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  • Posted: Jan 10, 2025
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    Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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    Business Consultant

    Key Purpose

    • Increase the sales of the product range through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • All work must be done accurately, comprehensively and in-line with set quality standards and timelines.
    • Increased Discovery Health product sales through building relationships, superior client service and technical expertise
    • Create strategic business partnerships with multiple intermediary stakeholders.
    • Relationship building with internal and external stakeholders.
    • Project management of new business process, from end to end.
    • Intermediary reporting and trend analysis.
    • Consistently deliver Discovery Health value proposition.
    • Escalated query resolution and troubleshooting
    • Increase the sales of the product range through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge.
    • Review new business pipeline, follow-up, and tracking.
    • Issuing of quotations
    • Technical training and ongoing product support to financial advisors.
    • Keeping up to date with competitor product and service offering and industry developments
    • Participating in proactive sales and marketing initiatives

    Personal Attributes and Skills

    • Logical, analytical problem-solving ability.
    • Excellent interpersonal skills.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    • Ability to work independently.
    • Ability to take accountability, responsibility, and ownership.
    • Able to take initiative and exercise sound judgment and decision making.
    • Ability to work in a highly pressurized, target oriented environment.
    • Ability to deal positively with change and uncertainty.
    • Strong business acumen.
    • Strong sales and persuasive skills.
    • Strong quality orientation.
    • Good organizational skills.
    • Proactive, self-motivated.
    • Able to identify, nurture and develop talent.
    • Customer oriented.
    • Ability to meet deadlines timeously

    Education and Experience
    Qualifications

    • 3-5 years medical scheme industry experience (required)
    • Business degree (advantageous)
    • RE5 (preferable)
    • NQF5 in Wealth Management of Financial Planning / 120 FAIS credits (preferable)
    • Knowledge of MS Office Suite
    • Sales experience (advantageous)
    • Knowledge of MS Office Suite
    • Business degree (advantageous)
    • Relevant financial services industry experience is advantageous.

    Experience

    • Relevant financial services industry experience is advantageous.
    • Sound health industry experience
    • Adviser consulting experience in the financial services industry
    • An understanding of financial planning

    Requirements

    • Valid drivers licence and insured and reliable car
    • Smart-phone
    • Willingness to travel

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    Accountant

    Job Purpose

    • The accountant will support the external reporting and head office accounting functions for the Discovery Group. The role reports directly to the Head of External Reporting.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Responsibility, oversight and management of the external reporting process in accordance with governance policies, procedures and relevant reporting and regulatory requirements (e. g. King, JSE LR, etc.).
    • Assist in the preparation and approval of group annual financial statements, results booklet, and other required templates.
    • Assist in the preparation and approval of subsidiary annual financial statements template
    • Give input in the preparation of statutory (interim and year-end) reporting timelines and instructions
    • Preparation of group annual and interim financial statements, results booklets, additional analyst information, advertisements and related SENS announcements, including typesetting where applicable
    • Review of results presentations and other elements of the reporting suite
    • Ensure consistency and accuracy across all externally presented information / reports
    • Ensure compliance of external reports to Discovery Corporate Identity and related guidelines
    • Facilitate the CIPC / XBRL process for the Group
    • Preparation/review of JSE Debt/Equity Listing checklists
    • Preparation of all accounting & reporting requirements for Discovery Ltd and Share Trusts
    • Preparation and distribution of all group calculations to support business
    • Preparation of Discovery Limited (separate) annual financial statements
    • Support the CFO, Office of the CEO, Investor Relations and other key stakeholders
    • Ad hoc analysis and reporting as required
    • Work collaboratively with the Discovery Group Finance team and business finance teams

    Education and Experience

    • CA (SA)
    • Professional registration with SAICA
    • 2-3 Years work experience

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    Business Development Manager

