Job Opportunities at Old Mutual

The role will commence with a one-year period in which basic foundations of equity analysis and long-term investing are introduced. During this period the role will include meeting boutique operational requirements and other ad hoc requests from the portfolio managers.

Key Result Areas

• Research and analysis of companies listed on JSE, including building financial models, valuations and preparing research presentations
• Develop independent, fact-driven views on individual stocks
• Clearly articulate an investment case including the appropriate supporting evidence and quantitative analysis
• Presentation of investment cases to members of the investment team which demonstrate conviction and clarity of thought
• Active participation in debates

Ideal Qualifications

• An appropriate tertiary education with a solid understanding of accounting (BCom or Business Science or any degree majoring in Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Science)
• Chartered Financial Analyst or Chartered Accountant qualification
• MBA

Requirements: Skills and Experience required

• Minimum two years relevant experience
• Proven enthusiasm and passion for investments
• An ability to synthesise a large mass of economic, industry and company information, and to effectively analyse this and formulate an investment rationale
• Analytical skills
• Ad hoc travel will be required as part of the role
• Previous investment management or financial services experience not required

Competencies

• Passion for investments and broad knowledge
• Analytical thinking
• Financial modeling and coding
• Presenting and writing concisely
• Humility, curiosity and creativity
• Effective decision making
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Client orientation
• Self-directed and takes initiative
• Continuous improvement mindset

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Job Description

The Old Mutual Guaranteed Solutions Team is seeking an enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual to perform the diverse duties needed to sustain and grow the largest Smoothed Bonus Portfolio in South Africa

The role will include performing product marketing and management of Old Mutual’s R150bn+ Smoothed Bonus book. The segment agnostic nature of the team grants exposure to all segments from the Retail Mass Market up to the Corporate Segment. A deep focus on underlying asset performance allows for the broadening of the incumbent’s skillset beyond the rich understanding of liabilities. Opportunities to present the asset and liability performance to the top 10 clients is also provided. The role will also require collaboration across the business including senior management, finance, legal, compliance, marketing, IT, client servicing and operations. A clear path for upward progression is also established within the role

Key Result Areas

Craft and manage dissemination of smoothed bonus marketing collateral

• Undertaking client report back presentations covering a range of topics including liability positioning, underlying asset performance, ESG and transformation
• Provide Smoothed Bonus product technical support to distribution force
• Provide oversight to operations team performing unit pricing of smoothed bonus portfolios
• Representing the area in projects by driving the implementation of development, industry and regulatory changes (amongst others)
• Supporting Rest of Africa by providing product marketing and management insights to in-country teams

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• Actuarial student with at least 9 exam credits and 2 years actuarial experience
• Self-starter who shows initiative and is able to drive projects to completion with minimal guidance.
• Business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work on a wide range of deliverables at once.
• Ability to present technical concepts to a wide range of audiences.
• Product experience would be an advantage.
• Investment experience would be an advantage.

Skills

• Communication, Interpersonal Communication

Education

• Bachelors Degree (B): Actuarial Science (Required)

Closing Date

• 06 September 2022

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Job Description

We are one of the top African Financial Institution leaders looking for an experienced CI/CD engineer. The Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) engineer will be responsible for builds, pipeline automation, and deploying code for all environments including Production. The successful candidate will join our excellent team of engineers who formulates solutions to the most intricate problems.

Identify, internally or externally, technologies and patterns to deliver version control to development teams and apply the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.

• Develop, scale, and control strategies, standards, guidelines, governance of Continuous Integration systems Own the design of the platform deployment system and associated tools, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation.
• Ensure software configuration management tooling adheres to the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Join the ongoing design, implementation, and preservation of systems and tools across the on premise infrastructure and migrating to cloud stack.
• Own the execution/implementation of multiple Platform Engineering objectives.
• Craft and maintain Platform Engineering documentation, templates and style guides and assist software development teams to adopt standards during delivery.
• Work directly with the third-party vendors / enablers to fix infrastructural and environmental issues.
• Respond to and resolve support tickets in the Platform Engineering support queue.
• Facilitate AWS technical enablement workshops to the software development and architecture teams.

