Multichoice Jobs

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1. Tax Accountant
2. STP Contracts Administrator
3. Specialist Events Coordinator
4. Senior Manager Customer Value Management (CVM) Campaign & Offer Management
5. Senior Finance Analyst: Movies and Series
6. Marketing Automation Specialist sports

Tax Accountant

Designation:	Tax Accountant
Category:	Group Finance
Level:
Closing date:	18 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Key Customers

Senior Manager: Reporting, Head of Financial Shared Services, Group Tax, Finance Business Partners

Key Performance Objectives

Controls, Governance & Policies

• Responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of system of robust controls, procedures and policies
• Responsible for monitoring compliance to Tax Act
• Responsible for monitoring compliance to policies
• Review and implement recommendations to policies.
• Ensuring compliance to tax framework
• Assist with providing / collating information to SARS queries.
• Documentation of all processes and ensuring that the relevant controls have been implemented.

Monthly Activities

• Monthly preparation of detailed tax computations in accordance with tax legislation for group companies
• Preparation of monthly tax journals in SAP
• Preparation of monthly tax disclosure in accordance with tax legislation. Submission of disclosure on HFM
• Preparation of monthly tax cashflow disclosure and submission to the Central Accounting Team
• Monthly preparation and filing of indirect taxes (including VAT & withholding tax) and verification.
• Ensure accuracy, validity and completeness of SARS payments.
• Compiling and review of tax schedules for submission to SARS
• Monthly clearing of GL accounts
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Performing monthly tax reasonability, analysis and explanation for variances e.g. VAT analysis, effective tax rate, analysis of tax rate recon
• Preparation of monthly tax dashboard
• Guidance on transactional tax treatment
• Assistance with implementation of processes and monitoring plan

Interim and Year end activities

• Preparation of tax packs / audit packs
• Preparation of disclosure for accounting packs and Annual Financial Statements
• Preparation of tax returns
• IT14SD – tax reconciliations
• Calculation of provisional tax and payment
• Interaction with external auditors and audit queries
• Receiver of Revenue reconciliations
• Calculation of prior year tax adjustments
• Deferred Tax calculations (Balance sheet method)
• Assist with country-by-country reporting

General

• Assisting the Record to Report Senior Manager on strategic finance projects as determined by the Head of Finance Shared Services
• Ad hoc projects that arise on a continuing basis
• Analysis
• Attend to business partner queries.
• Manage, improve and develop relationships with internal & external stakeholders.
• Able to run with tasks and be proactive in delivery.
• Recommendations and implementation of process efficiency
• General tax admin
• Various Tax reports

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in a similar role
• Sound, detailed knowledge and experience in IFRS (including hedge accounting, accounting for FECs, IFRS 9 and IFRS 15) and Taxation rules.
• SAP system experience 
• Hyperion Financial Management
• Advanced excel skills.
• Minimum 3 years’ people management experience in a similar role

Competencies 

• Attention to detail.
• Proactive and ability to plan ahead.
• Ability to prioritise in order to meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and pressurised situations.
• Ability to think and move quickly in a dynamic fast-moving environment.
• Excellent communication skills- upward, downward and lateral
• Conflict management ?Problem solving.
• Coaching and mentoring
• Systematic and analytical
• Speed and accuracy with figures.
• Stakeholder management

STP Contracts Administrator

Category:	Group Finance
Level:
Closing date:	24 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Customers

Internal: Strategic Sourcing team, Contracts Management team, Business Users, Procure to Pay, MCSA Legal, MAH and Rest of Africa (RoA) Legal, Senior Management.

