Active Jobs at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• This role will report to the Business Manager.
• Your primary focus will be building a supporting portfolio of brokers to increase new business. The Broker Consultant is the interface between the brokers and Sanlam and strives to achieve the business objectives in a dynamic, innovative and high-performance environment.
• As a Broker Consultant, you will play a third party marketing role to promote Sanlam products to Brokers, with a primary focus of building a portfolio of supporting brokers, by forming trusting and co-operative relationships that enhance new business opportunities whilst supporting and up-skilling Brokers with the relevant information, tools and technologies that will enable them in their practice. 

Output/Core Tasks:

Your success will come from:

• Building a supporting portfolio of brokers
• Promoting and marketing the company products
• Building strong relationships with brokers
• Providing efficient service
• Meeting and exceeding your targets
• Supporting brokers in their practices and assist them to grow their businesses.

What’s in it for you?

• Unique remuneration structure that will see you well rewarded for your success
• Get to manage your own income
• Work with visionaries in the industry who value entrepreneurship and creativity
• Represent one of the top well-respected South African companies
• Be invested in and grow your talents

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience: 

• Completed Business/Commerce/Marketing degree
• Preferably Post graduate diploma in Financial Planning/RFP3/Wealth Management 3
• Goal and target motivated
• Sales and marketing orientation
• Natural relationship-builder
• At least three years Broker Consultant experience and currently in a Broker Consultant role

Knowledge and Skills:

To be successful you will need to demonstrate good experience in:

• Ability to build a portfolio of brokers
• The financial services industry, specifically in life insurance
• Marketing principles and sales skills in order to meet your targets
• Experience in third-party marketing
• Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge
• Willingness to travel
• Must have a valid driver’s licence and reliable motor vehicle

Personal Qualities: 

• Cultivates innovation
• Client centricity
• Results driven
• Collaboration
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Decision quality
• Action orientated
• Plans and aligns
• Business insights
• Treating customers fairly

The closing date for applications is 22 January 2026.

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Position Overview

• A Software Engineer II that can take responsibility for new features and solve problems in any part of the code. They typically have 5 years or more of software engineering experience.
• They may lead a feature implementation but will need help with strategy and require guidance from mentors and peers. They should work with Design and Product Management to improve features across the product and troubleshoot any bugs.

What will you do?

Expectations:

• Take ownership of new features and deliver them from concept to production.
• Work independently and create solutions without constant direction.
• Effectively collaborate with the team to bring out the best in others.
• Focus on operational and code excellence during code reviews and feature development.
• Improve the team's development, testing and operational practices.
• Begin to work with Product Management and Design teams to understand business context.
• Participate actively in on-call rotations and handle incidents effectively.
• Identify and address small pieces of technical debt within their work scope.
• Demonstrate growing influence beyond individual tasks to impact the broader team

Qualification and Experience

• Relevant Degree or Diploma in BSc in Computer Science and IT
• 5 years of experience in Software Engineering 
• Programming Languages & Coding
• Despite our language agnostic approach, proficiency in languages used in full-stack / back-end Software Development (Python, Java, C++ etc for example) is required
• Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code
• Ability to articulate language differences, implementation and the build & execution process: For example strongly vsweakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted
• Data Structures, Algorithms & Algorithmic Problem Solving
• Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution in the shortest possible time. This includes situations in which a data structure would be applicable, and why
• Ability to suggests possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity. This includes the ability to discuss options and trade-offs; also in instances where scope increases and solutions have to adapt.

Engineering & Operational Excellence

• Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility
• Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions
• Experience working on projects involving the design and implementation of scalable systems
• Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS, etc) is preferred yet not a prerequisite. All experience with relevant Cloud-based technologies are beneficial in this role.
• Understanding of / experience in monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance
• Experience with / understanding of load balancing and health checking
• Experience with / understanding of APIs, auth
• Experience with / understanding of databases and persistence
• Experience with / understanding of scalable architecture for systems implementation.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Gain a solid understanding of design principles and how to apply them.
• Develop the ability to lead small projects or components with minimal supervision.
• Enhance problem-solving skills and technical knowledge across the codebase.
• Contribute to improving team practices and processes.
• Show skill in coaching junior engineers and providing constructive feedback.
• Start scaling through others by guiding other team members and delivering through them.
• Deepen understanding of business objectives and how technical work supports them.

Knowledge and Skills

• IT Data Analysis
• IT product enhancements
• Software design and deployments
• Platform management and integration
• Business Requirements

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What will you do?

• Expense reporting which includes consolidation of expenses, Corporate expense reporting.
• Review & analysis of expense reports (e.g. IT costs, Functional costs) submitted to Group.
• VNB & PVP reporting, preparing of VNB report and loading numbers on HFM for Group submissions.  
• Assisting and supporting Senior Financial Manager with Profit reporting for SLS, which includes but is not limited to monthly, quarterly, interim, and year-end reporting as well as bi-weekly rolling forecasts delivery to Group Finance.
• Budget & Forecast reporting with a specific focus on VNB, PVP & expense reporting.  Preparing SLS consolidated reports for VNB, PVP & expenses.
• Loading of Actual, Budget and forecast profits & PVP & VNB info on HFM.  
• Assisting with preparation and review of SLS Management & SLS Budget reports e.g. CFO reports, Budget presentations & Budget reports.
• Quarterly Economic shock submissions to Group Actuarial.
• Interim & year end – Preparation of reports to External audit on Fixed Assets 
• Submission of Fixed Assets, Expense notes and any other assigned notes info to HFM (i.e. PPE note, etc) for including in reporting to the market.
• Process review & process automation opportunities.

Qualification and Experience

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Post articles experience in a financial reporting environment.

Knowledge and Skills

• Good technical accounting knowledge.
• Knowledge of Sanlam’s financial reporting systems (Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) & SAP) will be an advantage. 
• Understanding of IFRS17 profits and value of new business (VNB).
• Computer literate (MS Office with advanced Excel skills in practice)
• Planning and organisational skills: Organises and schedules events, activities and resources
• Good interpersonal skills:  Building and maintaining relationships.  Interacts with others in a sensitive and effective way. Respects and works well with others.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills in English.

Personal Attributes

• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Quality orientated:  Shows awareness of goals and standards. Follows through to ensure that quality and productivity standards are met.
• Deadline driven.
• Strategic orientated:  Demonstrates a broad-based view of issues, events and activities and a perception of their long-term impact or wider implications.
• Stress Tolerance – deliver well under pressure.
• Able to perform independently and as part of a team.
• Problem-solving and analytical Thinking:  Makes systematic and rational judgements based on relevant information.
• Adaptive thinking:  Application of principles to variety of circumstances
• Flexible:  Successfully adapts to changing demands and conditions
• Persuasive:  Influences, convinces or impresses others in a way that results in acceptance and agreement.