Job Openings at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• 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.

Responsibilities
Education

• Bachelors Degree (B), High School (Grade 12) (Required)

Closing Date
21 January 2021

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Job Description

• 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.

Responsibilities
Education

• Bachelors Degree (B), High School (Grade 12) (Required)

Closing Date
21 December 2020

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Job Description
Financial Advice

• Identifies client financial needs telephonically.
• Provides advice to the client in a call centre environment

Sales/Productivity

• Achieves sales targets and objectives.
• Sells products or services over the telephone.

Responsibilities
Skills and Experience

• 2-3 years work experience

Education

• Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date
11 December 2020

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Job Purpose

• Carry out analysis required and ensure data used for actuarial work is appropriate and fit for purpose to provide support for the Corporate Actuarial function to provide actuarial service to Old Mutual Insure which contributes to business growth and strategy realisation.

Job Objective

Produce technical provisions at levels that are appropriate for the business and fit for purpose

Collect, segment and reconcile and aggregate gross and reinsurance data for all actuarial work. In collaboration with Corporate Actuarial Manager - Reserving:

• Produce results for Technical Provisions (IBNR, IBNER, OCR, UPP and cash-back reserves) on IFRS and SAM bases
• Produce actual versus expected analyses
• Prepare reserve reports
• Review technical guidelines in order to recommend financial and statistical assumptions
• Support methodology, assumption and dependency structures setting
• Support financial month-end processes and prepare manual journals as necessary
• Produce attritional, large loss, reinsurance and subrogation analyses
• Prepare and complete statutory reporting templates

Business Support

• Data preparation to provide business support as required
• Analysis and support on business initiatives as required
• Provide support on actuarial projects as required.
• Contribute to all reports as required.
• Participate in the relevant governance and other structures as required.
• Complete documentation required for actuarial processes.

Manage effective customer service and relations to deliver customer service satisfaction

• Maintain service, quality and desired outputs within a specific functional process through ensuring compliance to tactical policies, procedures and standards.
• Resolve escalated customer queries and complaints and provide feedback to customers on matters resolved.
• Develop work routines in line with operational plans / schedules in order to manage achievement of service delivery goals
• Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.

Maintain effective people practices

• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the team members to ensure required service levels are delivered.
• Actively participate in the team to ensure functional balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.
• Ensure achievement of own performance objectives.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
• Actively participate in own professional development and career path.
• Develop and encourage strong teamwork
• Identify potential inter-departmental problems and escalate them to higher levels
• Engage regularly in team or group problem-solving

Ensure effective cost control and governance compliance

• Ensure adherence to financial and corporate policies and procedures, and reduce wastage related to area of accountability.
• Take accountability for the management of business-related risks within own area.
• Operate within agreed mandates as documented in the business rules.
• Ensure adherence to organisational policies, practices and procedures.
• Identify and recommend areas / ways to improve processes

Financial and corporate governance to ensure cost efficiency

• Proactively ensure use of time, of resources, money, materials or equipment is in line with policies and procedures.
• Comply with corporate governance policies, procedures and standards.
• Operate within agreed mandates.

Experience, knowledge & skills required

• Actuarial student with 2-3 years’ experience in general insurance or other analytical actuarial work
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills
• An ability to work independently but be comfortable interacting with stakeholders when required
• A strong sense of accountability
• Ability to work under pressure
• VBA, ResQ and/or SAS experience would be an advantage
• An interest in learning new things and exploring alternative ways of completing tasks

Responsibilities

Skills and Experience

• 2 Years of Acturial Experience

Education

• Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc Hons): Actuarial Science (Required)

Closing Date

• 30 November 2020

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Financial Advice

• Identifies client financial needs telephonically.
• Provides advice to the client in a call centre environment

Sales/Productivity

• Achieves sales targets and objectives.
• Sells products or services over the telephone.

Responsibilities
Skills and Experience

• 2-3 years work experience

Education

• Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date
11 December 2020

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Job Description

• This role is responsible for the delivery of IT solutions to support business objectives through own efforts and others.

Key Results Areas:
Infrastructure and Systems Security Management

• Establish the baseline architecture view of the OMI landscape (technology and relation to business / users).
• Establish values and principles for IT in OMI.
• Agree / Propose / Identify a target technology state. This is the ideal future tech landscape from an OMI point of view.
• Develop the road map for the journey from baseline to target state.

Client Servicing (this, to my mind, overlaps with the above in terms of responsibility areas)

• Owns the relationships with clients (middle management level) in order to meet the client’s technology expectations.
• Provides technical consulting services where required within area of responsibility.
• Responsible for clear and effective communication to team and business.
• Aligns technology to business needs.
• Ensures continuous service to clients.

Change Management

• Ensure that there is a structured approach in place for transitioning users from old to new for each significant change that is implemented.

Personal and Time Management

• Deliver assigned tasks and projects to agreed timelines, costs and standards.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Management of Finances and Work Delivery Management.
• Owns the relationships with clients (middle management level) in order to meet the clients technology expectations.
• Responsible for execution and management against IT Contracts (via the IT Manager and Senior IT Manager of the area) with the Contracts Administrator in the Capability Cluster¿s Recruitment Team.
• Responsible for infrastructure management in area of responsibility.
• Responsible for execution of change management around IT implementations and upgrades.
• Responsible for clear and effective communication to team and business.
• Responsible for the billability within the area (PlanView).
• Provides technical consulting services where required within area of responsibility.
• Manages assigned deliveries.
• Ensures continuous service to clients.
• Ensures systems security.
• Aligns technology to business needs.

Skills And Experience

• At least 2 years relevant industry experience

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT): Management,Information Systems & Technology, Matriculation Certificate (Matric)

Closing Date
3 December 2020