Executive Associate (Insurance) at Capitec Bank

• We are looking for an exceptional, high-potential professional who wants a front-row seat to executive leadership and the opportunity to accelerate into a future senior management role.
• As Executive Associate to the Executive: Insurance, you will operate as a trusted advisor, strategic partner, and extension of the Executive's office. You will work across the Insurance business to drive key strategic initiatives, solve complex business challenges, influence stakeholders, and ensure the successful execution of critical priorities.
• This role is ideally suited to a highly ambitious individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, learns quickly, challenges the status quo, and consistently delivers exceptional results.

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner closely with the Executive: Insurance to support the development and execution of divisional strategy.
• Drive strategic initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Conduct research, analysis, and problem-solving to support executive decision-making.
• Build relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple business areas.
• Coordinate and align cross-functional projects and priorities.
• Support business planning, budgeting, and performance management processes.
• Identify opportunities for operational improvements and drive implementation.
• Develop executive presentations, reports, business cases, and discussion papers.
• Act as a trusted advisor and representative of the Executive when engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Help strengthen integration and alignment across Insurance and the broader organisation.

What We're Looking For

• 5–8 years of professional experience.
• Broad knowledge of the respective functional area.
• Exposure to insurance, financial services, consulting, strategy, business operations, project management, business analysis, or leadership environments.
• Proven experience leading or coordinating initiatives across multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Experience identifying and implementing business improvements, efficiencies, or innovative solutions.
• Insurance industry experience would be advantageous but is not a prerequisite. Commercial acumen and learning agility are more important.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• A relevant qualification

Key Performance Areas
Business Unit / Divisional strategic support

• Conduct internal and external research to inform the strategy.Draft papers and facilitate discussions based on research to influence and inform the strategy.
• Provide clarity of the strategy and line of sight focus for senior management through communication and business plan support to ensure the collective strategy is translated into single, aligned departmental plans. 

Business planning, integration and optimisation

• Responsible for the integration of the strategy and related initiatives and projects across the Insurance Division.
• Coordinate and manage the business planning and budgeting review cycle, conferences and leadership sessions, communicating with and aligning the senior team to the strategy.  
• Apply an integrated and strategic lens to identify areas of efficiency and design, and work with relevant stakeholders to implement solutions and achieve optimisation.
• Collaborate with the respective Finance Business Partner in support of budgeting.
• Coordinate reporting requirements for and on behalf of the Executive.

Business Unit / Divisional senior team alignment

• Be the conduit, first point of call and address issues on behalf of the Executive.
• Support the teams to plan and successfully deliver their business plans.
• Support senior management in respect of strategic focus/levers.
• Ensure that projects or initiatives that span across functions are aligned.

Executive support

• Focus on and responsible for executing on priority issues as specified by the Executive. Attend executive-level meetings and ensure appropriate action is taken on findings.
• Develop Executive presentations and related artefacts (reporting, data management, documentation, etc.) as required