Jobs at Sanlam

This in an internship for graduates who require work experience in order to gain a professional qualification or unemployed graduates who require work experience to become more marketable.

Output/Core Tasks

This is a 12 month contract position allowing the incumbent to gain relevant work experience in the financial services industry. The individual will be exposed to training and office administration whilst being part of an administrative team at Sanlam Personal Finance.

• Provide administration support to Management Team
• Provide support to the Financial Advisers and or Brokers
• Co-ordinate and manage events
• Monitor new business received
• Monitor outstanding premiums
• Account Payments

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & Experience

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Business related National Diploma or Degree (Marketing, Legal, Financial Planning, Human Resources)
• Preferably no or very limited previous working experience

Knowledge And Skills

To be successful you will need to demonstrate good experience in:

• Successful candidate should be unemployed
• Knowledge of and experience in MS Office

Personal qualities

• Cultivates innovation
• Client centricity
• Results driven
• Collaboration
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Communicates effectively
• Plans and aligns
• Action oriented
• Treating customers fairly

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• Design, document and communicate technical solutions that deliver on business requirements.
• Fulfil the role of subject matter expert on all technical aspects of BI Solution Development.
• Ensure and validate Quality of all BI development / modelling activity incl. code reviews, issue resolution and general support.
• Assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources using various ‘big data’ technologies.
• Resolve critical data modelling issues impacting the functionality of BI products in production.
• Help streamline a better data supply chain for advanced analytics that goes from experimentation into production.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability.
• Develop technical standards and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to enhance and automate technical processes and solutions across BI projects and support operations.
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, other data engineers and solutions architects.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, quality improvements, integration and processes.

The complexity and variety of the most common challenges and problems.

• Delivering in a complex analytic environment
• Working with a high need for information security
• Diligence required when resolving data and technical issues and interacting with other support teams.
• Demanding business community

How the job will typically impact the business and where the impact will be felt.

• Information is an asset and it can be used strategically to gain a competitive edge in the market, hence
• Timely delivery required - information is key to business decisions
• Accurate delivery required - information is key to business decisions
• Access to information - information is key to business decisions

Additional Requirements

• 4+ years' experience as a data engineer / modeller experience in a BI environment.
• 2+ years' experience as an Architect in a BI environment.
• Ability to comply to and manage reusable assets under the governance framework of the DSUA and MOU
• Excellent SQL skills
• Ability to code in Java, Python, R plus other languages - advances, including understanding of SDLC, GIT, Code management / standards / re use and API integration (Expert)
• Ability to do cost estimations for new workloads
• You have a strong data modelling / engineering background with the ability to interpret business requirements and technical solutions to develop components of or complete data models.
• A solid background in SQL, application and information architecture and ETL procedures is required.
• Experience working on SAP Hana & Cloudera is preferred and highly advantageous.
• Experience with object-oriented/object functional scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala or related is preferred but not essential.
• Data warehousing principles based on Kimball and Data Vault patterns
• Development experience in BI
• Agile Development
• Development using Java, SQL, etc

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his is a 12 month contract position allowing the incumbent to gain relevant work experience in the financial services industry. The individual will be exposed to training and office administration whilst being part of an administrative team at Sanlam Personal Finance.

• Provide administration support to intermediaries
• Provide quotations and sales support to the intermediaries/ consultants
• Provide after sales services support
• Process and monitor new business issued
• Assists the intermediaries with the relevant product information
• Monitor outstanding premiums
   

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & Experience

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Business related National Diploma or Degree
• Preferably no or very limited previous working experience

Knowledge And Skills

To be successful you will need to demonstrate good experience in:

• Successful candidate should be unemployed
• Knowledge of and experience in MS Office

Competencies

• Cultivates innovation
• Client centricity
• Results driven
• Collaboration
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Communicates effectively
• Plans and aligns
• Action oriented
• Treating customers fairly

