TOPP Program for 2013 Opportunity at IQ Business Group South Africa

Job title:  TOPP Program for 2013
Job Description
IQ Risk and Accounting Services (RAS) is a specialist division within IQ.  Our specialist risk management service offering includes review, analysis and advisory on strategic risk management across various specialist risk disciplines. These risk discipline include credit, market and liquidity risk management, enterprise and operational risk management.
Our accounting service offering is tailored to clients needs and includes financial diagnostic assessment and correction, finance process review and implementation, valuations and compliance.
We are looking for an individual to join our CA Programme.
What is the CA Training Programme?
The CA training programme was re-developed by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in 2009, effective 2010 and offers training for the highly regarded CA(SA) designation. The programme was previously divided between TIPP & TOPP.
Remodeling the CA Training route
A revolutionary new training model, designed to arm Chartered Accountants [CA (SA)] with broad-based business skills, has been developed by The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in consultation with its members.


Job Requirements
Applicants must have a Completed B.Com (Hon) CTA degree. The suitable candidate must be passionate about obtaining their CA qualification. Suitable candidates must have good academic records and hold the following competencies:
• Accuracy
• Analytical skills
• Good time management
• Excellent people skills

To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/

MultiChoice South Africa Jobs- Programme Manager Job Vacancy in Randburg

  Job Title : Programme Manager
Company CommerceZone
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Randburg
Job Type Permanent
Equity Status African candidates
Number of Positions 1
Special Requirements This position is open to the Employee Referral Scheme

Context Commercezone is a division of Multichoice within the Naspers Group. A Programme Manager is required to manage the current project team. Project Management and support for the current Commerce One platform is required as well as future systems involving SAP Technologies.

If you are interested in this great opportunity please apply online.
Customers External customers

Companies that transact on e-procurement platform
Companies within the Naspers Group

Internal customers

Current Engineering team – Platform and Integration
Project Managers
Business Analysts
Technical Architect
System Administrator
Functional Experts
Customer Support

Outputs Manage and develop the project teams in Johannesburg and Cape Town;
Manage functional team leaders providing operational support
Programme managing implementation of solutions with external clients;
Project management of strategic implementation projects, as appropriate;
CommerceZone Project Portfolio Management for all implementation and support projects;Manage Operational Customer Support delivery
Maintain and enhance the Quality Management System for the Operational Teams;
Manage and develop the CommerceZone Project Management Office;
Quality assurance of Project Management and Implementation Methodology;
Contribute to the strategic development of CommerceZone solutions;
Manage expectations and high-level relationships with clients during implementations;
Ensure the customers are satisfied with services rendered by pro-active management of customer expectations.
Contribute to business development by providing input to pre-sales efforts and ensure projects are set-up for success during Pre-sales phase;
Estimate Implementation costs and manage to budget;
Develops or assists with the development and implementation of policies and procedures consistent with those of the organization to ensure efficient operation of the team;
Oversees the supervision of personnel, which includes work allocation, training, and problem resolution; evaluates performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions; motivates employees to achieve peak productivity and performance;
Reviews and interprets financial and operating information, as appropriate; coordinates and develops periodic financial and/or operating analyses, and prepares financial/business reports for the GM and CommerceZone management;
Provides advice and assistance to senior management in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of modifications to existing operations, systems, and procedures;
Develops annual operating budgets;
Pro-actively manage all risks in the environment and ensure appropriate and timeous escalation of risks and issues take place;
Responsible for the resource planning needed to satisfy the capacity and performance requirements of the team;

Education & Experience B.Sc / B.Com / B.Sc qualification essential
Project Management qualification advantageous
Experience of Financial systems implementations (ERP) would be advantageous
Experience of E-Procurement systems implementation would be advantageous
Experience of SAP would be advantageous but not essential
Own transport and drivers license


