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• Hello…an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our HINT, Risk & Compliance  area. We are looking to recruit a It Risk Specialist.
• The IT Risk Specialist as a second line of defence role will be responsible for assisting HINT subsidiary teams with maturing the internal control environment through the embedding of adequately designed and effectively operating IT controls. Key focus areas will include IT Governance risk assessments, IT general controls, continuous monitoring and related controls self-assessments.
• The  IT Risk Specialist will execute specialised IT risk assessments in line with best practice frameworks COSO, COBIT, SANs 18 and DMBOK and apply a risk-based prioritisation approach in implementing IT Risk Management plans across all Hollard International operations. Risk support to HINT country operational business unit functions will comprise evaluating operating effectiveness assessments for IT governance, ITGC’s and IT security to enable the achievement of a satisfactory control IT control environment.

Operational / Technical:

• IT risk assessments in accordance with the approved HINT ERM framework.
• Arrange and attend risk assessment kick-off and close-out meetings.
• Develop a sound understanding of business processes, risks and controls including relevant regulatory and accounting issues.
• Assesses the design adequacy and effectiveness of the control environment and identify control gaps and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Perform strategic digital reviews across information technology areas such as, data governance, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Identify process, information and control gaps and seek additional information if necessary.
• Document detailed working papers.
• Document findings and discussion with client in terms of factual correctness – asks for support where necessary.
• Review own working papers for quality and completeness before sending to the Head of Risk and Compliance for review.
• Ensure all review queries are cleared within a reasonable timeframe (expectation 48 hours).
• Focus on problem solving/high risk areas during the audit.
• Communicate any delays or difficulties experienced for corrective action.
• Track risk assessment process status for allocated areas of responsibility and effectively communicate any anticipated challenges, delays, etc.
• Communicates knowledge gained throughout the audit engagement and/or otherwise with the team members.
• Conduct the review of review of controls self-assessments performed by operational teams.
• Present training on ITGC to HINT operational business unit teams.
• Assisting HINT subsidiaries and Risk officers with IT Governance risk assessments including Data Governance.
• Developing Information Technology General Controls (ITGC’s) control self-assessments for the HINT subsidiaries.
• Supporting HINT subsidiaries with the enablement of Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) through validation and clearing of exceptions and data quality validations.
• Periodic testing of for segregation of duties, user access management, and change management.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Effectively build and maintain rapport and maintain business relationships with process owners and stakeholders.
• Professional and effective communication.

Reporting:

• Ensure that information generated is accurate, valid and comprehensive prior to review and/or reporting
• Draft and discuss own findings for inclusion in risk reports.
• Take responsibility to clear and finalise all own reported findings/reporting points.
• Assisting HINT subsidiaries with all Risk Management system related queries and reporting.
• Maintaining IT Risk reporting dashboards provision of periodic reports.

Financial:

• Manage time in line with the allocated budget and communicate any potential delays or overruns to management.

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• At least 4 years IT audit experience (not limited to IT general control reviews).
• Demonstrate an understanding of risk management, auditing standards and procedures
• Experience in managing stakeholders and completing the full audit lifecycle (planning, fieldwork and reporting).

Knowledge

• Risk based audit methodology.
• Knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, COSO and related frameworks.
• Computer infrastructure, networks, basic security and IT controls
• Advanced understanding business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Intermediate understanding of IT, data and privacy related legislation/regulation.
• Basic business and financial understanding.
• Basic insurance knowledge (an advantage).

Skills

• Effective written and verbal communication skills (business acumen).
• Ability to effectively influence across all relevant levels within the business unit, including senior and middle business management.
• High attention to detail.
• Excellent time management.
• Good report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to identify strategic issues through critical reasoning.
• Ability to effectively plan and set priorities for self and engagement team.
• Ability to take a holistic view of the organisation in evaluating risks.
• Good conflict management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Customer focused with strong interpersonal skills

Educational Requirements    

• Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Internal Auditing, or related field
• Professional qualification relevant to IT auditing
• One or more of the following certifications:
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) / Professional Internal Auditor (PIA).

