Job Vacancies at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide strategic compliance business partnering and oversight to the Asset Management (AM) business including the Africa regions ( AR) to ensure that all licenses to operate requirements are adhered to and met continuously.

Minimum Experience

• 8 - 10 years experience in a similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at senior management level

Minimum Qualifications

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications [Level TBA: Pre-2009 was L7] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of a Masters Degree, MBA or Equivalent.
• C PRAC (SA)
• Cat II/IIA/III

Outputs
Process

• Accountable for the formulation of functional operating models and value-chain integration, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Proactively identify problems across the function of which the causes are ambiguous and uncertain, identifies optimal alternatives and designs optimal solutions, anticipating future challenges.
• Plan for effective organisational management across the value-chain, set strategic objectives and priorities among existing services, processes or systems and new developments, and specify the required measurements to monitor performance effectiveness.
• Develop and implement a holistic compliance strategy with a key focus on enabling business strategy, keeping in mind global regulatory trends, and accommodating for the nuances in the different business unit (BUs) within AM.
• Initiate and manage various internal and external stakeholder engagements to ensure appropriate positioning of the Asset Management business.
• Represent AM in various governance structures and committees (i.e. Board Committee Meetings, Group Executive Meetings, Regulatory Meetings, and Industry Body meetings).
• Lead and direct a group of compliance professionals across various levels to ensure that strategic imperatives are implemented and executed.
• Ensure that compliance monitoring is approved by the board and implemented by the STANLIB compliance function.
• Put coherent and consistent compliance training programmes and plans in place to support business objectives.
• Identification, escalation, and remediation for potential compliance risk in a global and local context.
• Ensure consistent and timeous reporting to regulatory authorities and internal governance structures.
• Provide guidance, advisory and business support on complex compliance matters relating to strategic initiatives to ensure STANLIBs strategic objectives adhere to compliance standards.
• Ensure that compliance function remains a key business enablement instrument to ensure a compliance centric culture in the business.

Customer

• Influence and drive the implementation of a customer-centric stakeholder framework, which builds positive relationships and encourages feedback.

Finance

• Ensure that appropriate strategies have adequate financial resources for the development and implementation of critical financial plans and budgets. Influence the implementation and integration thereof across the organisation.

Learning and Growth

• Integrate and drive human resource strategies across operating units to ensure optimum utilisation of human capability through effective planning and development.

Governance

• Drive the development and implementation of integrated risk, governance and compliance frameworks, ensuring the consolidation of the risk profile for an area of accountability across the value chain, managing critical risks and providing feedback.
• Translate regulatory requirements into practical and implementable action plans to ensure BUs remains compliant with relevant statutory requirements.
• Remediate materialized compliance violations in line with relevant regulatory and legislative requirements.

Competencies
Liberty Values
Technical Competencies

• Policy implementation (Advanced)
• Compliance & operational risk knowledge (Advanced)
• Risk Knowledge (Advanced)
• Risk management (Advanced)

Behavioural Competencies

• Integrity (Advanced)
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management (Advanced)
• Strategic Thinking (Advanced)
• Analytical Thinking (Advanced)
• Organisation and Attention to Detail (Advanced)
• People Management and Empowerment (Advanced)
• Strategic Insight and Capability (Advanced)
• Governance, Ethics and Values (Advanced)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Advanced)

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Purpose

• Accountable for leading the Finance and Value Management (FVM) function for the SA Retail Life & Savings (SARLSA) business line within IAM.  Develops and executes the FVM strategy and alignment to SA Retail Life & Savings strategy. The role is accountable for all financial aspects of the business line, including the relevant financial information, as well as insights from the financial information, management reporting, and driving action back into the business to enhance the commercial outcomes of the business line.

Minimum Experience

• 10+ years experience in a similar environment, of which 3 - 5 years at executive management level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Learning and Growth

• Lead the team according to SBG and IAM's leadership principles and values, including managing the employee lifecycle to ensure a high-performance culture

Learning and Growth

• Integrate and drive human resource strategies across operating units to ensure optimum utilisation of human capability through effective planning and development.

Lead the team according to SBG's leadership principles and values, including managing the employee lifecycle to ensure a high-performance culture

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Purpose

• To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise.

Minimum Experience

• 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level

Critical Job

• Applied understanding of an operations value chain.
• Demonstrated ability to actively participate in client specific processes that enables business delivery
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate client needs and communicate back to client.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and align HC processes to business cycles and processes.
• MS Excel intermediary level- This is to navigate PowerBi which is being used more and more in business and HC
• MS PowerPoint

Report Writing Skills

• Data collation, analysis and interpretation skills.
• Ability to work through multiple processes simultaneously

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Human Resources

Outputs

• Interpret financial information and advice line leaders on HC decisions
• Review information that contributes to financial decisions e.g. employee bursaries, skills development contributions.
• Use excel to manage basic HC calculation, e.g. remuneration increases, CTC package information, etc
• Coordinate Team activities
• Provide direction on team activities
• Support and mentor team leaders
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, using written and verbal communication processes
• Responsiveness to client communication through all communication platforms
• Professionalism and high level of participation
• Resilience and emotional maturity to respond to feedback

Process

• Provide specialist coaching to key stakeholders, leaders and executives in area of specialisation.
• Determine resource allocation priorities and deployment necessary to support the effective integration of processes.
• Use knowledge and theoretical guidelines such as SIPP to develop, align and implement cross functional frameworks, practices, processes and policies.
• Advise on the application of methodology, practices and integrated processes, enabling line management and practitioners to enhance value chain integrity.
• Assist and support the seamless integration and implementation of HR processes, programs and practices into tactical planning and operations.
• Accountable for contributing to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
• Draw on own technical and/or professional knowledge and experience to proactively develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
• Plan to deliver work outputs related to a service or operational area, Manages interdependent functional activities, and directs best-practice priorities, standards and procedures to ensure efficiency within area of specialisation.

Customer

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance throughout the area of specialisation.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice and/or tactical area to identify and manage risk exposure liability related to the area of specialisation.

Technical Competencies

• Talent Management (Proficient)
• Legal Compliance (HR) (Proficient)
• Research and Information Gathering (Proficient)

Behavioural Competencies

• People Management and Empowerment (Proficient)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Proficient)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Proficient)
• Professional/Technical learning (Proficient)

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About the role

• To develop and implement a functional Bancassurance Advisory channel operating model and framework in a broadly defined group functional strategy, enabling horizontal implementation and adoption.

Qualifications and Experience

• Postgraduate Diplomas and Professional Qualifications [NQF Level 08] in Generic Management.
• 12-15 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at senior management level.
• Strategy Implementation.
• Knowledge of Banking and Insurance.
• People Management and Empowerment.
• Problem Solving and Analysis.
• Strategic Insight and Capability.
• Relationship Management and Networking.
• Risk Assurance.
• Sales life cycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify sales targets, track accomplishment thereof and implement solutions to ensure sales targets are achieved.
• Manage customer and FA retention through various channels and functions.
• Accountable for the formulation of functional operating models and value-chain integration, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Proactively identify problems across the function of which the causes are ambiguous and uncertain, identifies optimal alternatives and designs optimal solutions, anticipating future challenges.
• Plan for effective organisational management across the value-chain, set strategic objectives and priorities among existing services, processes or systems and new developments, and specify the required measurements to monitor performance effectiveness.
• Develops and implements strategic plans to realise profitability objectives in the institutional and advisory bancassurance segments.