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Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries.
Job Description
This role is responsible for managing one or more projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost, within the OMSA project governance framework. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through the efforts or others, for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
Senior Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is managing the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices. Senior Scrum Master manages the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme. Manages the daily activities of the project, mentors the team and track and monitor the progress of the project.
Skills
Education
Job Description
This is a Senior Development role including design of specifications, coding, implementation, testing, data conversion and documentation and system enhancements. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.
Drives out business requirements
Extract, validate and analyse data to answer strategic and operational questions.
Skills
Education
Job Description
Provides expert remuneration and benefits consultation and delivery services to line managers and HC partners across the OMIG business. Provides input on Total Reward Philosophy & strategy for OMIG so as to align with the Business and Talent Strategy. Supports the delivery & execution of all Reward and Benefits processes for the OMIG business, including management of TGP, Variable pay and Long-term Incentives. Manages all aspects of gathering external market data and appropriately benchmarking OMIG roles, including identifying, developing and maintaining relationships with relevant internal and external parties. Ensures alignment of OMIG Remuneration practice to OML group remuneration governance.
This role analyses Remuneration Data and makes recommendations taking the impact on other practices into account (attraction, recruitment, retention, reward, development, performance management)
Supports the delivery of Remuneration and Benefits processes through own efforts over periods of up to 1 year
Manages the planning, preparation, communication and execution of annual review cycle
Manages the ongoing appropriate benchmarking of all jobs and across all levels according to market benchmarks and the asset management industry best practice
Manages the annual variable pay cycle, including preparation of line management and appropriate planning, communication and execution.
Ensures appropriate stakeholder management (line managers, finance managers, HC partners) and co-ordination of delivery to meet tight deadlines of remuneration cycles
Analyses data external data coming from agencies regarding external offers
Analyses relevant data formulates views and opinions and makes remuneration recommendations taking practice impacts into account
Ensures accurate and up to date record management of employee remuneration linked to OMIG specific schemes, and lock-ins
Perform ad-hoc survey input and analysis as required for OMIG business units
Consults with HR Business Partners on all aspects of standard reward and benefit policies and processes
Does total reward market benchmarking for new and existing roles before advertising vacancies
Does appropriate comparisons (internal/external equity) of external candidates in preparation for appropriate total pay (TGP, VP, Lock-ins) before making external hire offers
Conducts job evaluations of new and existing roles to ensure consistency and appropriateness of job levels across the business
Participates in adhoc projects related to restructures, and benchmarking of roles impacted by restructures
Develops metrics and reports on elements of Reward and Benefits expenditure in the business
Gives input into HR policy development to ensure alignment with national legislative requirements, business and local needs and, where appropriate, seek standardisation across business streams
Monitors policy and procedure compliance and conducts research in order to analyse/ predict market trends and makes recommendations based on findings
Provides data and drafts remuneration reports including inputs to Remcom papers for submission to the Head of HC and the MD and the OMIG Remcom board
Engages with the OM Investments Head of Reward, and OML Remuneration Centre of Excellence as required to ensure that OMIG is updated on changing Remuneration practice
Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required
Bachelor of Commerce or similar degree; post graduate preferable
Global Remuneration Professional Certificate SA Reward Association with World at Work very advantageous
8 to 10 years’ experience as a remuneration consultant with experience managing variable pay and complex incentive schemes, preferably within an investment business
Highly numerate; strong excel skills
Strong communication and writing skills
Essential Behavioural Criteria
Interpreting Data Interprets data rationally by quantifying issues; applies technology as a means to evaluating data; evaluates information objectively
Embracing Change Copes with change and variety; tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity; adapts to new challenges
Providing Insights Is focused on continuously improving things; provides insights by identifying key issues; makes intuitive judgments
Taking Action Takes action to make things happen; uses initiative to start things up; shows drive and invests personal energy
Generating Ideas Is creative in producing ideas; assumes an original approach when generating ideas; adopts radical solutions
Examining Information Analyses and processes information; asks probing questions; strives to find solutions to problems
Adopting Practical Approaches Applies practical skills when investigating issues; prefers to learn by doing; is practically minded and applies common sense
Articulating Information Is articulate in giving presentations; is eloquent and explains things well; projects social confidence when articulating information
Skills
Communication, Microsoft Excel, Numerical
Education
Bachelor Commerce (Required)
Closing Date
16 September 2021
Job Description
This role provides executive secretarial and administrative support to Director of Large Enterprises and the Business Manager, and ensure organizational effectiveness
Administration and support
Secretarial duties
Management of diary
Ensure smooth operation of “office logistics”
Provides support in relation to arranging events (meetings, conferences etc) and all related tasks
Collating of information and reports
Admin duties related to strategic partnerships (contracting, onboarding, payment of invoices etc)
Accountable for completing tasks of a personal nature
Maintaining confidentiality of all information
Personal effectiveness
High level of ownership and independence
Accountable for delivery through own efforts
Collaborate effectively with other to achieve personal results
Accepts and lives the company values
Relationship building
Maintains professional internal and external relationships at management level
Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners
High level of contact with customers and stakeholders
Skills
Attention to Detail, Communication Skills, Office Administration, Plannning, Time Management
Education
Closing Date
10 September 2021
Job Description
The role has overall responsibility for the delivery of audits within the Asset Management portfolios and certain Life portfolios across Old Mutual Limited (OML).
