DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DBSA) VACANCIES

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INVESTMENT CONTROLLER
 
Details
Closing Date 2025/05/26
Reference Number DBS250116-1
Job Title Investment Controller
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Countr South Africa

Job Profile (Downloadable)
Job Profile Investment Controller_7 January 2025.docx.pdf (477.98 kb) - 1/16/2025 12:09:10 PM

Job Description
Support the back-office team to achieve financial strategy and vision by ensuring alignment of the Bank's Financial Strategy, through conducting financial modelling, scenario planning and forecast and reviewing and amending financial policies to support the business.

Key Responsibilities

Key Performance Areas: 
Strategic Reporting and Investment Support:

• Facilitating the alignment of the financial strategy with the business strategy as far as the asset and liability portfolio of the Bank is concerned.
• Review the asset and liability performance to confirm alignment between the DBSA corporate strategy with the Bank's operating model.
• Preparation of reports encompassing financial modelling, scenario planning, and forecasting in support of the strategic direction for the DBSA Asset and Liability portfolio.
• Provide assistance and guidance in developing supporting systems and procedures.
• Provide financial and statistical reports for executive decision making.
• Review and amend financial policies and procedures to support the business and ensure alignment with procedures, strategies and financial rules and regulations.
• Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate and divisions.
• Interpret and analyse key financial information current and forecast and ratios to assist in financial decisionmaking.
• Implement expense-management strategy to be utilised for financial analysis, decision-making and cost savings.
• Escalate any deviations and challenges to management, with recommended remedial and mitigating actions.
• Implement financial control processes and ensure effective management of working capital, margin management, risk management and disciplined financial best practice.

Management Reporting and Information systems:

• Preparation and review of the notes to the financial statements and ensure accurate quality and timeliness of the quarterly and annual results.
• Review of financial processes and systems and ensuring regular updates.
• Prepare financial plans and budgets for executive decision-making.
• Preparing balance sheet and cash flow projections with accuracy, reliability, and on time.
• Impairment assessments and review of the asset portfolio for adequacy of provisions on the credit portfolio and reasonableness of fair values of the unlisted equity investments
• Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate planning for assets and liabilities.
• Assess processes and recommend continuous improvements on back-office support operations. 
• Review own actions against the organisation plan (Balance Score Card) and look at the "big picture" when considering opportunities.
• Evaluate functions against the organisational plan (Balanced Scorecard) and ensure achievement of targets while considering the broader strategic perspective and identifying opportunities.
• Keep abreast of the DBSA's business functions, business developments and trends.
• Maintain ongoing compliance in terms of legislative (Treasury, PFMA), financial, tax and related matters.
• Provide information and insights in the preparation of annual and interim financial reports.
• Review payments to ensure protection against or early detection of fraudulent activities.
• Conduct research and analyse complex and diverse information to gather insights and market data.
• Support in the design of workflows and procedures.

Stakeholder Management:

• Provide direction and management to colleagues where applicable.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure open communication and to obtain a deep understanding of the Bank's operations.

Key Measurements of Outputs:
1. Understanding of core operations: accurate interpretation of DBSA’s core operations.
2. Initiative through active contribution to new initiatives.
3. Accuracy, quality and timeliness of quarterly and annual accounts.
4. Accuracy, quality and reliability of financial reports.
5. Effective implementation processes with detailed procedural manuals as well as policies and documentation of business processes.
6. Effective execution and quarterly updates of financial processes.
7. Budget and forecast accuracy: precision in balance sheet and cash flow projections.
8. Management of client relationships and key internal and external Stakeholders.
9. Continuous learning through new finance skills acquired.
10. Active participation in working groups and committees.
11. Clean Audit

Key Internal Liaison Relationships:
1. Group Executive: Risk
2. All DBSA Divisions
3. Overall DBSA management
4. Audit & Risk Committees

Key External Liaison Relationships:
1. DBSA Suppliers and Vendors

Expertise & Technical Competencies
Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce or Finance or Accounting.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in investment banking within the banking environment.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in relevant treasury accounting, assets and liability portfolio management and experience.
• A strong career track record in the back office in a large, complex organisation with multi-dimensional businesses within the banking sector for a minimum period of 4 to 5 years, preferably in an investment banking environment.
• Strong, current understanding of and a strong commitment to good corporate governance and specifically international reporting standards including IFRS 9, IFRS, Basel, GAAP and other regulatory requirements including the PFMA.
• Understanding of key financial markets.
• Knowledge of the relevant legislative framework, i.e. King IV, MFMA, PPPFMA and other relevant legislation etc.
• Strong understanding of the integration of back, middle and front office.

