Job Openings at Sanlam

Job Description

This role supports the smooth running of the production applications and infrastructure and is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

• Supports the running of production applications.
• Provides 24 x 7 first-line standby / support for production environments.
• Creates temporary fixes within systems to achieve Service Level Agreements.
• Provides technical advice and consultation to the business.
• Implements cost saving / optimisation initiatives.
• Participates in systems handover process (OSSP).
• Acquires and applies knowledge of business processes, procedures, policies and practices.
• Communicates effectively regarding support related activities.
• Participates in software and/or hardware upgrades.
• Responsible for capacity monitoring
• Pro-actively monitors the production environment.

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Job Description

• This role is responsible for financial performance, business management, strategy development as well as operational processes for the Impact Investing business unit
• Development of Business Strategy, Business Plan and Budgets
• Management of business performance
• Monitor performance to business plan and strategy
• Financial performance reporting and analysis
• Managing profitability and expenses
• Transformation Strategy for business and Funds as appropriate
• Compliance, Risk and Governance
• Support to Funds
• Coordinating reporting to Funds and Investment Committees
• Coordinating Fund Audit and reporting
• Coordination half year valuations
• Review and approve all Fund accounting reports
• Other necessary administrative support
• Administration and Operations
• Coordinate all administrative support to business
• Manage relationships with internal and external partners/vendors and other stakeholders including OMAI and other OML businesses eg.
• Oversee ad hoc special projects as may be required

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Job Description

To join a team managing a unique, global equity product. This is an analyst role, building the quantitative tools and information processing to support the idea generation and research process. This role is an end to end role requiring data warehousing, processing, modelling and outputting. These inputs will form part of the investment debate and the quantitative analyst will be expected to present and argue their views and participate in the final investment decision.

• Build and maintain the quantitative screens for the Global Macro Equity fund - including country, sector, style and currency models.
• Build and maintain easy to use dashboards
• Investigate new ideas and relationships and translate these into actionable investment recommendations
• Present investment ideas and participate in the investment debate
• Lead key projects such as outsourced IT development
• Participate in the teams AI initiatives
• Collaborate with the team to research and develop new/alternative quant techniques to enhance risk/return outcomes for clients

Job requirements:

• At least 4 years’ experience gained in an investments / quants / modelling role
• Honors/Masters in Mathematics / Financial Mathematics / Statistics / Data Science
• CFA preferred
• Coding skills – MATLAB / Python / R / C#
• Experience in working with large data sets, and performing quantitative & statistical analysis in Advanced Excel & VBA (Barra, I-Maps & Factset preferred)
• Project management skills
• Deep interest in markets, finance, quants and investing

Competencies:

• Curiosity
• Resilience
• Innovation
• Initiative
• Analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Pragmatism
• Self-starter
• Team player
• Communication skills

Skills

C#, Communication, MATLAB, People Management, Python, Quantitative Statistical Analysis, Researching, R Programming, Taking Initiative, Teamwork

Education

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)(Foreign Qualification) (Required), Honours Degree (Hons): Mathematics, Masters Degree (M): Mathematics

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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.Responsible for managing one or more projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost. Delivers specified requirements and meets customer satisfaction.

• Delivers the required product(s) for each project, phase or stage.
• Ensures that quality is achieved as planned.
• Deliver to time and cost within agreed tolerances.
• Manages the people, work and resources involved.
• Establishes and updates plans with actuals and forecasts.
• Manages deviations from plan.
• Reports to respective stakeholders.
• Escalates decisions and unresolved issues.

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Job Description

To provide the events co-ordination function for the marketing and communications department to ensure the brand image for the particular market segment is maximised.

• Identify and interpret internal client's needs to drive the scope of the event
• Initiate, plan for and activate events e.g. awareness, profile-building, education, etc
• Maintain an events calendar and coordinate internally
• Project manage event timelines; budget and outputs to ensure success
• Ensure the required communication surrounding the event is as required
• Attend events
• Conduct a post mortem; capturing learning’s to inform future events.
• 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.
• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the Marketing team to ensure required service levels are delivered.
• Actively participate in the Marketing 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 team work
• Identify potential inter-departmental problems and escalate them to higher levels
• Engage regularly in team or group problem-solving
• Manage areas of critical compliance and actively manage non-conformance
• Ensure the work environment enables employees to “live” the organisation culture and values..
• Ensure adherence to financial and corporate policies and procedures, and reduce wastage related to area of accountability

Minimum Requirements

• Public Relations diploma/degree
• 3-5 years events co-ordination experience
• Project Management experience

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Job Description

Responsible for business procurement requirements gathering, market analysis, contracting and stakeholder management.

Monitor and review the business unit’s buying processes, systems and adherence to quality standards.

• Provide input on process and system enhancements, especially in support of product, process or quality issues.
• Monitor and report on the management of service level agreements and turnaround times.
• Maintain service, quality and designed outputs within a specific functional process through ensuring compliance to tactical policies, procedures and standards.
• Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.
• Prepare statistical and trend reports to communicate outcomes of buying activities.
• Create collaborative relationships with other departments to determine internal and external process improvements designed to enhance the customer experience and value.

Continuous improvement to ensure effective service

• Analysis of procurement trends to ensure alignment to industry best practice
•  Ensure continuous review of adherence to organisational policies, procurement practices and procedures.
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.

Service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction

• Maintain a high standard of market intelligence, supplier due diligence, Negotiation, SLA drafting, SLA management, and stakeholder engagement,
• Establish productive operational relationships with key stakeholders in the various channels and administrative teams.
• 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.
• Plan for business procurement needs according to assigned categories,
• Streamline categories for procurement value add and reporting purposes,
• Report on categories of assigned on spend, TAT, transaction frequency, and contracting culture,
• Monitor and control contract spend against duration and amount,
• Drive and improve category management culture in assigned business units and organisation wide,

Manage quality people practices

• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues and team members.
• Collaborate and work with the business to deliver required service levels.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
• Take ownership of personal development goals

Experience, knowledge & skills required

• Bachelor’s degree mandatory
• Minimum CIPS L4 Certification mandatory
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Procurement Specialist role
• Familiar with category management for IT and Professional services,