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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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Who are we?
Sanlam Developing Markets [SDM] (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanlam Life Limited) is one of the top financial services providers in the South African entry-level and emerging middle market. It aims to understand the unique requirements of clients and offers a wide range of simple and affordable financial solutions that cover needs such as funeral insurance, savings for education, life cover and personal accident plans. In terms of the Sanlam Group Governance Policy, SDM is managed by the SA Retail Mass cluster, which is part of the Sanlam Life and Savings cluster within the Sanlam Group. The cluster focusses on retail porducts, as well as group schemes.
What will you do?
Manage and Development of staff
Design and implement process to administer with regards to policy replacements, and tracking of SLA
Report writing and providing feedback to various stakeholders
Ensure full record keeping of non-compliance
Identification of all termination events affecting policy replacements
Handling of complaints and creating a central contact point for complaints
Dealing with complaints referral to replacing insurer
Represent Sanlam Sky at the policy replacements Tribunal
Ensure Stakeholder awareness on the policy replacement standard
What will make you successful in this role?
At least three years’ experience in the Insurance industry
Experience as a Replacement Officer advantageous
Qualification and Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Personal Attributes
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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
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.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group 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. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
What will you do?
Output/Core Tasks:
As the line manager to 8 actuarial professionals, you will be responsible for the following Sanlam Life, SDM, Channel, African Rainbow Life and Safrican reporting requirements:
Regulatory reporting (emanating from the Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) program) for both Base and ORSA scenarios - Own Funds, Technical Provisions and SCR calculations
International Capital Standards (ICS) Reporting
Stochastic calculations and consolidation of Guarantee reserves
The team as a whole is responsible for the following tasks:
Perform asset stresses, co-ordinate the liability stressing process, and consolidate the results obtained in order to calculate the SCR, ORSA and ICS results
Explanation of the quarterly and annual SAM results to senior management, including the Heads of Actuarial Functions and Heads of Actuarial Reporting of Sanlam Life, SDM, ARL and Safrican
Reporting of quarterly and annual SAM results to the regulator via the SAM QRTs, using the existing HFM process
Identify, investigate and implement capital optimisation measures
Collaborate with Risk and Balance Sheet management team on projection of future capital requirements
Interact with internal and external auditors as part of the valuation process, and to close identified gaps
Interpret and implement changes in the Regulatory Prudential Standards and related guidance, pertaining to Reporting
Continuous improvement and automation of existing Regulatory reporting processes, including assisting with the embedment of an Actuarial Results Warehouse and an improved Asset Stressing Tool in SAP HANA
Ad-hoc Regulatory Reporting related investigations and tasks, including interacting with the wider business to resolve queries and respond to regulatory requests
Engage with the asset data warehouse team to ensure that the asset data received is suitable for solvency reporting
Regulatory and ORSA-related engagement and support to the Sanlam Group solvency processes as well as other life licence entities within SRA, Sanlam Corporate and Sanlam Retail Mass
Management of the Economic Scenario Generation calibration process
Management of the IGR and Regulatory Reporting stochastic liability calculations for Sanlam Life SRA, Sanlam Life SC, SDM and Namibia
Reporting and management of monthly economic assumptions used in all valuations iro all scenarios and bases
What will make you successful in this role?
Role Requirements:
Qualifications:
An Actuarial Fellowship qualification
Experience & Knowledge:
Experience in an actuarial reporting environment including IFRS, EV and Regulatory Reporting bases
Good knowledge of Sanlam Life’s products would be an advantage
Good knowledge of Regulatory Reporting specifications and processes would be an advantage
Personal attributes and Competencies:
Strategic thinking
Strong technical and operational ability
Strong operational process focus
Good attention to detail
Decision making abilities
Effective communicator of technical information
Innovative and conceptual thinking
Influencing/gaining commitment
Building and maintaining relationships
Results driven
Leadership and managerial qualities
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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
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.
Closing Date: 28 January 2022
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group 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. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
Who are we?
The Sanlam Retail Affluent business (SRA) is dedicated to empower South Africans in the middle- and upper-income segments to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. With deep client understanding and a focus on excellence in technology, client and intermediary experiences, SRA delivers financial solutions including comprehensive financial planning, life- and disability insurance, credit solutions, savings and investments, retirement and fiduciary services that can be accessed through various platforms.
What will you do?
• Oversee test delivery of automation
• Point of contact for SGTSQA Automation
• Manage a team of Senior, Intermediate and Junior Automation Test Engineers
• Liaise with Clients, scope, manage expectations for test automation across multiple projects.
• Prepare and present POC’s to potential Clients
• Liaise between technical (Automation, Developers) and non-technical personal (Analysts, Business owners, Managers)
• Daily catch ups with automation engineers(s) to identify and remove blockers
• Technical assistance to team member(s), TAF, UFT, Java, SoapUI, Postman, ALM QC, Xray and mobile frameworks
• Plan projects, define scope, automation effort, resources of automation for new projects. Cost and prepare quotes for the same
• Automation return on investment
• Develop cost recovery models including ROI for automation and present to clients
• Identify and implement mitigation of risks to test automation
• Continuous improvement reporting on automation to improve visibility across the projects. Daily execution, automation coverage
• Continuous improvement on ways of working (Weekly Test Automation forum)
• Develop reusable test automation framework for Java (Selenium, Appium, Rest & Soap API's, Database testing)
• Understanding current and future project requirements and prioritizing these on the development team backlog
• Training of interns
What will make you successful in this role?
1. Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
2. Experience:
• A minimum of 7 years experience in software testing within a solutions design division, whereby experience in testing the delivery of financial solutions is required
• Experience as a Test Lead or Test Team Leader will be advantageous
• Experience with testing using Automated testing tools is required
• Work experience in a DevOps or similar role preferable
• Experience working with Agile practices, principles and values
• Full understanding of testing web /mobile applications and websites and associated technologies
• Advanced experience with test automation tools and strategies
• Experience of using BDD effectively
• Proven experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery
• Proven experience coaching and training team members
• Excellent conflict resolution
3. Knowledge:
• Good working knowledge of Testing best practices, techniques, artefacts and testing frameworks
• Has a good working knowledge of all forms of test approaches, configuration management and requirements management principles
• Knows of, and has a well-founded understanding of all forms of testing within the Software Development Life Cycle
• