Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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Role Description
- Consolidations expert responsible for importing, reconciling, mapping, and maintaining consolidation tool, as well as ensuring all statutory, regulatory and management reports are recorded accurately and within the required deadlines and formats prescribed by group finance and regulations. Automating all returns within the Discovery Life space to ensure that one correct source of information is used to compile and report information.
Key Outputs / Job Responsibilities
- Maintenance of consolidation tool for tax and IFRS reporting, which includes importing of most recent trial balances, investigating and resolving differences that may arise
- Adding manual journals into consolidation tool which do not form part of group reporting but are required for subsidiary reporting.
- Completion of all group finance requests on consolidation tool which includes Life KPIs, and various note disclosures.
- Liaise and manage relationships with internal departments, including Central Finance, Actuarial department, marketing and systems
- Identify, monitor and communicate key performance metrics on the tool
- Assist with conversion of all other regulatory and management reports on consolidation tool
- Automate any manual AFS preparation processes using formulas
- Prepare dashboards which management can use for quick review
- Preparation of actuarial schedules including consolidation balance sheet at account level, asset matching, expense classification into IFRS 17 categories as defined by the expense policy
- Maintenance and reconciliation of Magic Orange system which is an expense attribution tool
- Enhancing existing procedures & processes
Job / Role Requirements
Work Experience
Required
- Working experience post-articles
Preferred (would be advantageous)
- Experience with using the One-stream reporting tool. Experience with consolidation systems/reporting tools
- Having worked on group consolidations as an auditor or accountant in a financial services company
Education / Qualifications / Accreditations with Professional Body
Education / Qualifications Required
Technical Skills or Knowledge
Required
- Basic insurance accounting,
- Computer Literacy
- Excel
Preferred (would be advantageous)
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Key Purpose
To provide support to the business unit by:
- Acting as a Product Owner between business and the Systems/IT department by breaking down features into user stories and ensuring that user stories are clearly defined and well understood Clarity in communication is an essential component of this function.
- Lead requirement gathering and story mapping workshops with stakeholders.
- Manage, refine and prioritise the product backlog to enable effective planning with the Scrum team.
- Taking ownership of the development process on behalf of the Business by actively participating in all Agile events to help the team achieve its goals.
- Under limited supervision undertakes specialist feasibility analysis, evaluations or business projects.
- Gives feedback on deliver plans and assists with impact analysis.
- May research and prepare reports on related subjects.
- Can move easily to understand different business units.
- Business Analyst Team Leader.
- Collaborate and Plan prioritized deliverables with the manager for Project work and Business As Usual items.
- Quality Assurance of all Business Analysis done to ensure correctness and completeness.
Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to
Analysis
- Big picture and impact across users and systems.
- Understanding the current state and what needs to change.
- Not tunnel visioned.
- Solution orientated.
- High level and detail orientated.
- Challenging business (not being a scribe).
Quality
- Comebacks and rework: To minimize the number of comebacks or rework required by the Developers through clearly articulating and communicating business specifications, using multiple channels (workshops, email etc.) to facilitate understanding.
- Development Support: To provide support during the development phase by being available for questions or clarification, and providing feedback to Development teams as appropriate.
- Guidance and advice to the business: To provide sound guidance and advice on planned changes to business by striving to clearly understand business needs and making considered recommendations as appropriate.
- Prod defects post implementation reviews.
- Process Diagrams: Ensuring that business needs are clearly documented by mapping changes to existing processes diagrams or developing new processes as required.
Agile Methodology
- Design and validate the functional solution using Agile Methodology.
- This involves interpreting the product / functional requirements into Agile Epics and Stories.
- Plan Agile Sprints and Stories for the Sprint.
- Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered.
- Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the Agile Story Board by interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Development Manager, Architect, Snr BA).
- Validate the Agile Epics, Stories and Test Basket with the identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
Admin
- Jira (Consistently updated / visible)
- Confluence (addressing/ resolving comments / updating change management)
- Devshed – Weekly time capture
- In addition, be part of and provide input for:
- JAD sessions
- Agile framework
- Backlog grooming
- Daily stand-ups
Skills and Knowledge
- Analytical and Conceptual (Advanced).
- Communication (written and verbal) (Advanced).
- Project Management (Basic).
- Multi-tasking (Intermediate)
- Relationship Building (Advanced).
- UML (Advanced).
- Prototyping (Advanced).
- Test Management (Advanced).
- Agile Methodology (Intermediate).
- Systems (Intermediate).
- Development (Intermediate).
- Technology life cycle (Advanced).
- Business (Advanced).
- Analytical and Conceptual (Advanced).
- Communication (written and verbal) (Advanced).
- Project Management (Basic).
- Multi-tasking (Intermediate).
- Relationship Building (Advanced).
- UML (Advanced).
- Prototyping (Advanced).
- Test Management (Advanced).
- Agile Methodology (Intermediate).
