Job Vacancies at Optimal Growth Technologies

Insurance Manager

• Your role will be to provide strategic leadership, industry expertise and portfolio management to create insurance products in a telecommunication environment.
• You will develop, coordinate, and implement roadmap for bringing innovative and efficient insurance solutions and will provide highly specialized expertise working with markets.
• In addition, you will manage and coordinate key stakeholders to define the regulatory requirements, product capabilities, roadmap, and Go-To-Market needed for the insurance products to be deliver with a differentiated customer experience.
• You will also be required to engage technology providers and third-party experts to inform the strategy and roadmaps to meet/exceed the objectives and desired results.
• You will bring a wealth of insurance experience to enhance the creation and development cutting-edge insurance products.
• This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between telco capabilities and the insurance opportunities that exist.

Champion Insurance Management Product Strategy & Execution:

• Own the vision for the insurance portfolio
• Build business cases for different insurance products.
• Drive the Insurance roadmap incorporating industry and customer research to create transformative product offerings.
• Be a customer advocate; ensure the voice of customers across different segments is central to new product development.
• Evaluate different vendor capabilities and help specify product design features.
• Rally product creation colleagues to drive timely results developers, business analysts, architects, delivery managers, operations support, etc.

Spearhead Partnerships to Drive Innovation:

• Define partnership strategy for Insurance solutions including with tech providers, brokers, insurance , consumer education advocates, and internal stakeholders .
• Drive business development with relevant 3rd parties, negotiate key commercial and product terms and support legal on contracting
• Build "trusted advisor" relationship with business leaders
• Offer strategic support on the Insurance strategy, negotiations and business case
• Co-develop launch and go to market plans with local product managers to drive uptake and engagement
• Drive commercial prioritisation of the product roadmaps balancing requirements from multiple markets and building consensus where needed to address risk of fragmentation from local partnerships
• Act as a key resource to socialise & educate internal stakeholders about insurance through webinars, demos and onsite visits as needed

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• 4 years of professional experience with experience at an insurance product development in banking bank, telco or other relevant digital business
• Strong knowledge of mobile money, fintech and financial services
• Understanding of regulatory environment and future direction of regulation
• Analytical bent of mind, structured thinker with strong business acumen
• Results-driven self-starter
• Solid influencing and negotiation skills

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required, a Masters degree in a related field preferred
• Willingness to travel frequently

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Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Exploratory analytics in collaboration with commercial Experts to deliver on key KPIs
• Prepare and deliver high quality and concise presentations on the performance of various initiatives.
• Extensive experience in SQL or equivalent mandatory.
• Automate and enhance existing reporting.
• Provide input into commercial meetings to assist in decision making processes.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Revenue
• Consumer base size

Key Knowledge:

• Expert using SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar tools
• Pricing and commercial management
• Must have technical / professional qualifications and experience:
• Matric essential and
• A relevant 3 year degree or National Diploma essential in BSc, Engineering, Analytics or related and
• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience essential

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Accountabilities

• Co-ordinate the timely placement and receipting of purchase orders and to ensure regular reporting of network equipment ordered and provide end-to-end administrative support on purchase order requests in conjunction with the respective suppliers and business units within technical operations.
• Create the respective projects in the Management System and to track approval on all projects. 
• Retrieve and process all new order requests from the Management System and maintain the system details.
• Oversee, co-ordinate and manage the process of receipting invoices in line with finance processes and ensure that all outstanding supplier payments are processed timeously.
• Maintain order registers and track each PO until fully receipted, compile regular reports from SAP/EVO on all orders placed and deliveries outstanding.
• Compile regular departmental reports as required and assist with the distribution of budget reports 
• Continuously improve and develop processes to ensure effective order management practices.
• Maintain & coordinate operational activities and manage section deliverables.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Strong interpersonal skills with excellent verbal and written communication, able to manage internal and external team coordination.
• Numerical reasoning with analytical thinking and strategic insight, proficient in problem solving, able to navigate through difficult business challenges. Preferably project accounting or purchasing management experience.
• Strong report writing skills with advanced understanding of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) essential.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Matric essential.
• Minimum 3-5 years of business experience in a financial administration role within a technical environment, with extensive SAP/EVO working knowledge,
• Strong working knowledge of business operations and accounting concepts, work experience in an accounting, financial, purchasing or project management role advantageous.

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Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Ensure the integrity of tower infrastructure by implementing the tower analysis and modification program, as well as the tower maintenance and rectification program.
• Drive effective negotiations in establishing agreements with contractors and customers.
• Identify and escalate where necessary, risks associated with tower infrastructure and provide risk mitigation solutions.
• Develop, update, improve and implement quality assurance processes for new build and operational activities.
• Working with other areas in operations and project department to ensure that all tower related works by contractors are adequately monitored for compliance with quality standards.
• Ensure tower infrastructure and customer equipment databases are maintained.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of tower infrastructure service contracts and warranties.
• Prepare and manage budgets for tower maintenance activities.
• Establish team goals and develop tracking metrics to ensure that expectations and service levels are being met and provide regular status reports to the Head of Operations.
• Foster and manage relationships with both internal and external customers and answer any tower infrastructure related questions they may have.
• To review and analyse tower maintenance reports as submitted by vendors and other ATC partners.
• Provide technical direction to maintenance contractors during execution of works.
• Monitor tower maintenance works and deliverables to ensure that maintenance contractors execute their duties in accordance the terms of the Tower Maintenance Agreement, for both owned and managed sites.
• Review tower structures and foundations using hand-calculations, tower analysis software and other accepted engineering methods.
• Monitor tower maintenance and rectification works to ensure that they are completed in a timely manner.

Other responsibilities.

• Ensure on-site liaison is done with maintenance contractors at the regional and central levels whenever necessary.
• Verify and reconcile all contractor invoices for payments.
• Routinely review the installed infrastructure and timely produce swap out plans and budget for the replacement of equipment that is due.
• Ensure development and maintenance of accurate records for the entire infrastructure.
• Design and review Maintenance routines and procedures within the SLM maintenance function to achieve desired effectiveness and efficiency.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides leadership and support teams within a specific region.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple contracts simultaneously.
• In-depth knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to contract management.
• Familiarity with contract management software and tools.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Relevant Electrical and/or Mechanical and/or Facilities and /or Construction Management - 3 year Degree / Diploma (BSc, B.Tech, S4, N6, T3) (Essential)
• Project management (Desirable)
• Minimum 5-8 years relevant work experience, Proven experience in contract management or a related field.

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Description:

• To ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial results in accordance with requirements for actual and planning cycles
• Provide support to the Subsidiaries during month-end closure, forecast and budget cycles and full scope business partnering with the Operating companies
• Review and report financial information accurately and timeously
• Provide insightful management information with focus on month, quarter, half year, and annual results (this includes Board Pack support, Support to Investor Relations and Tax Departments).
• Contribute towards the development and improvement of financial policies, procedures and systems of internal controls in line with the companies internal control processes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Performance reporting, reviewing and analysis
• Support EHOD & FP&A team with the Month-end-close including Early View & Rolling Forecast process for the Group, trend informing insights, review with EHOD providing validation, support and alignment
• Support with external reporting confirm figures to Investor Relations team
• Assist with process automation and testing Team is on a drive to automate repetitive processes
• Preparation of schedules/templates to support the reporting of financial data for actual and planning cycles to achieve standardization
• Maintain relationships with the major shareholder and with subsidiaries.
• Assist with ad hoc projects and analysis requests within the division.