Shoprite – Finance Vacancies

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Finance Project Officer

Closing Date
2026/02/27
Reference Number
SHO260220-7
Job Title Finance Project Officer
Job Type Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town or City Brackenfell, Cape Town
Purpose of the Job
The Project Finance Officer executes and ensures compliance with internal control frameworks related to project budgeting, procurement, and financial management. This involves conducting business case and budget approvals, maintaining accurate financial records, and overseeing financial reporting and audits.

The Project Finance Officer provides essential financial support and guidance to Project Managers, ensuring that project financials are effectively monitored and managed. This role focuses on facilitating timely budget revisions to prevent projects from exceeding approved budget limits, addressing unbilled transactions through the revision request process, and collaborating with Project Managers to research backlog phasing for reasonableness. Ultimately, the Project Finance Officer aims to deliver high-quality support to clients, ensuring that their budgets are effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle.

Job Advert Details
Job Category Retail
Job Objectives

• Gather the necessary data for Budgets, Forecasts, and Actual Project Spend to support the Project and Delivery Managers.
• Review budget details with the Project Manager, attending to actions that should be taken to avoid revenue and/or billing issues, while highlighting budget adjustments for incorporation into revision requests.
• Coordinate with Finance department members to execute specific actions required to address issues and challenges identified during the review of project finances.
• Consolidate individual project forecasts into an annual portfolio budget for all active projects, ensuring the requested amounts comply with the approved Business Case.
• Apply financial oversight and control mechanisms to ensure all project and program expenses adhere to financial policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Execute project accounting activities smoothly, including timely and accurate invoicing, monitoring expenditure levels against budgets and funding obligations, managing financial projections, and reporting weekly, monthly, and annually.
• Maintain and update tracking sheets for project Purchase Orders, Provisions, and Budget Transfers.
• Conduct analysis through monthly reviews of assigned projects, examining Budgets, Forecasts, and Actuals to determine if any budgetary issues need to be escalated.
• Develop and update Project Policies and Procedures guidelines concerning procurement, accounting, and budgeting.
• Provide appropriate training and support to Project Managers to ensure they understand the financial position of their projects and can effectively communicate the status to stakeholders.
• Provide support to internal or external auditors as necessary.

Qualifications
Diploma in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Project Management or a related field (essential).

Experience

• 3 years of experience in a Project Finance/Administration role (essential).
• Demonstrable experience in monitoring project budgets and supporting the review and revision of project budgets (essential).
• Experience in a retail environment (preferred).

Knowledge and Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, especially Excel (essential).

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Risk Engineer

Closing Date
2026/02/25
Reference Number
SHO260218-5
Job Title Risk Engineer
Job Type Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town or City Cape Town
Purpose of the Job
The purpose of the Risk Engineer role is to analyse and investigate risk exposures across the Group, and to implement and monitor risk engineering practices that improve loss control, safety and regulatory compliance. The role explores trends, diagnoses potential issues and develops risk mitigation measures with a focus on fire prevention, detection and protection. Working under the guidance of the Risk Engineering Manager, the Risk Engineer gathers information, reviews compliance requirements and maintains risk-related processes to support effective decision-making and continuous improvement.

Job Advert Details
Job Category Finance
Job Objectives
Risk Assessment & Analysis

Analyse and categorise risks and trends across the Group to identify potential exposures.
Investigate and diagnose underlying causes of identified risks and recommend suitable mitigation approaches.
Explore and review site conditions by conducting comprehensive risk assessments and documenting findings.
Compliance Implementation & Monitoring

Gather and review compliance requirements from legislation, standards and internal policies.
Implement monitoring processes to track compliance to fire prevention, detection and protection requirements.
Maintain and monitor risk registers, assessment outcomes and compliance documentation.
Project Coordination & Development

Develop project proposals, standard operating procedures, policies and related documentation to support risk initiatives.
Implement and monitor project activities, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines and quality expectations.
Review project progress, troubleshoot challenges and resolve issues that may impact execution.
Stakeholder Engagement & Support

Investigate stakeholder requirements and categorise project needs to define clear objectives.
Advise and recommend risk mitigation actions to internal and external stakeholders.
Gather, develop and communicate information such as status reports, meeting minutes and technical documentation.
Motivate and support stakeholders to adopt and implement risk improvement initiative.
Operational Administration

Maintain administrative processes including capturing, categorising and reviewing risk-related data.
Review and verify designs, technical reports and related deliverables for completeness and accuracy.
Continuous Improvement & Research

Research regulatory developments, industry standards and emerging best practices in risk engineering.
Explore opportunities to optimise current risk engineering methodologies, tools and processes.
Improve and develop recommendations to enhance safety, compliance and loss control across the Group.
Qualifications
Degree in Engineering, Risk Management or a related technical field – (preferred).

Experience
4 years in a Risk Engineer capacity or similar role, assessing risk, monitoring compliance and executing projects to manage loss control and mitigate risk in a regulatory, building control, health and safety or risk management environment – (essential).
Experience in a retail, FMCG or engineering environment – (desirable).
Practical work experience assessing risk, monitoring compliance and executing projects to manage loss control and mitigate risk in a regulatory, building control, health and safety or risk management environment – (highly beneficial).
Knowledge and Skills
Proficiency in MS Office with an intermediate skill level in Excel, Word and PPT – (essential).
Exposure to the following as part of academic training:
o Conducting hazard analysis
o Conducting risk assessments and applying risk engineering practices and principles
o Understanding of risk mitigation strategies
o Healthy and safety practices
o Reviewing technical documents such as standards, proposals, designs and budgets
o Project management methodologies and practice

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