Desirable Requirements:

• A CA(SA) or CFA qualification.
• Exposure to African global markets.
• Equity valuation experience.
• Good understanding of SAP, quantum and other accounting tools.

Technical Competencies:
a) Financial Accounting 

• Thorough understanding of relevant accounting principles for DBSA and ability to guide others in their application.
• Implements controls for and monitors accounting transactions to ensure legal/regulatory compliance, and accuracy and timeliness of accounting information.
• Ability to apply credit/collection concepts independently, and able to adapt or develop new procedures as needed within DBSA and professional guidelines.
• Identifies bottlenecks and areas for improvement within the organisation’s Financial Services concerning the efficiency and accuracy of the existing financial systems and
• processes.

b) Costing and Budgeting

• Able to prepare and input budget information for various departments.
• Able to produce standard monthly cost/variance reports for distribution to line management.
• Provides analytical support to the Finance function in the preparation of financial proposals, submissions and projected costs to be included in budgets and allocations.
• Understands DBSA monthly close/trial balance procedures.
• Understands DBSA cost/revenue centre structure.

c) Detail Orientation

• Identifies multiple sources/approaches of information to ensure that details are addressed.
• Reviews the work of others for accuracy and thoroughness.
• Follows up to ensure tasks are completed and commitments met by others.

d) Financial Analysis

• Basic general knowledge of applicable statutes, regulations, entity/company practices and concepts.
• Interprets and applies laws and regulations, analyses information and evaluates the impact of policies/procedures and practices.
• Accumulates data; summaries information into pertinent, understandable, and presentable form; discerning valid from invalid comparisons of data; and seeking explanation for
• variations in the data.
• Initiates and maintains working relationships with stakeholders.

e) Financial Acumen

• Possesses sufficient expertise to establish and manage income and expenditure monitoring systems for own area of the business.
• Understands cost/revenue drivers within own area and is able to take actions to control resources and expenditure to meet financial targets.
• Understands basic management accounting reports and the processes by which financial resources are identified, obtained, allocated, managed, and accounted for.

f) Planning and Organising

• Is relied on to helps another plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and replanning.

g) Solutions Focused

• Identifies optimal solutions based on weighing the advantages and disadvantages of alternative approaches.
• After implementation, evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions.

h) Detail Orientation

• Reviews all relevant information or aspects of a situation before taking action or making a decision.
• Pays close attention to details that are important to others to make sure they are right.
• Verifies that work has been completed according to the standards and procedures.

i) Negotiations Skills

• Is able to state own case, leaving some room for negotiation.
• Is well-versed with negotiation protocol and etiquette.
• Is able to successfully conclude simple negotiations on a factual basis.
• Knows when to seek advice/guidance during a negotiation.

j) Written Communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Required Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies:
a) Customer Service Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

b) Self-awareness and Self Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan of time to manage emotions or stress.

c) Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions, and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

d) Driving Delivery of Results

• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
  Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

e) Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts.
  Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
  Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

f) Information Seeking and Analysis

• Investigates the problem or situation beyond routine questioning.
  Breaks down problems into simple lists of tasks or activities.

g) Flexibility

• Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

h) Decisiveness

• Acts promptly to address urgent needs, taking quickly those decisions which need to be taken.
  Assesses available information to reach a clear view of key options and selects the best option at the time.
  Thinks on their feet when necessary

i) Interpersonal Skills

• Understands emotion (by reading body language, facial expression, and/or tone of voice) and what the other person explicitly says about a business or other issue (the other person’s explicit content that goes beyond labelling their emotions).

j) Analytical Thinking

• Analyses and interprets multiple complex causal links: several potential causes of events, several consequences of actions, or multiple-part chains of events in order to prioritise and develop a plan of action.

k) Achievement Orientation

• Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
• Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
• Aims at exceptional performance; setting out to achieve a unique standard.
• Constantly analyses outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
• Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

 
Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE

​CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER (X2)
 
Details
Closing Date 2025/05/20
Reference Number DBS250424-1
Job Title Construction Project Manager (x2)
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)
Construction_Project_Manager_Job_Profile_.pdf (0.62 Mb) - 4/24/2025 2:00:46 PM

Job Description
The Construction Project Manager is responsible for a broad span of construction functions, covering all areas of project management including planning, cost and time management, quality management contract administration and safety management in accordance with best practise project management methodologies.

