DBSA Finance Jobs – 31 August 2026

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Accountant: Programmes & Agencies

Closing Date
2026/09/01
Reference Number
DBS260814-1
Job Title Accountant: Programmes & Agencies
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) Accountant_Programmes_and_Agencies_Job_Profile_June_2026_final.docx.pdf (335,00 kb) – 2026/08/14 14:30:29
Job Description
The Accountant is responsible for providing end-to-end financial management, reporting, and project accounting support within the infrastructure delivery environment by applying sound financial controls, accurate reporting, and strategic financial insight to enable effective project execution and programme sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme and Agency Financial Management

Conduct detailed reviews of programme budgets and agency agreements to identify recoverable costs and management fees.
Calculate management fees and programme profitability based on programme type, including time-based and cost-of-work models.
Prepare management fee calculations covering subsistence, travel disbursements, and recoverable costs for billing purposes.
Create and maintain programme account codes, cost structures, and budget uploads on the project management system.
Review and approve project disbursement requests, purchase orders, and payment submissions to confirm correct financial allocation.
Monitor open commitments by tracking outstanding purchase orders and following up on unresolved items. Prepare project and programme financial reports, cost reports, cash flow statements, and close-out reports.
Manage project and programme financial close-out processes in line with organisational policies. Authorise transfers of expenses into and out of project-related accounts where required.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards, construction industry practices, project accounting methodologies, and financial systems to support effective financial management.
Interpret financial and project information to translate technical data into practical insights for operational and programme teams.
2. Budgeting and Forecasting

Facilitate the development of annual project, programme, and operational budgets aligned to approved business and construction plans.
Compile forecasts and cash flow projections to support proactive financial planning and funding decisions.
Analyse actual expenditure against budgets and forecasts to identify variances, cost overruns, or underspending trends.
Provide variance analysis and financial commentary to support corrective action and strategic decision-making.
3. Transactional Processing and General Ledger Management

Oversee accounts payable, receivable, payroll-related transactions, and project-related disbursements to support operational continuity and healthy cash flow.
Maintain accurate general ledger records as the foundation for reliable financial reporting and compliance. Perform monthly reconciliations, journal entries, and balance sheet reviews to maintain data integrity and detect errors or irregularities.
Review transactional postings to confirm correct allocation to projects, programmes, cost centres, and accounts.
4. Financial Reporting and Compliance

Prepare accurate and timely inputs to the financial statements in line with IFRS, statutory requirements, and organisational reporting standards.
Apply regulatory and tax requirements, including SARS compliance, to all financial transactions and reports.
Maintain audit readiness by compiling supporting documentation and responding to internal and external audit queries.
Prepare accurate, timely reports on recoveries, variances, and fee income for management and stakeholders.
Review financial records and supporting schedules to promote transparency, credibility, and consistency in financial reporting.
5. Internal Control and Risk Management

Implement and monitor financial control processes to safeguard assets and promote data accuracy.
Identify financial risks related to projects, programmes, and operational activities and recommend mitigation actions.
Apply governance frameworks, delegated authorities, and compliance standards across all financial activities.
Review expenditure patterns and financial practices to detect potential control weaknesses or process gaps.
6. Stakeholder Management and Reporting

Provide programme leads, project managers, and business performance teams with relevant financial information to support planning and control.
Respond promptly to financial queries from internal stakeholders and management.
Prepare management reports to support oversight of performance, risks, and opportunities.
Produce financial and project reports to support informed operational and strategic decision-making.
Key Measurements of Outputs

1. Accuracy, quality and timeliness of quarterly and annual accounts.
2. Effective execution and quarterly updates of financial processes.
3. Budget and forecast accuracy: precision in balance sheet and cash flow projections.
4. Management of client relationships and key internal and external Stakeholders.
5. Timeliness of financial reports (e.g., number of reports submitted on time).
6. Accuracy rate of financial statements (e.g., number of audit adjustments).
7. Variance between actuals and budget (e.g., deviations).
8. Risk mitigation actions implemented.

Expertise & Technical Competencies
a) Financial Acumen

Possesses sufficient expertise to establish and manage income and expenditure monitoring systems for their own area of the business.
Understands cost/revenue drivers within own area and can 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.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical accounting positions clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.
b) 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 with respect to efficiency and accuracy of the existing financial systems and processes.
c) Stakeholder Management

The skills, knowledge, and abilities required to establish, maintain, and enhance effective collaborative relationships between an organisation and its internal or external partners. This is essential for driving strategic alignment, fostering innovation, and achieving mutual goals through synergistic partnerships.
d) Financial Analysis

Interprets, analyzes and/or evaluates compliance with applicable legislation, sound regulatory practices and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and other such rules and regulations.
Analyses or interprets financial records and develops program procedures, financial models and databases.
Demonstrates a thorough knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, rules, entity/company practices, concepts, and industry issues.
Demonstrates a thorough knowledge or experience working with legal and regulatory issues in their subject area.
Develops and maintains effective working relationships with regulated industries, government officials, administrators, and civic leaders.
e) Costing and Budgeting

Sets, maintains and updates the budgeting control process/methodologies.
Reviews and monitors budget to ensure that the required financial procedures are adhered to and all monies are accounted for.
Able to verify that monthly close procedures have been followed and identify anomalies.
Significant experience in the analysis of variance reports to identify underlying operational trends.
Can collate budget inputs from across the organisation and analyse bids to determine consistency with DBSA overall cost/revenue targets.
Able to prepare company-wide budget reports and manuals.
Develops options and recommendations for budget targets.
Minimum Qualification

A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or a related discipline.
Completion of auditing articles at an audit or TOPP (training outside public practice) firm.
Minimum Experience

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial accounting in a complex organisation with the built environment, working on programme development or a large to medium complex organisation with multidimensional businesses.
Working experience in taxation computations and SARS e-filing submissions (value-added tax and PAYE).
Experience in working with financial management systems, e.g. SAP.
Strong understanding of and a strong commitment to good corporate governance and specifically international reporting standards, including IFRS, Basel, GAAP and other regulatory requirements, including the PFMA.
Excellent accounting and reconciliation skills.
Experience in a corporate, public sector, or audit environment.
Strong knowledge of IFRS and South African tax laws.
Desirable Requirements

A Postgraduate qualification in Accounting.
Strong advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills.
Knowledge of SAP FICO and BI.
Experience in fund accounting, restricted fund management, or development finance environments.
The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document are not exhaustive, and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.

Required Personal Attributes
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 ongoing customer needs.
Utilises the feedback received by customers to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their ongoing needs.
Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a multi-stakeholder environment without direct authority over those stakeholders.
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 a 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.

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Financial Modelling Specialist

Closing Date
2026/09/01
Reference Number
DBS251124-2
Job Title Financial Modelling Specialist
Job Grade 00
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) Financial Modelling Specialist _Job Profile November 2025 Final.docx.pdf (240,58 kb) – 2025/11/27 10:57:58
Job Description
The Financial Modelling Specialist is responsible for building robust financial models and providing advanced data analysis that support the development of infrastructure projects, validating technical and commercial assumptions, and structuring optimal solutions.

Key Responsibilities
Financial Modelling

Provide models that support preparation of feasibility assessments, concept studies, pre-feasibility studies, and bankable feasibility studies.
Lead the financial modelling component of Bankable Feasibility Studies (BFS), ensuring alignment with project technical, environmental, social, regulatory, and commercial requirements.
Collaborate with technical engineers and sector specialists to assess project feasibility, risks, and development readiness.
Review, validate, and challenge technical and operational assumptions used within financial models.
Support preparation of technical and investment documentation for internal decision-making committees and external stakeholders.
Build, update, and maintain complex, dynamic financial models for infrastructure and project finance transactions.
Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and stress testing to evaluate project resilience and identify key value and risk drivers.
Assess financial performance indicators and recommend funding structures that align development impact with financial sustainability.
Present financial modelling outputs, results, and recommendations to internal executives, project sponsors, investors, and partners.
Stakeholder Management and Reporting

Present financial outcomes, valuation insights, and financial models to governance structures and external partners.
Prepare investment committee submissions, memos, summaries, and model commentary for review by multidisciplinary project teams.
Participate in negotiations and discussions with sponsors, advisors, lenders, and government entities.
Undertake other tasks as assigned by the line manager, from time to time.
Key Measurements of Outputs

Quality of financial models and mechanisms designed.
Financial modelling insights.
Quality and effective financial models and solutions.
Number of projects successfully supported and that reach financial close for implementation.
Management of relationships with new/existing clients and service providers
Expertise & Technical Competencies
Minimum Qualification

A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, Actuarial Science, Finance, Economics or related field.
Minimum Experience

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial modelling within project finance, investment banking, infrastructure development, or corporate finance.
Advanced financial modelling capability.
Strong understanding of project finance structures, capital allocation, cost of capital models, and risk allocation.
Experience developing or supporting infrastructure or capital-intensive projects.
Exposure to project feasibility studies, due diligence, and transaction structuring.
Demonstrated understanding of the project preparation cycle and requirements to prepare bankable projects.
Desirable Requirements

A post-graduate qualification/ honours degree in Finance, Business, Accounting or Economics.
Development finance experience.
Ability to interpret technical, engineering, regulatory, and commercial project data.
Experience developing or supporting infrastructure projects.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Business Acumen

Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of the economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisation’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
Takes actions to fit business strategy.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
Reviews own actions against the organisation’s strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects, or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.
Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
Deal Structuring

Uses credit enhancement techniques to structure deals and optimise pricing in terms of Basel principles.
Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to optimise the Capital Structure, collateral package, and debt repayment profile.
Interrogates financial models, including those with a high degree of complexity, to develop an optimal structure.
Identifies complex structural issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate bankable structures.
Demonstrates knowledge on advanced structuring, including the use of derivatives, syndicated loans, synthetic loans, securitisations, inflation-linked debt, credit default swaps and subordinated debt.
Prepares specialised or tailored reports relating to new innovative instruments, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report to new product approval committees.
Compiles comprehensive specialist reports as required for inclusion in credit committee submissions.
Financial Analysis

Serves as subject matter expert.
Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas.
Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions.
Financial Acumen

Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability.
Can interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs.
Project Preparation

Demonstrates a sound understanding of limited recourse and balance sheet funding, the process required to prepare projects, and financing documentation required to present projects for investment decisions.
Leads an internal team of sector specialists and analysts to appraise and present transactions to internal committees.
Appoints and leads a team of external consultants/advisors (technical, environmental, financial and legal) to prepare and present the Project Information Memorandum (PIM) to prospective financiers.
Analyses sponsors’ financial statements, understands and reviews financial models.
Demonstrates a sound understanding of the water, transport and energy sectors to identify potential fatal flaws generally associated with these sectors in projects presented and key risks to be mitigated
Solution Focus

Identifies broad, highly complex problems based on a multitude of factors, many of which are complex and sweeping in nature, difficult to define and often contradictory.
Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions.
Evaluates the effectiveness of solutions using approaches tailored to the situation.
Financial Analysis

Serves as subject matter expert.
Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas.
Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions.
Risk Management

Drives integration and standardisation of risk management processes across the organisation.
Advises on the application of the organisation’s risk management policies, industry best practices and constructs organisation guidelines.
Analyses trends in risk management and internal control, evaluates implications, defines, and implements organisation-wide response.
Negotiation

Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
Can take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
Can place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.
Commercial Awareness

Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of DBSA economic priorities and how they can be implemented to meet DBSA’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of DBSA’s core sector role in achieving DBSA’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
Communication and Reporting

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.
Designs / customises reports to meet user needs.
Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
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.
Required Personal Attributes
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Achievement Orientation

Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
Makes specific changes to systems and processes to improve efficiency and quality.
Formulates own objectives and action plans to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.
Analytical Thinking

Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them.
Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each.
Conceptual thinking

Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others and not learned from previous education or experience to explain situations or resolve problems.
Looks at things in a significantly novel way, breakthrough thinking.
Strategic and Innovative thinking

Recognises opportunities or problems emerging in patterns and trends, and their impact on the business and profitability drivers.
Applies learning from previous situations and experiences.
Sees underlying causality in the current situation. Applies business acumen to make sound decisions.
Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
Teamwork

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.

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Project Finance Structuring Specialist

Closing Date
2026/09/01
Reference Number
DBS251124-1
Job Title Project Finance Structuring Specialist
Job Grade 00
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) Project Finance Structuring Specialist _Job Profile November 2025 Final.docx.pdf (244,06 kb) – 2025/11/24 14:50:08
Job Description
The Project Finance Structuring Specialist is responsible for providing expert financial structuring and advisory support for investment projects. This role drives informed investment decisions and project financial closure by designing innovative financing solutions and advising on multi-sector funding strategies.

Key Responsibilities
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

1. Financial Structuring

Develop and implement innovative and sustainable financial structuring solutions to unlock and accelerate development projects.
Collaborate with project teams in the Unit to recommend suitable funding structures or financing mechanisms.
Develop and implement innovative financing instruments, including blended finance, PPPs, guarantees, local currency funding, derivatives, and other financial solutions.
Conduct detailed due diligence and appraisal of proposed transactions, including commercial, financial, risk, and institutional analysis.
Provide input into the preparation and negotiation of contracts, with a focus on financial structuring and implications.
2.Transaction and Deal Support

Review and provide input for financial structuring sections of agreements, progress reports, project planning management, project management, disbursements management, waivers and amendments and contract management.
Facilitate project closure and provide strategic support to senior management as required.
Test market readiness of the Projects with developers, investors, DFIs and OEMs.
Facilitate engagements with project developers and financiers.
Provide transaction structuring inputs to ensure bankability of Projects.
Design of project finance models/structures.
Map financing options across commercial, concessional, blended-finance and climate-finance sources.
Design blended finance structures, combining concessional debt, commercial financing, grants, equity, and guarantees to de-risk the projects.
Engage DFIs and climate funders, prepare concept notes and pitch materials, and support project sponsors in funder outreach.
3.Stakeholder Management

