• Assist with tax planning and ensure compliance with current tax legislation
• Maintain accurate general ledger accounts and perform reconciliations
• Prepare audit packs and liaise with external Auditors during audits
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow reporting
• Assist with SARS correspondence and tax queries
• Ensure that all financial and tax records are maintained in compliance with the relevant regulations
• Provide support on ad hoc finance and tax projects as needed
  
  

• BCom Accounting or similar qualification (SAIPA/SAICA articles advantageous)
• Minimum 3–5 years accounting experience with a strong focus on tax
• Solid knowledge of South African tax laws and regulations
• Experience preparing and submitting SARS tax returns
• Proficient in accounting software (e.g., Xero, Sage, CaseWare, or similar)
• Strong Excel skills and high attention to detail
• Deadline-driven, with good problem-solving skills and initiative
  
  

• Experience with trusts or group structures
• Working knowledge of eFiling and related SARS platforms
• Exposure to IFRS or IFRS for SMEs
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Accounting/Auditing and Finance
• Industries Advertising Services

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Solutions Architect - Financial Services

Lumenalta, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

As a Solutions Architect, you’ll be a trusted advisor and technical authority for all solution design in this domain. You’ll work alongside engineering leads, product teams, and system integrators to architect and govern solutions that are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.

• Develop and articulate current-state and future-state architectures, both logical and physical.
• Define and govern solution patterns, ensuring compliance with architectural standards and enterprise strategy.
• Partner with product teams to evaluate emerging technologies and introduce them effectively into the platform.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle, from ideation to implementation.
• Represent architecture in governance forums, contributing to reviews and ensuring quality assurance.
• Work with stakeholders across functions, building strong relationships to influence business and technology outcomes.
• Contribute to transformation roadmaps and help shape long-term technology direction.
• Participate in vendor selection processes, including drafting and assessing RFI/RFP responses.
• Question the status quo and champion innovative approaches to drive better outcomes.

• Proven experience in a Solutions Architect role, ideally within financial services or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end credit processes, with exposure to e-commerce or retail credit models.
• Practical experience governing solutions within an architectural function.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence outcomes.
• Ability to plan and rationalize project goals from limited information, delivering holistic designs.
• Awareness of IT industry trends and a technology-neutral mindset to identify best-fit solutions.
• Decisiveness and confidence when presenting solutions and guiding delivery teams.

• AWS experience, ideally with AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Familiarity with business domains such as finance, procurement, HR, security, or logistics.
• Broad understanding of modern techniques and tooling, including API-first design, Cloud Native, containerization, and PaaS on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience working with Agile product teams while governing architecture in a way that supports continuous delivery.

What it’s like to work at Lumenalta

• Director

• Full-time

• Engineering, Information Technology, and Consulting

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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Overview

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You will join as a Senior Associate and contribute to the team’s expansion. The role includes:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of financial contracts (including ISDA, CSA, GMRA, GMSLA, Prime Brokerage Agreement, MRA, MSFTA, etc.)
• Following a predefined approach to negotiations / review
• Managing escalations of complex cases, ensuring the right SME insight is obtained and cases are brought to a resolution
• Checking legal documentation for quality, consistency and content
• Client outreach activities across several different regulations and document types
• Supporting customer service activities and supporting junior members of the team handling complex or difficult client situations
• Case and documentation review - analysing legal and other documents to identify key facts, anomalies, etc, for categorisation and digitisation
• Managing your own workload, including reporting on progress and issues. Developing the ability to be agile and support a range of client/projects
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies and taking action to implement them
• Supporting clients in the negotiation and execution of a range of lending transactions and developing contract negotiation playbooks for clients
• Supporting clients with leverage technology enabled workflows to support contract preparation, negotiation and execution. Business development, including building overtime a network of referrers within PwC as well as developing direct client relationships

