Current Jobs at Secondments

Job Advert Summary

• Undertaking client due diligence checks and determining the nature and level of due diligence required to comply with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act
• Liaising with Managers and various departments to ensure client identification is maintained up to date and changes in structure and beneficial ownership are properly documented.
• Validating KYC documentation.
• Using databases, external and internal, and conducting research as part of this due diligence.
• Identification and escalation of Politically Exposed Persons associated with medium and high-risk clients.
• Completion of enhanced due diligence searches for clients and principals associated with high-risk clients.

Assisting the Compliance Team in answering various ad hoc queries.

Minimum Requirements

• LLB Degree or equivalent
• 3 years' experience in AML
• AML certification highly advantageous
• Sound PC Skills required

Personal Attributes/Behaviors/Attitudes           

• Self-starter
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Strong administrative skills
• Highly analytical

Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertaking client due diligence checks and determining the nature and level of due diligence required to comply with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act
• Liaising with Managers and various departments to ensure client identification is maintained up to date and changes in structure and beneficial ownership are properly documented.
• Validating KYC documentation.
• Using databases, external and internal, and conducting research as part of this due diligence.
• Identification and escalation of Politically Exposed Persons associated with medium and high-risk clients.
• Completion of enhanced due diligence searches for clients and principals associated with high-risk clients.
• Assisting the Compliance Team in answering various ad hoc queries.

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Job Advert Summary

• To establish data operating models, architecture and platforms to deliver on the company’s data strategy.
• Highly skilled in the design, development, and validation of descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and applied analytics.
• IT Quality Assurance Processes
• Robust knowledge within Security Architecture
• Business Analysis

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or relevant discipline.
• Data Certifications highly advantageous.
• At least 6 years job-related experience, which should include at least 2 years’ experience in a management role.
• Experience of applying Data Platform and Engineering in a Life Insurance or financial services business context would be advantageous

Duties and Responsibilities
Governance: Advising on, monitoring, and governing enterprise data

• Develop, coordinate, and implement data strategies that support the business’s development plans and that capture new opportunities.
• Implementing data privacy policies and complying with data protection regulations.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements.
• Regulate how the business captures, maintains, presents and apply data and information at the company in order support business processes and measure performance.
• Manage the lifecycle of data and information to comply with the business’s requirements.
• Partners closely with business’s IT leadership responsible for data analytics, custodianship, and infrastructure ensuring alignment with the Data and Analytics department avoiding conflicting activities and availing the most efficient data analytics insights across the business.
• Acts as an authority within the Data and Analytics department, promoting the use of industry leading trends and new data management technologies.

Operations: Enabling data usability, availability, and efficiency

• Reduce costs and redundancies that result from duplication of data functions across the business.
• Establish the Data Platform & Engineering operating model and architecture to support both traditional reporting requirements as well as advanced analytics requirements to enhance business decisions, both operationally and strategically.
• Establish the service model and relevant service level agreements with business stakeholders invested in the data platforms.
• Availing an environment that makes data and information accessible to all departments and personnel across the business.
• Establishes the strategic direction for building the business’s data management program and optimising how the business uses data both internally and externally.
• Provide the data analytics infrastructure that support and achieves operational business requirements.
• Oversee cross-functional data governance while simultaneously ensuring adoption and adherence to data quality and process governance in the relevant collaborating departments.
• Innovation: Driving enterprise digital transformation innovation, cost reduction, and revenue generation
• Leverage opportunities to monetise data and insights.
• Establish and continuously improve agile ways of working in the delivery of platform related enhancements.
• Works towards enabling stellar business performance by utilising not only the data already available to the business, but also tapping into new and innovative sources of data.
• Oversees the strategic data priorities of the department and identifies new business opportunities based the existent data. 
• Analytics: Supporting analytics and reporting on products, customer, operations, and markets
• Define and drive all analytics and business intelligence initiatives in the Data and Analytics department.
• Defines appropriate analytical models necessary to support use cases such as customer segmentation, among others and leverages the power of predictive insights and analytics.
• Guide the Data and Analytics on which data to store, analyse, and exploit for the business’s benefit

People Management

• Manage planning of resource requirements, ensure sufficient capable resources are in place to meet service delivery demands, maintaining the effective and efficient capability of the department.
• Build a high performing team where the best people are deployed in the right roles and deliver against strategy.
• Ensure that all employees are motivated, developed.
• Manage employees’ performance and ensure that their individual and collective performance is of the required standard.
• Implement and maintain an effective system of internal controls and delegations of authority for the department, to ensure that accountability for decisions made.
• Inspires, aligns and engages employees around the vision and strategy of the Fund, maximising employee engagement and willingness to invest discretionary effort.

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Job Advert Summary

• Manage the Benefits Investigation and claims processing function, ensuring the provision of professional support services to the surviving dependants/beneficiaries (for informed allocation of benefits) to the correct beneficiaries in compliance with the Fund rules, Section 37C of the Pension Funds Act and related Acts. Ensure the timeous and accurate payment of benefits, manage issues associated with claims and benefit administration

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Law. Registered with professional bodies - where applicable
• At least 6 years job-related experiance. which should include at least 2 years' esxperience in a management role
• Knowledge of an African Language is an advantage
• Working knowledge of Pension Fund Rules
• Basic knowledge of Income Tax Act, Divorce Act, Pension Funds Act, Child Care Act, Marriage Act, Recognition of Customary Marriage Act, Mental Health Act
• Working knowledge of Benefit administration
• Knowledge of Law - Section 37 (C) allocation of death benefit lump sums
• Valid driver’s licence