External: Vendors and Third-Party Service Providers

Purpose of the Position

• Enforcing proper Governance during the entire Source to Contract process according to the Procurement and Delegation of Authority Policies.
• Enforcing compliance to the Sourcing and Sourcing Support Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
•  Maintain accurate and ongoing Contract Management and Sourcing Support.
• Engage with Internal and External Stakeholders to provide support aligned to business strategic objectives.
• Provide visibility around key Contract Management criteria and reports.
• Maintain adherence to quality and compliance of the end-to-end contracting process, aligned to relevant policies and procedures.
• Management of queries via query management tool.
• Loading of contracts for signatory aligned to relevant Delegation of Authority and load fully signed contracts on the eProcurement platform.
• Provide all stakeholders updates in terms of contract status and analysis thereof.
• Perform ad hoc Sourcing, Contract Management analytics reporting when required.
• Provide ongoing support to all Stakeholders to drive key KPIs for the Department

Key Performance Objectives/ Outputs Operational Delivery

•   Work with the Sourcing team and provide Sourcing Support and Contracting Support by creating visibility and access to information, Legal Templates, Analytics and communicating the Correct Contracting Process.
•    Draft and review all contracts/contract documents according to the Key Contract Management criteria. Complete the Contract Management Checklist prior to sharing contract documents to the Legal teams as per the Legal Policy for review.
•    Engage with Legal teams to author the draft contract/contract documents. The Legal teams will review the Terms and Conditions relevant to the contract/contract documents and update changes made to Terms and Conditions and Schedules/Appendixes added to the Contracts.
• When drafting/reviewing the contracts/contract documents liaise with the Category Managers, Sourcing Specialists, Sourcing Analysts and Business Stakeholders on the Contract Management criteria to ensure compliance.
• Assist with authoring of the draft contract between internal and external stakeholders
• Assist with any contract disputes and resolution where possible to maintain supplier and business relationships.
•    Have a clear understanding of the eProcurement system and how to maintain contracts on the system. Load and attach relevant documents of the complete signed off contract on the eProcurement system.
• Communicate to the relevant stakeholders that the contract is loaded and ready for use on the eProcurement Platform.
•    Update and maintain the Sourcing and Contracts Tracker daily.
•    Analyse and report on off-contract and non-contracted spend to the Contract Manager and Sourcing Support Manager.
•    Capture and maintain sourcing category relevant statistics monthly i.e., commodity indices for visibility to assist Category Managers with planning and execution.
•    Process Contact Price Adjustments as per Category managers’ approval.
•    Perform quality checks on the eProcurement Platform and identify, communicate, and assist the relevant stakeholders in correcting the mistakes. Integrate the end-to-end Contracting process

Systems and Innovation

• Assist with Finance Business Innovation of various identified projects and processes
•   Assist with implementation of the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) component of the eProcurement System

Stakeholder Management

• Manage relationships with Key internal and external stakeholders as outlined above.
•  Keep appropriate communication line with line manager and Sourcing Support Manager

People Management

•  Ensure effective and efficient service delivery to group stakeholders
•    Develop business knowledge and staff within Sourcing, Category Management and Procurement

Qualifications

• Minimum Matric
•  Relevant tertiary qualification in the Procurement Environment is preferred
• Legal qualification is advantageous

Experience

• 3-5 years’ working experience in Source to Pay environment or Procurement environment
• Knowledge and experience in program and systems (SAP ERP, MS Office, eProcurement platforms such as Coupa, iProcure, etc.)
• Data Management – cleaning, sorting, visualization, analysis, and modelling is required
• Understanding of Contracts Management processes and procedures including Legal component

Specialist Events Coordinator

Category:	MultiChoice South Africa
Level:	Skilled
Closing date:	25 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Purpose of the role:

To assist the Events Manager, create, coordinate and manage all the different components of an event as well as the teams of people responsible for each aspect.