• Bachelor’s/ Tech Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other IT related fields.
• 3-5+ years of experience TFS (Azure DevOps) in CI/CD engineering experience with a different skillset.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle. Knowledge of DevOps advantageous.
• Hands-on experience in installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring CI/CD pipeline tools
• Knowledge of at least one high-level programming language: Java, Angular
• Knowledge in installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring software security pipeline tools
• Nexus Lifecycle Analysis (Scanning for Vulnerabilities)
• Understanding, learning and applying new automated build, test and deployment capabilities and help develop project teams towards integrating such solutions.
• Design, propose, facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code and engineering of new cloud technologies.
• Strong skillset on integrating and operating Static and Dynamic Code Scans for security testing, OpenSource Code Scan with pipelines.
• Ability to produce technical documentation.
• Technical skills required:
• Experience in working with tools or of similar type as GITlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube.
• Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes and other types of Microservices and Container technologies highly preferred.
• Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components.
• On-hands experience with various Microsoft and open-source based platforms is a plus. (such as IIS, MsSQL, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

Additional Qualifications/Experience (preferred, Not a Requirement)

• Shell (e.g. Bash) scripts are advantageous.
• Experience maintaining and working on Linux Servers
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified Developer Associate

Competencies Required

• Customer focus
• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity exists within the Africa Actuarial team that offers exposure to an interesting combination of technical and business issues. It also provides the opportunity to obtain and provide insights into a range of products as well as exposure to various Life Assurance businesses at various stages of growth within the Old Mutual Africa Regions (OMAR) business unit.

The successful candidate will oversee a team of actuarial staff who produce a range of financial results for driving business insights and OML group consolidation. The individual will report to OMAR Finance Actuary while working closely with various teams to ensure timeous delivery of all agreed requirements. This requires that robust, efficient processes with appropriate controls are built to ensure accurate deliverables.

The role therefore requires a balanced individual with sound technical knowledge and an aptitude for strategic thinking. The individual will need to manage and coach team members and collaborate effectively with various teams and stakeholders at all levels. As reporting is required to meet the needs of various stakeholders, there will be a strong focus on stakeholder engagement.

The role will also entail participation in various projects, which will present opportunities to develop strategic and operational skills.

Key Result Areas

• Financial, Business & Risk Reporting: Effective and timeous delivery of valuation results covering IFRS profits, VNB, Embedded Value, solvency, and risk metrics for:
• In-country management and reporting
• OMAR central and Head of Life businesses
• OML Group Actuarial reporting
• OMAR Enterprise risk management
• Balance Sheet Management
• Office of the Chief Actuary
• Business Planning & Forecasting: Provide actuarial modelling and other input into the segment business plan, and other strategic initiatives.
• Process efficiency and automation: Ensure processes are efficient, robust and fit for purpose. Ensure the control environment is adequate and effective.
• IFRS17: Implement and embed IFRS17 in OMAR, working with Project Manager, Programme Subject Matter Experts and Delivery Leads in OMAR countries.
• Ad-hoc projects: Support the delivery of relevant project objectives, as and when these arise.
• Business support: Use actuarial knowledge and skills to provide strategic support to the business and individual OMAR countries on various projects.
• Leading a team – manage and mentor the team

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

A qualified Actuary with at least 8 years’ relevant valuation experience.

• Ability to think strategically and provide business insights
• Strong technical skills and attention to detail.
• IFRS17 implementation experience would be an advantage
• Ability to communicate effectively to diverse technical and non-technical audiences (written and verbal).
• Experience leading a team.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others.

Competencies

• Empowering Individuals
• Meeting Timescales
• Interacting with People
• Directing People
• Establishing Rapport
• Articulating Information
• Providing Insights
• Adopting Practical Approaches

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Skills

• Business Performance
•  Communication
• People Management
• Strategic Support
• Strategic Thinking
• Technical Knowledge

Education

• Fellow Of Actuarial Society Of South Africa (FASSA), Fellow Of The Institute Of Actuaries

Closing Date

• 16 September 2022

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Job Description

As a part of our Core Technology Platform team, the individual will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on the cost of running our cloud infrastructure and service platforms. Old Mutual Limited does make use of a central tenet account hierarchy. All operational aspects will be performed to best practice policies and methodologies to ensure the performance and quality standards are met. The individual will work closely with application and core support teams, to lead by diving into usage patterns and forecasts. The individual will assist teams to align their budget expectations with their actuals. Based on this data intelligence gathering process, the individual is a key component of revenue decisions and key in defining engineering future cloud strategies. The individual will mentor, guide and facilitate the implementation of ITFM and FinOps framework within the company and be part of the TBM modelling team.