• Excellent academic background. Experience of negotiating financial services contracts, either as an in-house lending lawyer at a bank or other financial institution or at a leading law firm
• Good working knowledge of ISDA, CSA, GMRA, GMSLA, Prime Brokerage Agreement, MRA, MSFTA etc and current market practice
• Experience in drafting, negotiating, reviewing and assessing a wide range of financial services legal documents including ISDA, CSA, GMRA, GMSLA, Prime Brokerage Agreement, MRA, MSFTA and ancillary documents
• Strong knowledge of the financial services regulatory space as it impacts banks, insurers, funds, asset managers and other financial institutions
• Excellent communication skills and a positive “can do” attitude - ability to achieve goals through teamwork, direct and indirect influence and collaboration. Primarily a team player but also able to work under own initiative. Clear, articulate and confident in written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical and sceptical mindset with an ability to develop solutions to technical problems
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to use initiative and a willingness to embrace innovation and continuous improvement
• Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team as and when required
• Ability to harness new technology to deliver better services, faster
• Ability to lead, coach and manage junior team members and provide quality assurance and control
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good knowledge of the MS Office Suite
• Self-starter and motivated to succeed

The successful candidate(s) will be energetic, enthusiastic and keen to embrace the challenge of turning their hand to many different types of corporate work.

You will be upskilled to handle transactions governed by the laws of England and Wales through comprehensive training in the ways of working in delivering financial services work.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Legal, Consulting, and Finance

• Business Consulting and Services, Legal Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

Location: Roodepoort - Office Based
Role: Office Manager
Company: A leading privately owned financial services company boasting 20 years success in the industry. The role of Office Manager is newly created due to the phenomenal growth of the company.

This position offers a unique opportunity to take ownership of a newly created role! The successful candidate will develop office policies and procedures and implement such to ensure the smooth running of this fast-paced business.

Although the company has enjoyed tremendous success over the past 20 years, they have a very entrepreneurial culture and encourage innovation and creativity. To be successful in this role you should have the following traits, skills, and experience:

1. 2 - 5 years in office administration which could include Personal Assistant role.
2. Relevant Diploma, Degree or certification.
3. Super Organized and extreme use of initiative.
4. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
5. Fun and outgoing personality but professional.
6. Proficient in MS Office including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
7. Loves to take charge (in a nice way).
8. Management of office budget.
9. Management of office support staff.
10. Scheduling meetings, maintaining calendars, and assisting with travel arrangements.
11. Ordering of equipment and organizing of events.
12. Essentially, a jack of all trades and love it!

R 35 000 - R 40 000 - Monthly

BA Personal as a specialist in our field of expertise with extensive experience in placing niche and specialized roles both Nationally and Globally, is known for attracting and representing high caliber candidates. Our clients are diverse Leaders in their respective Industries and Representatives across all business sectors.

Excellent opportunity for a highly experienced Distribution Sales Manager: TIED FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES with vast product experience to meet growth objectives in all distribution channels in the Life and Wealth, Personal lines and Commercial Lines channels.

Leadership and Direction

• Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Develop tactical plans for optimizing resources and assets being managed to deliver on the Tied Financial Advisory Services strategy to meet business growth requirements.
• Effectively align channel objectives to overall organizational / business objectives in order to meet profit targets.

Business Planning

• Develop and propose annual business plans for the Tied Financial Advisory Services ensuring alignment with strategy.
• Meet growth objectives in all distribution channels in the Life and Wealth, Personal lines and Commercial Lines channels.
• Recommend financial and headcount budgets; propose business targets (e.g., revenues or other key performance indicators); and schedule key activities/projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organization.

Stakeholder Engagement (Internal and External)

• Identify and manage stakeholders up to top management level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.

Promoting Customer Focus

• Manage, monitor and ensure that exceptional customer service is delivered across the distribution channels in the Life and Wealth, Personal lines and Commercial Lines.

Organizational Capability Building

• Evaluate the capabilities of individuals within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility.
• Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool.

Compliance

• Accountable for planning, monitoring and controlling the Risk and Governance of the distribution channels in the Life and Wealth, Personal lines and Commercial Lines.
• Drive the application of good governance principles and legislative compliance within the environment.

