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Key purpose of the role

• The Group Accountant will be responsible for the consolidation of monthly and annual financial reporting function in Discovery and all associated processes.

Areas of responsibility

• Assist with producing monthly consolidated management accounts, which include the Group Income statement, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity, Cash flow statement as well as the preparation of segmental information. This responsibility includes the review of foreign subsidiary translations and all consolidation entries to be processed to produce IFRS compliant results.
• Produce a consolidated view of the Group budget and forecast for presentation at Group Exco and Discovery Limited Board.
• Assist with preparing financial results for Discovery Limited Board meetings
• Produce the Interim Results and Annual Financial Statements (AFS) for Discovery Limited Group, as well as various other external reports
• Provide financial information to the Group Risk team to assist reporting of Solvency and Embedded Value
• Assist with ad hoc queries received from the External Reporting and Investor Relations team
• Liaising with internal and external auditors
• Assisting with the administration of the accounting system (Sage) and reporting tool (OneStream) for the Discovery Group as and when required.   
• Assist with ad hoc finance queries from business areas.
• Assist with preparation and review of SENS announcements relating to financial results.

Profile

• Advanced knowledge of IFRS standards
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Impeccable attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong project management skills
• Advanced Excel knowledge and experience

Qualifications

• The candidate should be a qualified CA (SA) with minimum 0-3  years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience in insurance industry advantageous.
• Consolidation experience advantageous.

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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 Principal Software Engineer 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.

 Key outputs:

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

• 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. 

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Ability to foresee problems and to code for these problems 
• Ability to take ownership and accountability
• Ability to work under pressure and to multi-task
• Ability to take the Lead on Technical Initiatives.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Drive and initiative to get things done
• Ability to deal with complexity and migrate between detail and high level requirements
• Team work
• Innovation and Creative

Education and Experience:

Education:

• Matric
• BSc (Information Systems)
• BCom (Information Systems)
• Professional Qualification Level 6
• Formal Java Qualification (BENEFICIAL)

Experience:

• Do you have 5+ years of experience in microservice and event-driven architecture  
• Do you have 2+ years of experience technical lead, and support technical team members
• Do you have 5+ years of experience in Java, Databases (MS SQL/Oracle/Postgres), DevOps and Agile .
• Do you have 5+ years of experience in Containers, Elastic, AWS, CICD, code quality (sonarqube) and cloud technologies
• Has held technical responsibility for the development, implementation and testing of at least one major application.
• Has a good knowledge of a wide area of IS concepts and practice, including the systems development life cycle, with a deep knowledge of at least one area of specialisation.
• Experience using the different development methodologies used by the organisation.
• is a member of professional bodies / institutions where applicable to their role and as agreed to with their manager;
• is recognised as an expert in their field e.g., speaks at internal conferences / forums; guest lectures at institutions; participates in recruitment drives;

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About the role

• The successful candidate will be responsible for completing audits inside Discovery and providing feedback on the outcome.  The successful candidate must have a drive, sense of urgency and work flexibility

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Perform audits in line with Audit Methodology.
• Assist in defining scope and approach of audits.
• Prepare Letters of Engagement, Audit Planning Memorandums (APM), CAATs Manual and address review notes where applicable.
• Request data from the client, document SQL queries, analyse data and document deficiencies identified after performing the required CAATs testing.
• Build relational data structures, including relationships between tables, grouping data, and following steps to perform analysis.
• Obtain data for internal audit assignments (by means of SQL and any other relevant sources).
• Analysis of data and identifying exceptions and trends by utilising available data analysis software.
• Save all SQL scripts used for any audit assignment.
• Prepare finalised working papers and evidence for all components of work, as per standards set in the Audit Methodology.
• Ensure that working papers are appropriate and include: Objective, Risk, Controls, Tests, Results, Conclusion and supporting documents.
• Communicate findings / control weaknesses identified with business prior to drafting observations.
• Prepare the draft report which includes criteria, detailed findings, root cause, potential consequences, recommendations and management actions.
• Complete action plans on file.
• Provide feedback to Audit Manager/ Audit Data Specialist regarding progress on activities.
• Advise Audit Manager / Audit Data Specialist immediately of any problems experienced on audit section.
• Assist management in compiling a continuous auditing audit plan.
• Conduct continuous auditing assignments.
• Assigned work is completed on time and within budget.
• Completion of time-sheets on a weekly basis.
• Request feedback from business management (client satisfaction survey).
• Escalate cases where feedback is not received.

Education and Experience

• B Degree or equivalent (and relevant) qualification (with Computer Science / Computer Auditing / Information Systems / Auditing / Data Science as majors)
• CISA / CISM / CRISC / CGIT (one or more of the afore mentioned are advisable)
• SQL / Alteryx (or data analytics equivalent) certification
• 3+ years data analytics experience

Internal Controls

• CAATS tools such as SQL, Alteryx.
• Extensive PL/SQL programming language.
• Technical knowledge and experience on Windows, Solaris, Linux, Oracle and networks

Personal Attributes

• Upholds ethics and values and demonstrates integrity
• Takes initiative and works under own direction with the ability to make quick, clear choices which may include tough choices or considered risks
• Shows respect for the views and contributions of others.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication skills. The candidate should speak fluently, have the ability to write in a well-structured and logical manner.
• Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions.