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Business Manager: Finance & Treasury ( 3 months FTC )
Closing Date
2025/02/19
Reference Number
LAN250213-4
Job Title Business Manager: Finance & Treasury ( 3 months FTC )
Division Finance and Treasury
Unit Finance
Job Type Classification Contract
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To provide a business management support function through the coordination of various strategic initiatives and operations management interventions thereby supporting the Chief Financial Officer and the team to achieve effective and efficient application of resources. To support the Chief Financial Officer and the business unit team with various activities with particular emphasis on Business Planning, Performance Management, Project Coordination, Risk Management, Change Management, Operational and Administrative functions while facilitating proper governance and compliance to legislation and best practice within the framework of the Land Bank’s policies and guidelines.
Key Performance Areas
- Business Planning at Divisional level
In liaison with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) coordinate various business planning and strategic initiatives and projects on behalf of the various Departments within the Division. These include amongst others the following:
Coordinate and contribute to the development and implementation of the Corporate plan and Divisional plan to execute agreed strategic objectives
Work with team members and secures cooperation from colleagues and divisional team members to implement key strategies, projects and initiatives as identified for the division.
Coordinate, monitor, track, and report on these strategies and initiatives including recommending enhancements/changes as and when required.
Provide business intelligence to the CFO by conducting studies, research and keeping abreast on issues affecting areas of responsibility which inform the direction of the Business Unit.
- Strategic Coordination and Preparation for Meetings, and Engagements
Prepare the divisional annual calendar
Engage with CFO’s direct reports and prepare the agenda for the Management Committee (Manco)
Track all resolutions and action items arising from the Manco meetings
Coordinate and/or prepare any required concept documents, reports, memos, letters, and presentations on behalf of the CFO/ Senior Management as and when required.
Prepare the CFO’s Exco, Business Review and other Committee or Board submissions and other initiatives as required.
Coordinate external stakeholder communication including Investor relations correspondence.
Monitor implementations of resolutions and ensure follow through actions are completed
Follow up on action items and ensuring that all actions are done by the agreed deadline.
- Operational and Divisional Efficiencies
Proactively support the CFO with specific reference to the following:
Manage the effective flow of information and documents across the division down to implementation level
Monitor and evaluate efficiencies and identify opportunity for enhancement including improvement of products and services through established mechanisms
Champions new ways of delivering services that contribute to the improvement of processes in order to achieve organisational and divisional goals
Act as the Budget Controller for the CFO, monitor and report on variances concerning the budget.
Assist with the coordination and monitoring function and may contribute to budget compilation to support the business unit managers.
Monitor and evaluate expenditure and procurement of services in line with budget and policy directives
- Risk, Governance and Ethics Management
Represent Division as a Risk champion.
Monitor aspects related to business continuity and Enterprise Risk Management.
Identify potential risks within areas of responsibility and make recommendations to mitigate identified risks.
Updating risk register and tracking progress
Incident management report
Implements innovative service delivery options in own section
- Project Management
Plan, manage, monitors and evaluates activities around designated strategic projects in order to support the delivery of desired outputs and outcomes.
Monitor and track project goals and objectives and progress within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
Coordinate high level meetings and events in collaboration with the relevant support divisions related to the project
- Divisional Performance Reporting
Compiles divisional Performance Reporting to:
Develop and manage the implementation of business unit performance monitoring processes
Assist the Executive to develop appropriate management analytic processes that enable effective reporting on the business performance at divisional level
Coordinate the periodic performance review sessions and coordinate and provide input into the development of the balance scorecard and defining performance measures and benchmarks to evaluate success
Coordinate the performance reporting process and the reporting of the divisional and business unit performance against agreed strategic and operational objectives as per the reporting requirements and Land Bank standards
Package the performance reports for submission to various stakeholders.
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
A degree in Strategy and/or Finance and a Postgraduate degree or diploma in Business Management, including Finance where a degree completed is not in Finance.
