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Job Description

This role is accountable for the end to end internal and external reporting for subsidiaries of Old Mutual. It includes accounting transactions, reporting, tax calculations and submission.

Key Result Areas:

Financial Reporting

• Compiles and populates records to trial balance level.
• Prepares draft income statement and balance sheet.

Reconciliations

• Ensures accurate reconciliations are done and followed up.
• Reviews control accounts and reconciliations.

Specific to the role:

• Perform journals from bank statement movements and other sources
• Processes journal entries in relation to these entities, timeously and accurately.
• Performs calculations to determine financial transactions required
• Ensures that the financial records, including the trail balance is valid, accurate and complete.
• Performs inter-company reconciliations and confirmation of balances, and corrects mismatches timeously.
• Reconciliation of all Balance sheet accounts, including bank account, ensuring that reconciling items are constantly monitored and actioned, and that there are no long outstanding reconciling items.
• Follows up on long outstanding debt owed to and by the business unit
• Prepares documentation for payments on behalf of entities
• Prepares, and submits within agreed deadlines:
• HFM Submissions (Monthly, Half Yearly, Annually)
• Disclosure submissions
• Analytical Reviews
• Tax packs
• CFO sign off
• Assist with preparation of business plan and quarterly forecasts
• Produces Balance sheet reports
• Prepare VAT calculation
• Complete VAT and Tax submissions
• Assist with preparation of the annual financial statements and running of audits until completion
• Compile monthly management accounts including analytical commentary

Role Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• B.Com qualification or higher
• 3-5 years’ relevant finance experience
• Oracle and HFM knowledge is a distinct advantage

Technical Competencies

• Transactional Accounting
• Professional Accounting Standards
• Financial Reporting
• Business Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
• Financial and Variance Analysis
• Internal Control & Risk Management
• Taxation Statutory Returns

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This role will work closely with other technology, quantitative and risk teams as well as traders, portfolio managers, and stakeholders, to provide application support under the supervision of the technical lead. You will be required to gain a deep understanding of the vendor applications as well as support in-house applications used by our teams.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

Business support

• Learn the businesses and the investment, hedging and trading requirements to provide business support to all stakeholders
• Work directly with portfolio managers, traders, financial engineers, and risk analysts in supporting various ALM hedging and other investment strategies
• Provide front end support to front and middle office users and colleagues in other areas of the business and wider Old Mutual Group
• Provide support for Fixed Income, structured finance, FX, and other asset classes
• Administer and support trading platform functionality, setup new users, maintain user permissions and, regulatory rules and other financial risk limit configurations
• Onboard new and maintain existing brokers, trading counterparties, and trading activity in new global markets

Change Management

• Co-ordinate the analysis and testing of workflow and integration for new instruments and products with internal and external stakeholders
• Keeping a record of configuration changes and scheduling application updates.
• Management and coordination of regression, system, component, and User acceptance testing and, release and change management processes across environments to ensure continued and synchronized functionality.
• Performing analyses on the investment and risk application functionality and suggesting improvements.
• Consulting with the vendor development team, internal and external stakeholders to improve application performance.

Incident management

The role includes business support escalation in accordance to agreed service level agreements, including incident, change, problem management and incident analysis reporting:

• Ensure that client requests and incidents are handled correctly
• Identify root cause of issues and isolate the area where a defect exists. Provide guidance to development team to resolve the issue.
• Collaborate with other teams in technology on issue resolution and projects
• Establishing the root causes of application errors and escalate serious concerns to your TL.
• Maintain documentation on new issues, work arounds, and support processes

Integration and continuous improvement

• Identify integration opportunities and participate in integration projects that is designed to deliver solutions that provide a unified business experience
• Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for continuous improvements to processes, products.