Build and maintain strong relationships with clients at global, regional, and local levels, including businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to further develop specific financing opportunities.
Manage relationships at various levels with the relevant project stakeholders, partners, and lead promoters, in accordance with the project’s preparation objectives and products.
Identify key stakeholders and develop a pipeline of potential funders, contributors and partners for programme development initiatives.
Undertake other tasks as assigned by the line manager, from time to time.
Key Measurements of Outputs

Number and quality of new innovative funding models and mechanisms designed
Quality and effective financial models and solutions
Number of projects successfully prepared (structured) and that reach financial close for implementation
Value of infrastructure catalysed
Value of Private & Public Sector partnerships and funding
Management of relationships with new/existing clients and service providers
INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIP (The list is not exhaustive)

Divisional Executives and Unit Heads
DBSA Committees, e.g., Deal screen, Investment Committees
Multidisciplinary project teams
EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIP (The list is not exhaustive)

National Government
Provincial Government
Local Government
Investment partners – commercial, DFIs
SMMEs
Service providers
Expertise & Technical Competencies
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, Finance, Engineering, Economics or related field.
Minimum Experience

A minimum of 8 years’ experience in Project Finance or Infrastructure Finance environment, and the design and structuring of funding models and mechanisms.
Experience in project finance and/or infrastructure finance, financial modelling and project finance/investment banking experience.
Experience in successful investment, appraisal, analysis and implementation is required.
In-depth knowledge of the financing of Infrastructure and Industrial Sector projects.
Proven ability to negotiate and close infrastructure deals.
Desirable Requirements

A post-graduate qualification/ honours degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Engineering or Economics.
Development finance experience.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

a) Business Acumen

Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisation’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
Takes actions to fit business strategy.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
Reviews own actions against the organisation’s strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects, or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.
Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
b) Deal Structuring

Uses credit enhancement techniques to structure deals and optimise pricing in terms of Basel principles.
Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to optimise the Capital Structure, collateral package, and debt repayment profile.
Interrogates financial models, including those with a high degree of complexity, to develop an optimal structure.
Identifies complex structural issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate bankable structures.
Demonstrates knowledge on advanced structuring, including the use of derivatives, syndicated loans, synthetic loans, securitisations, inflation-linked debt, credit default swaps and subordinated debt.
Prepares specialised or tailored reports relating to new innovative instruments, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report to new product approval committees.
Compiles comprehensive specialist reports as required for inclusion in credit committee submissions.
c) Financial Analysis

Serves as subject matter expert.
Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas.
Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions.
d) Financial Acumen

Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability.
Can interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs.
e) Project Preparation

Demonstrates a sound understanding of limited recourse and balance sheet funding, the process required to prepare projects, and financing documentation required to present projects for investment decisions.
Leads an internal team of sector specialists and analysts to appraise and present transactions to internal committees.
Appoints and leads a team of external consultants/advisors (technical, environmental, financial and legal) to prepare and present the Project Information
Memorandum (PIM) to prospective financiers.
Analyses sponsors’ financial statements, understands and reviews financial models.
Demonstrates a sound understanding of the water, transport and energy sectors to identify potential fatal flaws generally associated with these sectors in projects presented and key risks to be mitigated
f) Solution Focus

Identifies broad, highly complex problems based on a multitude of factors, many of which are complex and sweeping in nature, difficult to define and often contradictory.
Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions.
Evaluates the effectiveness of solutions using approaches tailored to the situation.
g) Financial Analysis

Serves as subject matter expert.
Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas.
Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions.
h) Risk Management

Drives integration and standardisation of risk management processes across the organisation.
Advises on the application of the organisation’s risk management policies, industry best practices and constructs organisation guidelines.
Analyses trends in risk management and internal control, evaluates implications, defines, and implements organisation-wide response.
i) Negotiation

Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
Can take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
Can place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.
j) Commercial Awareness
Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of DBSA economic priorities and how they can be implemented to meet DBSA’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of DBSA’s core sector role in achieving DBSA’s strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
k) Communication and Reporting
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.
Designs / customises reports to meet user needs.
Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
l) 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.
Required Personal Attributes
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

a) Achievement Orientation

Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
Makes specific changes to systems and processes to improve efficiency and quality.
Formulates own objectives and action plans to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.
b) Analytical Thinking

Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them.
Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each.
c) Conceptual thinking

Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others and not learned from previous education or experience to explain situations or resolve problems.
Looks at things in a significantly novel way, breakthrough thinking.
d) Strategic and Innovative thinking

Recognises opportunities or problems emerging in patterns and trends, and their impact on the business and profitability drivers.
Applies learning from previous situations and experiences.
Sees underlying causality in the current situation. Applies business acumen to make sound decisions.
Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
e) Teamwork

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.

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