5-8 years Relevant work experience as a Business Manager / Management Consultant / Project Manager / Executive Coordinator
5 years Leadership experience in a comparable environment
Critical Competencies
Analytics (relevant to the function)
Legislation
Strategic Report Writing
Microsoft Office
Project Management Principles
Financial Principles
Strategic Planning and Processes
Governance and Risk
Sub-committee meetings and Board knowledge
Additional Requirements
Extended hours as and when required
Travel as and when required
LBIC Accountant ( 6 months – FTC )
Closing Date
2025/02/19
Reference Number
LAN250213-3
Job Title LBIC Accountant ( 6 months – FTC )
Division Land Bank Insurance Company
Unit LBIC
Job Type Classification Contract
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
To ensure complete and accurate processing of financial transactions.To prepare the monthly recons on the Land Bank Insurance balance sheet accounts, process various journals where necessary, and assist with management reporting. To provide relevant stakeholders with accurate and complete information for reporting and decision making purposes, supporting the accurate compilation of Financial reports
Key Performance Areas
- General Ledger Reconciliations
Monthly balance sheet recons
Process various journals
Assist with queries on annual audit/Internal Audit
- Bank Account and Administration
Ensures compliance of all legal documentation for all relevant Commercial Bank Accounts.
Assists in opening and closing of bank accounts.
Analyses commercial bank statements daily.
Identifies all debit orders and processes journals to relevant SAP general ledger accounts.
Investigates any unidentified entries on bank statements and escalates when necessary.
Performs the clearing of the general legder sub-bank accounts daily.
Performs the monthly bank reconciliations
File the recons and supporting documents for audit purposes
- Financial Reporting
Opex/Capex budget and reporting
Monthly/Quarterly/Statutory reporting
- Investment, Insurance & Reinsurance Accounting
Investment accounting
Premium accounting
Claims accounting
Reinsurance premium accounting
Reinsurance claims accounting
- Ensure Adherence to Financial Processes, Procedures and Policies
Review and updating processes, policies and procedures on a continuous basis
Adapt the Bank’s accounting policies in line with the changing environment- IFRS, PFMA, NCA and the Land Bank Act.
Evaluate and improve internal controls.
Develop and maintain an accounting manual
Review to ensure internal controls and processes are in place
Recommend any improvements.
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
BCom Accounting
3-5 years experience in General Ledger recons
3-5 years experience in Insurance accounting with exposure to reinsurance treaties
Critical Competencies
General Ledger Recons
Investment Accounting
Insurance Accounting
Reinsurance Accounting
Knowledge / Experience SAP/ Financial Systems
Budgeting
Microsoft Office
Additional Requirements
Travel as and when required
Extended hours as and when required
Analyst: Technical Specification & Testing
Closing Date
2025/02/19
Reference Number
LAN250213-2
Job Title Analyst: Technical Specification & Testing
Division IT and Operations
Unit FTI Information Technology
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
The Analyst – Technical and Application testing is responsible for designing, developing, and executing quality assurance and control processes, test strategies, test plans and test cases that verify software application conformance to defined acceptance criteria.
The roles applies to the Land Bank and any subsidiaries.
The responsibilities for this role include but not limited to:
Linking test cases to business/systems requirements to ensure traceability, execute test cases, log defects and the creation of test ware.
Responsible for supporting the business users during user acceptance testing
Develops test plan, approach and scope.
Developing Test Scenarios
Provides input to standard test metrics and reporting
Application Defect Management
User Acceptance Testing
Work with Business to influence and monitor User Acceptance Testing
Key Performance Areas
- Ensure Application Test Plans and Strategies are implemented
Ensure implementation of application test strategies
Ensure implementation of test resource deployment plans
Translate all business requirements into testable workpackages
Lead testing operations often act as coaches and advisors to their teams.
- Contribute to Optimal Test Resource deployment
Contribute to resource planning for application testing and related workload
Assist with deployment of testing resources like tester to execute required application testing
Prepare all the required test data for application testing before hand and ensure test data is accurate for various scenario testing.
