Job Vacancies at PPS

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Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.
• The Data engineer will also build and automate solutions (dashboards) to provide actionable insights into customer management, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• B.Sc in IT (Data Engineering) or similar

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of relevant database and query solutions, applications and tools. SQL proficiency as well as working familiarity with a visualisation engines (Power BI)
• Knowledge and understanding of the best practices of the financial services / graduate professional client market
• Knowledge of information management practices including information lifecycle management, data modelling, master data management and carrying out business audits and requirements gathering.
• Knowledge and appreciation of the need for consistency in data management and governance.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the Analytics Data Warehouse and Data Pipeline environments. Work with teams to automate and audit data flows to ensure clean and available data
• Data governance (quality, accessibility, ownership and security). Engaging with stakeholders to obtain an understanding of their data practices to contract, manage and meet expectations.
• Identifying opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies by researching and recommending improvement initiatives and effective ways to operate and add value to PPS
• Designing and implementing data strategies and systems, through collaboration with the IT and Business teams, to create and maintain the data architecture that will drive various initiatives across the organisation
• Work with IT to source and load a wide range of data across our business into the data lake so that it can be used by analysts and developers to develop data solutions for the business
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader

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About the Job

Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• The successful candidate will be required to actively assist the Practice Management business unit to support advisory practices with the implementation of principles, philosophies and tools presented at the training and coaching workshops to be conducted in the roll out of the planned program.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Degree in business, finances or economics or similar

Knowledge and Skills:

• Be able to engage professionally and build rapport
• Build relationships
• Attention to detail
• Attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
• Ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) with technical writing skills
• Data driven thinking
• Time management
• Meticulous
• Well spoken
• Proactive

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Attend all Practice Management module presentations and build rapport with attendee Advisers
• Engage Advisers to ensure adoption and implementation of tools, processes, procedures, systems and documentation
• Customize tools, processes, documentation as appropriate to enable implementation in individual practices
• Provide Specific project support required by participant Advisory practices
• Research, and assist to prepare presentations
• Assist in Identifying and understanding problems through gap analysis, quantitative reporting, research, and statistical analysis
• Skilled in generating process documentation

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About the Job

Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• The successful candidate swill serve in a scrum team with the primary responsibility of assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.

Minimum Requirements

Facilitates events and the team’s progress toward team goals

• The Scrum Master is trained as a team facilitator and is continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

Coordinates with other teams

• The Scrum Master supports the team’s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams. They frequently represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness (see Program Increment for more details).

Problem Solving

• Many blocking issues will be beyond the team’s authority or may require support from other teams. The Scrum Master supports the team in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.

Continuous improvement

• Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective. Teaches problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.

Maintaining Quality

• Fosters the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.

Coaching

• The Scrum Master supports the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching the Product Owner, team members and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organization’s SPCs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Science or Information Technology
• Certified Scrum Master E.g. Professional Scrum Master (PSM I or II), SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance or equivalent.

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About the Job

Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• Assist with compliance and legal administration. To second on ESG and B-BBEE compliance processing , procedures and reporting

Minimum Requirements

Education

• BCom/LLB or
• BCom / BTech Internal Audit or
• BCom / BTech Risk Management or
• Equivalent (NQF level 7)

Knowledge and Skills:

• An understanding and knowledge of the regulatory requirements within the insurance industry (PF Act, FAIS, FICA, LTIA, PPR, POPIA)
• Computer literate in MS Office which includes Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Proficient in the English language.
• Good attention to detail
• Self-directed and can work independently.
• Places emphasis on the quality of their work.
• Efficient time management and can work to meet deadlines.
• A team-player who collaborates to get things done.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor compliance with applicable legislation and internal requirements
• Research and gather information on new legislation
• Analyse proposed new legislation and provide input/feedback
• Receiving, researching, and managing internal and external stakeholder queries.
• Assist with compliance and risk reporting, resolution and tracking of breaches and other compliance and regulatory issues.
• Assist with incident reporting, to reduce compliance risks on legislative requireme
• Assist in developing, promoting, implementing and maintaining compliance standards and procedures to promote a compliance culture.
• Stay abreast of legislative developments and implement recommendations as per the Group compliance standards
• Assist with the development, monitoring and implementation of various B-BBEE initiatives in Ownership, Management Control, Skills Development, Enterprise and Supplier Development and Socio-Economic Development elements to achieve compliance with the FSC Code of good conduct
• Assist with the preparing and submitting of all reports for B-BBEE planning, development and management reporting.
• Assist stakeholders with the EE Plan to the Department of Labour, Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR) to align to FCS targets.
• Guide and assist BU’s with the collation of relevant or required verification documentation and ensure adherence to all legislative requirements for the annual B-BBEE rating processes
• Manage relationships and service delivery of external B-BBEE partners and internal stakeholders.
• General administrative duties.

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About the Job

Job Advert Summary

Start your career with PPS in 2024!

• Are you eternally curious and eager to learn and grow your capabilities? Our 12-month graduate program offers an opportunity to kickstart a career in the industry offering a comprehensive learning experience to support your developmental goals. We are searching for graduates who have a passion for delivering great client and beneficiary experiences.
• The successful candidate will offer administrative and bookkeeping support to the Finance team.
• The aim of the role to provide the administrative bookkeeping support to the Finance team.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Diploma or degree in Finance

Knowledge and Skills:

• Attention to detail
• High level of accuracy
• Intermediate or advances excel
• Great Plains – advantageous
• Standard Bank Banking application
• Accounting knowledge

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Cashbook maintenance
• Petty Cash maintenance
• Maintenance of banking spreadsheets
• Assistance with audit deliverables for cashbook requests for smaller entities and ensuring bank reconciliation balances to final bank statements
• Assistance with audit deliverables within group finance space relating to payroll and bookkeeping space
• Assistance with analysis of salary costs for year end – actuals vs budget
• Assistance with monthly reconciliations