Technical Competencies:

• Microsoft Office (advanced).
• General IT Controls (advanced).
• IT governance (advanced).
• IT Architecture (basic).
• IT security (intermediate).
• Computer networks (basic).
• Infrastructure and architecture (basic).
• Database structures (basic).
• Programming/scripting (basic).
• Risk management (intermediate).

Deadline:30th January,2026

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Job Purpose 

• The ST Head of Actuarial Function is responsible for expressing an opinion to the Board on specified short-term actuarial matters within Hollard, as well as providing advice to the Board on actuarial issues. The role will cover The Hollard Insurance Company (THIC) and Hollard Specialist Insurance Limited (HSI) licenses.  

Key Responsibilities 

The ST HAF role will continuously evolve to keep pace with the changing business environment and actuarial needs. At a minimum, the responsibilities will include: 

Expressing an opinion to the board of directors on the reliability and adequacy of the calculations of Hollard’s technical provisions (on the prudential supervisory reporting basis and IFRS published reporting basis), and minimum and solvency capital requirements, including on: 

• The appropriateness of the methodologies and underlying models used, and assumptions made. 
• The sufficiency and quality of the data used in actuarial calculations. 
• Best estimate and associated assumptions against experience when evaluating technical provisions (i.e. review experience investigations and it’s feed into  assumption setting). 
• The accuracy of the calculations.
• The appropriateness of and impact of assumed future management actions and the effect of risk mitigation instruments.
• The appropriateness of approximations or judgements used in the calculations due to insufficient data of appropriate quality. 

Expressing an opinion to the board of directors on the appropriateness of the asset-liability management policy, the underwriting policy and reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer policy; as well as the adequacy of reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer arrangements.

Evaluating and providing advice to the board of directors, senior management and other control functions on:

• Where Hollard uses the standardised formula to assess its risks, why that regulatory capital model is an accurate reflection of the insurer’s own risk profile.
• The development and use of internal models for internal actuarial or financial projections, or for own solvency projections as in the Own Risk and Solvency (ORSA).
• Hollard’s Investment policy.
• The financial soundness position, including the impact of any proposed dividend declaration or payment.
• The actuarial-related matters in the ORSA.
• The internal controls relevant to actuarial matters.
• The actuarial soundness of the terms and conditions of insurance contracts (new products as well as reprices or amendments to existing products). 
• Review and sign-off on the Prudential Authority regulatory quantitative and qualitative returns.
• Assist with applications to the Prudential Authority to change license conditions.
• Provide an opinion on the liquidity shortfall indicator (LIQ) within the regulatory quantitative returns.
• Attending any board meetings, board committees’ meetings or other meetings where required.
• Attending meetings/on-site visits and presenting to the Prudential Authority when necessary.
• Deriving appropriate stresses and scenarios with management input for the budget process and the ORSA.
• Other services of an actuarial nature including capital allocation, financial modelling, asset strategies and risk management, as required.
• Champion TCF from actuarial second line perspective
• Review and challenge the robustness of the non-life reinsurance structure/ programme and reinsurance optimization as part of the reinsurance adequacy review or as part of annual reinsurance renewals.
• Participate in industry forums and drive insights and thinking as part of actuarial society committees and working groups.
• Monitor the actuarial control cycle.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Experience

• 10 years of experience in First Line Actuarial / HAF roles.
• More than 10 years’ experience in a South African Short-term Insurer / Financial Services Industry.

Knowledge:

• In-depth understanding of GOI and any other Prudential Authority standards / requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of South African Short-term Insurance industry.
• Understanding and application of the Insurance related regulatory requirements.

