Current Openings at Hollard Insurance

Job Advert Summary    

• Manage Opex reporting process, ensuring that all month-end journals are processed to correct GL accounts and cost center.
• Communicate Opex monthly results to cost center managers and attend to queries flowing from EVR discussion.
• Overall Opex management – budget and forecast management for support areas.
• Balance sheet management – managing the balance sheet process, ensuring all balance sheet accounts are reconciled, and reconciliation queries are followed up and cleared timeously.
• Provide effective Balance Sheet risk management to ensure that write-offs that result in financial losses are prevented.
• Collaborate with the broader finance community to set up Balance Sheet milestones and standard operating processes.
• Effective provision process ensuring that debtors' (receivables) loans are adequately provided for.
• Provide input in setting up BEE targets for BU and monitor BEE targets.

Key Responsibilities

Opex Portfolio

• Quality of financial accounting records as well as quality and timing of monthly results, ensuring that meaningful commentary is provided on month-end results.
• Manage allocation of operational expenses from cost centers to profit centers.
• Maintain opex allocation basis.
• Own and maintain opex allocation basis.
• Provide strategic support to exco members in managing operational expenses, ensuring that cost savings initiatives are identified and planned savings are achieved.
• Tracking delivery of committed cost savings per cost center.
• Report on acquisition and renewal unit cost per policy.
• Maintain fixed asset register and provide feedback on the asset that needs to be capitalized or retired.
• Manage forecast and budget process for support areas, ensuring that Budget and forecast are completed within the agreed timelines. Communicate results of Opex expenses with cost center owners.
• Maintain Delegation of Authority (DOA) and update all changes that occurred to ensure that payments are made on time.
• Manage inter-departmental expense recoveries and Opex allocation process and obtain approval from receiving and transferring cost center managers.
• Follow up on EVR queries and resolve them before the end of the new reporting month.
• Support cost center owners with invoice allocations.
• Manage and track asset license usage between departments.
• PO verification, ensuring that POs are created in the correct cost centers and GL code.
• Own IFRS17 opex allocation model and coordinate delivery with actuarial team.
• Maintain IFRS17 driver tables in TM1.

Balance Sheet Management

• Monitor and enforce adequate controls on Balance Sheet accounts for Life Solutions and communicate outcomes of Balance Sheet review to heads of finance departments.
• Establish Balance Sheet standard operating processes and consistently apply balance sheet controls across different finance teams.
• Alignment of balance sheet accounts across performance cells, ensuring consistent use of GL balance sheet accounts.
• Ensure consistent and effective provision for non-recoverable receivables is implemented promptly and that timely follow-up is done on outstanding recoverable.

Reporting

• Produce accurate, timing, insightful consolidated reporting to Group and Life Solutions Exco – Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow reporting
• Compile CAM Report
• Credit committee pack consolidation
• Own compilation of performance dashboard

Coordination

• Central point for management of GIA findings/interaction.
• Central point for management of External audit process and remediation of findings.
• Central point for management of RACMs/IFC.
• Ownership of accounting policies held withing the BU and liaison with Group-on-Group policies.

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• Advanced financial reporting writing.
• Experience in building relations with senior management and driving change management.
• PC literate (Advanced MS Office, Great Plains & Power BI, an advantage).
• Technical Insurance accounting, financial and management accounting.
• Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls including budgeting, understanding of Line of business systems and their integration into the accounting system.
• Financial and management accounting (IFRS 17)
• Knowledge of regulatory and related insurance industry general information
• Knowledge of systems and controls, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis

Educational Requirements    

• CA qualification and minimum of three years leadership experience within Insurance.

Deadline:27th August,2025

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Job Purpose:

• To develop new and maintain existing relationships with Hollard partners.  This needs to be in compliance with legal requirements and that of relevant Manco meetings.
•  To implement of strategic initiatives that will enhance the Hollard brand and business proposition. This is achieved through understanding the insurance business and aligning offerings that drive customer satisfaction and revenue.

 This role is also responsible for:

• Managing relationship together with business focus
• Product design that is fit for purpose
• Preparing and presenting business proposals for approval
• Monitoring and evaluations of effectiveness of newly implemented initiatives
• Responsible for the overall financial, operational and service delivery
• Continuous evaluation of the satisfaction index of the partnership
• Participation in business planning process
• Critical to this role is relationship building skills and an ability to deal with a variety of complexities across partnerships. 