The role is responsible for the management of the audit teams (including people/service provider management) and delivery of the audit plan, including annual audit planning, updating the audit universe, execution of audits and preparation of audit reports. This role will support the Audit Lead/s for the Life & Investments portfolio in executing on audits and managing stakeholder relationships.
Delivery of Services
Contribute to the development of the portfolio/s audit plan
Responsible for the update and maintenance of the audit universe and identification of emerging risks;
Execute and deliver the audit plan and management requests timeously;
Contribute towards and provide updates on the Combined Assurance Plans for the relevant portfolios;
Ensure audits are conducted as per the GIA Methodology and that the quality and performance standards are maintained at all times;
Timely delivery of impactful audit reports with well thought out management actions and due dates;
Facilitate the agreement of audit findings and ratings with the relevant stakeholders;
Analyse root causes of issues identified and make recommendations to management to improve the control environment accordingly as necessary;
Facilitate the integrated audit approach where necessary, such as use of IT and DAS; and
Timely execution of the issues assurance plan per portfolio and within quality standards.
Customer
Develop and maintain effective relationships with auditees;
Ensure open communication with other audit teams, especially for integrated audits; and
Support the Audit Lead/s in managing stakeholder engagement and relationships across the relevant portfolio/s.
Operations
Support the Audit Lead/s in managing functional resource planning and integration, including the use of specialist consultants;
Support the Audit Lead/s to manage the portfolio/s GIA stats process and monthly reporting process by engaging line 1 and line 2; and
Comply with IIA Code of Ethics and GIA Policies and Procedures.
People
Support the Audit Lead to manage the audit team, including specialist resources.
Experience
Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience in auditing and / or risk management (ERM)
Good background in the financial services / insurance industry and investments, preferably in blue chip/global companies
Detailed understanding of the investment management environment – front, middle and back office
Good knowledge of asset management capabilities – fixed income, unit trusts, equities, alternatives, multi-asset, property, DFM etc.
Knowledge of retail and institutional business within life and investments
Knowledge of SA life and pensions products and industry
Knowledge of the regulatory environment for life and asset management
Good understanding of the cell captive business in the insurance industry
Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in managing multiple teams and assignments
Experience of client relationship management at senior levels
Skills
Education
Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)(Foreign Qualification)
Closing Date
16 September 2021
Job Description
Aspires to be a Financial Advisor
Champions our valued customers to achieve their life time goals by identifying their financial needs, providing sound financial advice, recommending and implementing “fit for purpose” financial plans and solutions. Generates leads through networking and relationship building, resulting in ongoing customer interaction and relationship management.
Skills
Education
Closing Date
Job Description
NEW WORLD SAVINGS & ANNUITIES PRODUCT OWNER : AFRICA ACTUARIAL SERVICES
We are an African Insurance Giant
Be a part of our business that is growing its footprint across Africa as well as expanding our actuarial presence in Johannesburg. Old Mutual is an insurance giant in Africa, with life insurance entities currently established in Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda. Our expanding emerging market footprint includes operations not only in the rest of Africa, but also in Latin America and Asia and represents a vast network of opportunity for innovative, creative and motivated individuals to benefit from while they gather unmatched professional experience on the way to becoming a leader in our business.
Why the Africa Actuarial Services Team?
In this role, you will work as part of a team tasked with providing actuarial services to the life entities in the Rest of Africa, consolidating and explaining the life financial results for Old Mutual Africa in all aspects of reporting: monthly management reporting, forecasting, business planning, quarterly IFRS and MCEV reporting as well as capital reporting to regulators.
The team works closely with the Old Mutual Africa Executive team, OMEM central reporting team and in-country Finance Directors and actuarial teams in producing results that drive decision making to help accomplish the Old Mutual Emerging Markets (OMEM) growth strategy. In addition, the team has strong working relationships with the Statutory and Country Actuaries of the various countries.
We are a vibrant, diverse team, thriving on new ideas and high performance while making a meaningful impact on our customers in Africa. Our team will continue to grow in numbers, playing a key role in further building Old Mutual’s actuarial base in Johannesburg. Our team also continues to provide great opportunities for innovative, creative and motivated individuals to benefit and learn from while they gather unmatched professional experience and exposure to a variety of different countries and cultures on the way to becoming a leader in our business.
