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Intermediate Software Engineer – C# (Melrose Arch)
| Remuneration: | R550000 – R600000 per year Cost to company |
| Location: | Melrose Arch |
| Education level: | Degree |
| Job level: | Junior/Mid |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #ND48630 |
| Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
A fast-paced up and coming EFT payment solution hub based in Sandton is looking for C# software engineers to get involved in robust technology type work. Join the team who are inventive, original, and who strive to reach new heights in cutting-edge solutions that are coding both locally and globally!
Some wow factors include: vibrant growth, a highly energetic environment and they also promote a work/life balance so you can work out a time table that fits your lifestyle!
Do you tick the boxes?
- Three+ years coding with C# and .Net stack
- Other tools that will help: .Net Core, SQL, Web API, Python, DevOps, Docker/Kubernetes
- Exposure to cloud services – Azure
Qualifications
- Relevant IT degree/diploma
Reference number for this position is ND48630 which is a permanent position based in Melrose Arch offering a salary of R600,000 per annum, salary negotiable on experience. Contact Nicole on az.oc.egrem-e@delocin or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT Recruitment is a niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right people with the right companies, in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge IT website for more great positions.
Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!
Posted on 25 Aug 11:29
News24.com | Cash-strapped Southern Kings suspend playing activities for 2020
PRO14 action between the Southern Kings and Connacht at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on 1 March 2020.
Michael Sheehan/Getty Images
- The Southern Kings will will play no further part in the 2020 rugby season.
- This comes after the Kings board withdrew the team from participation in any domestic rugby competitions.
- The decision was made due to financial difficulties and the players were informed on Tuesday morning.
The Southern Kings will play no further part in the 2020 rugby season, SA Rugby confirmed on Tuesday.
This comes after the Eastern Cape franchise’s board withdrew the team from participation in any planned domestic rugby competitions.
The Kings players and staff were informed of the decision at 07:30 on Tuesday morning, following an urgent meeting of the board on Monday afternoon.
Andre Rademan, chairperson of the Southern Kings board, said the decision was taken reluctantly in the face of hard, financial realities.
“Following several weeks of interrogation of the Kings’ financial state of affairs we were left with a straightforward choice,” Rademan said in a press statement.
“We could opt to field the Kings in the domestic competitions mooted by SA Rugby for the sport’s post-lockdown resumption if we so wished.
“If we did so, it would require additional loans to the Kings or extra investment from the shareholders to the tune of R6.5m, which would add to the organisation’s existing substantial debt.
“However, as there was no contractual requirement for the Kings to resume short-term participation in the PRO14 competition, because of air travel restrictions, and as the Kings had no other commercial commitments to honour, the most prudent decision was to withdraw.
“This may not be a popular decision but in the current circumstances it is the right decision.”
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The decision was supported by the executive committee of the Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) and SA Rugby – the two shareholders in the Kings company.
Rademan added: “This is obviously very disappointing news for the players and management who, like all rugby professionals, were desperate to resume playing. But the board believed that further investment in 2020 with zero commercial return would be reckless in the extreme.”
Rademan said that with ongoing uncertainty about competition formats and travel restrictions into 2021, the board would now take time to reconsider its options and the ongoing financial challenges.
“As a board we had been considering further short-term contracts to see the squad through to the end of the year,” he said. “But it became apparent that we would, for want a better phrase, be throwing good money after bad in the current global environment.
“We now have time to consider what is the best way forward for rugby in the Eastern Province in this fluid and financially challenging environment.”
Rademan, who is also president of the EPRU, said further consultation would take place with the Kings staff in the coming weeks over the next steps for the team.
SA Rugby assumed management control of the Southern Kings, having taken back a 74% shareholding in the organisation, in partnership with the EPRU in June.
The move was made following the failure of the former majority shareholder, the Greatest Rugby Company in the Whole Wide World (GRC), to meet its financial commitments relating to the acquisition of the shareholding.
Southern Kings timeline:
– November 2010: SA Rugby announces intention to field the Southern Kings in Super Rugby in 2013.
– February 2013: Kings compete in the Super Rugby competition as one of five South African teams.
– August 2013: Kings lose place in Super Rugby in a two-legged play off against the Lions.
– November 2015: SA Rugby takes control of the franchise when the EPRU, to whom the operation of the franchise had been granted, ran into financial trouble.
– February 2016: Kings return to Super Rugby when the competition expands to 18 teams.
