Job Openings at Old Mutual

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 realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised 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:
Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Tester. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team

In This Role, You will Get To:

• Design test cases and perform testing of applications

• Identify, document and track bugs

• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved

• Understanding of UI and backend testing

• Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems

• Work within an Agile environment

IT Service Delivery

• Completes Test Strategy and have a high level understanding of all projects.

• Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.

• Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.

• Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.

Reporting

• Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.

• Monitors progress and provide regular project reports to Test Manager.

Risk Management

• Identifies impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.

• Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.

Team Effectiveness

• Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.

• Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.

• Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements

Technical Consultation

• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review.

• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required to projects being undertaken by other business units.

What You Will Need To Succeed:

• A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role with a minimum of 2 years experience in Automation Testing.

• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous

• ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.

• Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.

Experience and skills are required in the following:

• Java coding

• TestNG

• Selenium

• Maven

• Jenkins

• Extent Reports

• Report Portal

• Postman

• PractiTest

• Locust Performance Tool

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Virtual Machines

• Jira

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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 realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised 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:
An opportunity exists within the Credit Risk team for a Junior Model Developer. The role is responsible for the development, analysis and monitoring of originations strategy. This includes profitability analysis and portfolio segmentation.

In this role, you will get to

• Monitor existing originations strategy with the intention of finding opportunities to improve portfolio profitability, by:

  • Refining the use of scorecards and policy rules in the origination decision

  • Refining pricing and limit allocation to optimize volume and profitability trade offs

  • Identifying subsegments within the portfolio that may not perform in line with expectations and recommend an appropriate treatment

• Apply sound statistical methods to forecast portfolio growth and performance at a cohort level

• Produce monthly, weekly and daily reports to track portfolio movements and the impact of any strategic changes

What you will need to succeed (knowledge, skills and experience):

• Degree with Stats/Math/Applied Maths/Financial Risk Management/Data Science/Engineering or related disciplines

• R, SQL or Python proficiency is beneficial

There are a few questions that we would like you to complete as part of your application. Please click on the link below to access the questions, the duration of this survey is less than 5 minutes: https://forms.office.com/r/GA55xV4j6k

The time is now to find your greatness by becoming part of a company where potential is revealed and growth is inevitable.

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Job Description

At Old Mutual Multi-Managers we are looking for a person who is passionate about data. Data is the cornerstone of our investment business with complexity arising through the variety of processes and systems that utilise the data for different purposes and outcomes. In this complex environment, data stewardship is required to ensure that the structures are in place for data to be available to enhance business processes and exploit the value intrinsic in our data.

This role drives data quality and adherence to data governance requirements on a day-to-day basis. It incorporates processes, policies, and guidelines for administering Old Mutual Multi-Managers data in compliance with policy and/or regulatory obligations, ensuring high data quality. The data steward reviews and, if necessary, enhances the information provided for the creation or maintenance of data. The incumbent is accountable for driving the improvement of data governance, management and security maturity levels within OML to support reliable decision making, appropriate data usage and protection thereof.

• Embeds good data practice within business units and functions, and champions a data and customer focused culture within Old Mutual Multi-Managers.

• Set standards for the way in which data is governed i.e. how it is acquired, organised, stored, managed, maintained and supplied to the business

• Drives data maturity improvements in Old Mutual Multi-Managers

• Establishes process, procedure for data management and information governance.

• Adheres to regulation and policy.

• Participates and contributes to the Data Governance Board and owns data outcomes per business domain

• Ensures decisions made in the Data Governance Board are implemented in their business domains.

• Supports the business domain to ensure concerns regarding data are brought to the and satisfactorily resolved.

• Operationally implements data projects and business as usual governance.

• Acts as a thought leader, keeping abreast of best practices and new technology and leads the change management process

• Builds strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to understand and execute on their data ambitions

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Relevant Tertiary qualification.

• Min.  8 yrs demonstrated, relevant experience.

• Min 3 years in data practice and/or analysis.

• Knowledge of the investment industry is a distinct advantage

• Knowledge of Infostore data warehouse is an advantage