Skills:

• Excellent facilitation, communication including presentation skills.
• Ability to focus on value adding initiatives and pragmatic approaches to actuarial related matters.
• Ability to rapidly adapt ways of working to changing stakeholder and business needs.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Strong conflict management skills.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Business acumen and pragmatism.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and drive Hollard values.
• Ability to drive a partnership capability across the 3 lines of defence.

Educational Requirements    
Required Qualifications

• Fellowship of the Actuarial Society (FASSA).
• Practising HAF Certificate 

Deadline:30th January,2026

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Job Purpose

• Strategy Consultant is a member of the Strategy Function which is organised as a shared capability to support the entire Hollard Group and partnership businesses. 

The Strategy Function is responsible for: 

• providing the Group with market intelligence, strategic insights and corporate performance measures 
• facilitating and aligning strategy formulation and execution across the Group
• incubating new business opportunities
• This role will report to the Group Head of Strategy, who reports to the Group Executive: Strategy and Synergies.  

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Key roles/responsibilities

• Use research and analytical skills to deliver strategic insights as part of the Market Intelligence hub of the group
• Support the establishment and cascading of Group Goals
• Support the Group businesses and enablement functions on their strategy formulation, taking into account our Beacons as well as Pan-African and global considerations
• Drive execution of key strategic initiatives, providing executive updates to the appropriate forums where necessary
• Support incubation of new business

Required Experience

• Experience in the insurance industry highly advantageous
• Pan-African exposure preferable

Required skills/capabilities/competencies/knowledge

• Strategic/logical thinking
• Business/Financial analytic ability
• Market research skills
• Excellent communication skills (including Facilitation/Presentation)
• Visualisation of concepts
• Pan-African view, Mid-Long term view
• Resilience, Agility, Innovative

Educational Requirements    

• University graduate (post graduate) with commercial or similar Honours degree
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the finance industry, strategy, consulting, or corporate development is essential

Deadline:28th February,2026

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Job Purpose

• The Senior AI Engineer designs, builds, deploys, and maintains advanced AI and machine learning systems that enable secure, scalable, and production-grade AI solutions across the Hollard Group. This role acts as a senior technical authority, contributing to enterprise AI engineering, platform enablement, MLOps, agentic AI, and AI security.

Key Responsibilities

AI Solution Engineering

• Design, implement, and optimise end-to-end AI/ML solutions (data prep, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring).
• Build reusable components such as pipelines, APIs, micro-models, and AI modules.
• Lead development of scalable ML workflows using MLOps toolchains.
• Ensure secure, observable, and robust deployment patterns aligned to enterprise standards.

AI Agents & Agentic Systems

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain AI agents using Microsoft AI Agent Services, Azure OpenAI, and enterprise-aligned tooling.
• Engineer advanced agentic capabilities including:
• Planning and autonomous task execution
• Short-term and long-term memory architectures
• Tool invocation and extensible toolchains 
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and hybrid retrieval patterns
• Event-driven and reactive execution flows
• Build, maintain, and extend MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and MCP tools.
• Orchestrate multi-agent and multi-tool interactions for complex enterprise workflows.
• Ensure all agents are production-grade, secure, observable, and compliant with Hollard’s governance and AI risk frameworks.

Architecture, Platform & Policy Alignment

• Ensure strict adherence to Hollard’s IT Development, Security, and Architecture Policies.
• Contribute to evolution of the enterprise AI platform and reference architectures.
• Implement standards for observability, testing, versioning, governance, and secure deployment.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise cloud, data, and integration architectures.

API Exposure & Integration Layer

• Expose AI capabilities and agent functions through RESTful APIs.
• Design versioned API interfaces using OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Integrate with enterprise systems via APIs, events, microservices, and messaging patterns.
• Event streams and event-driven patterns
• Messaging architectures (queues, topics, service buses)
• Microservices and integration-layer patterns
• Work closely with architects to ensure alignment with enterprise integration standards.