– April 2017: Sanzaar announces that Super Rugby will contract from 18 teams to 15 teams in 2018.
– September 2017: The Kings (and Cheetahs) are included as South Africa’s ground-breaking representatives in the PRO14 competition.
– January 2019: GRC acquires 74% shareholding in the franchise; EPRU retain a 26% shareholding.
– June 2020: SA Rugby resumes control of the Southern Kings following the failure of GRC to meet contractual commitments.
– August 2020: Southern Kings withdrawn from potential domestic competition resumption because of on-going financial challenges.
– Compiled by Sport24 staff
Health24.com | ‘Morning sickness’ doesn’t stick to the a.m., study confirms
- Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can have a big impact on the lives of sufferers
- Pregnant women may experience nausea and vomiting all day long
- The term ‘morning sickness’ is, therefore, incorrect and can cause confusion
As many expectant mothers can unhappily attest, the nausea and vomiting known as “morning sickness” can occur at any time of the day.
In a new study, British researchers analysed diaries kept by 256 women from the day they learned they were expecting until the 60th day of their pregnancy.
While vomiting was most common between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m., nausea was likely all day long. And many women reported vomiting even into the evening.
The most common hour for nausea and vomiting was 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., when 82% experienced nausea and 29% experienced vomiting.
Significant negative impact
About 94% of the women had one symptom or the other during the study, and 58% experienced both, according to findings published recently in the British Journal of General Practice.
By comparing symptoms across the first seven weeks of pregnancy, the researchers found that the chances of nausea and vomiting rose.
The likelihood of nausea was highest in weeks five through seven, and vomiting in week seven. The study only examined the first seven weeks.
“If a pregnant woman experiences sickness in the afternoon she may feel that this is unusual and wrong, or if she experiences no vomiting but feels nauseous all day she might think she is not covered by the term ‘morning sickness’,” said study author Roger Gadsby. He’s an associate clinical professor at the University of Warwick Medical School in Coventry, UK.
Gadsby also noted that those women who have severe symptoms feel the term trivialises the condition.
“Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) can have a significant negative impact on the lives of sufferers,” he pointed out in a university news release.
“It can cause feelings of depression, of being unable to look after the family, and of loss of time from paid work. Very severe NVP, called hyperemesis gravidarm, is the commonest cause of admission to hospital in the first trimester of pregnancy,” Gadsby said.
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Accounts Assistant – Finance (Port Elizabeth)
| Remuneration: | negotiable Market related |
| Location: | Port Elizabeth, South End |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Junior/Mid |
| Own transport required: | Yes |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Job policy: | Employment Equity position |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #BoomFin20 |
| Company: | Boomtown |
Job description
Job purpose
We’re looking for a financially savvy, accounts assistant with the great supplier and internal customer relations skills to join our Finance team. The candidate will administer, control and follow up the receipt of payments within thirty days, as far as possible, while also providing general assistance to the finance manager and finance director.
Key result areas
- Process debtor/creditor/supplier invoices accurately and on time every month
- Maintain debtors analysis as close to the 30 days as possible
- Handle debtor/creditor/supplier inquiries with tact and in a professional manner
- Collect post, deposit cheques
- Assist the financial manager with general administration work, as required
Description of tasks (non-exhaustive)
- Ensure billing info is accurate – debtors/creditors/suppliers
- Debtors and creditors Recon knowledge
- Receives invoice list monthly and prints them
- Sends invoice to clients by email or post
- Receives advice on payment and checks receipt in a bank statement
- Prints client statements and sends to the client by email or post
- Follows up with debtors to promote earlier payment
- Undertakes general administrative duties to support financial manager
- Undertakes any other duties which may be reasonably requested from time to time
Company Description
Our cultural roots and deep, on-the-ground market immersion ensures we deliver relevant creative solutions, understanding the people who makeup South Africa’s main market, and connecting your brand with their hearts and buying behaviours.
Our strength lies in positioning global brands into Africa, as well as taking South African brands to the broader African market. We do this by creating standout brand presence through a deep on-the-ground cultural connection to the right market and its local catalysts.
At Boomtown, we see the power of people. Our people are the most valuable part of our business. They are insightful, world-class, creative, multidisciplinary, authentic and professional. We see all that they can be and endeavour to provide the best environment for them to thrive in.
See yourself fitting in?
Get in touch.
