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  • Posted: Feb 12, 2020
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    Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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    Business Analyst (Senior)

    Key Purpose
    Understanding the business requirements, and through a structured process documenting, validating and translating it into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution. Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Ensuring that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Translate the business vision into the design. Connect the business model to the systems architecture. Interfacing between the business client and the development team with regards to the business and functional requirements. Working with multiple business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions. Involve scope that stretches across departmental boundaries, or which scope impacts on multiple business areas. Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, and acting as consultant on the application. Lead a team of business analysts in a business area. Stand-in for his Development Manager if necessary in an advisory capacity.
    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    Business Cases
    Identify and highlight opportunities for improvement. Act as a consultant to the client on the application. Gauge the extent and depth of a problem which may or may not be confined to his/her own business or development area through his/her insight into the extent of the problem or opportunity. Advise when a requirement is raised which does not fit in with the business strategy.

    Customer Requirements Specification (CRS)
    Follow a structured process to listen to, understand and document client requirements. If needed, facilitate activities like interviews or JAD sessions to expand the understanding of the business requirements. If required, perform analytical tasks, data extracts, run queries or any other form of analysis to gather information. Following up with clients to clear up ambiguity and possible misunderstanding. Documenting the requirements in a Business Requirements Specifications (CRS) document (which may include UML models, business process documents). Ensuring alignment between the Business Case and the CRS.
    Manage the quality of the documentation produced by the members in his or her team. Review the functional requirements with the client, using appropriate formats such as presentations and walk-through discussion. Obtain sign-off on CRS. Conduct peer reviews of other BAs Requirements Specifications.

    Product Requirements Specification (PRS)
    Design and validate the functional solution. This involves interpreting the BRS into a set of Functional Requirements Specifications (PRS). Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered. Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the PRS. Interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Dev Manager, Architect). Identify and Involve other teams and domains that must be integrated to for the solution to work. Build & demonstrate GUI prototypes, to validate the designs. Perform modelling & build data models that simulate the solution. Utilise a range of techniques such as JAD, interviews, observations, questionnaires, GUI prototyping, benchmarking, data modelling, focus groups, and state diagrams.
    Highlight risks and benefits of alternative solutions. Advise business on the impact of implementing the solution, specifically risk associated with resourcing or secondary impacts such as training needs & post-production support. A dvise on compliance and legislative considerations. Identify and design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenario's and test data sets to accompany the PRS. Validate the PRS and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.

    Solution Proposal
    Review the approved CRS and PRS with the development team. If required, revert back to client or other stakeholders if technical issues require business decisions in order to proceed. Answer queries from the development team on business or functional aspects of the required solution. Defend the client business requirements.

    Project Documentation
    Perform Project Management activities across multiple projects, such as providing the client as well as relevant team members with estimates of the duration of tasks. Provide updates to project schedules. Maintain and update the scheduling system. Coordinate work activities between the client and development team (e.g. scheduling JAD sessions). Maintain project documentation, and update the master documentation. Provide input to technical design, and liaise between the client and the technical team. Validate and verify the project documentation.

    Test Basket
    Once developers have completed unit testing, test the solution by applying the test basket. Record test results and log bugs/issues back to development team, with appropriate documentation and commentary as per the test procedure. Log change controls. Once business (super users) proceed to UAT, handle client queries and do analysis on errors (if required). Refer errors back to development team, and maintain logging and documentation aspects. Validate and verify the test results obtained by others in the team. Once testing is complete, obtain client sign-off on testing.

    Release Notes and Training Material
    Update and publish release notes related to the current system changes implemented, and notify impacted parties. Assist trainers with queries or release notes. Present initiation papers to other teams at the Channel Forums. Maintain and update the CRS and PRS with any added content. Upload CRS, PRS and TS to the SharePoint server, and load links into the scheduling system. Keep status updated. Check documents in and out of system. Validate and verify the release documentation.
    During go-live, perform live monitoring of the new system. If required, make configuration settings/updates, version number changes, workflow and configuration table changes.

    Query Reporting
    Respond to incidents escalated by the Incidents team, log issues in the appropriate issues tracking system, conduct preliminary analysis on issues, provide reporting to Dev Manager or PM on project activities and status.

    Guidelines, Standards and Reference
    Participate in internal forums such as Business Analysts Work Group and lead work streams. Conduct training with own team, take reusability into account when designing client solutions. Contribute to the design of the methodology and templates (BABOK). Conduct peer reviews and QA audits on other teams.

