Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries.
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Job Description
This role manages a sales team and distribution strategy and is accountable for the sales targets and profitability of the team, over periods of up to a year.
The position has been identified as a FAIS position and falls within the ambit contemplated by FAIS related to Category B. The successful candidates must therefore comply with all FAIS requirements, including the Fit and Proper requirements of Honesty and Integrity (e.g. be clear of any offence relating to fraud, dishonesty and/or any professional misconduct) as well as competence and relevant qualifications.
- Manages sales & expense budget for a sales team in a branch against set targets.
- Responsible for distribution strategy of products within a branch.
- Accountable for local marketing.
- Identifies & creates coordinated sales opportunities.
- Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
- Ensures delivery of customer value.
- Manages, develops, appoints & trains sales advisors.
Closing Date
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Job Description
Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Software Engineer. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team. The objective of this role is to define, develop, test, analyse, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes coding, testing and analysing software programs.
In This Role, You will Get To
- Conduct full System Design process.
- Draft implementation plans, write programmes according to business specifications and conduct unit testing.
- Work closely with Business Analysts to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to Junior Programmers.
- Contribute to Old Mutual Finance body of knowledge (Documentation, Wikis, How-To Guides).
- Identify inefficiencies and work towards continuous improvement of existing systems and/or processes.
- Participate actively in Scrum delivery ceremonies (Stand-ups, Planning, Design Retrospectives and Reviews).
What You Will Need To Succeed
A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent, relevant Tertiary Qualification as well as a minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:
- Java (3 - 4 years’ experience at least)
- Relational Databases
- SQL
- Source Control – Git
- Web servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty/Netty)
- Webservices (Soap and Rest)
- XML
Experience in the following will be advantageous
- ANT
- Docker
- Html
- CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)
- jQuery
- Kubernetes
- Maven
- Object Databases
- Patterns
- Spring Boot
- UML
- XSL
- XSL:fo
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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.
- Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
- ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.
- Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.
Knowledge of the following tools would be beneficial:
- Java coding
- TestNG
- Selenium
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Extent Reports
- Report Portal
- Postman
- PractiTest
- Locust Performance Tool
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Virtual Machines
- Jira
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The Opportunity
Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire an Analyst Programmer. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team. The objective of this role is to define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes coding, testing and analyzing software programs.
In This Role, You will Get To:
- Conduct full System Design by facilitating sessions that will include evaluations of alternative solutions.
- Draft implementation plans, write programmes according to business specifications and conduct unit testing.
- Work closely with Business Analysts to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications.
- Review the work of Junior Programmer and provide required coaching and mentoring to ensure quality of delivery as well as provide support, assistance and guidance to Senior Programmers.
- Investigate, analyse and resolve production issues escalated to Third-Line Development Team Support.
- Contribute to Old Mutual Finance body of knowledge (Documentation, Wikis, How-To Guides).
- Identify inefficiencies and work towards continuous improvement of existing systems and/or processes.
- Participate actively in Scrum delivery ceremonies (Stand-ups, Planning, Design Retrospectives and Reviews).
What You Will Need To Succeed:
A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent, relevant Tertiary Qualification, and a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role.
You will also need to have experience in working with the following technologies in an Agile environment:
- Docker
- Java
- CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)
- Maven
- Patterns
- Relational Databases
- SQL
- Source Control – Git
- Spring Boot
- UML
- Web servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty/Netty)
- Webservices (Soap and Rest)
- XML
Experience in the following will be advantageous
- ANT
- Html
- jQuery
- Kubernetes
- Object Databases
- XSL
- XSL:fo
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Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Automation Quality Engineer. 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 re-testing when bugs are resolved.
- Perform regression testing when needed.
- 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.
- Keep all stakeholders updated on outcome of test execution results.
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 and to projects being undertaken by other business units.
What You Will Need To Succeed:
- A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role, with some automation testing skills.
- Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous.
- ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.
- Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.
Experience and skills are required in the following:
- Postman
- PractiTest
- Test case creation, execution and reporting
- Defect management
- Jira
- Regression Testing
- Re-testing
- Functional Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Time-management
- Java coding
- TestNG
- Selenium
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Git
Advantageous skills:
- Allure Reports
- Locust Performance Tool
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Virtual Machines
- BrowserStack
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Job Description
This role manages a sales team and distribution strategy and is accountable for the sales targets and profitability of the team, over periods of up to a year.
The successful candidates must therefore comply with all FAIS requirements, including the Fit and Proper requirements of Honesty and Integrity (e.g. be clear of any offence relating to fraud, dishonesty and/or any professional misconduct) as well as competence and relevant qualifications.
- Manages sales & expense budget for a sales team in a branch against set targets.
- Responsible for distribution strategy of products within a branch.
- Accountable or local marketing.
- Identifies & creates coordinated sales opportunities.
- Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
- Ensures delivery of customer value.
- Manages, develops, appoints & trains sales agents.
- Responsible for 15-20 Sales Agents
Skills
- Communication Skills
- Identifying Sales Opportunities
- Managing Sales Teams
Education
- Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)
Closing Date
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