Requirements
- Two to three years of experience in a similar role
- FATD
- A quick starter
- Debtor/creditors experience
- A good manner with clients
- Able to develop good client relationships
- Accurate, neat administration
- Familiar with PC and finance software
- Pastel knowledge will be advantageous
- Age analysis
- Self-managed
- Ability to work flexi-time
Posted on 25 Aug 09:57
Area Operations Leader (Port Elizabeth)
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Port Elizabeth |
| Job level: | Management Snr |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #CUMG-3771 |
| Company: | Cape Union Mart |
Job description
We are seeking a self-motivated, goal orientated individual, passionate about the Cape Union Mart group and their career development, to manage stores in the Southern Region. You will be responsible for improving performance, productivity, efficiency and profitability through the effective implementation of strategies in line with the company vision.
Requirements
- Lead a team of store managers towards effective collaboration and attainment of goals
- Optimize and oversee in-store operations to ensure efficiency
- Attention to financial performance in order to ensure that stores are profitable and stay within budget
- Responsible for all store recruitment and timeous filling of vacancies
- Ensure compliance with company’s policies and operational guidelines
- Deal with challenges by providing creative and practical solutions
- Evaluate performance using key metrics and address issues to ensure improvement
- To participate and contribute to a culture that builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional customer service
- To promote equality and diversity as part of culture of the organization
- To ensure that the people-perspective is represented in strategic decisions
- Provide teams with a stimulating and supportive environment and drive their growth and development
- Decisive thinking and an ability to analyze information quickly and use it to make robust decisions
- Ability to work well with a range of people both within and outside of the organization
- A strong inclination to take on additional responsibilities and ensure delivery with high level of commitment
- Leading and driving change management projects and promoting Operational projects and initiatives to internal clients and getting their buy in
- The ability to lead in a highly pressurized, rapidly growing environment
Experience & Qualifications
- A minimum of three years’ management experience in Operations in a retail environment
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact at all levels
- Proven managerial and leadership skills (inspirational leadership)
- Proactive management and the ability to work unaided
- Skilled in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Qualification in Business or Retail Management advantageous
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to travel extensively within the region
Personal Skills/Attributes
- An emotionally intelligent, inspiring leader
- Action orientated/results driven
- A strategic mind-set
- Ability to convert vision and strategy into actions and results
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Planning and organizing
- Strong delegation skills
- Sound decision-making ability
- Ability to work in a Team
- Conflict management
- Excellent communication skills
- High attention to detail
- People focused
- High tolerance for stress
Posted on 25 Aug 07:53
Paid Social Campaign Manager (Johannesburg)
| Location: | Johannesburg, Bryanston |
| Job level: | Mid |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #PSCManager |
Job description
Social Lab answers a need for businesses to bridge the advertising, direct marketing, digital, PR, social media and especially media agency divide. We bring these capabilities together – fittingly per client and brief – to develop integrated media strategies to grow brands, sales and customer value.
Responsibilities
- You set up campaigns on the PMD platform of choice including credit validation, media allocation, tracking performance and optimization, detailed planning of the campaign (week, day, hour, frequency) and tagging rules.
- You implement a pool of unique targeting mixing:
- Relevant targeting options offered by each platform,o Ad-hoc targeting you designs,o Custom targeting based on tagging (website, app, mobile app…) or database that the client owns
- You execute quality check of the creative assets and when relevant manage the production and/or approval of these assets.
- You identify the variables that can be optimized and execute optimization.
- You aggregate results and prepare weekly summary and key learnings.
- You prepare/present campaign reporting including evolution of all KPIs like media spent, engagement, and granular analysis.
- You prepare potential recommendations to social strategists based on the insights revealed through execution/optimisation to re-adjust future plans.
- You are the contact point for questions related to the campaign from client or other agencies involved in the weekly execution
Requirements
The ideal candidate for campaign manager would have the following background:
- Two to four years of experience in social campaign management
- Understanding of social platforms ecosystems formats, targeting options, tracking tool, reporting interface
- Expert in optimisation of ongoing social campaigns on Facebook and Twitter through PMD platforms. Proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment. Candidate must have spreadsheet capabilities; can build detailed business reporting
- Candidate must demonstrate: a proven track record of social campaign management that produced positive business results and a deep knowledge of business and social.