    Requirements Validation Report
    Review the requirements specifications from Junior BAs and BAs in context of the business strategy. Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and initiatives that do not make sense with in the bigger context of the business unit's objectives. Review the requirements against standards and established methodologies, policies and practices. Submit a validation report and address issues identified.
    Personal Attributes and Skills
    Behavioural Skills

    • Customer service orientation, results orientation, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, time management, professional communication (written, verbal, presenting and listening), creativeness, innovation, stress management, assertiveness, tenacity.

    Technical Skills

    • Project management, SQL queries, business writing skills, presentation and facilitation skills, solution architecture, process mapping, entity diagram mapping, software testing pack design, functional testing.

    Education and Experience

    •  Informatics or relevant degree (CBAP or Master’s degree – beneficial)
    •  Exposure to a Pre-Sales environment including RFP's
    •  Minimum 6 years’ experience as a BA
    • Strong Consulting exprience
    • Business experience and product knowledge
    • Knowledge of ITIL, CMMI, PCMM
    • Technical knowledge of SQL, UML, XML, OO
    • Solution architecture, data modelling techniques, UML Process Design, Industry compliance standards and legislation

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Telesales Consultant

    Job Description

    • Identifying sales opportunities.Answering inbound calls timeously and making required outbound calls
    • Co-ordination of own administration
    • Identifying sales opportunities
    • Maintaining accurate details and statistics of all queries

    Key purpose

    This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader. The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Health/Life/Insure telesales.

    • Key Outputs
    • The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:
    •  Achieve Vitality Sales target
    • Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
    • Attending to general administration
    • Conduct Financial Needs Analysis
    •  Achieve quality target
    • Overcome objections
    • Adhering to service level agreements

    Personal attributes and skills

    • The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:
    •  Target Driven
    • Team Player
    • Goal orientated
    • Self motivated
    • Ability to perform under pressure
    • Adapt to change
    • Persuasiveness
    • Resilience/Tenacity
    • Sound Time Management
    • Self managed
    • Attention to detail
    • Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
    • Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

    Qualification & Experience

    •  Matric
    •  At least 2years sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environment
    •   Minimum 1 year Vitality product knowledge, Discovery Vitality Knowledge is an advantage
    •  PC literacy, email, word, excel
    • Tertiary qualification an advantage
    • NQF5 and RE5 qualification
    • Class of business advantageous

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY  
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Data Analyst

    Key Purpose
    To take guided ownership in the design and modification of business intelligence and MIS systems. The analyst will interact with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems and needs and produce business dashboards and analytical solutions.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Solving ad-hoc analytical problems
    • Presenting and communicating solutions
    • Building and maintaining dashboards and automatic reports.
    • Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data
    • Determine how to improve existing business processes
    • Determine which tasks can be automated
    • Analyze data trends and recommend solutions for creating more revenue and reducing loss
    • Work on large projects and many data streams and many deadlines
    • Minor managerial role where he oversees the activities of the data analyst personnel and ensures the efficient execution of their duties

    Skills

    • SQL querying, BI software and advanced Microsoft Office skills.
    • Understanding of systems engineering concepts.
    • Understand what the business does and how it does it.
    • Diagnostic Information Gathering.
    • Analytical Thinking.
    • Thoroughness.
    • Minor managerial skills

    Knowledge

    • In-depth understanding of Risk Engineering (Advanced)
    • Understanding of data and statistics (Advanced)
    • Business analysis (Advanced)
    • Proven record of design, development and implementation of complex strategies (Advanced)
    • Relationship management of diverse stakeholders (Advanced)
    • Proficient in written and spoken English (Advanced)
    • In-depth understanding of key insurance metrics (estimate maximum loss, business interruption) (Advanced)

    Education

    • Matric (Essential)
    • Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, statistics, mathematics, Information technology

    Experience

    • 5 years experience in any of the fields specified under essential qualification.

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Java Developer (Intermediate) - Life Systems

    Key Purpose
    To fulfil a pivotal role within a software development team that designs, develops and maintains the systems for Discovery’s dynamic Life Insurance business.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Perform a high-level impact analysis, establish Scope and provide estimates based on technical requirements.
    • Create required planning tasks in SDLC tool and set due dates according to agreed milestones.
    • Perform an analysis of the business requirement and clarify any unknowns with the Business Analyst, User and technical lead.
    • Translate technical requirements into executable code without errors.
    • Ensure optimally performing system code in line with technical specifications, following prescribed process, architecture standards and procedures.
    • Assist the Test Analyst in ensuring that a comprehensive test pack is produced, which includes all the required scenarios.
    • Ensure that the root cause of system errors are effectively analysed and prioritized for fixing.
    • Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team and propose solutions to solve them.
    • Assist system users and the infrastructure teams with technical support issues.