Key Responsibilities
Construction Project Management Functions
Responsible for the project management of assigned Infrastructure Delivery projects which include the following:
 Project initiation, planning, monitoring

• Develop project charters and execution plans in line with the project requirements.
• Coordinate and manage deliverables from key role players in including professional service providers and consultants.
• Draft, review and update the project schedule and work plans incorporating the project milestones, activities, and deliverables.
• Manage the planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure of the project.
• Identify and implement expediting measures to prevent and mitigate project delays.

Project coordination and team management

• Serve as a key link with the Programme Manager and client’s representative and review the deliverables prepared by the team before submission to the client.
• Coordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, including professional service providers (consultants), contractors, sub-contractors and labour.
• Develop team spirit and ensure that staff involved in the project are committed to the same goal.
• Identify and negotiate assignment of resources to ensure efficient utilisation of resources.
• Implement the project office framework with objectives and goals of the team members and assign individual responsibilities.

Project control on cost, time and quality

• Ensure that control measures for cost, time and quality are in place.
• Conduct regular status meetings with the principal agent teams.
• Conduct periodic inspection visits at project construction site(s).
• Ensure that construction activities follow the predetermined schedule and critically monitor project milestones.
• Oversee project accounting including budget management, approval of progress payments, tracking of team expenses and minimising the exposure to risk.
• Ensure invoices/claims submitted by contractors and/or professional service providers are checked, verified and forwarded to the Programme Manager.
• Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines as well as project management, quality and safety standards.
• Complete projects within time, budget and quality.

Project communication and reporting

• Ensure an effective communication system is in place to provide timely feedback for management, client and customer.
• Issue site meeting minutes and action plans.
• Compile monthly and weekly project progress reports for stakeholders.
• Conduct project close out reviews.
• Manage project communication in line with agreed communication channels and timelines.

Contract management

• Manage contracts in accordance with the provisions of the agreement, including monitoring and tracking of performance and timelines.
• Identify areas of concern, escalate with legal, technical and finance and provide resolutions in line with contractual obligations.
• Measure progress against the contract’s performance and ensure adherence to the contract conditions and timelines.
• Issue contract instructions in accordance with the conditions of the contract (in consultation with the Legal Expert).

Project commissioning

• Confirm the commissioning and transfer of new assets.
• Confirm the availability of all site handover documentation.
• Facilitate the submission of as built drawings and user specifications where applicable.
• Manage the commissioning, hand over and sign-off by client.

Programme health, safety and environmental quality

• Ensure the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and any recommendations from audits carried out within the project environment.
• Monitor and enforce compliance to the project Environmental Approval (EA) conditions.
• Instil a culture of health and safety within the project environment by promoting the aims and benefits of proactive safety and health interventions.
• Conduct effective control, management and follow up of incidents.
• Advise and evaluate contractors on compliance to the approved safety plan.

Stakeholder Management

• Develop project stakeholder management plans and map critical stakeholders that are instrument / critical to achieving project plans and objectives.
• Manage relationships at various levels with the relevant project stakeholders and partners, in accordance with the project’s development objectives.
• Manage stakeholder expectations for project deliverables, communications and implementing effective systems of project governance, within the team and with strategic partners, both internally and externally.

Key Measurements of Outputs

• Successful project finalisation within the project quality standard, budget and timelines.
• Projects completed within specified costs.
• Compliance to Health & Safety legislation and protocols.
• Implementation of effective project management governance and compliance structures.
• Quality of presentations and reports.
• Clean audit.

Expertise & Technical Competencies
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in the built environment (Engineering, Architecture; Building Science; Construction Management or Quantity Surveying).
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in infrastructure project management or advisory service or consulting experience working within a project management environment.
• Professional Registration with the Built Environment professional bodies such as Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP).
• Registration as a Pr.CPM with South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) is a prerequisite.
• Proven track record in the design, construction, monitoring and evaluation of civil engineering and building infrastructure projects in high value and performance environments. 6. Sound knowledge of the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC), New Engineering Contracts (NEC), Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) and other relevant building contracts.
• In depth understanding of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations regarding infrastructure development.
• Understanding of infrastructure markets.
• Understanding of government priorities, systems and processes at national and provincial level.

Desirable Requirements

• Post graduate degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture or Construction Management will be added advantage.
• Professional Registration with Project Management Institute (PMI) or Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE).
• Post graduate qualification in Project Management.
• Qualifications in health and safety.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Project Management

• Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
• Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
• Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
• Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.

Detailed Oriented

• Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making.
• Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation.
• Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations.
• Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work.
• Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team.

Planning & Organizing

• Coaches’ others on advanced planning and organising skills.
• Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
• Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
• Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties. Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget.

Reporting & Communication

• Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
• Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
• Can determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals.
• Coaches’ others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
• Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
• Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
• Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.