Ensure no shortage of testing resources during application testing
- Execute Test processes
Execute test cases based on test scenarios created for software applications to ensure that it meets all the pre-defined functional and non-functional requirements or specifications
Execute software testing team by setting goals, standards, and mentoring during test execution
Contribute to the evaluateion of new technologies testing and participate in the continuous improvement of applications testing
Write Test Execution and Reporting for all planned application testing
Participate as a team member of manual and automation test analyst
- Develop Test Cases for application User Acceptance Testing
Develop test cases for planned application testing
Develop/prepare test data and other test resources before commencement of application testing
Develop test case steps/procedure in an explicit and unambiguous manner to be followed by testers and/or user tester
Perform test rehearsals before the testing commences.
- Liaise with the Business to Develop Technical Business Specifications all Applications within the Land Bank application landscape
Prioritises requirements effectively based on factors including business value, cost to deliver and time constraints and builds stakeholder consensus on requirements prioritisation to ensure analysis and implementation focus on critical requirements
Organises and synthesises information provided by stakeholders in understandable views and clearly articulates the relationships between the various requirements and stakeholder needs
Provide input in the current organisational state using a combination of textual formats, models, diagrams and matrices
Consistently leverages models and specifications to provide insight into opportunities for improvement
- Support the Development of Functional and Test Specifications
Assesses solution proposals and demonstrate which proposal will be most effective
Allocates stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components to maximise business value by assessing trade-offs between options to maximise benefits and minimise cost
Effectively communicates solution impact to stakeholders
Demonstrates understanding of the changes that will occur with the new solution (business area, technical infrastructure, processes and operations)
- Conduct/ Support Functional, User Acceptance and End User Testing
Execute User Acceptance Testing for all the application testing
Develop testing scenarios and scripts, identify and document functional test cases, write and execute test scripts for all upgrades or conversions.
Execute requirements traceability matrix
Review the User Acceptance Testing Results and ensure application systems requirements are being addressed.
Develop test report after every application testing
Develop test cases
Analyse test outputs and corrective actions
- Conduct/ Support Functional, User Acceptance and End User Testing
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
Education:
Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or equivalent
ISTQB Foundation Level certification (CTFL)
Experience:
3 – 5 Years in the following:
Experience in software testing
Experience in writing Complex Testing strategies and plans
Technical Tetsing reviews and application solution test designs
Proven success in technical application testing
Experience in planning and executing UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and RT (Regression Testing)
General awareness of technologies (ARIS, SAP, Microsoft Applications)
Critical Competencies
Experience of full software quality assurance lifecycle
Test Lead position, leading a test automation team
Experience in dealing with multiple process and systems methodology application
Experience working with structured test methods and processes
Experience working in a test-driven development environment
Manage (with my support) the creation of a Project Test Strategy
Coordinate testing of applications within scope
Ability to interact with various specialists internally or externally to drive continuous improvement and innovation
Perform QA duties of testing undertaken by internal test resource
Additional Requirements
Extended hours as and when required.
Travel as and when required.
IT Architect – Business and Data
Closing Date
2025/02/19
Reference Number
LAN250213-1
Job Title IT Architect – Business and Data
Division IT and Operations
Unit Finance Treasury & IT
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
The role of IT Architect – Business and Data is responsible for the strategic business transformation within Landbank and overseeing critical deliverables; such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams. This role is further responsible for leading the architecture of new organizations or re-architecting aspects of existing business operations and capabilites. The IT Architect – Business and Data is also responsible for setting the data architecture principles, create enterprise models of data that enable the implementation of the intended business architecture, create architecture strategic models showing key data entities, and create an inventory of the data needed to implement the architecture vision.
Key Performance Areas
Business Architecture Strategy Development:
Collaborate with the Head of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to establish governance, focusing on business architecture.
Develop and monitor the Business Architecture Vision, Capability Model, Business Process Modelling, and Value Streams for Landbank.
Ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
Business Architecture Blueprint & Roadmap:
Collaborate with stakeholders and architects (applications, technology, security) to select reference models and create baseline and target business architecture descriptions.
Perform gap analysis and develop a roadmap aligned with Landbank’s strategic objectives.
Business Architecture Governance:
Manage activities to develop, maintain, and govern business architecture.