    Key Purpose

    • To increase the sales of the Discovery Health product range through strategic consulting, business partnership and relationship management, superior client service and technical expertise.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Strategic consulting to large, national intermediaries, guiding Health new business growth
    • Drive and implement strategic new business initiatives with intermediaries and employers 
    • Relationship management at Board, Executive and Senior Management level
    • Manage national intermediary relationships, offering guidance and mentoring to BCs within the team to drive a national strategy
    • Project manage complex, new business implementations from end to end.
    • Project plan and participate in proactive sales and marketing initiatives
    • Leverage off health relationships to trigger integration opportunities across the Discovery product suite
    • In depth strategic reporting
    • Industry, competitor and product expert
    • Technical support with competitor crosswalks, industry analyses, technical product detail
    • Relationship management with internal stakeholders and representation of Corporate Distribution in various forums
    • Escalated, complex query resolution
    • Keep abreast of competitor products, service offerings and industry developments

    Competencies

    • Strategic thinker & solution orientated
    • Logical, analytical problem-solving ability.
    • Excellent interpersonal skills.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    • Ability to work independently.
    • Ability to take accountability, responsibility, and ownership.
    • Able to take initiative and exercise sound judgment and decision making.
    • Ability to work in a highly pressurised, target oriented environment.
    • Ability to deal positively with change and uncertainty.
    • Strong business acumen.
    • Strong sales and persuasive skills.
    • Strong quality orientation.
    • Good organisational skills.
    • Proactive, self-motivated.
    • Customer oriented.

    Education and Experience

    • 3-5 years medical scheme industry experience (required)
    • Business degree (advantageous)
    • RE5 (preferable)
    • NQF5 in Wealth Management of Financial Planning / 120 FAIS credits (preferable)
    • Knowledge of MS Office Suite
    • Sales experience (advantageous)
    • Knowledge of MS Office suite

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    Administrator

    Key Purpose

    • The position is responsible for the day-to-day administration and managing a small team within Umbrella Fund Operations, within the Retirement Funds business unit. This is a core administration function and the incumbent would be required to holistically manage and control a portfolio of different Retirement Fund disciplines, for example monthly contribution, claim, investment option, individual transfer in, section 14, section 28 processes. The incumbent must ensure that processes and procedures are implemented, maintained and improved. The incumbent needs to ensure operational activity is conducted within regulatory frameworks, accurately, effectively and efficiently. The incumbent must ensure that he/she has the knowledge, skills, tools and competencies required to perform the required job within service level agreements. The incumbent must have an appetite to be part of a growing new business unit, continuous improvement, able to adapt to change easily and play a role in change management within the team, challenge the status quo, inspire and motivate others. The incumbent will continually review existing processes and procedures in order to ensure the delivery of committed services to the Umbrella Funds Clients.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Processing of all daily and monthly transactional activity within agree service levels.
    • Performing QA function for document verification where necessary.
    • Ensure that day to day administration is accurate, compliant and abreast with regulatory frameworks such as, Pension Funds Act, Tax Act, Rules of the Discovery Life Umbrella Pension and Provident Funds, Participating employer special rules.
    • Ensures delivery of key operational attributes such as data completeness and data quality.
    • Dealing with queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
    • Prepare management and client report for submission to superiors.
    • Dealing with escalated calls or queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
    • Develop and maintain excellent business relations with internal and external brokers.
    • Assistance to the Team Manager to ensure effective managing of projects.
    • The incumbent is the Subject Matter Expert in Retirement Fund areas under management. Produces new ideas, approaches or insights. Produces range of solutions to problems and do root cause analysis. Effective decision-making by “out of the box” thinking and weighing up risks involved.

    Personal Attributes

    • Leading and Supervising
    • Planning & Organizing skills
    • Working with People - Communication
    • Persuading and Influencing
    • Adhering to Principles and Values – Self management
    • Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
    • Coping with Pressure and Setbacks
    • Relating and Networking
    • Team work and analytical skills
    • Communication
    • Problem solving
    • Initiative and enterprise
    • Learning
    • Technology

    Education and Experience

    • Matric-essential and further studies are advantageous.
    • Telephone etiquette, detail orientated and self-driven.  Customer centric focus to be evident.
    • MS Office- Advanced Excel skills, Accounting, operational processes and process mapping. Employee Benefits including Group Risk claim operations.
    • Knowledgeable on Compass; Paradigm (internal)
    • 3 – 5 years claims experience in the long-term insurance industry.  Pension and Provident Fund experience is advantageous

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