    Essential
    Education and Experience

    • Matric (minimum C symbol pass advantageous)
    • IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
    • 4 years of experience in software development
    • Java EE knowledge and experience.

    Advantageous

    • Formal Java qualification(s), Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, etc…

    Technical Skills And Knowledge

    • Excellent communication skills
    • Java systems development.
    • Object-oriented design and development.
    • Design patterns
    • Unit Testing
    • Systems Integration testing
    • XML/XSD/JAXB and Web Services.
    • JSF
    • HTML 5.0
    • Industry standard Application Servers (preferably JBoss).
    • PL/SQL and RDBMS
    • UML
    • SDLC methodologies

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Actuarial Analyst - Discovery Life

    Key Purpose
    The Successful Candidate Would Be Involved In
    This position offers the opportunity to play a critical role within the Discovery Life business by working closely with the various distribution channels through which we market our products as well as being an integral part of the R&D process.

    • Developing in depth competitor and market analysis
    • Development of tools to highlight Discovery’s unique value proposition.
    • Contribute to the development of new products
    • Intellectual leadership through white papers, claims documents, journalist articles etc.
    • Development of roadshow, CPD and campaign material.

    The successful candidate would be involved in strategic thinking around product launches and would form a crucial element of our broader product development team.
    Areas Of Responsibility May Include But Not Limited To

    • Utilising market insight to launch innovative new products and services on an annual basis
    • Develop compelling positioning and roll out of launch, roadshow and campaign material to our financial advisers and franchises to ensure successful execution of deliverables and targets
    • Utilize technical product knowledge, including understanding of competitors, to identify business opportunities
    • Providing technical product support to Discovery Life’s various distribution channels to ensure successful execution of deliverables and targets
    • Provide support to Life Executive Committee and related structures to ensure efficient functioning of the business
    • Contribute to strategies based on insights from market feedback, data and other monitoring structures for the collaboration of the broader product development team

    Essential
    Education and Experience

    • Matric with Mathematics
    • Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSc) or equivalent degree in Actuarial Science from an accredited institution.
    • At least 6 months of working experience as an Actuarial Analyst in the Financial Services Industry
    • At least 5 CT’s obtained
    • Registration with ASSA

    Advantageous

    • Honours in Actuarial Science
    • At least 1 years of working experience as an Actuarial Analyst, preferably in the Life Insurance Industry.

    Essential
    Technical Skills and Knowledge

    • Experience in Actuarial Modelling
    • Data Analysis
    • Problem solving skills
    • Advanced Analytical and Technical skills
    • Effective communications skills
    • Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Tax Reporting & Management Information Accountant

    Key Purpose Of The Role
    Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, Management Accounting and Tax, the Management Information and Tax Reporting Accountant will be responsible for all taxation matters in accordance with all applicable Legislation and Regulations that govern the organisation, financial management reporting to Exco and the Board (excluding statutory IFRS financial statements and Bank’s Act regulatory reporting), and for ensuring the necessary financial information is always readily available. The role requires a strong and ambitious individual to work closely with both the CFO and the Head of Financial Reporting, Management Accounting and Tax and provide the tactical taxation and financial oversight required to devise, modify, implement and monitor an appropriate financial management reporting capability across the Bank. The candidate is expected to strategise, develop and institute processes to ensure that all relevant taxation and financial reports are received digitally by required audiences timeously.

    The Tax Reporting & Management Information Accountant Must
    Taxation

    • Liaises and integrates with the Discovery Group Tax function.
    • Liaises and integrates with the systems teams regarding taxation of client funds.
    • Liaises with banking product development team on taxation features.
    • Establishes applicable financial and taxation policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
    • Represent Discovery on tax and regulatory industry working groups.
    • Liaises with the external auditors.

    Management Information

    • Be responsible for financial management reporting and interpretation.
    • Liaise and integrate with the company’s management accountants.
    • Liaise and integrate with the IT financial information development team.
    • Monitoring and timely identification and reporting of financial risks.
    • Monitor competitors and establish appropriate insightful comparisons and analyses.
    • Ensure continual process productivity improvements.
    • Co-ordinate the regular refresh of all relevant financial policies and frameworks.
    • Ensure budgets and 24 month forecasts are readily available.