User Interaction & UI Enablement

• Build or contribute to lightweight front-end applications enabling interaction with AI agents.
• Develop chat-based, form-based, or task-oriented UI experiences using approved web technologies.
• Work with design teams to ensure intuitive, accessible user experiences for AI-driven capabilities.

Responsible, Secure & Compliant AI

• Apply Responsible AI principles throughout the ML lifecycle.
• Conduct robustness, fairness, explainability, and model security assessments.
• Ensure compliance with POPIA, FSCA, PA Standards, DAMA, and AI governance requirements.

Value Delivery & ROI Focus

• Translate business needs into scalable, value-driven AI engineering solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and cost-
• Support measurement of business impact delivered by AI systems.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor and guide mid-level and junior engineers.
• Lead technical design discussions and establish engineering best practices.

Represent AI Engineering across squads and cross-functional initiatives.
Required Knowledge and Experience    

• Required Experience (relevant or in a similar role)
• 6–8 years in software engineering, ML engineering, or AI system development.
• Proven delivery of AI/ML systems into production.
• Strong exposure to cloud-based AI tooling, MLOps frameworks, and AI security.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Core Engineering Skills

• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, complementing Python-based AI/ML development.
• Deep understanding of agent architecture patterns, including:
• Tool invocation frameworks
• Prompt engineering and orchestration
• RAG design and vector-based memory retrieval
• Multi-agent coordination and workflow orchestration
• Memory persistence, vector stores, and contextual state management

AI/ML & MLOps Competencies

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Azure (Azure ML, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Azure Storage, Azure DevOps).
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML/AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).
• Strong knowledge of MLOps (CI/CD, feature stores, orchestration, drift monitoring).
• Experience with APIs, microservices, containerisation, and cloud-native engineering.
• Advanced AI security capabilities: secure model handling, threat modelling, monitoring.

Leadership Competencies

• Technical excellence and architectural thinking
• Cross-team collaboration and influence
• Mentorship & capability building
• Engineering discipline, quality focus, delivery accountability
• Ethical judgement and responsible decision-making

Educational Requirements    

• Minimum: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, AI, or related field.
• Postgraduate studies in AI/ML or software engineering preferred.

Deadline:26th January,2026

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Job Purpose

• To lead the strategic direction and execution of all mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships for the company. This individual will play a critical role in identifying, evaluating, and executing strategic transactions that align with the company's growth objectives and enhance shareholder value.
• To lead our private equity division, overseeing all aspects of investment activities, and driving strategic initiatives to maximize returns for all stakeholders through working closely with the executive teams to formulate investment strategies, identify potential investment opportunities, and manage the portfolio companies.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and execute the overall M&A and Private Equity investment strategy aligned with the Group’s objectives.
• Provide exceptional leadership to the M&A and private equity team, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation and collaboration.

Portfolio Management:

• Provide strategic oversight and management of the Group's portfolio of private equity investments, monitoring performance and identifying opportunities for value creation.
• Manage the conflicting interests of stakeholders. (Hollard and Investee Company)
• Work closely with portfolio company management teams to provide guidance and support in executing growth strategies and operational improvements.
• Accept appointment as the Hollard director or representative for that equity stake and assume the inherent personal liability risk in each directorship role.
• Mandated to execute decisions at board level.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Experience

• Minimum 10 years post-article experience at a management level in Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking or Private Equity.
• 10 years Financial Services experience with 5 in Insurance sector
• Proven track record of successfully leading and executing mergers, acquisitions, and strategic transactions from deal sourcing to integration.
• Experience in strategic planning and governance processes

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Exceptional Negotiation skills
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive collaboration
• Results and achievement oriented
• Assertive
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Strong Networking ability
• Business and commercial acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Knowledge and understanding of mechanics of Private Equity and M&A

Educational Requirements    

• Relevant postgraduate financial qualification
• CA(SA), FASA or equivalent NQF level 8 or higher qualification
• CFA and related qualifications will also be considered

Deadlinne:30th January,2026