Presentation Skills

• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.

Written communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Verbal communication

• Able to present a theme in writing in an ordered, intelligible manner with well-structured and relevant supporting detail.
• Able to understand topic switches and use vocabulary of attitude.
• Reasonably fluent in speaking.

Required Personal Attributes

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Driving delivery of results

• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan, if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
• Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature.

Achievement orientation

• Undertakes challenging assignment and strives to complete them.
• Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
• Aims at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard.
• Constantly analysis outcomes to ensure the achievements of business goal.
• Identifies short-term opportunity or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

Customer Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and service.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs.

Integrity

• Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
• Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.

Self-awareness & self-control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

 
Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavor to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE



​

​Investment Controller

Details

Closing Date 2025/05/26
Reference Number DBS250116-1
Job Title Investment Controller
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa

Job Profile (Downloadable)
Job Profile Investment Controller_7 January 2025.docx.pdf (477.98 kb) - 1/16/2025 12:09:10 PM

Job Description
Support the back-office team to achieve financial strategy and vision by ensuring alignment of the Bank's Financial Strategy, through conducting financial modelling, scenario planning and forecast and reviewing and amending financial policies to support the business.

Key Responsibilities
​
Key Performance Areas: 
Strategic Reporting and Investment Support:

• Facilitating the alignment of the financial strategy with the business strategy as far as the asset and liability portfolio of the Bank is concerned.
• Review the asset and liability performance to confirm alignment between the DBSA corporate strategy with the Bank's operating model.
• Preparation of reports encompassing financial modelling, scenario planning, and forecasting in support of the strategic direction for the DBSA Asset and Liability portfolio.
• Provide assistance and guidance in developing supporting systems and procedures.
• Provide financial and statistical reports for executive decision making.
• Review and amend financial policies and procedures to support the business and ensure alignment with procedures, strategies and financial rules and regulations.
• Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate and divisions.
• Interpret and analyse key financial information current and forecast and ratios to assist in financial decisionmaking.
• Implement expense-management strategy to be utilised for financial analysis, decision-making and cost savings.
• Escalate any deviations and challenges to management, with recommended remedial and mitigating actions.
• Implement financial control processes and ensure effective management of working capital, margin management, risk management and disciplined financial best practice.

Management Reporting and Information systems:

• Preparation and review of the notes to the financial statements and ensure accurate quality and timeliness of the quarterly and annual results.
• Review of financial processes and systems and ensuring regular updates.
• Prepare financial plans and budgets for executive decision-making.
• Preparing balance sheet and cash flow projections with accuracy, reliability, and on time.
• Impairment assessments and review of the asset portfolio for adequacy of provisions on the credit portfolio and reasonableness of fair values of the unlisted equity investments
• Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate planning for assets and liabilities.
• Assess processes and recommend continuous improvements on back-office support operations. 
• Review own actions against the organisation plan (Balance Score Card) and look at the "big picture" when considering opportunities.
• Evaluate functions against the organisational plan (Balanced Scorecard) and ensure achievement of targets while considering the broader strategic perspective and identifying opportunities.
• Keep abreast of the DBSA's business functions, business developments and trends.
• Maintain ongoing compliance in terms of legislative (Treasury, PFMA), financial, tax and related matters.
• Provide information and insights in the preparation of annual and interim financial reports.
• Review payments to ensure protection against or early detection of fraudulent activities.
• Conduct research and analyse complex and diverse information to gather insights and market data.
• Support in the design of workflows and procedures.

Stakeholder Management:

• Provide direction and management to colleagues where applicable.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure open communication and to obtain a deep understanding of the Bank's operations.

Key Measurements of Outputs:
1. Understanding of core operations: accurate interpretation of DBSA’s core operations.
2. Initiative through active contribution to new initiatives.
3. Accuracy, quality and timeliness of quarterly and annual accounts.
4. Accuracy, quality and reliability of financial reports.
5. Effective implementation processes with detailed procedural manuals as well as policies and documentation of business processes.
6. Effective execution and quarterly updates of financial processes.
7. Budget and forecast accuracy: precision in balance sheet and cash flow projections.
8. Management of client relationships and key internal and external Stakeholders.
9. Continuous learning through new finance skills acquired.
10. Active participation in working groups and committees.
11. Clean Audit

Key Internal Liaison Relationships:
1. Group Executive: Risk
2. All DBSA Divisions
3. Overall DBSA management
4. Audit & Risk Committees

Key External Liaison Relationships:
1. DBSA Suppliers and Vendors

Expertise & Technical Competencies

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce or Finance or Accounting.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in investment banking within the banking environment.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in relevant treasury accounting, assets and liability portfolio management and experience.
• A strong career track record in the back office in a large, complex organisation with multi-dimensional businesses within the banking sector for a minimum period of 4 to 5 years, preferably in an investment banking environment.
• Strong, current understanding of and a strong commitment to good corporate governance and specifically international reporting standards including IFRS 9, IFRS, Basel, GAAP and other regulatory requirements including the PFMA.
• Understanding of key financial markets.
• Knowledge of the relevant legislative framework, i.e. King IV, MFMA, PPPFMA and other relevant legislation etc.
• Strong understanding of the integration of back, middle and front office.