Investigate and understand the basis for every line item in the cloud infrastructure invoices and usage data.

• Finding anomalies in usage patterns and giving quick feedback to course correct.
• Following Inform, Optimize and Operate methodology by ensuring resource utilization versus estimates are realistic and achievable.
• Creating business intelligence reporting to inform the broader organization and empower support teams to facilitate the companies’ cost optimizations and to minimize companywide IT cloud resource waste.
• Creating AI and ML capabilities, to assist in automating and less human interventions for managing of Cloud spend. By using cloud native technologies and applications as first option.
• Producing real-time data to predict usage patterns, to use in making decisions for optimizing and being able to tell the data stories in the reporting to all levels of management and support.
• Create and maintaining internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes
• Create mapping and upload files into Cost analytics toolsets to assist support team in building out their TCO’s, using the agreed TBM data model.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience (required For The Job)

Must be a member of the FinOps Community.

• Must have either AWS Cloud Certified Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals Certification or equivalent.
• FinOps Practitioner certification, or equivalent, is preferred
• Keep up to date on the latest cloud products and trends related to costs.
• Some working experience with cost structure of AWS products and services.
• Familiarity with other cloud service provides is beneficial.
• Some working experience with BI, warehousing and/or cost tracking tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power Platform, AWS-Athena, AWS-QuickSight.
• Literacy in Json is beneficial.
• Must have knowledge of Cloud concepts such as SAAS, FAAS, Native product and software offerings.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and cloud management tools
• Tertiary education or experience in a finance related discipline is recommended including budgeting and expense management

Competencies Required

Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture

• Action Oriented
• Measuring capabilities (Process and Finance)
• Data storyboarding (monitoring and measuring)
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving

Closing Date

• 30 September 2022

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Job Description

The IT Capability Manager is responsible for building, leading and motivating QA capability specialists, ensuring that they have the appropriate skills and competencies available within their respective teams and fosters a multi-disciplinary delivery team culture.

A key responsibility of the Capability Manager will be to support cross-functional teams as they adopt an agile approach to delivery. The primary purpose of the role is to analyse specific gaps and develop sustainable strategies to ensure effective and efficient business outcomes for Information Technology. The role supports timely and appropriate skill, knowledge and behavioral development as well as succession planning for individuals.

Requires strong communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment, and proven expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff. In-depth knowledge of business functions and understanding of business operations, strategies and objectives.

Main activities

Actively demonstrate the importance of collaboration by working closely with all stakeholders to resolve resource issues and blockers across delivery teams.

• Plan and track progress against strategic road maps whilst challenging and providing direction.
• Contribute to the building of a strategically agile culture alongside the senior management team.
• In conjunction with the Service Delivery Managers, ensure the staffing levels, skills and capabilities meet demand.
• Communicate with the capability specialists to ensure they have the support and understanding they need to work at maximum effectiveness.
• Identify capability training and development requirement, ensuring employee knowledge and skills are appropriate to their current and future roles.
• Lead the ongoing professional development of the capability specialists and the promotion of best practice within these teams.
• Contribute to the performance management for team members actively managing both strong and poor performance.
• In conjunction with the Service Delivery Managers, understand the pipeline of work. Strategically plan for future business needs and direct the timely deployment of appropriate resources.
• In conjunction with the Service Delivery Managers, identify and organise additional resources based on skill capability and the requirements of the flexible delivery teams.
• Establish and formalise governance, disciplines and controls for a specialist function.

Technical Operations and Development

• Lead the strategic development of a specialist function and think strategically about how to improve, optimize, and expand it to meet the goals and objectives of the business and IT strategy, in conjunction with the Capability Lead.

Technical Effort Management

• Manage capability within budget and schedules

Organizational Management

• Plan and manage capability budgets.
• Liaise with other relevant groups, partner organizations, and external vendors as needed in relation to operational matters.
• Advise and implement IT disciplines and approaches within a fast-paced tech environment.
• Communicate complex technical information to non-technical people in a comprehensible form.
• Identify improvements to operational systems, processes, and policies in support of IT and business strategy.

Scope of Influence

Advises Peers, Engineers, Manager, Senior Manager

• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
• Influences team/squad software architecture (may extend to related teams/squads).
• Actively mentors/develops others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your solutions, and their ability to get things done.
• Assesses readiness of intermediate/senior software engineers for promotion. You actively participate in the hiring process.

Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Information Technology.
• Relevant ISTQB/ISEB certificate in Software and Agile Testing.
• Minimum 10 years extensive experience in a quality assurance capacity.
• High level of technology awareness and experience of recruiting and /or procuring a wide range of technical expertise.
• A cooperative and outcome focused approach to employee and peer interactions with proven ability to coach and mentor employees through change, harnessing strengths and abilities to affect positive change outcomes.
• Exceptional knowledge and understanding of tools and methods for delivering IT Solutions.
• Demonstrated ability, managing the capabilities needed to deliver in a complex operational environment.
• Ability to guide and prioritise the diverse human resources needs of a specialist team of indirect reports with management experience.

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Job Description

The Senior Solution Architect primarily works with the business domain experts and business leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.

Consequently they focus their attention on a smaller facet of service (the solution package) to make sure that it operates effectively as part of the whole as well as independently as a stand-alone solution.

Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and solution practice architects.

Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.

Works actively with senior technology / platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).

Compliance

Provides critical input into the operational readiness and resilience components of the solution.

• Ensures delivery fits within the Solution Architecture patterns and guidelines.
• Provides input to the implementation of new solutions through review and input thus ensuring solutions adhere to agreed Solution Architecture patterns and guidelines.

Continuous Improvement

Continuous research and development of solution architecture technologies, patterns and designs for scale, resilience and innovation.

• Benchmark and monitor current practices against best practices and implement improvements within the allocated area of responsibility.
• Lead initiatives to improve software engineering, quality engineering, and operational excellence best practices in one or more teams/squads.

Financial Control

Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements in terms of capital and operation expenditure.

• Evaluates potential solutions by considering buy vs build options
• Understand and applies FinOps principles as part of the design/architecture process so that spending increases on running infrastructure can be predicted and monitored.
• Defines business cases for technology initiatives and clearly articulates the business value.

Personal Effectiveness

Ability to explain the complex in layman’s terms to bring technology to the masses

• Accepts and lives the company values
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks, and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects.
• Leads the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale, critical, or difficult software efforts for the business or that resolves architecture deficiencies, involving a significant amount of work. Requires one or more members of the team to execute architecture and design.

Strategy

• Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.
• Responsible for defining technical strategy and delivering on it with limited guidance.
• Take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team/squad’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams/squads.
• Deliver solutions/architecture simpler.
• Considers the impact of a single business process across multiple system touchpoints and ensures that the solution improves the process end-to-end.
• Has detailed knowledge of team/squad software architecture and proactively works to improve consistency and integration between your software and related software (owned by other teams/squads).
• Makes technical trade-offs between short-term team/squad needs and long-term business needs.

Technical Consultation

• Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, and improved quality.
• Builds a detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.
• Defines a solution and ensure that it:
• Meets the business requirements
• Meets the non-functional requirements
• Is based on DevOps, Cloud-Based and SRE practices
• aligns with the guidelines laid down by the Solution Architecture Chapter.
• Is compliant with the IT strategy.
• Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business
• Leverages past development experience to design and architect solutions.
• Works on team/squad architecture. Design and architecture impact on dependent systems and yield significant performance, availability/resilience, or business value. Your designs, architecture and implementation decisions set a great example to others. You take ownership of the outcome. (“You ‘ship it’, you own it.”). You work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things.
• Solves difficult or complex architecture and business problems. Solutions are extensible. Works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc. You lead design reviews for your team/squad and actively participate in design reviews of related software or other software for the business unit.

Scope of Influence

• Advises Peers, Engineers, Manager, Senior Manager
• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
• Influences team/squad software architecture (may extend to related teams/squads).
• Actively mentors/develops others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your solutions, and their ability to get things done.
• Assesses readiness of intermediate/senior software engineers for promotion. You actively participate in the hiring process.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in relevant IT domains such as Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance and/or Business/System Analysis
• A minimum of 4 years of experience as a Solution Architect
• Hands-on experience in designing enterprise-grade architectures,
• Experience with cloud-native solutions or container technologies,
• Good experience in software architecture/engineering from an overall platform perspective,
• Solid understanding of agile principles and proven experience applying them,
• Matric
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Information Technology.
• Cloud certification

Closing Date

• 10 September 2022