Key Accountabilities:

Planning & Organising

• Organize and co-ordinate internal and external events according to brief.
• Deliver end-to-end events management services.
• Take a clear brief from the client and conceptualise creative for the event.
• Manage guest list and RSVP’s for events.
• Plan and coordinate events logistics and set-up.
• Ensure implementation of Brand plans.
• Order promotional items and ensure their delivery.
• Ensuring application of event management policies

Operational Excellence

• Crisis management – having alternate plans in place for eventualities
• Ensure all health and safety aspects of an event are in place
• Event administration and logistics
• Keep abreast of latest innovation and trends in events management for application in the organization including the latest technology enabled applications for RSVP handling, etc.

Budgeting & Reporting

• Budget control – make sure events are done within budget and ensure that suppliers are paid as per agreement
• Accurate and on-time accounts management of suppliers to ensure supplier accounts are paid on time and against orders
• Compile detailed activity reports for management review Ensure all documents and photos are saved on the share drive (Sharepoint)

Relationship Building

• Provide regular feedback to Event Manager and Client
• Provide post-event feedback to clients
• Efficiently manage and leverage events resources and suppliers to ensure a professional quality event
• Build strong relationships with clients and vendors to deliver on events requirements

Qualifications:

• A Degree in Events Management (Post Grad advantageous)

Experience:

•  At least 5-8 years’ experience in the events coordination role or similar.
• Three years of experience planning and executing events.
• Ability to introduce new ideas and foresee potential problems at events.
• Communication and writing skills adapted to fit different styles, particularly with outside vendors.
• High attention to detail and the ability to establish priorities.
• Ability to work within a budget and very tight timeline. Flexibility to travel and work long hours

Senior Manager Customer Value Management (CVM) Campaign & Offer Management

Category:	MultiChoice South Africa
Level:
Closing date:	21 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Purpose of the Position

• To lead Campaign reporting and analysis, through performance analysis in order to enable conception, execution and measurement of campaigns across the customer life cycle.
• To lead in planning and forecasting of campaigns and offers.
• Support operations and empower decision-making through subscriber analysis, business cases, and financial analysis.

Key Performance Objectives Tasks

Operational delivery

• Perform extensive analysis to uncover potential ARPU uplift opportunities on subscriber cohorts for bespoke targeting and treatment.
• Forecast subscriber volumes and review monthly revenue numbers with management.
• Drive and report on return on investment of retention initiatives.
• Conduct monthly analysis of campaign performance and determine the best approach to deliver on key business objectives, ways to improve customer activity, increase reconnections and improve overall financial performance.
• Effectively identify the value of analytics within the CVM context and serve as an analytics translator to ensure realisation of value from the analytics initiatives.
• Deliver predictive and recommendation models for CVM using the latest Big Data and ML tools partnering with MultiChoice CII and EBS teams within the broader cross-functional and agile company data squad.
• Conduct ad-hoc deep dives to provide insights on performance and enable decision making.
• Evolve the capability and impact of CVM through the delivery of campaign analytics and reporting for CVM initiatives.
• Drive analytics solutions automation to build efficiencies.
• Champion a ‘test, learn and iterate’ culture to ensure timely execution of analytical solutions.
• Build and manage micro-segmentation for CVM inbound to enable better targeting and conversion improvements.
• Work closely with commercial and segment teams to enable advanced base management through the delivery of prescriptive and or predictive insights and identify subscriber cohorts within the company base, thus enabling bespoke solutioning for the subscriber base to improve performance.
• Unlock customer insights for the broader base management teams as a custodian of customer insights to support broader strategic initiatives within CVM and the Customer Group.
• Stakeholder ManagementBuild and manage strong relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels, to ensure mutually beneficial interaction, in an effort to meet strategic objectives.
• Provide leadership with relevant reports and insights which will inform business decisions.
• Ensure all business/customer requirements are planned for to ensure optimal customer experiences for both internal and external customers.

People Management

• Oversee the activities of the related CII teams.
• Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance management process and informal coaching.
• Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members.
• Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed.
• Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met.
• Interview and recruit new members of the team, including determining appropriate compensation levels with input from Human Capital.
• When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members calling on support from Human Capital when required.
• Resolve grievances raised by team members and escalate only if required.
• Address poor performance of any team member through the formal Performance improvement programme and ensure that continued poor performance is appropriately dealt with.
• Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognised

Experience

• A minimum of 5-10 years in marketing, campaign management or relevant experience
• A minimum of 5 years of customer value management experience
• 5+ years management experience
• 8-10 years working experience
•  Degree in finance, accounting or computer science

Senior Finance Analyst: Movies and Series

Category:	General Entertainment & Connected Video
Level:
Closing date:	24 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Key Customers

Finance Manager, GE CFO, GE Head of Finance, Channel heads, Channel Directors, Shared Services Teams, MNET Reporting Team, Divisional Reporting Teams, Key Vendors, Contracts and Legal, Internal and External Auditors

Purpose of the Position

Support the Finance Manager, Channel Director & Channel heads in financial reporting and business partnering functions for the Movies and Series Cluster. Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of all channel cluster financial reporting, management reporting, budgets and forecasts, cash flow management and procurement process (tracking spend against budgets).

Key Performance Objectives

Business Partnering

• Design, maintain and improve upon robust budgeting model (record trends, understand drivers, correlation, sensitivities, dependencies)
• Prioritise and manage business demands and business partner expectations.
• Facilitation of channel cluster budget and forecast planning cycles.
• Perform analysis and provide commentary on month-end variances against budgets, forecasts and prior years.
• Preparation and analysis of monthly rolling forecasts for Group submission
• Cash flow management through preparation of 24-month treasury forecasts and tracking that actual outcomes align to forecasts.
• Extract, combine and summarise data to analyse the financial impact of new initiatives and effectively communicating key findings to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions.
• Developing metrics and reports to provide monitoring for new initiatives.
• Proactively partner with business to identify and evaluate opportunities to improve bottom line business performance and ensure that change initiatives are implemented.
• Policy compliance custodian for the channel clusters.
• Tracking business & content financial objectives, as well as projecting and monitoring run rates to ensure that set targets are met.
• Provide support for ad hoc analysis and requests pertaining to outlooks and projects

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare month end reporting packs for analysis.
• Adhere to Group reporting deadlines including month end; forecasts; budgets; half-year and year-end.
• Review/ prepare schedules and reports for statutory reporting packs for half-year and year-end reporting periods.
• Preparation and review of periodic content related journals and accounting entries
• Participate in business unit meetings to provide feedback on results and impact of business plans.
• Prepare key content & content related Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Consult with the Shared Services and auditors to prepare and assist with internal and statutory audits.
• Tracking and management of the procurement process and related key stats
• Content inventory assessment and management (past due and expiring content, system costing and loading errors, content aging, allocation assessments).
• Supporting the continuous development and maintenance of the Synergy Content system in response to changes in content strategy.
• Continuous assessment of the content system and processes in maintain and supplement internal controls.
• Compliance: Regulatory and studio reporting in line with legislation and contractual obligations.

Qualifications

Must be a CA(SA)

Experience / Skills

• A minimum 5 – 8 years in a Finance Analyst role
• Detailed commercial and financial acumen, balanced with creative flair
• Hands-on experience with financial analysis, modelling and report building
• Exposure to a multi-currency environment, including African currencies
• Sound knowledge of IFRS and Taxation rules
• Industry understanding and experience would be advantageous
• Strong communication and relationship building skills

Technical Competencies

• Advanced Excel skills ( Macros, pivots and working with advanced and complex formulae)
• SAP experience
• Financial Modelling
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and presentations
• Excellent communication, presentation skills
• Understanding the procurement process

Behavioural Competencies

• Speed and accuracy with figures
• Effective stakeholder management
• Persuading and influence
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proactive and ability to plan ahead
• Coaching
• Conflict resolution
• Attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines
• Analytical thinking
• Innovative problem solver
• Holistic thinking
• Structured, agile, results oriented, customer focused
• Acts with integrity and fairness and high standards of accountability

Marketing Automation Specialist sports

Category:	Showmax SA
Level:
Closing date:	25 Apr 2024
Position Type:	Permanent
Location:	MultiChoice City

Purpose of the Position:

Are you a die-hard sports fan with a knack for marketing automation? Do you live and breathe Premier League excitement? If so, we have the perfect role for you!

