Jobs at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Description

• This is an opportunity to work in a large IT department with about 20 teams. 
• You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about creating long term wealth for our clients, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. 
• We appreciate someone that is pragmatic and knows when to push for process improvement or let the team experiment and fail in a safe manner. Many of our teams have been doing Scrum or Kanban, some have even chosen parts of Agile processes that work for them, it is not one size fits all. The candidate should be able to engage with teams to either re-establish Scrum practises or assist them in Process design to achieve buy-in and help the team be effective.
• The candidate will work with a high degree of autonomy and will need to engage not only with the team but also with stakeholders outside the team to drive continuous improvement.
• You will not be alone, we currently have a team of Scrum Masters that you can co-facilitate, co-coach, pair on anything to help achieve a team’s goals.
• We believe Scrum Masters can influence broader than one or two teams and we encourage implementation of improvement themes across the department
• Please note: This is a Cape Town based role and you will be required to be in office for a minimum of 3 days / week, with a Monday and Thursday as compulsory.  

Responsibilities

• Organise and help execute the Scrum framework: Scrum meetings (i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and metrics (burndown charts, predictability metrics) 
• Assist the product owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet agreed delivery time frames
• Make sure that all the team members understand their roles and fulfil them to the best of their ability
• Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and the ownership of the product - lead team to a self-organised state
• Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments 
• Helps the team in its use of Scrum and Agile practices by motivating the team and reminding the team of its goals and how they choose to meet them

Skills and Competencies

• Strong communication, coaching and facilitation skills 
• Flexible, resilient, energetic and have an adaptive leadership style 
• Influential. Able to exert influence without authority inside and outside the team 
• Strong logical thinking and deductive reasoning 
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills 
• Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way. 
• Collaborative. Works to ensure a collaborative culture exists within the team 
• Highly observant and an expert at root cause analysis 
• Committed and responsible: Take responsibility without assuming any authority that might be useful in achieving it. 
• Humble and lead through Servant Leadership. Recognize the value in all team members and by example lead others to the same opinion.
• Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential

Experience

• Understanding of SDLC
• Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential
• 3 – 5 years Scrum Master experience 
• 2+ years’ IT industry experience essential

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification 
• Scrum certification

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Job Summary

• We are looking for a self-motivated individual to join the Institutional IT team as a test analyst in delivering quality software that will create an exceptional user experience for our end-users. 
• Allan Gray Institutional IT team consists of appr. 65 members, covering a range of skills and responsibilities including Domain Owners, Development Manager, Architect, Business Analysts, Developers (.NET and SQL) and IT Operations. The team operates with four business-aligned domains (Front Office, Middle Office, Fund Operations and Client Servicing). 
• Additionally, the Tech domain and IT Operations teams support the business-aligned domains.
• What you can expect: You will work predominantly within the Client Services Domain performing functional and regression testing as well as resolving production defects. 

Please note: This is a Cape Town based role and you will be required to be in office for a minimum of 3 days / week, with a Monday and Thursday as compulsory.  

Job Responsibilities

• Extracting test requirements for user stories, 
• Designing and creating test cases, 
• Estimating effort for testing tasks, 
• Manual testing of applications, which includes front-end, system integration, regression, and end-to-end as well as exploratory testing, 
• Managing and maintaining manual regression test suites, 
• Product risk mitigation, thereby limiting defects in production, 
• Collaborating closely with developers and business analysts in identifying, logging, and verifying defects in a defect tracking system, 
• Collaborating with other teams in INST IT for integration testing. 
• Assist in production support issues and queries.
• Liaise with IT Ops and other Domains for support to resolve or assist with fixes.
• Continuous improvement initiatives specifically with regard to quality and performance

Skills and experience required

• Attention to detail, 
• Data analysis and reporting skills, 
• Good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, 
• Ability to: 
• Manage own time and get tasks done, 
• Grasp concepts and understand the systems being tested, 
• Deal with complexity, 
• Deal with high variability of work and context switching, 
• Be comfortable with a fair amount of unpredictability in daily tasks.
• Resolve issues and overcome obstacles
• Able to engage with others to gather information

Education

• 4 years test experience 
• Basic SQL skills
• Relevant Business/ Commerce/ IT degree. 
• Testing fundamentals training / Test certification would be advantageous.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies (e.g. SCRUM) would be advantageous

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Job Summary

BA: Group Savings and Complianace

• We are looking for a dynamic individual who will bridge the gap between our Retail Umbrella Fund business objectives and our systems and serve as the point of contact for our Compliance systems, to ensure regulatory adherence. The ideal candidate for this position is detail-oriented, highly analytical and accustomed to working in a technological environment with multiple integrated systems.  The successful incumbent will be responsible for translating business needs to IT solutions, by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical and testing tasks of our software products.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand requirements of the area and the minimal viable product   
• Lead the thinking, analysis and solution design for business problems
• Identify, prioritise and plan work in collaboration with the Product Owner, business stakeholders and Tech Lead
• Get buy-in from and communicate with stakeholders
• Analyse integration and system requirements
• Understand and communicate system impact / dependencies on other IT systems
• Formulate required specs, diagrams and documentation of high-level test scenarios
• Work with the team to ensure requirements are understood
• Work with testers and business to ensure that test coverage is complete
• Manage project implementation, where applicable
• Facilitate and run requirement refinement sessions
• Collaborate across team functions to support delivery
• Assist with onboarding people within the team
• Support the overall wellbeing of our IT systems and help translate the knowledge gained by our team to knowledge that can be shared across the floor
• Collaborate with other analysts in IT to ensure consistency of solutions and re-use of solutions, where possible
• Be the liaison between business and IT
• Participate in recurring releases, assisting the team verify the systems 
• Assist with testing which includes creating test cases, facilitation of business user testing and managing any change requests
• Assist with production support
• Help identify and raise issues that affect the ecosystem of applications and processes managed within the team 
• Contribute to the internal Business Analyst community and proactively develop personal and team capabilities through continuous learning

Skills, Competencies and Experience

• Relevant industry experience
• At least 3-5 years business analysis experience in a technical role 
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Ability to handle complexity and work with complex integrating systems 
• Understand and have experience in Agile methodologies, especially Scrum
• Understanding of SQL and database design 
• UML or other diagramming techniques (Data/Sequence/Process/Context etc.) and business analysis frameworks and methodologies
• Understanding of APIs and Web Services
• Good conceptual thinking and critical analytical skills
• Good communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills  
• Disciplined and methodical approach to work
• Ability to get things done, be accountable and self-manage
• Good leadership skills, including self-direction and the ability to lead cross-team analytical efforts
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work in a team with a positive, friendly and respectful attitude
• Have an interest in global IT trends, and be willing to learn new skills

Education

• Technology or Business Analyst qualification
• Strong academic performance

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Job Summary

• Join a dynamic IT team supporting the Client Servicing domain in Asset Management. As an Intermediate Business Analyst, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, support solution design, and contribute to the delivery of scalable IT systems. This role suits someone with solid analytical skills, a good grasp of asset management processes, and experience working in agile environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Strong reporting experience.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and clarify business requirements.
• Assist in designing practical and scalable IT solutions.
• Document processes, requirements, and functional specifications.
• Support testing, implementation, and user adoption of solutions.
• Troubleshoot data issues and support production systems using SQL.
• Participate in sprint planning and backlog management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and team delivery goals.

Skils and Experience

• 3+ years in IT business analysis, preferably in asset management.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with SQL and data analysis.
• Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
• Effective communicator and team collaborator.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Expertise

• Demonstrate leadership qualities.
• Understands how applications are constructed.
• You know how to structure tests and to test interfaces and integrated systems.
• You are passionate about great software.
• Project management capabilities (Advantage)
• Asset Management Business. 
• System Development Life Cycle / SCRUM methodology.
• Databases, client reporting and/or data analysis
• Problem solving techniques.
• Release Processes and IT environments. 
• Testing Methodology.

Education

• Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g., BCom, BSc, B Bus Science degree) with strong academic performance.
• Sound understanding of asset management processes (Advantage)
• Min of 3 years’ experience in an IT business analysis role (preferably in asset management).