Duties and Responsibilities
Manage internal departmental functions and processes

• Develop and implement plans for the section that support Pension Administration and the comapny’s objectives, ensuring optimisation of current business and workflow processes.
• all benefit processing activities in accordance with the benefits as defined in the rules of the Fund and applicable legislation.
• Unclaimed benefits and Evidence of Survival reviews, tracing and verification
• Fund valuation and all audits
• Provide interpretation advice on the application of the Rules of Fund.
• Ensure that audit controls are in place and audit requests are followed up.
• Participate on the defined Committees (Benefits Committee (BC), Medical Panel (MP), Management Benefits Committee (MBC)) and take decisions based on formal documentation.
• Implement controls and work plans, these may include allocating field trips, establishment of deadlines; control registers and implementation of databases for both ill health administration & social work case registers.
• Manage the administration system, checking that accurate record keeping and query management is adhered to.
• Manage the query and issues log for the department, monitoring turnaround times and responses to queries.
• Compile weekly/monthly statistical reports on the departmental activities and performance.
• Compile annual departmental statistical summary of departmental activities.

Project Management 

• Participate in the Fund’s overall projects as required with continuous focus on Business Processes, system enhancements, omni channel business insight, contributing expertise to enable project objectives to be met.
• Draft reports as part of the project deliverables.

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Job Advert Summary

• To effectively support the Group Company Secretary and Governance Officer with the strategic, tactical, and operational company secretarial function.
• Responsible for supporting the Group Company Secretary and Governance Officer with company secretarial duties for the company, including, but not limited to:
• Drafting agreements, policies, procedures, and other documents in support of Company Secretarial projects.
• Providing legal assistance and advice on various governance related issues with a focus on supporting business and managing risks.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant tertiary legal qualification (e.g. LLB).
• Admitted attorney or advocate.
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years Company Secretarial experience of a large Company and multiple entities in the group structure including Trusts and Subsidiaries).
• Experience in drafting minutes, resolutions, and legal documents.
• In-depth knowledge of all relevant statutes / regulations (e.g. the Companies Act, King IV, iXBRL, CIPC, JSE Listings Requirements, etc.).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the Group Company Secretary and Governance Officer with company secretarial duties for the company, including, but not limited to:
• Drafting agreements, policies, procedures, and other documents in support of Company Secretarial projects.
• Providing legal assistance and advice on various governance related issues with a focus on supporting business and managing risks.
• Ensuring that legal documents and other documents relating to governance matters are effectively drafted, reviewed, interpreted, and vetted.
• Assessing and advising to minimize and control risks to the Company Secretarial department and ensuring that the system controls and processes are appropriate and relevant.
• Assisting the business with Company Secretarial document management systems, including accountability for maintaining accurate data, developing relevant processes, monitoring the legal and regulatory requirements, and ensuring the proper administration of departmental/governance-related contracts.
• Providing independent guidance and support on, inter alia, the JSE Listings Requirements, the Companies Act and King IV.
• Assisting with the proper induction, orientation, ongoing training and education of Directors, Trustees, and executive management, including assessing the specific training needs and providing guidance in respect of their fiduciary duties and other governance and legal responsibilities.
• Managing legal agreements related to the procurement of governance tools and programmes.
• Applying legal skills in curating and providing legal advice and opinions.

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Job Advert Summary

• To be responsible for drafting and reviewing standard legal agreements, conducting legal research and legal related administrative tasks within the legal team.
• Perform accurate legal research and analysis.
• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations in legal documents.
• Compile, proofread and revise drafts of legal documents and reports.
• Daily record keeping with electronic and hard copy filing of documents.
• Obtain relevant information for Legal Advisors as and when required
• Create and organize information and generate reference tools for easy use by the office.
• Prepare and format legal and management reports.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB).
• Registered with professional bodies – (advantageous)
• Admitted Attorney or advocate (advantageous)
• At least 3 years job-related experience

Technical Requirements

• Pension Funds Act and other Laws, Regulations associated circulars issued by Financial Sector Conduct Authority
• Working knowledge of
• Retirement Fund Laws
• Income Tax Act
• Labour Relations Act
• Divorce Act
• Corporate Laws (advantageous)
• The ability to use standard software packages (eg Microsoft Office) and to learn bespoke packages if required.
• Report writing
• Contract drafting
• Legal record keeping
• Dispute resolution: Handling formal and informal complaints referred by Regulators and clients

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide legal and administrative support to Legal Advisors
• Perform accurate legal research and analysis.
• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations in legal documents.
• Compile, proofread and revise drafts of legal documents and reports.
• Daily record keeping with electronic and hard copy filing of documents.
• Obtain relevant information for Legal Advisors as and when required
• Create and organize information and generate reference tools for easy use by the office.
• Prepare and format legal and management reports.
• Maintain and update databases and tracking systems.
• Respond to all assigned queries.
• Ensure that summonses and other court related documents served on the company are dealt with in accordance with appropriate procedure.
• Investigate and compile reports outlining action plans related to summonses and court orders.
• Draft initial standard documentation for authorisation by Manager e.g acknowledgement of debt, rules and contracts.
• Maintain the legal records as required by law and make available when required by the authorized people
• Provide assistance in the administration of the company Rules by maintaining a library of documents related to rules and benefits and updating the rulebook as necessary
• Provide inputs in the compilation of annual audit report, at financial year-end within stipulated time frames

Ensure legislative compliance

• Assist in the management and delivery of internal company compliance requirements
• Assist in developing and implementing governance policies to ensure compliance with statutory and/or regulatory requirements
• Assist with the management of relationships with the internal and external stakeholders
• Assist in the management and processing of statutory and/or regulatory related obligations in respect of fund rules
• Assist to prepare, lodge and manage statutory or regulatory applications and exemption applications.
• Draft responses to Pension Funds Adjudicator and FSCA.