Key Results Area
Financial Reporting:
Ensure that valuation results (IFRS4 profits and Embedded Value) are produced accurately, within agreed deadlines and with appropriate supporting commentary.
Ownership of the custom-built Prophet models, plus other models, for calculation of liabilities, embedded value and capital in various African countries.
Capital management
Ensure that capital calculations (Statutory, Internal, SAM and Economic Capital) are produced accurately and on time.
IFRS 17 project:
Support the team’s production of dry-run and transition results for the upcoming IFRS 17 implementation.
General
Ensure that all actuarial processes are performed as efficiently as possible, finding and delivering continuous process improvement and standardisation opportunities as well as ensuring processes are performed with appropriate controls.
Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
Actuarial graduate with a minimum of 7 exam credits
At least one-year actuarial experience
Motivated self-starter
Takes initiative
Ability to interact effectively with people at all levels of the organisation
Ability to complete tasks within agreed timelines with minimal guidance
Strong technical skills (especially with valuations experience in Prophet)
Attention to detail
Excellent people skills
Ability to work in a team
High levels of drive, energy, and innovation who are willing to learn and grow
Please note that the appointment may be made at a lower/higher role size depending on the successful candidates’ experience and exam progress.
Skills
Education
Closing Date
Job Description
This role is responsible for managing the innovation process inside the organization that identifies strategies, business opportunities and new technologies and then develops new capabilities and architectures with partners, new business models and new industry structures to serve those opportunities
Set the overall strategic direction, objectives and vision for Innovation at the Edge including key ecosystem and partnership priorities. Ensures continuous alignment with Old Mutual Group Strategy and Policies
Oversees all funding decisions and supervises Innovation at the Edge investor relations
Oversees resource requirements, risks and regulatory reporting, as well as issues and dependencies of Innovation at the Edge where relevant
Attends relevant forums to review overall performance of Innovation at the Edge against success metrics. Responsible for chairing final investment case decisions for scaling MVPs
Manage Innovation at the Edge, overseeing the roadmap for delivering new propositions
Present outputs from Innovation at the Edge to Old Mutual ExCo including key lessons learned, success stories and failures to drive organisational buy-in
Review the overall budget and investment decisions
Key Outputs:
Defined Innovation at the Edge strategy, aligned to Old Mutual group strategy
Delivery against performance measures defined and agreed with the Group CEO
Successful roadmap delivery and oversight
Key outputs, successes and failures shared with Old Mutual ExCo
Ensures budget approval
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)
An MBA or Masters degree in strategy, leadership, business, or management.
8-12 years' experience in IT, technology, business, marketing, or finance-related fields.
8-10 years' experience in a senior leadership role.
Adaptive thinking and a strong, critical mindset.
Strong business acumen and presentation skills.
Highly proficient at project planning, budgeting, and oversight.
Forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic situations.
A solid understanding of innovation and how it should be applied in business.
Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills.
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Strategic
Identifies, understands and acts on broader opportunities in order to drive longer-term value-adding change. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities to set, develop and drive out value adding change. Is able to understand, identify and act on broader opportunities in order to drive longer-term, value-adding change. Applies judgement effectively. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities to set, develop and drive out strategic value adding change.
Leading with Influence
Influences and rallies people behind common goals and inspires others to exceed expectations. Actively supports the growth and performance of people around them. Communicates clear strategies and objectives for own function.
Collaboration (Relating)
Proactively establishes and maintains relationships. Values driven in relating to others. Engenders trust, respect and the building of meaningful relationships across a variety of contexts. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges including conflict and confrontation to collaborate across boundaries.
Customer First
Puts the customer at the heart of business decisions and drives to improve value for customers. Builds inspiring customer relationships. Being a customer champion and being responsive to customer needs so as to improve our speed to market.
Execution
Displays consistent energy, drive and perseverance in order to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.
Innovation (Perspective)
Demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Generates creative/out-of-the-box solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Generates new perspectives that allow a more creative approach to be followed. Willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.
Personal Mastery (Learning)
Learns and actively works to build self-awareness; develop through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments which carry a risk of failure. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements, or cultures.
Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to identify, discover and launch new customer propositions, products or services
Well connected in the ventures industry, and/or the geographic reach
Experience in capital rounds, and legal constructs
Experience succeeding and failing to scale startups / ideas
Experience brokering partnerships within the ecosystem
Experience in building / running similar capabilities within a corporate
Depth and breadth of network relationships in the startup ecosystems and industries alike
Skills
Education
MBA (Required)
Closing Date
9 September 2021
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