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• 5 – 8 years of key account management experience, of which 3 managing at a professional or senior level
• 5 – 8 years’ experience and knowledge of the financial services industry incl. market and competitor landscape
• Business and financial acumen
• Problem structing and problem solving
• Client centric approach
• In-depth understanding of the client needs and business requirements
• Understanding of different distribution models
• Technical competencies in insurance business
• Working knowledge of compliance and regulatory issues
• High level of interpersonal skills
• Business and relationship skills / experience to maintain and grow the client portfolio
• Skills / experience to manage revenue budgets and expenses and realisation of profits
• Exceptional communication skills
• Strategic thinking
• Result-driven with ability to establish credibility among varied audiences
• Managing complexity
• Stress management / resilience

Educational Requirements    

• Bachelor Degree
• RE Exams highly advantageous

Deadline:26th August,2025

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Job Purpose

• To design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade insurance applications using the Sapiens IDIT platform. The role focuses on implementing business logic, integrating systems, and supporting digital transformation initiatives within the short-term insurance domain. The developer will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development

• Develop and maintain Java-based applications using the Sapiens IDIT platform.
• Implement business logic for insurance modules such as policy administration, claims processing, billing, and customer management.
• Customize IDIT metadata and configuration to align with client-specific insurance workflows.

System Integration

• Build and consume RESTful and SOAP web services to integrate with third-party systems (e.g., payment gateways, CRM, underwriting engines).
• Ensure seamless data exchange between IDIT and external platforms like document management systems or regulatory databases.

Requirement Analysis & Solution Design

• Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to understand insurance domain requirements.
• Translate functional requirements into technical specifications and design documents.
• Participate in solution architecture discussions to ensure scalability, performance, and compliance.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Write unit tests, integration tests, and regression tests using JUnit or TestNG.
• Work closely with QA teams to support automated testing and defect resolution.
• Conduct peer code reviews to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.

Platform Configuration & Customization

• Configure IDIT components such as workflows, rules engines, and UI layouts.
• Extend IDIT functionality using Java plugins and custom modules.
• Optimize metadata-driven configurations for performance and maintainability.

Performance Tuning & Optimization

• Monitor application performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Optimize database queries, caching strategies, and service calls.
• Implement logging and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure applications adhere to data protection regulations (e.g., POPIA in South Africa).
• Implement authentication, authorization, and encryption mechanisms.
• Support audit and compliance reporting features within the platform.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

• Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Work in cross-functional Agile teams including developers, testers, analysts, and DevOps.
• Contribute to continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Maintain technical documentation including design specs, user guides, and deployment instructions.
• Share knowledge with team members through code walkthroughs and internal workshops.
• Stay updated with IDIT platform enhancements and Java ecosystem trends.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Experience

• 3–5 years in Java development; 1+ years on Sapiens IDIT or similar insurance platforms
• At least 2 years of experience in Java Enterprise Edition programming – Must
• Development of a complex information system, using Java Enterprise Edition.
• End to end implementation of customer projects, including UI, SQL data model and business logic implementation
• Development of interfaces with external systems (web services, other technologies)

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of short-term insurance products and lifecycle
• Development using a complex data and domain models, using large-scale DB tables – Must
• EJB, SQL, Hibernate – Must
• Agile/Scrum, SDLC, CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical design and development tasks – Must
• Analytical thinking, communication, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement
• Experience with application server: WebLogic / WebSphere / JBoss – Advantage
• Experience working with Oracle, DB2, MSSQL (all or one of them) – Advantage
• Team player with excellent communication skills
• Exposure to Azure or cloud-based deployments is a plus

Educational Requirements    

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Deadline:31st December,2025

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Job Purpose

• The Reinsurance Treaty Accountant will support both the Treaty Placement and Reinsurance Finance teams.

Key Responsibility: Treaty Technical Accounts

• Preparation of quarterly treaty technical accounts;
• Profit commissions & Sliding Scale calculations
• Excess of loss adjustment premium
• Updating of stats
• Balance sheet recons
• Inwards reinsurance

Key Responsibility: Cross-functional collaboration

• Collaborate internally with COE’s, Branches, Finance, Corporate Actuarial and HINT, to ensure accurate and timeous provision of treaty information.

Key Responsibility: Stakeholder engagement

• Support engagement efforts with external stakeholders, including Reinsurers, Reinsurance Brokers;

General Responsibilities:

• When required, perform any other duties necessary for the operational effectiveness of the Product Management team that is within your ability and scope.
• Support for Project Athena

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Experience

• Minimum of 10 years short term technical treaty accounting experience;
• Minimum of 5 years short term Financial accounting experience

Knowledge:

Reinsurance Technical Accounting: Advanced understanding of :

• Technical Accounts for both proportional and non-proportional treaty reinsurance
• Standard Treaty contract terms and conditions

Skills :

• Communication: Clear verbal and written communication
• Detail Orientated: Ability and willingness to interpret and apply treaty reinsurance technical accounting standards.
• Knowledge Sharing : Ability and willingness to share knowledge

Competencies Required:

• Detailed understanding of short term reinsurance
• Willingness to Learn
• Adaptability and Openness to Feedback
• Team Collaboration
• Customer Focus
• Results Orientation
• Problem Solving and Solution Driven
• Adapting and responding to change
• Time Management and deadline driven
• General Business acumen

Educational Requirements    
Required Qualifications

• Matric/Senior Certificate
• Undergraduate qualification in Business, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred but not required)

Deadline:27th August,2025