Competencies Functional

Minimum of 5 years Project Management experience
Minimum of 2 years Programme management
Experience in managing Project Management team and Project Management Office
Procurement best practice knowledge and experience will be advantageous
Experience with having worked with SAP SRM, advantageous
Experience in IT Services or consulting industry
Strong knowledge of the software development process
Knowledge of e-procurement system implementation beneficial
Knowledge of ERP extremely beneficial
Experience in working directly with all levels of staff


Behavioural

Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
Excellent planning skills
Excellent management skills
Ability to integrate disparate concepts into cohesive whole
Able to reason at various levels of abstraction
Creative and forward thinking
Professional maturity & integrity
Positive Attitude
Self Motivation
Self Development
Ability to contribute to the growth of the team
Ability to gain Stakeholder buy-in
Excellent abilities to work directly with all levels of staff and clients
Ability to prioritize issues
Highly presentable and customer centric
Relationship building
Strong influencing skills

We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal applicants will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals.

To Apply:

http://careers.multichoice.co.za/candidateapp/Job.aspx?Page=ViewJob&JobRef=210612-6¶ms=ADW9zL5gVvza0tHzixi%2b1l90FON865Jl3u%2fzB5YrZCoX%2b6uTKN0W3pmSXIhpZqwkVxpz58%2fofNJWUyzMMSO0F6YH0U%2fEsOOpsl%2fDREqVovwo53CZN%2fU%2frj5YIvCVRUqg

Deadline: 29th June 2012

Application Architect / Technology Architect Job Vacancy at IQ Business Group in South Africa

Job title : Application Architect / Technology Architect - Technology Enablement -Permanant-Jhb
Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

Provide overall structure and guidance for creating and maintaining software applications, subsystems, interfaces and components in order to meet desired functional and non-functional requirements. Consult to project teams and clients to deliver customer-centric solutions that meet enterprise standards and project performance criteria.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Assist the business analyst in creating detailed requirements that specify the technical architecture of the system
• Act as an interface between business stakeholders and IT to ensure clear and articulate solutions
• Review application requirements for reasonability and conformance to project constraints and resolve conflicting requirements and manage trade-offs
• Define and model the existing landscape  in terms of components layers, tiers, and interfaces according to enterprise standards that integrate into overall enterprise landscapes.
• Define future state application architecture and decompose the architecture into subsystems, components, layers, tiers, and interfaces
• Define transitional architectures to provide business benefits iteratively and minimise delivery risk
• Promote the use of existing enterprise standards
• Describe applications through component and collaboration modelling of static and dyanmic behaviour
• Promote reusability, maintainability, reliability, and scalability in architecture, design and development
Job Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Matric plus applicable tertiary equivalent experience or preferably, an ICT relevant diploma or degree from a recognised tertiary institution
• TOGAF certifications and experience are beneficial but not required
• Have a Drivers' License and a willingness to travel
• Be a creative and analytical thinker
• Have a desire and ability solve complex business processes with software
• Be highly driven and able to self manage in a fast paced environment
• Posses strong organizational and time management skills
• Build rapport and develop effective working relationships with clients

EXPERIENCE:

• Must have at least 9 years' experience, ideally in a consulting or financial services environment
• Ability to communicate well with various levels, adapt to different project environments and play a flexible role on projects
• Application architecture, design and implementation (including security, SOA architectures, transaction processing, data interchange and user interfaces)
• Usage of tools supporting the above (i.e. Casewise, Visio, ARIS)
• Component and class design and modelling using software patterns and frameworks
• Business case and business process methods
• Database design concepts
• Web services and SOA concepts and best practices
• Commercial packages, communications infrastructure and management utilities


To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/

Salesforce.com Technical Engineers Jobs in South Africa at IQ Business Group

Job title: Salesforce.com Technical Engineers - Technology Enablement -Permanant-Jhb
Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

Technology Engineers/Developers to work with our clients to gather requirements, document solution design, configure the Salesforce application, and ensure successful engagements and project go-lives through disciplined project management.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