Desirable Requirements:

• A CA(SA) or CFA qualification.
• Exposure to African global markets.
• Equity valuation experience.
• Good understanding of SAP, quantum and other accounting tools.

Technical Competencies:
a) Financial Accounting 

• Thorough understanding of relevant accounting principles for DBSA and ability to guide others in their application.
• Implements controls for and monitors accounting transactions to ensure legal/regulatory compliance, and accuracy and timeliness of accounting information.
• Ability to apply credit/collection concepts independently, and able to adapt or develop new procedures as needed within DBSA and professional guidelines.
• Identifies bottlenecks and areas for improvement within the organisation’s Financial Services concerning the efficiency and accuracy of the existing financial systems and
• processes.

b) Costing and Budgeting

• Able to prepare and input budget information for various departments.
• Able to produce standard monthly cost/variance reports for distribution to line management.
• Provides analytical support to the Finance function in the preparation of financial proposals, submissions and projected costs to be included in budgets and allocations.
• Understands DBSA monthly close/trial balance procedures.
• Understands DBSA cost/revenue centre structure.

c) Detail Orientation

• Identifies multiple sources/approaches of information to ensure that details are addressed.
• Reviews the work of others for accuracy and thoroughness.
• Follows up to ensure tasks are completed and commitments met by others.

d) Financial Analysis

• Basic general knowledge of applicable statutes, regulations, entity/company practices and concepts.
• Interprets and applies laws and regulations, analyses information and evaluates the impact of policies/procedures and practices.
• Accumulates data; summaries information into pertinent, understandable, and presentable form; discerning valid from invalid comparisons of data; and seeking explanation for
• variations in the data.
• Initiates and maintains working relationships with stakeholders.

e) Financial Acumen

• Possesses sufficient expertise to establish and manage income and expenditure monitoring systems for own area of the business.
• Understands cost/revenue drivers within own area and is able to take actions to control resources and expenditure to meet financial targets.
• Understands basic management accounting reports and the processes by which financial resources are identified, obtained, allocated, managed, and accounted for.

f) Planning and Organising

• Is relied on to helps another plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and replanning.

g) Solutions Focused

• Identifies optimal solutions based on weighing the advantages and disadvantages of alternative approaches.
• After implementation, evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions.

h) Detail Orientation

• Reviews all relevant information or aspects of a situation before taking action or making a decision.
• Pays close attention to details that are important to others to make sure they are right.
• Verifies that work has been completed according to the standards and procedures.

i) Negotiations Skills

• Is able to state own case, leaving some room for negotiation.
• Is well-versed with negotiation protocol and etiquette.
• Is able to successfully conclude simple negotiations on a factual basis.
• Knows when to seek advice/guidance during a negotiation.

j) Written Communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Required Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies:
a) Customer Service Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

b) Self-awareness and Self Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan of time to manage emotions or stress.

c) Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions, and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

d) Driving Delivery of Results

• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
  Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

e) Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts.
  Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
  Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

f) Information Seeking and Analysis

• Investigates the problem or situation beyond routine questioning.
  Breaks down problems into simple lists of tasks or activities.

g) Flexibility

• Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

h) Decisiveness

• Acts promptly to address urgent needs, taking quickly those decisions which need to be taken.
  Assesses available information to reach a clear view of key options and selects the best option at the time.
  Thinks on their feet when necessary

i) Interpersonal Skills

• Understands emotion (by reading body language, facial expression, and/or tone of voice) and what the other person explicitly says about a business or other issue (the other person’s explicit content that goes beyond labelling their emotions).

j) Analytical Thinking

• Analyses and interprets multiple complex causal links: several potential causes of events, several consequences of actions, or multiple-part chains of events in order to prioritise and develop a plan of action.

k) Achievement Orientation

• Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
• Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
• Aims at exceptional performance; setting out to achieve a unique standard.
• Constantly analyses outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
• Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

 
Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavor to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers.
 
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