Current Openings at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• Our Software Engineers play a critical role in Vitality’s successful business model by building and maintaining software solutions, in line with quality and time parameters, to enable operation as a fully integrated composite business, offering brilliant products with seamless, intuitive customer journeys.
• The System Analyst leads and plans development across large or multiple teams, providing expertise in many technical areas or specialisms with very deep knowledge in a particular technical area. They are fully competent in two specialisms and are working towards competency in a third specialism. This role is required to influence both internally and externally with 3rd parties based on Vitality   standards and governance.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Implement the software development life cycle: build, maintain, test, deliver, release and document user-friendly and customer centric software solutions, as required.
• leads on and solves large, complicated problems and ensures route cause analysis and recommendations are made.
• fully comprehends appropriate architectural patterns and designs that address the scope of the business problems and coaches these to others.
• takes ownership of releases and ensures their success. takes accountability for the successful technical operation of the systems they own.
• contributes to enterprise architectural decision making by way of being a subject matter expert in the scope of a core application technology or technical specialism. is familiar with both architectural and design patterns. employs design principles into their deliveries.
• knowledgeable and engaged with current technology design updates. actively participates and enforces peer reviews, providing insightful observations and guidance, addressing design, supportability or practical problems in a clear and respectful manner. 
• produces documentation that exemplifies the quality requirements to all other engineers takes the lead on developing process and standards improvements.
• Deliver to standards: Understand, adhere to and apply Vitality’s defined technical and process standards to ensure the effective management of risks and the protection of Vitality’s data.
• Recognised as the subject matter expert on adherence to standards and champions a modern engineering standard approach at Vitality.
• Encourage and reinforce the correct application of standards and leading by example. 
• Provide input into the development of new standards and documentation improvements plus develop and/or write inhouse standards as well as standards for third party tools.
• Actively keep up to date with industry standards and ensure in-house standards are aligned with industry standards.
• Review and sign off on new standards to ensure they are in line with the Vitality way of working and current leading practice.
• Provide integrated solutions: ensure solutions are user-focused, strategically aligned and effectively integrated across multiple teams and platforms to ensure the business needs are met.
• Coordinate build activities across systems and undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Responsible for assuring that software changes and/or enhancements are in line with the overall architecture and ensure that low level designs or integrated solutions meet the definition of “ready”.
• Work within and across teams to ensure seamless integration and get actively involved in complex trouble shooting if/when things go wrong.
• Contribute to design, taking into account information security and performance, to ensure that integration works, influencing planning and the management team to understand the impact on the delivery process.
• Engage stakeholders: Collaborate, work with and develop an understanding of the needs and requirements of both internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Working with senior management, internal stakeholders and 3rd parties to understand the business requirements and technology design, discuss and agree product launch requirements and ensure integration across multiple journeys.
• Brief and make presentations to senior IT management, participate in and advise strategic and business planning processes.
• Define future requirements and identify opportunities for future optimisation. 
• Identify and surface issues and solutions.
• Build and transfer skills and knowledge: Take responsibility for developing personal skills and expertise aligned to role.
• Identifies critical areas of future learning and development required by software engineers to remain current, and oversee the organisation of relevant training for software engineers.
• Coaches and mentors senior software engineers;
• Presents and participates in internal development sessions (lunch & learn / developer forum / case studies / learning circles) as requested by senior software engineers;
• Reviews available external programmes and makes recommendation;
• Puts Vitality forward for industry awards relating to knowledge and skills;                
   
• Collaborate within and across teams: Work effectively together with others across varying areas of expertise to achieve the required results. 

Education and Experience

Education

• Matric
• A Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Sciences/ Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification

Experience and knowledge

• 5 years’ systems development experience in Java, Java EE 
• An excellent understanding of Enterprise Data architectures 
• Strong technical skills in Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate), AWS microservices, Oracle, Mongo & PostGres.
• Strong Microservices experience is required including Design.
• A solid understanding of event driven architecture 
• IntelliJ Eclipse IDE 
• JUnit with unit and integration tests 
• JIRA, Confluence, Git with BitBucket Code versioning 
• Splunk, Dynatrace, Kibana experience 
• SOAP, XML, XSLT, Web Services experience 
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience 
• JSP, html, Struts experience 
• EJB 3, & EJB 2 experience
• EAP 7 Server

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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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Key Purpose

• Our Commissions department is looking for a great person to join their team as a service consultant to service broker houses and franchises with all related billing and commissions’ queries.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Answering inbound calls timeously
• Dealing with predominantly telephonic and occasionally email queries
• Assisting franchises/brokers with Health, Life and Group Life and Vitality queries
• Submitting of reports to brokers
• Review and recommend improvements to existing processes
• Implement and maintain internal controls to ensure best practice
• Perform any other related functions requested by management
• NB: The role is not limited to the key outputs mentioned above

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Perform a variety of administrative responsibilities
• Ability to multi-task and attention to detail is vital
• Ensure that delegated tasks are performed within proper time frames
• Prioritise workload and address any immediate issues as and when they arise
• Effective communication at all levels within the organisation (written and telephonic)
• Client centric servicing and positive problem solving approach
• Excellent time management
• Deadline conscious and able to work under immense pressure
• Work independently, but open to team work when necessary
• Takes responsibility for actions and projects
• Upholds ethics, values and demonstrates integrity
• Adapts to changing circumstances, new ideas and change initiatives

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Matric Certificate
• 1 year Call centre experience within a financial service industry

Advantageous:

• 1 year Call centre experience dealing with brokers
• 1 year experience with Discovery Life products
• Post-graduate degree or equivalent