- Previous experience in paid social agency
- A good knowledge and control of paid ecosystem
- Should be able to speak Spanish
Posted on 24 Aug 15:58
Performance Marketing Specialist (Cape Town)
| Remuneration: | R30000 – R40000 per month Cost to company |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Job level: | Mid/Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Company: | Amplified Talent |
Job description
We are recruiting for a Technical Advisor for a great performance marketing agency based in Cape Town. You will be a Technical Advisor on Google Ad Technology and equivalent products. This role involves working closely with clients on their product integration and consulting them on best practice and recommendations. We are looking for a senior level person with solid experience in Google Products.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Dealing with client Google product integration including CM, DV360 + Google Ads
- Managing campaign set-up and execution
- Quality assurance and testing of creative assets
- Working with technical specifications and troubleshooting issues
- Provide recommendations and solutions to resolve technical issues
- Being the consultative lead on the Google Marketing Platform and projects
- Working closely with the senior management team
- Attending sales meeting and pitches
- Advising clients on technical possibilities of new and existing products
- Analyses media strategy results
- Design and implement training for clients and internal teams
The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum of 3 years working with Google Marketing Products including:
GMP Google Analytics 360
GMP Campaign Manager
GMP DV360
GMP SA360
GMP Tag Manager or equivalent
GMP Data Studio
- We are looking for someone confident who enjoys working + advising clients
- Passionate about tech + performance marketing
- Additional skills would include CSS, JavaScript, HTML as well as 3rd party vendor tools
If this sounds like you, get in touch with Amplified Talent to discuss further.
Posted on 24 Aug 15:53
Digital Project Manager/Producer (Cape Town)
| Remuneration: | R15000 – R20000 per month Cost to company |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Education level: | Degree |
| Job level: | Junior/Mid |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Company: | Platinum Seed |
As our Project manager you will be responsible for managing projects, workflows and resources at Platinum Seed as well as communicating and managing client relationships.
This is a highly collaborative role, which interfaces with key internal team members and requires keen attention to detail, trends, organisation and industry knowledge. Your ability to manage people and workflow is crucial.
Key duties:
- Project management of multiple projects: Manage and deliver multiple work streams for various types of digital projects within multiple accounts.
- Project scoping and documentation: project plans, briefing documents, cost estimates etc.
- Client and internal communication: ensuring that all relevant parties are kept up to date on project developments at all phases of a project. This includes changes in timings, costs and any issues arising.
- Manage projects and account recons and budgets.
- Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with our clients.
Skills:
- Google Analytics (highly beneficial)
- Facebook Ads Manager (highly beneficial)
- Project management software for example Asana (essential)
- WordPress (Content Management) (highly beneficial)
- Google Data Studio (beneficial)
- Google Ads (beneficial)
Characteristics:
- Must be able to work really well under pressure
- Must be able to adapt quickly to any new situation
- A “can-do” and positive attitude to motivate the team
- No bullshit, no ego
- Attention to detail is everything
- Go-getter and self-starter
- Curious and willing to learn
Company benefits:
- Semi flexible working hours (07:00 – 15:30, 07:30 – 16:00, 08:00 – 16:30, 08:30 – 17:00)
- Remote working
- Working with a tight-knit team
Posted on 24 Aug 15:53
BI Developer (Cape Town)
| Remuneration: | R35000 – R45000 per month Cost to company |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Type: | Contract |
| Reference: | #KB49596 |
| Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
Job description
Do you have a desire to work in a flexible role with a broad exposure to business and technology? Explore this BI developer contract role for one of South Africa’s largest investment management companies.
This contract position will either be a duration of six or 12 months depending on the business requirements.
Reference number for this position is KB49596 which is a contract position based in Western Cape offering a cost to company salary of R35,000 to R45,000 per month negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Kavisha Bissessar on az.oc.egrem-e@bahsivak.
Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT Recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.
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Is this you?
- BSc. or national diploma in computer science
- Minimum of four years of working experience in a BI environment.
- Tools that you good working with SSMS, T-SQL, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, and Power BI.
Responsibilities:
- Analysing product, market and share trends to build warehouse data.
- Translating business needs into technical specifications.
- Developing reporting systems that provide accessible information for decision making.
- Using warehouse data to generate reports to support business decision making and business performance monitoring.
- Maintaining data analytics platforms.
- Evaluating and improving existing BI systems.
- Conducting troubleshooting on BI models.
- Generating and delivering quality reports to customers and performing quality assurance checks on reports.
Posted on 24 Aug 13:23