We’re on the hunt for a Marketing Automation Specialist with a passion for sports and a keen interest in lifecycle marketing. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in shaping and executing our Customer Value Management (CVM) strategy specifically tailored for our Premier League mobile Showmax streaming product across sub-Saharan Africa.

As the Marketing Automation Specialist, you’ll take ownership of the day-to-day execution of all CRM marketing initiatives. From crafting engaging email campaigns to orchestrating targeted push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS blasts, you’ll be the driving force behind our efforts to connect with sports enthusiasts and maximize customer engagement.

We’re seeking someone who not only thrives in the world of marketing technology and automation but also possesses a deep understanding of sports culture and fan behavior. Prior experience in executing behavior-based lifecycle marketing campaigns is highly advantageous, especially within the context of sports entertainment.

If you have an analytical mindset and enjoy diving into the nitty-gritty of segmentation and customer journey optimization, while also keeping an eye on the bigger picture of driving business results, then you’ll feel right at home in this role.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of CVM, you’ll collaborate closely with key stakeholders across departments to ensure alignment and synergy in our marketing efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to combine your passion for sports with your expertise in marketing automation to make a tangible impact in the fast-paced world of streaming entertainment.

Relationship Management

• Act as a custodian of the Showmax personalized messaging engagement platform you will be responsible for looking at user behavior to leverage insights to drive interactions through email, push messaging, web messaging, in app messages or re-targeting
• Assist in planning, executing, briefing trigger, lifecycle and marketing related digital messaging across multiple countries
• Execute in conjunction with marketing and product, A/B testing of messaging to optimize key metrics
• Manage and maintain strong cross-functional stakeholder relationships across multiple teams (Product, Analytics, Dev, Design, in country teams)

What will you do – Campaign Management

• Set up, test and send email, push and SMS campaigns.
• Manage and execute the BAU sports messaging calendar.
• Analyze and share campaign results with the team.
• Help developing targeted communications campaign to behavior-based audiences.
• Run A/B tests to optimize current campaigns and find new opportunities.
• Work cross-functionally, partnering with technology, data and marketing teams to execute on strategies that drive each of the lifecycle stages. (Lead nurturing / customer onboarding / Engagement / churn management)

Qualifications

A Degree in Business Management / Marketing or equivalent qualification

Experience and skills

• A minimum of 5 years of product management / CRM marketing experience.
• Experience in Digital Marketing / Customer communication through Digital Channels.
• Customer Lifecycle Management experience (CVM).
• Strong analytical background.
• Possess strong quantitative and problem-solving skills, innovative thinking and vision.
• Media, Telecommunications and/or eCommerce experience preferred.

Technical Competencies

• Experience in online CRM and campaign management tools and any other personalised/below the line digital Marketing and engagement tools.
• Knowledge of how to use tools such as SendGrid, Braze, Salesforce, Silverpop, Mparticle, etc.
• A good understanding of CRM tools, automated journeys, segmentation & targeted messaging, and Customer Data Platform use cases.
• Experience in HTML, SQL or other programming language is a plus.
• Knowledge of email regulations, best practices and compliance internationally in various regulatory regimes (e.g., GDPR CCPA, POPIA).

Behavioral Competencies (List the key behavioral competencies)

• Effective prioritization skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate and present ideas both in written and oral presentations.
• Managing multiple campaigns simultaneously.
• Possess strong quantitative and problem-solving skills, innovative thinking and vision.
• Love for Digital and Customer experience.

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All the best with your applications.