•   Execute declarative Salesforce application configuration and integration
•   Use Apex and VisualForce to create unique customer-based solutions
•   Ability to lead client projects and internal team
•   Expert in solution design and system architecture
•   Interact directly with our customers, including consultants, architects and sales to ensure customer success
•   Participate in the full application life cycle from technical design to development, testing and deployment
•   Build salesforce.com product extensions using Visualforce technology
•   Develop new native products on the force.com platform
Job Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

•   Matric plus applicable tertiary equivalent experience or preferably, an ICT relevant diploma or degree from a recognized tertiary institution;
•   Salesforce.com Certifications (Dev-401, Dev-501) preferred, but not required
•   Drivers License and a willingness to travel
•   Have a passion for solving customer’s challenges with software
•   Have a natural curiosity and desire to learn new business processes and technologies
•   Be a creative and analytical thinker
•   Have a desire and ability solve complex business processes with software
•   Be highly driven and able to self manage in a fast paced environment
•   Posses strong organizational and time management skills
•   Be able to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
•   Build rapport and develop effective working relationships with clients
•   Have excellent written and oral communication skills
•   Have tenacity, persistence, passion and a desire for customer success

EXPERIENCE:

•   5+ years of software development experience, ideally in a consulting environment
•   2+ years experience with Salesforce.com preferable
•   Strong technical design skills and an ability to deliver customer driven solutions
•   Motivated to learn new software as a service technologies
•   Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
•   Strong communication skills, both written and verbal is required
•   Development experience with JSP/ ASP, Java, HTML language is required
•   Development experience with Apex and Visualforce is desired

To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/

Salesforce.com Account Engineer Job Vacancy at IQ Business Group in South Africa

Job title Salesforce.com Account Engineer - Technology Enablement - Permanant - Jhb
Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

Account Engineers/Consultants to work with our clients to gather requirements, document solution design, configure the Salesforce application, train administrators and end-user personnel on how to navigate and best leverage the solution, and ensure successful engagements and project go-lives through disciplined project management.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

•   Execute business process review meetings and discovery sessions with clients
•   Create business requirements documentation with process flow diagrams and use case definitions
•   Execute solution design activities such as data mapping, object modeling, page layout design and rule logic definition in context of Salesforce application
•   Setup, configure and optimize the Salesforce solution remotely and at client locations
•   Execute testing and validation that the Salesforce configuration meets the business requirements and solution design
•   Provide training and knowledge transfer to client through configuration walkthroughs, desk-side coaching and review of project hand-off documentation
•   Assist and support client User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts and execute go-live deployment
•   Provide customers best practices and present additional opportunities to further leverage Salesforce and the Force.com platform
•   Ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery through disciplined project management that consistently reviews and monitors the project plan, issues, budget and status
Job Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

•   Matric plus applicable tertiary equivalent experience or preferably, an ICT relevant diploma or degree from a recognised tertiary institution;
•   Salesforce.com Certifications (ADM-201, CON-201) preferred, but not required
•   Drivers License and a willingness to travel
•   Have a passion for solving customer’s challenges with software
•   Have a natural curiosity and desire to learn new business processes and technologies
•   Be a creative and analytical thinker
•   Have a desire and ability solve complex business processes with software
•   Be highly driven and able to self manage in a fast paced environment
•   Posses strong organizational and time management skills
•   Be able to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
•   Build rapport and develop effective working relationships with clients
•   Have excellent written and oral communication skills
•   Have tenacity, persistence, passion and a desire for customer success

EXPERIENCE:

•   5+ years work experience
•   4+ years professional services or technical consulting experience
•   2+ years experience with Salesforce.com preferable
•   Client facing and project management experience
•   Implementation expertise in configuring and deploying SaaS based applications
•   Sales, Marketing and Customer Service expertise is desired
•   Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications (e.g. Salesforce, Siebel,  Eloqua, Marketo) as well as integration tools (Pervasive, Informatica, Boomi) is desired
•   Industry expertise in High Tech, Financial Services, Health Care and eCommerce is a plus
•   Outstanding writing, presentation, communication and organization skills are required
•   Outstanding PC skills (Excel, Access, Word, etc.) are required


To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/

Senior Principal Business Analyst Jobs in South Africa at IQ Business Group

Job title Senior Principal Business Analyst - Technology Enablement- Jhb - Contract
Job Description
Identifying, gathering and categorising requirements information
Identifying and maintaining sources of requirements information
Analysing and constructing models/specifications of the problem
Outlining broad aspects of possible solutions to the problem
Organising all the necessary information around the various models
Verifying the various models and specifications
Conducting user workshops
Preparing the Requirements Model
Analysis of the existing business processes
Analysis of the existing technology and people environment supporting the processes
Delivery of the current and target business process models


Job Requirements
>=5 years business analysis related experience, as well as exposure to the Information System Development
Tertiary Degree or Diploma
General Skills and Knowledge:

MS Office  - Required
MS Project - Required
Modelling Tools - Required
SDLC - Required
Development Tools - Beneficial
System Analysis and Design - Required
Database Design - Required
Project Management Fundamentals - Required
Information System Fundamentals - Required
Software Testing Fundamentals - Required

Banking experience - Required

Specific Skills and Experience:

Agile experience will be an advantage

Some Object-oriented programming experience would be an advantage
Some database design and modelling experience would be an advantage
Object-oriented Analysis and Design or Domain Driven Design
Unified Modelling Language (using Visio or Enterprise Architect)
Technical Writing
Preferably SA citizens or resources with valid work permits not specific to a profession or a company





To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/

Senior Project Manager Job Vacancy at IQ Business Group

Job title: Senior Project Manager - Technology Enablement - Contract - Jhb
Job Description
Responsibilities include the management of a large or several smaller projects and teams of analysts and/or programmers which control various aspects of project development in either a maintenance or development area.

Incumbent is also associated with aspects of systems and database analysis and design, as well as the monitoring and planning of all related activities.

The following roles and responsibilities are applicable:
1. Facilitator
    Regular reporting of progress to project sponsor and stakeholders
    Conducts meetings, give presentations and interface with stakeholders
    Acts as a catalyst to resolve project problems and conflicts, escalating when necessary
    Manages client needs and expectations
    Ensures appropriate involvement and participation during product development

2. Leader
    Accepts full responsibility for the project and take accountability for the overall delivery of the project deliverables
    Ensure the overall success of the project
    Empowers others: drives decision making to lowest level reasonable
    Performs project-related mentoring to project members to ensure high standards of deliverables
    Manages and leads project team
    Encourage knowledge transfer and recognising achievements
    Ensures acceptable project management practices are defined and followed

3. Coordinator/ Integrator
    Establishes project requirements
    Determines high-level project objectives and deliverables
    Planning project activities, tasks and end results including the scope, scheduling, budgeting, coordinating of tasks and allocation of resources
    Manages the project to an acceptable level of risk by balancing scope, time, cost and quality
    Ensures completion of deliverables and adherence to timelines
    Identifies and controls areas for risk, concern, change and issue management
    Ensures key project documentation is preserved for audit, review and legal purposes
    Assesses strengths and weaknesses at project completion and applies lessons learned to next project
Job Requirements
Project Management experience - more than 6 years
Tertiary degree or diploma with more than 6 years project related experience
PMBOK / Prince 2
Object-oriented Analysis and Design or Domain Driven Design
Unified Modelling Language
Technical Writing
Financial services - banking
SDLC
ITIL
Information Systems Fundamentals
Software Testing Fundamentals
Management Principles
Document Management
Knowledge Management
Banking experience - Required

To Apply:
http://www.iqgroup.com/africa/careers/