General

• Develop industry, product and expertise through training, events, internal resources, and self-study (personal investment in lifelong learning)
• Able to support different time zones. This may mean an earlier start or an occasional meeting outside normal working hours. Flexible working hours.
• The role may evolve and require you to manage staff

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• B.Sc. Computer Science or B.Sc.(Hons) majoring in a quantitative field such as Risk Management, Mathematics, Computational Finance, Statistics or a related discipline.
• 4 -6 years’ experience with a Financial Institution in application support role.
• Programming skills would be advantageous.
• Practical experience with ITIL processes e.g., problem management, incident management, change control, etc.
• Experience with Investments systems, Investments Risk analysis systems and technologies.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplined Agile and DevOps environment.
• Experience with application systems including Windows, local client, VM, etc.
• Experience with cloud hosted solutions
• Familiar with programming and scripting languages e.g., C++, python, SQL
• Familiar with data warehouses and data lakes.
• Integration and automation techniques
• Configuration Management

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Your time is now to be your exceptional best at Old Mutual!

We are looking for self-motivated and dynamic individuals who have a passionate entrepreneurial spirit to join one of Africa's leading insurance companies.

The role at a glance is about championing our valued customers to achieve their lifetime goals by identifying their financial needs, providing sound financial advice, recommending and implementing "fit for purpose" financial plans and solutions.

• Responsible for the procurement of new business
• Expand sales of products and services with existing customers
• Work mainly on own leads

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Job Description

The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

The Senior API Developer leads the development of high-quality designs and solutions. This role requires participation in technical designs and the development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to create prototypes, develop user-centred software, and advise on technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following the DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Create and test software prototypes
• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DEVOPS culture
• Design and implement test strategy and/or test plans.
• Provide sizing and scoping for development work required
• Operate as a subject matter expert across program initiatives
• Responsible for the software development life cycle, taking the lead on software development projects
• Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
• Management of development tasks
• Facilitate code design and code reviews
• Ensure that software development tasks are well coordinated
• Apply knowledge relating to the Architecture of relevant systems
• Develop and improve the tools to enable software development
• Balance trade-offs between design and implementation
• Identify issues that will enhance system quality, development, and standard operating procedures
• Client engagement to drive new products/ features and to ensure operational excellence
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business analysts
• Drive technology design and implementation
• Enable rapid iteration
• Draft technical specifications
• Monitor application performance
• Operational support for product issues raised to the development team
• Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust, and secure

Experience & QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
• 5+ years of experience in API development

Knowledge and experience in technologies such as:

• Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
• Confluence, Jira
• Microsoft Teams, Slack
• IaC: Terraform/Cloudformation
• .Netcore/ Kotlin/Java
• Performance testing (Locust/Jmeter/Gatling etc.)
• Contract testing (e.g., Pact, Postman, Neman)
• Familiarity with Architecture and Design: Microservice, Serverless architectures, Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development Build cloud based functional APIs at an enterprise level
• Knowledge of coding design patterns

Competencies Required

• Customer focus
• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving
• Conflict management and resolution
• High EQ

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Job Description

If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.Who are We?

Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.

Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.

Why Join Old Mutual?

Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.

We will provide you with a holistic experience to realize and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:

In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalized development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior IOS Developer who will be responsible for developing applications for mobile devices powered by Apple’s iOS operating system. Ideally, someone who is proficient with one of the two programming languages for this platform: Objective-C or Swift. They must also have a strong understanding of the patterns and practices that revolve around the iOS platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain banking application for iOS
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Work within an Agile environment
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Working closely with other developers, business and systems analysts and QA testers
• Publishing application on App Store.

Requirements And Skills

• Proven experience as an app developer
• Proficient in Objective-C and swift
• Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines
• Proficient in code versioning tools like Git
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging
• Experience with continuous integration and tools like Jenkins

A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent, relevant Tertiary Qualification as well as a minimum of 8 years’ experience in Software Design and Programming.

You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:

• Swift
• Objective C
• Xcode
• Agile
• Git
• Cocoapods/Carthage
• Restful webservices
• Patterns

Skills

Education

Bachelors Degree (B): Information Technology (Required), High School (Grade 12) (Required)