Performance Management

• Manage and report on the performance of the function / business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.

Personal Capability Building

• Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Sell complex, often customized products and services to significant customers and/or manage a significant sales department.

General Education

• Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential); FAIS accredited NQF5 (120 credits) (Essential); KI Regulatory Examination (Essential); Full product holding accreditation (Essential); CFP (Advantageous); Business Related Degree (Advantageous); Management and/or coaching qualification (Advantageous)

General Experience

• 8 or more years' experience managing a sales-driven team or multi-teams in the financial sector (Essential); Experience within life and wealth long-term insurance industry (Essential); Previous Tied Agent Experience (Advantageous)

Managerial Experience

• 5 or more years' regional or multi-team managerial experience within a financial services environment (Essential)

Reference: JHB -HLG-1
Location: Roodepoort - Office based.
This privately owned company is a leading player in the financial services industry. They are looking for a Sales Administrator who will report to the Head of Sales (also a shareholder in the business) and support him in all aspects of sales administration. The company offers a secure role within a fast-paced, forward-thinking, and innovative environment.

The successful candidate should have strong sales administration skills gained within a business-to-business (as opposed to business-to-consumer) financial services company.
Additionally, you should have a matric certificate and ideally an RE5 qualification.
You should be self-managed with strong use of initiative.
Skills required are excellent analytical skills, good numeric/statistical skills, and enjoyment in researching.
You should possess excellent English (written and verbal) with the ability to interact with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels, especially senior executive level.
Specific traits for the role include but are not limited to the following:

• Problem-solving mindset
• Proactive
• Good use of initiative
• Highly organized

R 15 000 - R 25 000 - Monthly

• BCom Accounting / Finance Degree (completed or in progress towards articles/CA(SA) advantageous)
• 12 years accounting experience in financial services (insurance, banking, asset management, or related)
• Proficient in Excel and accounting software (e.g. Pastel, CaseWare, or similar)
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, reconciliations, and general ledger processes

• Opportunity to join a leading financial services business with excellent career growth prospects
• Exposure to regulatory reporting, financial analysis, and month-end processes
• Mentorship and support from senior finance professionals
• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Full-time

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Roles and responsibilities:

Client Delivery for FSI

• Supports the Senior Manager on delivery of designated engagement / project, managing the implementation of the agreed deliverables
• Tracks outputs against Service Level Agreement and reports to Senior Manager on any unforeseen issues arising
• Seeks to identify additional sales opportunities in client business
• Assists in the preparation of proposals/tenders and presentations on request
• Is a support resource in planning of sales presentations and client negotiation teams for new and retained business
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Engagement Leadership

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• Proactively identifies client service and technical issues and implements resolutions to address these
• Meets regularly with client and client teams to understand issues, anticipate needs and address these
• Communicates need for any changes in engagement / project plan to Senior Manager for discussion with Engagement sponsor / client
• Provides ongoing communication to teams on status of engagement / project, changes, achievements, etc.
• Builds network of relationships across Deloitte to understand other service line offerings and to market own functional area
• Establishes and maintains good working relationships with external clients across industries
• Participates in thought leadership process and shares functional and industry knowledge and expertise with clients, colleagues and teams
• Keeps Senior Manager updated on status of engagement
• Develops productive working relationships with client teams

Experience Required

• Experience with a Tier-One Professional Services Firm and/or leading blue-chip organisation in related industry vertical
• 5-8 years working experience including 5 years in a client facing as well as 3 years in a management role with a focus on digital transformation
• Working experience and deep working knowledge of primary industry
• Proven experience in 1/more of the customer domains of Sales, Service, Marketing and Commerce

Relevant Strategic Advisory Competencies

• Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary project teams to deliver tailored strategic solutions across or in chosen industry verticals
• Minimum of 8 years deep functional knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Corporate strategy, operating model, data and analytics, Digital Marketing, Route to Market, Revenue Growth Management, Digital Commerce.

Qualification Required

• Bachelor's qualification in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or related
• MBA or Masters in the relevant field of study is a definite advantage

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