Job Opportunities at Land Bank Careers

Job Advert Summary    

• To develop and manage significant long-term partnerships with the private sector, provincial departments of agriculture, development and commercial banks,  other financial institutions and major implementing partners that are necessary for sustaining agricultural transformation.

Key Performance Areas    

Partnership Origination

• Develops and manages significant long-term partnerships with the private sector entities like commodity organisations, development and commercial banks, financial institutions and major implementing partners that are necessary to sustaining agricultural transformation.
• Represents Land Bank to broad stakeholders that include key partners, development/smallholder farmers, donors, and international organisations.
• Leads the identification and development of strategic partnerships with global organisations and translates them into managed programmes with demonstrable benefits to the agricultural transformation agenda.
• Contributes to and participates in the negotiation of agreements; working collaboratively with the bank’s legal services function.

Partnership Management and Ecosystem Co-ordination

Partnership Management

• Develops procurement linkage frameworks to facilitate the off-take of commodities from farmers on grower programmes by off-taking partners.
• Develop partnership with agricultural local exporters and global importers to unlock export market opportunities for development farmers and aggregators.
• Manages a portfolio of stakeholders comprising development partners and off-takers.
• Develop the pre and post finance-delivery plan.
• Conclude new partnership funds’ Memoranda of Agreement (MOA’s).
• Ensures that there are no adverse audit findings.

Ecosystem Co-ordination

• Positions the Land Bank as intermediary between supply and demand of farmers, aggregators, off-take partners and other key players in the agricultural value chain.
• Develops the bank’s agricultural value chain ecosystem in an agile manner; engaging partners and farmers.
• Leads the creation of all requisite technical infrastructure for successful grower programmes and coordinating the implementation thereof.
• Identifies and coordinates bankable ecosystem opportunities e.g. land rental, equipment purchase and the like.
• Co-ordinates market access of farmers through the ecosystem platform business and grower programmes.

Strategy Implementation

• Implements the strategic partnerships delivery framework.
• Designs, maps and implements partnership processes.
• Develops partnership models to coordinate partnerships, agriculture value chain activities, and market access opportunities aimed at transforming clients’ farming operations into sustainable commercial enterprises.
• Works collaboratively with the banking division’s in-house product development to package solutions.
• Collaborates with banking to have visibility on origination pipeline and progress through reports, dashboards, feedback forums to Exco and other stakeholders or project forums.

Monitoring and reporting on progress and performance

• Reports on partnership development target achievements as aligned to Land Bank’s overall partnership strategy.
• Partners with credit to monitor the concentration risk at partner and commodity portfolio level.
• Works collaboratively with the risk management division to identify and implement risk mitigations.
• Creates processes and reporting approaches to monitor and report on trends, issues, risks and mitigation plans.

People Management

Performance Management

• Ensure the overall team is meeting their targets as prescribed by the Head.
• Monitor manager’s achievements against their development plans.
• Provide inputs to head on performance tracking and monitoring of managers.

Capacity Planning

• Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
• Set out the resourcing and human capital requirements to the head to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
• Minimise staff turnover.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• Degree in Commerce / Science / Agriculture
• A minimum of 7 years experience at management level
• A minimum of 3 years experience in strategic partnerships development and implementation

Critical Competencies    

• Business development and networking
• Bringing new products or solutions to market
• Stakeholder and client management
• Operationalising strategy
• Legislative and regulatory context
• Additional Requirements    
• Knowledge of PFMA
• Knowledge of Land Bank Act
• Knowledge Banking Products
• Knowledge of Agricultural Operations

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To provide technical accounting support and operational expertise in order to provide relevant and reliable information for business decision making through the design, implementation and maintenance of effective financial processes, procedures and policies for Land Bank Insurance 

Key Performance Areas    

• Provide technical accounting support to the finance team, relating to all line items of the Managament Accounts as well as the Statement of Financial Position and Statement of Profit & Loss

General

• Provide quality assurance relating to each line item on the Balance Sheet as well as Profit & Loss
• Review monthly manangement accounts to ensure accounting recognition, measurement, classification and disclosures are correct
• Perform analytical review of month to month movements mainly in terms of insurance contract assets, insurance contract liabilities as well as re – insurance contracts, accounts payable and receivable, etc
• Provide technical input to Board and Sub – committee packs
• Assist in general ledger maintenance (eliminate legacy items, rectify naming descriptions, etc)
• Assist with VAT queries

IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts specific (monthly):

• Facilitate communication between Finance, Operations and Actuarial (specifically month - end and year – end)
• Ensure reporting timelines are met by engaging Operations and Actuarial teams
• Facilitate financial data between Finance, Operations and Actuarial
• Review risk intergrity output and engage Operations/ Actuarial if any anomolies
• Ensure journals from Risk Integrity are posted correctly in SAP GL
• Perform high level review of the input data going into risk integrity
• Ensure expense allocation in terms of IFRS 17 is up to date and in line with accouting policy
• Ensure insurance contract liablities and assets are based according to IFRS 17, accouting policies and accounted correctly

Adhoc

• Respond to queries from Actuarial team reading quarterly and annual returns to the Prudential Authority
• Investigate IFRS and Tax legislation changes that affect the Insurance entities.
• Assist with correspondence to be provided to external stakeholders such as Land Bank, National Treasury, Prudential Authority etc…
• Provide guidance in procurement matters by referencing the PFMA as well as procurement policy.