Education and Experience
Education:
- Matric
- Degree / Diploma in IT(Essential).
- Business Analyst course (Essential).
Minimum Experience:
- 5 years Business Analyst experience (Essential).
- 1 year Insurance industry experience (Advantageous).
- 4 years UML experience (Essential).
- 4 years Screen Prototyping experience (Essential).
- 4 years Test and Defect Management Tools experience (Essential).
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Job Purpose
- The Java Developer generates technical designs and BRS into executable code without errors.
- The incumbent also translates business requirements into basic technical designs adhering to Discovery Bank Architecture standards.
Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to:
- Ensures that the application performs the functions as required by business.
- Ensures that the applications are maintainable and consider reuse, configurability, data footprints, processing speed, volumes and any other applicable non-functional requirements.
- Releases source code with zero defects.
- Leads and mentor’s junior developers during the code review process to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
- Provides technical support, resolves production queries, and conducts root cause analysis.
- Participates in Business Requirement Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
- Analyze business requirements and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst or Business User.
- Formulates technical solutions and review them with the development team.
- Produces Technical Design documents using the standard template and in accordance with Discovery Bank standards.
- Set up Technical Analysis JAD sessions with all stakeholders to ensure alignment with business requirements.
- Implements Technical Specifications within the systems framework.
- Produces source code by applying technical standards and referencing existing components.
- Participates in the process of reviewing code for consistent application of standards, logic, and effective use of libraries and reusable aspects of the application.
- Responds to incidents escalated by the Incidents team.
Education and Experience:
- BSc Computer Science/Information Systems degree or other relevant degree from a recognised tertiary institution
- Formal Java qualification
- At least 6 years’ experience in source code development.
- At least 4 years’ experience in backend Java development
- Experience working with event driven systems
- Experience working with large data volumes
- Experience working in transactional systems
Technical skills or knowledge:
- Knowledge of SDLC, Unit Testing, Database structures, Technical Change Control
- Technical Stack
- Java 8 / 11
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Spring Web MVC (REST)
- Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
- Spring JMS
- Spring Kafka
- MyBatis
- HANA (ANSI SQL)
- JSON / Jackson
- XML / JAXB
- JUnit /Mockito
- Swagger
- Docker
- Openshift
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Git / Bitbucket
- IBM MQ
- Linux / Windows
- Ability to do Business Writing, Software development within SDLC, Data modelling and UML Design abilities
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Job Description
- Outbound Call Centre: Booking of medical appointments for travelling Health Care Professionals (Nurses & Doctors).
Key Outputs / Job Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Timely scheduling of appointments with clients and nurses for completion of medicals to finalize underwriting process.
- Dealing with e-mail queries, and telephonic queries - Telephone calls, Maintaining SLA's.
- Liaise with Brokers/ Office Managers to ensure clients are reachable and seen for medicals to provide quality customer service.
Job / Role Requirements
Work Experience
Required
- At least 2 years client service experience in the Insurance Industry
- Prior experience in scheduling appointments with clients
Preferred (would be advantageous)
- Previous exposure to Discovery in house system e.g. SAM & Paradigm
Education / Qualifications / Accreditations with Professional Body
Required
Preferred (would be advantageous)
- Related tertiary qualification
Technical Skills or Knowledge
Required
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Excellent Interpersonal Skills
- Attentive to detail and quality
- Flexible, with an ability to work under pressure and adapt to change
- Resourceful
- Problem solving
- Results driven
- Communication skills
- Situationally adaptable
- Quality focus
Preferred (would be advantageous)
- Previous exposure to Discovery in-house systems e.g. SAM & Paradigm
Personal Attributes or Competency Profile
The Discovery Person
- Values Driven
- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Drives Results
- Problem Solver
The Discovery Leader
At Discovery, Leaders:
- are inspirational leaders who live the values and believes in the core purpose
- are humble
- treat others with care, dignity and respect
- ensure that the business case prevails
- have a bias for action
- understand that people are Discovery's greatest asset
- build an environment for optimal performance
- set ambitious goals and implement the highest standards
- are students and Master of Communication?
- never stop learning
- have and express strong beliefs and views, yet are open-minded and support the chosen path
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Key Purpose
- Increase the sales of the product range through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:
- Partner with Business Consultant to grow new business portfolio
- Support advisers with Flexicare and Healthy Company uploads - managing data and upload process end to end
- Empower and educate advisers on the new business process, online application, underwriting process
- New business implementation : Planning and execution in partnership with BC
- Support on on-site implementations and activations
- Conduct member, employer and adviser training throughout the year
- Relationship building at various levels within the intermediary business, including administration, lower and senior management
- Pipeline reporting and proactive pipeline management
Competencies
- Values Driven
- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Drives Results
- Problem Solver
Education and Experience
- Matric
- Experience with working with Broker Consultants.
- Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point)
- NQF 5/120 Credits
- RE5
- Sound medical scheme knowledge
- Previous CRM experience
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