Ensure architecture goals are met and assess best practices to improve business frameworks and data quality management.
Data Architecture Strategy Development:
Develop and implement the Data Architecture Vision and Principles.
Collaborate with other IT divisions to create data management practices and ensure data architecture goals are achieved.
Data Architecture Blueprint & Roadmap:
Consult with stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Data Model, data flows, integration patterns, and master data management architecture.
Conduct gap analysis and participate in creating a Data Warehouse, Data Mart, or Data Lake roadmap.
Opportunities and Implementation Planning:
Identify business and data change opportunities and constraints.
Perform gap analysis, refine architecture dependencies, and create implementation and migration plans for business and data transformation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Management:
Develop a stakeholder engagement strategy, map stakeholders by influence, and manage expectations.
Maximize opportunities, mitigate risks, and improve stakeholder relationships to support architecture goals.
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in in Information Systems/ Information Technology / Computer Science or related field
TOGAF 9/10 Certification and Enterprise Architecture
Minimum Experience:
8 – 10 years in Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Doman Architect for Data and Business
Critical Competencies
Knowledge of Land Bank Act
Protection of Personal Information Act.
Knowledge of PFMA
Additional Requirements
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
Solution Architecture
IT Portolio Managemet & optimisation
Technology Modernisation
Doman Architect for Data, Application, Technology and Security
Manager: Change and Project Management – Re-Advertised
Closing Date
2025/02/21
Reference Number
LAN250211-1
Job Title Manager: Change and Project Management – Re-Advertised
Division IT and Operations
Unit FTI Information Technology
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To manage and facilitate all change management initiatives and ensure projects meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage within operational initiatives, projects, and facilitate and foster a structured approach in managing the impact of change.
Key Performance Areas
- Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities
Development of the all five sections of the change life cycle framework
Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
Review, analyse, assess and evaluate the impact of business changes on various stakeholders, and define and co-ordinate change management solutions that will ensure that a smooth transition is achieved.
Understand and apply change methodology to determine and analyse current state versus desired state within projects & change requests and make detailed and appropriate recommendations to key stakeholders on change actions required
- Implement effective Stakeholder Management strategy plan and reporting
Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders
Provide proactive coaching and consultation to stakeholders & work groups and provide change management interventions where required.
Conducts a detailed analysis of the relevant projects requirements, business division activities and processes.
Facilitates any required sessions/training or workshops and engages with business owners and project sponsors or project resources to ensure that business needs and challenges can be clearly understood and interpreted.
- Implement effective Communication strategy and plan
Support the design, development, delivery and management of communication
Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan
Support project communication efforts
- Manage change initiatives and training within the organisation
Change initiative management
Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs.
Project Conduct training effort
Integrate change management activities into project plan
- Ensure that the change is embedded and desired benefits are achieved.
Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
Support change management at the organizational level
Manage the change portfolio
Coach managers and supervisors
- Monitor and stay abreast of technological, legal and operational changes in the change management environment.
Monitor and stay abreast of technological, legal and operational changes in the change management environment (Innovation and Growth)
- Project Management
Execution and Risk Control
Execute and manage projects according to the agreed project plan from the beginning until completion.
Ensure that project deliverables and agreed milestones are met and that overall project performance is in accordance with the requirements of the project plan, company policies and procedures and adopted project management principles
Maintain the project plan during the entire project to enable tracking and reporting over the full cycle of the project stages
Maintain awareness of potential interdependencies with other projects and their impact and intervene or escalate where necessary
Adopt appropriate technical and quality strategies and standards
Use relevant tools to keep track of people and progress
Regularly liaise with appointed project resources to assure the overall direction and maintain integrity of the project
Manage project risks, identify new risks and conduct a risk assessment
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
3 Year relevant B-degree/National Diploma.
10 years Change Management experience.
5 – 8 years Project Management experience.
Critical Competencies
MS Office
Change Management function/strategies/techniques and practices.
Business Acumen
Information Technology knowledge
Project management
Stakeholder Management
Additional Requirements
Formal change management methodologies.
Knowledge of project management methodologies.
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