Annual Financial Statements and Corporate Plan budget

Annual Financial Statements

Perform quality assurance of each line item and ensure mapping is accurate and correct Provide quality assurance on disclosure such as:

• Investments -  Liase with investment consultant to ensure classification of assets  are correct, e.g. Listed/ Unlisted assets are disclosed as such and in line with IFRS 9
• Insurance contract asset and liability notes are disclosed according to IFRS 17
• Accounting policies are consistent and relevant
• Provide advise on the technical updates in the disclosure of their AFS
• Assist the Land Bank, if required, with the group consolidation
• Liase with external auditiors and facilitate responses to audit queries

Corporate Plan budget

• Assist in assumption setting, ensuring assumptions are relevant and realistic
• Liase with relevant business within LBI to understand their budget assumptions
• Assist head of finance in drafting budget, by providing technical inputs taking future accounting and tax changes into account

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    
CA (SA)

• 2-4 years experience including:
• Preferrably in Insurance
• Experience in Financial Management / Management Accounting and AFS preparation
• Exposure to Insurance Accounting, Regulations and Regulatory Reporting
• Advanced knowledge of IFRS
• Good understanding of VAT
• Critical Competencies    
• Business Acumen
• Short Term & Long term insurance Act
• FSCA Requirements
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Tax Legislation
• Financial Reporting
• Solvency Assessment Mangement (SAM)
• Additional Requirements    
• Extended hours as and when required
• Travel as and when required
   

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Job Advert Summary    

• To provide support to farmers beyond financing, through the implementation of grower programmes and the provision of technical support to farmers, within the context of partnership programmes.

Key Performance Areas    

Grower Programme Development

• Develops Grower Programmes for farmers, within the ambit of partnership programmes; for specified commodities.
• Partners with Credit Risk and Agricultural Economics and Advisory to determine commodities where the Bank has financing appetite in order to prioritize Grower Programmes
• Establishes relationships with off-takers and leverages their expertise and the market networks to support the growth and success of farmers.
• Identifies and selects supplier aggregators based on set criteria to create market access for and to support the development of low-scale farmers.
• Ensures that grower programmes enable sustainable farming practices, manage stakeholder interests and enable market access.
• Makes data-led decisions regarding resource deployment and continuous improvement of grower programmes

Grower Programme Capacitation

• Recruits farmers to grower programmes by using a development and merit-based process for farmer selection.
• Builds a pipeline of qualifying grower programme participants, to ensure the long-term continuity and viability of programmes.
• Works collaboratively to leverage the Bank’s marketing capabilities to create market awareness of grower programmes and success stories via digital, social and traditional media channels.
• Effectively maps stakeholders and formulates comprehensive plans to engage and consult community leaders and relevant authorities where required.
• Develops robust systems for collecting, tracking and analysing data pertaining to grower programs and farmer data.

Farmer Development

• Works collaboratively across functions within the bank to establish and develop programmes and content input for the Land Bank Farmer Academy.
• Ensures that grower programmes provide structured market access to farmers to increase trading volumes while simultaneously achieving significant social impact with regard to development farmers
• Selects and implements organizational models that enable high levels of farmer-partnership interaction to build trust, while transferring knowledge and skills to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of farmers enrolled in grower programmes.
• Facilitates increased private sector investment in developing farmers; promoting sustainable sourcing practices through strategic procurement linkages that are commercially viable for Land Bank.
• Puts structures in place to support farmers in meeting the compliance, governance and contractual obligations applicable to grower programmes and strategic partnership agreements.

Farmer Development Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develops models for monitoring of development farmers’ projects.
• Encourage comprehensive risk management strategies within grower programs, emphasizing the importance of adopting insurance solutions provided by LBI.
• Manages varied projects including status reporting and program management across multiple projects.
• Develops and maintains effective interface across business areas to understand the business transformation agenda, priorities and delivery needs.
• Ensures compliance with governance practices, standards and architectural standards in the delivery of grower programmes and farmer pre and post-support initiatives.

People Management

Performance Management

• Ensure the overall team is meeting their targets as prescribed by the Head.
• Monitor manager’s achievements against their development plans.
• Provide inputs to head on performance tracking and monitoring of managers.
• Participate in performance reviews with the head.
• Provide coaching and feedback to subordinates.

Capacity Planning

• Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
• Set out the resourcing and human capital requirements to the head to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
• Minimise staff turnover.
• Lead the subordinates in such a manner as to foster innovation.
• Demonstrate behaviour aligned to the corporate Land Bank values.
• Equitable distribution of responsibilities and accountabilities and plan appropriate human capacity and full utilisation for projects under management.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• Degree in Commerce / Science / Agriculture
• A minimum of 7 years experience at management level.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in the development and implementation of grower programmes.
• Critical Competencies    
• Business development and networking
• Farmer development
• Stakeholder and client management
• Operationalising strategy
• Legislative and regulatory context

Additional Requirements    

• Knowledge of PFMA
• Knowledge of Land Bank Act
• Knowledge Banking Products
• Knowledge of Agricultural Operations