    Profile of the Tax Reporting & Management Information Accountant

    • Sound knowledge of banking within a finance and taxation framework, the applicable regulatory environment, key regulatory regimes, best practice methodologies and emerging finance and taxation issues.
    • Able to navigate between accounting, legal and tax views.
    • Financial, taxation and risk management skills.
    • Good grasp of banking within a finance framework, the applicable regulatory environment, key regulatory regimes, best practice methodologies and emerging finance issues.
    • Financial and financial risk management knowledge.
    • Impeccable attention to detail and accuracy.
    • Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
    • The ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders in Discovery.
    • Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
    • The ability to understand and work with undefined parameters.
    • A drive and commitment to consistent high-quality delivery and a passion for problem solving.
    • A strong business acumen and ability to navigate sensitive business dynamics.
    • Effective task and time management.
    • The confidence to interact with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
    • A strong desire for professional development and a high learning potential.
    • Willingness to sacrifice time outside of traditional working hours to meet commitments

    The Candidate Must Have
    Qualifications and Experience:

    • CA (SA)
    • At least 3 years post articles of experience in Financial Services (banking).
    • Experience working on SAP is advantageous
    • Excellent knowledge of MS Office packages, including Excel, Word & PowerPoint

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Billing Services Manager

    Key Purpose

     

    The role of the Billing Services Manager is to ensure the effective operation of the ECP Billing Services Team.

     

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

     

    Job responsibilities include among others the following:

    • Relationship building with brokers and clients.
    • Maintaining broker and client satisfaction levels.
    • Managing the billing and administration of all clients.
    • Dealing with elevated queries/ problems and face to face troubleshooting.
    • Managing Billing Services staff and ensuring staff meet the KPA's
    • Managing, coaching, and developing Team Leaders
    • Collation, monitoring and submission of performance stats
    • Facilitating compliance to internal and external Audit requirements.
    • Recognizing and managing potential risk.
    • Facilitating change management within the environment.
    • Maintain relationships with various stakeholders across the business.

    Personal Attributes and Skills

    • Strong leadership skills.
    • Good risk management ability.
    • Good organisational and problem solving skills.
    • Exceptional interpersonal skills.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    • Good time management skills; ability to manage heavy workload and multiple tasks.
    • Ability to handle pressure and complaints.
    • Willingness to work overtime when required.
    • Analytically minded.
    • Good formal presentations, meeting and training skills.

    Skills

    • Time Management
    • Verbal and written communication
    • Numerical skills
    • Interpersonal skills

    Qualification and Experience

    • The following are essential requirements

    Knowledge:

    • Advanced Excel
    • Microsoft Office Suite
    • Advanced knowledge of Discovery Health Products, processes and departments
    • Advanced knowledge of Discovery Policies and Procedures
    • Extensive knowledge of legislation, industry and competitors

    Experience:

    Essential:

    • Minimum of 2 years leadership experience with notable achievements
    • A minimum of 1 year experience in a Finance or Billing environment
    • A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Discovery Health Operations
    • Experience in dealing with clients/ brokers face to face and at boardroom level.

    Advantageous

    • 2 years Account Management experience; or extensive experience in credit control and reconciliations
    • Management Experience

    Education:

    • BCom or related degree (Advantageous)

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY  
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Developer (Senior)

    Key Purpose
    The DHS Dev team translates the CRS and PRS into executable code without errors; finding effective software solutions to technical issues. This role ensures that the application performs the functions as required by business releasing source code with zero defects. Coaching and development; coach other Developers during the code review process to understand and apply the DHS coding standards.
    Behavioural Skills
    Personal Attributes and Skills

    • Learning orientation, structured and analytical problem solving, prioritisation, planning and organising, stress management, action orientation

    Technical Skills

    • Business writing, software development within SDLC, data modelling

    Education And Experience

    • A 3 year BSc Computer Science Degree or equivalent qualification
    • Matric with English and Mathematics
    • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in source code development in Java (back-end)
    • Experience in Spring, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, JPA, Jenkins, Maven
    • Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
    • Experience in Angular 6+, JavaScript, Bootstrap
    • Strong experience in SOAP, REST, JSON and KAFKA
    • Experience in Security (SAML, OAuth)
    • Strong documentation skills in technical and architecture specifications
    • Process knowledge of SDLC, Unit testing, database structure design, technical change control
    • Experience in open source technologies (Atlassian Suite), DevOps including Agile methodology

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Project Manager

    Key Purpose of the Project Manager
    To manage the delivery of the projects portfolio incl. managing of project resources, measurement of projects and frequent reporting on all project deliverables in the department as well as to assist in the management and delivery of the many interconnected projects required to set up Discovery’s new banking division.
    Areas of Responsibility.