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• Proactively maintain appointment schedules by planning and scheduling meetings, teleconferences travel and accommodation.
• Time, email and priority management.
• Document preparation for meetings, preparation of monthly reports and powerpoint presentations.
• Draft minutes in a meeting and make sure that documents completed in the meeting are reported at a reasonable and appropriate time.
• Prepare payments requisitions for goods and services.
• Arrange meetings, catering and all the relevant logistic requirements.
• Telephone answering and screening of calls, taking messages if management unavailable. Redirecting of call to appropriate person - when necessary.
• Maintains office supplies by ensuring adequate inventory levels at all times (eg. Stationery supplies).
• Provide administrative support by ensuring that time frames, policies and procedures are adhered to in respect of reports, performance management, etc and follow up on deadlines in respect of work processes/reports.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Receive guests.
• General admin and ad hoc duties

What will make you successful in this role?

• Matric/Grade 12.
• A secretarial certificate or diploma will be a distinct advantage

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You will report to and work closely with the CEO and Management Team of SEB Investments assisting with the secretarial and general office duties.

What will make you successful in this role?

• General secretarial support to the CEO and Management Team:
• Diary management and travel arrangements
• Presentation and client pack preparations
• Coordination of team, business and client meetings:
• Set up of meetings (diary coordination, venue booking, IT, refreshments)
• Distribution of agenda/meeting packs
• Minute taking
• Coordinate client events
• Office Management:
• Team telephone management
• Ordering of stationery and equipment as required
• Payments to suppliers
• Dealing with internal and external clients
• Performing ad-hoc administrative duties for the team

Qualification And Experience

• Grade 12 and Diploma/Certificate with 2 to 4 years related experience.

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• Identify & define business requirements for new business models or changes to existing models, including application requirements, Business Requirements Specification (BRS) & test cases.
• Analyse & design new business processes.
• Define & design changes to existing processes as required & ensure integration of changes into process environment.
• Work with the Application manager, architects & other team members to define non-functional requirements (including metrics & performance goals) for the application.
• Participate in transitioning the requirements to systems analysts & designers, and ensure a clear & complete understanding of the requirements.
• Participate in quality management reviews throughout the SDLC to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
• Perform testing to ensure that business requirements have been met.

Qualification & Experience

• Relevant diploma or degree
• Business Analyst qualification will be advantageous
• 3-5 years related experience within Financial Services

Knowledge And Skills

• MS: Office (Excel, Word, PP)
• Sound financial services industry knowledge/context
• Financial Product knowledge / Product life cycle knowledge
• Sales advice processes/steps/standards/guidelines
• Sales tools, calculators and aids
• Content management processes and guidelines
• Financial services compliance legislation/regulations (incl. FAIS, TCF, PPI etc.)
• Sales processes
• A good understanding of the system development life cycle

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Responsible for the financial accounting function of Sanlam Capital Markets including Expense Management, Financial Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Overall expense management including budgeting and forecasting.
• Prepare monthly expense variance reports for business units.
• Ensure appropriate recording of expenses by working closely with the Accounts Department.
• Develop and maintain effective Finance processes and procedures.
• Involved in monthly financial reporting to the Sanlam Group, which includes the preparation of management accounts and consolidations.
• Enhance revenue reporting process for Business Units.
• Prepare and produce financial analysis of the business performance and balance sheets that support such performance.
• Prepare annual statutory financial statements per entity with relevant and appropriate accounting disclosures in terms of IFRS.
• Involved in taxation matters including the preparation of tax returns and liaison with Sanlam Group Tax Services.
• Involved in ad-hoc accounting related projects and activities.

Qualifications

• CA (SA)/B.Com Honours or equivalent qualification.
• Knowledge of JDE and HFM will be an added advantage.

Experience And Knowledge

• Minimum 1 to 3 years work experience in financial management role within financial services industry.
• Budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Accounting and IFRS experience.
• Good Excel skills.
• Sound understanding of management information.