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Since our establishment in 1918, Sanlam has been a prominent part of the South African business landscape. We have always held a long-term view of how business adapts to the demands of the environment in which it operates. Today, in a dynamic world, we see an evolving set of social, economic, political and environmental imperatives that require our skilfu...
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Job Purpose
To manage the pricing and product development to ensure the financial stability of the Company. The Pricing Analyst will analyse data for pricing, product development and product enhancement.
Formal Qualifications
• BSc/BCom (Mathematics/Mathematical Statistics/Actuarial Science).
• Progress with actuarial exams would be beneficial. Completed Foundation and Intermediate Technical subjects.
Working Requirements and Knowledge
• Experience in managing actuarial teams.
• A minimum of 1 year in a management role.
• Pricing or product development in long-term insurance
• Experience investigations
• Building and maintaining pricing models
• MSOffice (advanced Excel knowledge), VBA and SQL
• IFRS17 knowledge/experience is advantageous
Key Responsibilities
• Managing the Pricing and Product Development team
• Managing the Reporting and Data analytics team
• Developing and maintaining pricing models
• Developing, maintaining and enhancement of risk products and policy terms
• Developing pricing bases for all risk products
• Support Sales in implementing renewals
• Reviewing rates on existing business
• Monitoring of claims ratios and profitability of Safrican’s schemes
• Performing the various experience investigations to inform the pricing and embedded value bases (incl. expense and mortality investigations and Analysis of Surplus)
• Maintaining the profitability of the standard products
• Support the Senior Actuarial Manager in preparing Board Reports
• Ad-hoc projects including internal and external audits
• Provide technical oversight and support, for risk products to Sales, Finance and other service areas
Behavioural Competencies, Skills and attributes
• Ability to manage teams and provide direction
• Ability to work independently, work across teams and collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor
• Excellent analytical skills
• Good decision making and problem-solving skills
• Good written communication skills
• Sound judgement
• Time management skills with reliability in terms of adherence to deadlines
• Ability to work under pressure
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Accurate and efficient
• Proactive and disciplined
Our commitment to transformation
Safrican is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. Safrican Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
What will you do?
Please note: Shortlisting will commence from 16 January 2022.
The role is for an intern-level candidate who is interested in starting a career in IT. The role includes participation in IT system support and project administration.
I.T Support Responsibilities
• Reporting to the SCI Support Manager
• Responsible for monitoring the SCI Ticket Management System and the Support Inbox where SCI staff and other 3rd party support desks log incidents and work requests for the SCI IT team respectively.
• Assigning / Re-assigning / Escalating requests and incidents received by the business.
• Collaborating with all 3rd party resolver teams to ensure the timeous resolution of incidents and requests
• Responsible for SCI Support user administration including onboarding of new starters and off boarding of leavers.
• Responsible for distributing incidents and work requests, monitoring progress and providing feedback to business users until issues are resolved.
• Responsible for filing and archiving SCI support documents.
• Contributing to the improvement of the SCI IT Support Services through quality assessment, initiative and innovation.
• First Time Fix Resolution of issues reported to the service desk.
• Monitoring the SLA performance of 3rd party service providers and escalating SLA breaches and/or concerns to management.
• Identify and neutralise potential risks and challenges within the IT support service.
• Responsible for all audit related administration tasks.
• Creating relevant business continuity & training documentation.
• Service desk monthly reporting
Incident Management
• Responsible for the management of all technology disruptions to the business through the application of the ITIL Framework and ensuring minimal downtime to the business.
• Responsible for ensuring effective communication to manage customer expectations.
• Tracking of Major Incidents
• Creating Incident Reports and ensuring incident reports are received from 3rd party resolvers
• Maintaining the I.T knowledge base
Silica Central User Administration
• Responsible for user admin (New users, password reset, user role allocation and user off-boarding) on the Silica Central System and providing feedback to users.
Silica Service Desk
• Responsible for logging AWD user admin requests (New users, password reset, user role allocation and user off-boarding) with Silica Service desks and monitoring and driving to conclusion.