    The Project Manager Must

    • Plan and design the project and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
    • Define the project’s governance arrangements
    • Ensure effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the project - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the project, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other projects and corporate, technical and security standards
    • Manage the project budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the project progresses
    • Facilitate the appointment of individuals to project teams in conjunction with the management team
    • Ensure the delivery of new products or services from projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the project plan and project governance arrangements
    • Ensure there is allocation of common resources and skills within the project individual projects
    • Manage third party suppliers and related delivery to the project
    • Manage communications with all stakeholders
    • Track and manage activities on the critical path
    • Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
    • Manage risks to the project successful outcome
    • Work with the business change manager or equivalent on the transition to the new business as usual position
    • Initiate extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the project are identified or issues arise
    • Report the progress of the project at regular intervals to Head of planning or programme manager
    • To coordinate all project audits with the internal\external auditors, respond to and resolve all findings
    • To identify, report and mitigation actions on risks on the specific programmes in conjunction with the management team
    • To contribute to the overall strategic and tactical objectives of the Banking unit.

    Profile of the Project Manager

    • Deciding and initiating action
    • Leading and Supervising
    • Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking
    • Achieving Personal Work Goals and Setbacks
    • Coping with Pressure and Setbacks
    • Working with People
    • Adhering to Principles and Values
    • Relating and Networking
    • Persuading and Influencing
    • Presenting and Communicating Information
    • Writing and Reporting
    • Applying Expertise and Technology
    • Analysing
    • Learning and Researching
    • Creating and Innovating
    • Formulating Strategies and Concepts
    • Planning & Organising
    • Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
    • Following Instructions and Procedures
    • Adapting and Responding to Change

    Qualifications And Experience

    • Formal University qualification – B.Sc. Science, Engineering or similar
    • Project Management formal Training Diploma or similar is essential
    • Knowledge of Project Management tools and methods is essential
    • PMP (PMBOK) or PRINCE2 certification or other recognized Project Management qualification
    • Applied agile methodology in previous projects
    • Scrum certification would be preferable
    • 3 year SAP implementation in banking module is preferable
    • ITIL or similar qualification would be desirable

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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    Head: Risk Engineering

    Key Purpose
    Development and implementation of overall Risk Management Strategy for Discovery Business Insurance. Identification and evaluation of new technology in the Risk Engineering space. Direct, train and Manage a team of Risk Engineers.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Conduct risk surveys on large and complex clients
    • Perform analysis, identify trends and provide technical support of Risk Management data to Technical Underwriting
    • Active management and minimization of frequency and severity of loss exposures
    • Provide technical recommendations to Underwriting in respect of risk management
    • To assess the impact, define business requirements and provide support to ensure successful execution of new initiatives or projects to drive the goals of the business
    • Recognise and mitigate risk with timeous escalation to appropriate stakeholders
    • Compile relevant reports which covers items such as organizational, structure, plan layout, process control, estimated maximum loss, emergency controls and risk recommendations
    • Manage a team of Risk engineers
    • Design, develop and implement a graduate program for risk engineers
    • Design and develop a learning and professional development “best of breed” program for risk engineers

    Skills

    • Analytical (Advanced)
    • MS Office (Advanced)
    • Conflict handling (Advanced)
    • Communication (written and verbal) (Advanced)
    • Transfer of knowledge (Advanced)
    • People Management (Advanced)

    Knowledge

    • In-depth understanding of Risk Engineering (Advanced)
    • Understanding of data and statistics (Advanced)
    • Business analysis (Advanced)
    • Proven record of design, development and implementation of complex strategies (Advanced)
    • Relationship management of diverse stakeholders (Advanced)
    • Proficient in written and spoken English (Advanced)
    • In-depth understanding of key insurance metrics (estimate maximum loss, business interruption) (Advanced)

    Education

    • Matric (Essential)
    • Tertiary qualification in Risk Engineering (civil, mechanical, fire or electrical) or relevant experience (Essential)
    • Short term insurance qualification (IISA designation) (Essential)
    • Post graduate qualification (Advantageous)
    • Successful candidates who have not completed an IISA designated qualification need to complete this within an agreed time frame (Essential)

    Experience

    • 5 Years Short term Insurance experience (Essential),
    • 3 Years Relationship Management experience (Essential)
    • 3 Years Operational Management experience in Short term Insurance (Essential),
    • 5 Years Risk Engineering experience (Essential)
    • 3 Years presenting and communicating at all levels (Essential)
    • 3 Years Strategic stakeholder management experience (Essential)

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
    The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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