Developer & Analyst at Sanlam Group

This role is responsible for catalysing change in the Actuarial/Finance department through the development of modern, intelligent and efficient valuation processes and systems for Sanlam Close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders throughout development process Design, develop and assist with the implementation of a new financial process for IFRS4 and IFRS17 published reporting

Output/Core Tasks

• Analyze the requirements of a reporting system to support published and MI reporting for Sanlam SKY
• Collaborate with the actuarial and finance teams to define the data model for this reporting system
• Maintenance and development of modern valuations processes and BI systems for the SKY actuarial and finance teams
• Close collaboration with a variety of stakeholders in Finance and Actuarial
• Unit and regression testing of systems
• Document work in a user friendly manner
• Support with the implementation of new systems & processes
• Assistance with ad-hoc tasks and investigations

What will make you successful in this role?

Role Requirements

• Travel to Johannesburg from time to time will be required.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years work experience within the finance, actuarial or data analytics field.
• More senior applicants will be also be considered.

Experience & Knowledge

The following experience would be advantageous

• Financial valuations experience
• Advanced Excel skills
• Prophet
• SQL programming
• Good knowledge of Sanlam SKY products (mostly Funeral products)
• Experience in working with databases

Personal Attributes And Competencies

• Likes working closely in a team
• Self-confident with decision making abilities
• Diligent
• Action oriented (likes to get stuff done)
• An interest in learning new technologies (specifically BI technologies)
• Innovative and conceptual thinking
• Strong technical and operational understanding
• Adaptable