• Responsible for logging incidents and work requests with Silica Service desks and monitoring and driving to conclusion
• Responsible for preparing Silica incident reports
ITISS Service Desk & SRS’s
• Responsible for providing feedback to the ITISS Service Desk for incidents originating at ITISS.
• Responsible for logging ITISS Service Requests (SRS’s) and monitoring and driving to conclusion.
• Responsible for keeping an asset register of local hardware and coordinating with ITISS to align asset registers.
What will make you successful in this role?
Minimum Requirements
• Relevant tertiary qualification. (e.g. Information Systems)
• 2-4 years IT Support related experience will be beneficial.
Technical Competencies
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft Office Suite in general.
• Good understanding of the traditional software development & support lifecycle.
• Data analysis and reporting skills and experience will be beneficial
Behavioral Competencies
• A willingness to learn.
• Strong attention to detail and proactive attitude.
• Ability to organize and prioritize.
• Shows initiative and ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal in English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to operate in a team.
• Client focussed thinking.
• Friendly and patient with users.
Qualification and Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Personal Attributes
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Core Competencies
Turnaround time
Our commitment to transformation
What will you do?
The successful candidate will report to the Sanlam Emerging Markets Head of Statutory Reporting and responsibilities will include, amongst others, the following:
• Review and analysis of foreign subsidiary financial results in HFM (Hyperion financial management) for monthly reporting, year-end close process and interim review process
• Key involvement in the implementation of IFRS 17 within the general insurance sub-cluster
• Involvement in the budgeting process and the forecasting 5-year plans
• Preparation of Sanlam monthly financial reports and commentary
• Overall responsibility for the general insurance sub-cluster financial consolidation including review of consolidated note disclosures for the year-end close process and interim review process
• Provide end to end financial management support to businesses outside of South Africa
• Review of holding company financial statements in terms of IFRS
• Ensure effective controls and procedures are in place and focus on process improvements to drive automation and new ways of working
• Interactions with the external auditors
• Manage, develop and build a culture of a high-performance teaming
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualification and Experience
• Qualified CA(SA) with 5 to 7 years post qualification experience;
• Relevant experience in a similar role within financial services and/or insurance industry
Knowledge and Skills
• Good working knowledge of IFRS standards and group consolidations
• HFM experience will be an advantage
• Ability to speak French will be an advantage
• Experience in the emerging markets environment will be an advantage
• Process management skills (able to review existing processes and procedures, making recommendations for improvement, and implement them operationally)
Personal Attributes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and meet stringent deadlines
• Analytical and conceptual thinking
• Building relationships across teams and within Africa
• Planning and organising
• Pro-active individual with the ability to work independently as well as a member of a team
Core Competencies
• Cultivates Innovation
• Client Focus
• Drive Results
• Collaborates
• Flexibility and adaptability
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
The Sanlam Group is commited to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are the key components to ensure a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
What will you do?
The successful candidate will report to the Sanlam Emerging Markets Head of Statutory Reporting and responsibilities will include, amongst others, the following:
• Processing of foreign subsidiary financial results in HFM (Hyperion financial management) for monthly reporting, year-end close process and interim review process
• Assist with cluster financial consolidation including preparation of note disclosures for year-end close process and interim review process
• Assistance with the compilation of holding company financial statements in terms of IFRS
• Ensure effective controls and procedures are in place, and focus on process improvements
• Interactions with the external auditors
• Assistance with a special project in respect of note disclosures
• Assistance with a special project in respect of IFRS 17
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualification and Experience
• Newly qualified CA(SA)
• Relevant experience in a similar role within financial services and/or insurance industry
Knowledge and Skills
• Good working knowledge of IFRS standards and group consolidations
• HFM experience will be an added advantage
Personal Attributes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Analytical and conceptual thinking
• Building relationships
• Planning and organising
Core Competencies
• Cultivates Innovation
• Client Focus
• Drive Results
• Collaborates
• Flexibility and adaptability
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
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