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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (IDC)
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.
Job number IDC00792
Contract Type Fixed Term Contract (24 months)
Posting End Date 26 Aug 2026
IDC Job Grade M Band
Synopsis
The Financial Controller will be responsible for strengthening financial control, governance, reporting, audit readiness, remediation of audit findings, mitigation of financial control weaknesses, and operational finance effectiveness.
A key focus of the role is to ensure the effective remediation of audit findings, perform root-cause analysis on control breakdowns, track corrective action plans to closure, and mitigate financial control weaknesses across finance processes.
The Financial Controller will also support process improvements and strengthen finance operating disciplines across the organisation.
Qualification and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or related field
• Professional accounting qualification is highly desirable, such as CA(SA), CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent.
• 8-10 years’ relevant work experience in financial services, public sector, DFI space and PFMA Experience.
• Preferably combined audit and operational finance experience.
• Proven experience in financial reporting, audit coordination, internal controls, balance sheet substantiation, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, operational finance management, remediation of audit findings, and mitigation of financial control weaknesses.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS, financial governance, regulatory compliance, and financial control frameworks.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning, accounting, or financial reporting systems.
• Knowledge and experience of SAP is desirable.
Roles and Responsibilities
Financial Reporting and Control
- Oversee the preparation of accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
- Ensure the integrity of the general ledger, trial balance, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial records.
- Coordinate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes within agreed timelines.
- Review financial information for completeness, accuracy, compliance, and audit readiness.
- Support management reporting, financial analysis, and variance commentary for senior stakeholders.
Audit, Governance and Compliance
- Act as a key finance liaison for internal and external audits.
- Prepare audit schedules, evidence packs, reconciliations, and responses to audit queries.
- Lead the remediation of audit findings by coordinating management responses, corrective action plans, owners, timelines, and evidence of closure.
- Perform root-cause analysis on recurring audit issues and financial control weaknesses and recommend sustainable corrective actions.
- Monitor implementation of audit findings and agreed remediation actions until fully resolved and independently verifiable.
- Maintain and enhance internal control frameworks, financial policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, governance frameworks, and organisational policies
Operational Finance
- Provide operational finance oversight across accounting, reconciliations, expenditure control, working capital, and financial processing activities.
- Identify process inefficiencies, control gaps, and financial control weaknesses, and recommend practical improvements to strengthen finance operations.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow monitoring, and financial planning processes.
- Partner with business units to improve financial discipline, cost control, and performance monitoring.
- Ensure finance processes are supported by appropriate controls, documentation, reporting disciplines, and control effectiveness monitoring.
Job Requirements
TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
• Financial accounting and reporting
• Analysing
• Audit planning
• Balance sheet substantiation and reconciliations
• Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cash flow monitoring
• IFRS and statutory reporting requirements
• Operational finance process improvement
• ERP, accounting, and reporting system capability
• Stakeholder reporting and senior management engagement
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
• Persuading and Influencing- Ability to influence process improvements and embed financial discipline
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Planning and organising
• Writing and reporting
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Professional judgement, integrity, and confidentiality
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, regulated, or governance-intensive environment
TRANSACTION ASSOCIATE
IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.
Job number IDC00793
Contract Type Permanent
Posting End Date 26 Aug 2026
Region Gauteng
IDC Job Grade P-Band
Synopsis
To evaluate and present applications for funding and structure deals that contribute towards unit objectives and industry development goals. This would include performing the financial and/or technical and/or marketing due diligence functions and ensuring risk identification and mitigation.
Job Description
Financial /Shareholder Returns
- Evaluate and effectively structure transactions with detailed application of IDC financing instruments (where applicable/appropriate).
Internal /Operational Processes
- Conduct comprehensive due diligence assessments of finance applications across financial, technical and marketing disciplines.
- Structure and negotiate transactions, including the financial, environmental, health and safety, legal and commercial arrangements between clients and the IDC.
- Identify, assess and recommend appropriate measures to mitigate financial, operational, legal, EHS and execution risks.
- Participate actively in multidisciplinary due diligence teams and coordinate inputs from relevant internal and external specialists.
- Optimise transactions to ensure alignment with the unit’s strategic objectives and contribution to industry-development priorities.
- Prepare and submit high-quality preliminary assessments and comprehensive credit proposals that comply with IDC funding requirements, policies and approval standards.
- Conduct peer reviews to assess the quality, completeness, consistency and robustness of assessments and credit proposals.
- Maintain accurate records, documentation and audit trails throughout the transaction lifecycle.
Customer Focus & Stakeholder Management
- Maintain meaningful relationships with enquirers, applicants, and portfolio clients in conjunction with different support functions in the IDC.
- To effectively interact with different SBU’s and departments in order to fulfill the process requirements related to any specific business transaction.
- Manage and enhance the levels of service and communication to ensure the provision of client service excellence.
- Liaise with external and internal stakeholders and organisations to promote the unit’s mandate, strengthen collaborative relationships, and support the achievement of strategic objectives.
Learning, Leadership & People Growth
- Drive and manage own development to enhance own competencies
- Participate in knowledge sharing in the team and cross functional
- Mentoring and acting as a coach to Business Analysts
Qualification and Experience
Qualifications
- Minimum qualification: relevant commercial or technical Honours Degree or equivalent qualification.
Knowledge & Experience
- 5-8 years related experience of which 2-3 years should be in assessment as well as closing of transactions (i.e. management of approved deals up to first drawdown, including ensuring timely conclusion of legal agreements)
- Declared competent in two due diligence disciplines (Marketing, Technical or Financial)
- Grounded in one of the above due diligence disciplines
- Experience in interpretation of financial statements
- Sector-specific knowledge would be advantageous
- Knowledge of financial products as used by IDC
As our entity (IDC) Provides financing & funding, the need to ensure trust, honesty and integrity in all
financial & non-financial activities must be above reproach
Roles and Responsibilities
Technical/Functional Competencies
- Financial acumen
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Investment/Portfolio Management
- Stakeholder Management and customer focus
- Report writing skills
- Planning and organizing
Behavioural Competencies
- Presentation and Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Relationship and Networking skills
- Persuading and Influencing skills
IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.
HUMAN CAPITAL COORDINATOR
IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.
Job number IDC00791
Contract Type Permanent
Posting End Date 22 Aug 2026
Region Gauteng
IDC Job Grade -Band
Synopsis
To provide coordinated comprehensive administrative support to the entire Human Capital Business value chain to effectively support HC and its customers in the administration process thus ensuring a seamless administrative end-to-end HC administrative process. It also supervises and quality assures the updating and maintaining of data within a Human Capital Management (SAP) systems, ensuring governance to processes and quality HC service delivery.
Qualification and Experience
Degree/BTech in Human Resource Management, Social Science, Financial Management, Information Management/ Technology or any relevant qualification
Minimum of 5-8 years HR experience
Knowledge of HC Value Chain processes
Basic Conditions of Employment Act
Employment Equity, POPIA and Labour Relations Act
Medical Aid Schemes
Knowledge of Human Capital or Financial Reporting
Skills Development Levy
SAPHR (PA, LSO)
Words, Excel, PowerPoint
HR Smart, MIE and Talent Central (or equivalent E- recruitment systems)
Competency based interviewing techniques, recruitment strategies
Roles and Responsibilities
Provide supervisory administrative support regarding staff movement processes (recruitment, internal appointments, transfers, secondments and rotations)
•Ensuring consistent and efficient delivery of HC resourcing and administrative services facilitating effective and timeous talent management processes and administration, in support of the respective HC Business Partners portfolios. To supervise the capturing and maintenance of the relevant staff movement data within the human capital management system.
Provide supervisory administrative support regarding learning and development initiatives and activities
•Efficiently and effectively supervise the L&D administration function ensuring accuracy and maintenance of bursaries and training data and records. To consistently ensure that quality administrative services are provided in support of L&D initiatives.
Provide supervisory administrative support regarding employee data management, staff benefits & wellness administration
•Accurately, efficiently, and effectively provide supervisory support relating to employee data management, staff benefits, and wellness administration aligned to relevant policies and legislative requirements for governance and compliance, and the provision of employer/employee support to ensure that employees are fully aware of the IDC benefits offering and in support of effectively benefits management practice. To supervise the capturing and maintenance of the relevant employee data, staff benefits and wellness data within the human capital management system
Job Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Deciding and initiating action
Working with people
Relating and networking
Applying expertise and technology
Planning and organising
Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
Following instructions and procedures
Coping with pressure and setbacks
Adhering to principles and values
Persuading and influencing
Presenting and communicating information
Achieving personal work goals and objectives
IT AUDITOR
IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.
Job number IDC00790
Contract Type Permanent
Posting End Date 22 Aug 2026
Region Gauteng
IDC Job Grade P-Band
Synopsis
To provide independent assurance on the adequacy and effectiveness of the IDC’s information technology controls, governance, risk management, and security processes through the execution of risk-based IT audits.
The role identifies control weaknesses, recommends improvements, and monitors the implementation of corrective actions to support the achievement of organizational objectives and regulatory compliance.
Qualification and Experience
BCom Degree in Information Systems or BSc Information Science / Computer audit or
equivalent
CISA qualification
CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) advantageous
Minimum of 5 to 8 years’ IT Audit experience
Experience in performing Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques (CAATS) or Data Analysis
Experience in evaluating general and computerised application controls and following a
risk-based approach
Exposure in reviewing access security in a client/server environment on Microsoft Network
Internet/Firewall will be an added advantage
Exposure in reviewing systems development life cycle and change management processes will be an added advantage
Knowledge of IT governance and risk management
Understanding of SAP & Power BI
Familiarity with frameworks such as COBIT, ISO 27001 and ITIL
Knowledge of cloud computing, third-party technology risk, data privacy, project assurance
Knowledge of Cybersecurity & security Infrastructure
Knowledge of Microsoft dynamics will be advantageous
Understanding artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation risk.
Roles and Responsibilities
· Perform IT general controls reviews, application control reviews, cybersecurity reviews and governance reviews.
· Keep the Internal Audit Management informed of all significant matters, consult when
necessary and communicate all significant meetings with auditees as appropriate;
· Prepare clear, evidence-based audit findings, root causes, risks and recommendations.
· Track agreed management actions and escalate overdue or ineffective remediation.
· Use data analytics to support audit testing and continuous monitoring;
· Evaluate the design of Systems & Procedures to identify any potential gaps or risks and provide any relevant inputs prior to submission to the relevant committee
· Provide advisory role in the IT steering committee(s) as and when required.
Job Requirements
TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Analytical and problem-solving
Negotiation and Influencing
Attention to detail
Planning and Organizing
Professionalism and discretionary
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Results Oriented.
Ethical Commitment
Balanced Judgment and accountable leadership
Relationship Building & Networking
Collaboration
Accountability
Resilience
Sound judgement
