Chief Specialist: SIAM Value Management at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• Support the FVMO in partnering with business line leaders to identify and deliver value for SIAM.

Minimum Qualification and Experience

• CA, Actuary or CFA with 10 years experience in relevant industries

Deliverables

• Coordinate the provision of financial management information for the SIAM business line
• Coordinate the management of monthly reporting, strategic planning and budget deliverable to Group stakeholders
• Develop and maintain oversight mechanisms for key commercial decisions
• Ensure effective coordination of commercial activities across legal entities and BUs via shared financial aspirations, coordinated MI and effective transfer pricing
• Develop and maintain a muti-year commercial plan for the SIAM business line
• Drive people development and culture initiatives across the SIAM FVM function
• Contribute to SIAM's commercial success by providing insights and advice to business line leaders
• Strategic projects

Process

• Understand and apply existing best practice frameworks to assist in the implementation of identified subject matter processes and standards.
• Analyse operational records, trends and costs related to estimated and realised revenues to project future revenues and expenses.
• Source, collate, analyse and interpret financial information in order to support the review of the financial performance of the business.
• Accountable for advising on and contribute to the formulation of functional operating models related to an area of specialisation, ensuring functional value-chain integration.
• Proactively identify cross-functional problems, determine the impact, patterns and trends to identify optimal alternatives and optimal solutions, anticipating future challenges.
• Plan for effective area of specialisation implementation across the value-chain in alignment with strategic objectives and priorities and specify the required measurements to monitor performance effectiveness.
• Provide thought leadership for project management of strategic and operational projects to ensure efficient delivery.
• Engage with and agrees commercial terms with external and internal vendors.
• Establish and evaluate business cases for large investments documenting all necessary financial, commercial and risk elements.
• Engage at senior, executive and board levels across IAM and SBG.

Customer

• Promote a customer-centric view of the organisation and promote the organisation with other thought leaders and stakeholders, related to area of specialisation.
• Contribute to SIAM's commercial success by providing insights and advice to business line leaders.

Finance

• Direct budgeting for efficient and effective operations by translating strategic objectives into goals with specific output and targets associated with the area of specialisation.
• Make decisions on complex trade-offs for where spend should be directed.
• Drive multiple initiatives simultaneously across various areas to drive cost efficiencies.
• Coordinate the provision of financial management information for the SIAM business line.
• Develop and maintain oversight mechanisms for key commercial decisions
• Ensure effective coordination of commercial activities across legal entities and BU's via shared financial aspirations, coordinated MI and effective transfer pricing.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year commercial plan for the SIAM business line.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute to the effective implementation of fit-for-purpose human capability across disciplines in support of effective people management strategies related to the area of specialisation.

Governance

• Translate the organisational risk and governance management model into a compliance framework and policies that apply to an area of specialisation across value chains, enabling the management of critical risks.
• Develop, implement and track key metrics for strategy execution and monitoring.
• Coordinate the management of monthly reporting, strategic planning and budget deliverables to Group stakeholders.