Job Opportunities at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

Job Purpose

• Lead and manage the end-to-end People/HR agenda within a business area by aligning the people and business agenda to ensure business objectives are met that contribute to the delivery of the overall company strategy. This is achieved through the introduction and implementation of programmes, tools, policies and frameworks developed in the Centres of Expertise that support the achievement of the agreed people, customer and growth results.  Monitor (through SLA’s, HR metrics) and support HR services delivered via the People Enablement delivery team.
• Responsibilities

Business Planning

• Develop and propose annual business plans for a given area or department and ensure alignment with strategy. Recommend financial and headcount budgets; propose HR related business targets (e.g., key performance indicators); and schedule key activities/projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organisation.

HR Data Analytics and Insights

• Monitor, analyse and report on key Human Capital Enablers such as HR Management, Reporting and Analytics; Governance, SLA's and HR Metrics to optimize the Human Capital of the organisation.
• Analyse and investigate business/people issues and trends within the business unit and recommend interventions in collaboration with COE to create HR insights that enable the diagnosis of business issues, enhancement of employee engagement, and/or improvement of business performance.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Be a "Broker" of service between specialized internal groups (e.g remuneration) and the business.
• Act as a consultant on issues related to strategy execution and change, talent management, employee engagement, performance management, employee relations. Provide feedback to Centres of Expertise about HR solution effectiveness. Collaborate with Centres of Expertise to create innovative solutions.
• Focus on consultative support and HR solution delivery to senior line management.
• Support all HR products, services, process implementation including any required changes and ensure client buy-in through influencing (context, rationale).

Leadership and Direction

• Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.

Policy Development & Implementation

• Develop procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organisation.
• Work with the business unit to translate business needs into HR requirements and employee experience.

Information and Business Advice

• Provide specialist guidance to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
• Drive effective execution of HR policies and processes in their business.

Change Management

• Manage and support the development and/or delivery of an organisational change management initiative for a substantial department/area.
• Organisational Capability Building
• Identify the organisational capabilities gaps required to execute the business strategy within the context of the capability mapping on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for implementing initiatives at the business unit level and may support the design of specialized or customised training, communications and talent management.
• Support the development of leadership and manage talent pipeline in business unit.
• Coach and educate the line managers in people management.
• Coach and develop HRC's.

Regulatory & Compliance Management

• Draft HR frameworks within an area of expertise to meet business needs, ensuring compliance with specified design principles, internal policies, and external legal requirements.
• Investigate all kinds of incidents and reports, and provide expert advice to more senior colleagues. Minimize risk exposures and ensure adherence with regulatory standards by working with all internal functions to make sure compliance programs are properly implemented.

Personal Capability Building

• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Education

• Recognised 3 year Degree / Diploma in HR Management or Industrial Psychology (Essential); Post Graduate Degree in HR Management or Industrial Psychology or any other relevant qualification (Advantageous)  (Required)

Experience

• 4 or more years experience in the following:
• Strategic Human Resources Management / HR Organisation Capability management / Change Management / Talent Management (Recruitment, Development and Retention) / Performance & Reward / Human Capital Planning / ER, IR and Wellness (Essential);
• Experience in Project Management and HRMS (i-manage – Oracle, SAP, VIP etc) (Advantageous). 2 or more years supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (Essential)
   

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Job Purpose

• Prepare, examine and analyse accounting records, financial statements and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Responsibilities

Financial Management and control

• Prepare monthly and annual financial statements for management and auditing purposes. Ensure effective daily cash management of the company. Record asset transactions in respect of additions, disposals and transfers on a daily basis to ensure that transactions are allocated accurately in terms of amounts, VAT, description and account.

Financial Accounting Skills

• Use full understanding of accruals accounting and the impact of entries on profit and loss account, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. Compile complete, accurate and timely accounting records on a monthly basis. Prepare month end file with reconciliations and documentation to support the trial balance.

Financial Policies, Guidelines, and Protocols

• Assist with the delivery of financial policies, guidelines, and protocols to ensure the company complies with regulations and good financial practice.

Operational Compliance

• Develop knowledge and understanding of the organisation's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorisation from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.

Data Collection & Analysis

• Draw conclusions and assess impact from analysis and interpretation of financial data. Interpret the impact of unusual figures identified by analytical review.

Document Preparation

• Prepare monthly and annual financial statements for management and auditing purposes. Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual statutory returns.

Reporting

• Extract and combine data to generate standard reports.

Customer Management

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with internal  and external Auditors and business partners on a daily basis. Provide accurate information and respond and resolve enquiries to a satisfactory outcome.

Data Management

• Generate monthly depreciation journal on the financial system. Record financial transactions on a daily basis into the applicable business systems to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information.

Improvement / Innovation

• Implement improvements and provide feedback on them. Use change management systems and protocols to provide routine supportive services.

Leadership and Direction

• Supervise a team performing routine work.

Education

• B.com degree (Financial accounting) or equivalent CA(SA) undergraduate qualification at a SAICA accredited university. Completed Honours degree (CA) (Essential)

Experience

• Completed articles experience essential  
• 3 years post articles work experience in the Financial services industry (desirable )
• (Over 3 years to 6 years). Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)
   

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Job Purpose

• To partner with operational heads, to ensure that financial information is reported in line with IFRS standards, company policy and business requirements. Provide commercial and financial oversight in supporting the operational heads, while monitoring performance to approved budgets. Maintain appropriate communication channels between finance and business.

Responsibilities

Financial Management & Control

• Track progress against budgets within established finance systems and report variances to more senior colleagues.
• Work within established systems to deliver prescribed outcomes for a designated area of financial control. Able to monitor and control expenditure. Able to interpret the impact of unusual figures identified by analytical review. Able to prepare budgets and forecasts in cooperation with senior managers.

Data Collection & Analysis

• Anomalies are identified and then investigated together with financial accountants to ensure processing is
• complete and accurate. If the investigation does not yield
• satisfactory results, the management accountant proceeds to investigate the source of data Analyse financial
• data, extracts and define relevant information. Interpret data for the purpose of determining past financial
• performance and forecast preparation by business unit and consolidation into personal lines.

Cost Accounting

• Evaluate costs and identify variances or opportunities to improve profitability and increase profitability for more senior colleagues.
• Perform ratio analysis as well as the interpretation of variances eg. surplus ratio, claims ratio, expenses ratio, and other cost accounting metrics.

Budgeting & Costing

• Track budgets and report variances to more senior colleagues.
• Deliver a budget for an area of the organisation or conduct complex analyses on budget progress in other areas of the organisation. Running staff lists to ensure each business unit / cost centres have the correct allocation. Budget system management. Assist heads with population of templates.
• Liaise between key stakeholders in order to ensure that the budget is accurate and follows logic.
• Provide instruction and answer questions relating to budget procedures. Identifies budget issues, provide alternative solutions, and resolve problems.
• Manage the various budget iterations between heads and exco expectations.

Operational Compliance

• Follow a range of mandatory procedures to ensure that work is carried out to the required quality standards and/or to ensure adherence to external regulatory codes and internal codes of conduct.

Insights and Reporting

• Prepare and coordinate the completion of various financial reports.

Personal Capability Building

• Keep abreast of laws and regulations that apply to this particular function or field of professional expertise, maintain up to date compliance.

Education

• Bachelor of Commerce: Finance (Required)

Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ Financial Management Accounting experience 
• 2 years’ Financial Services background (Advantageous).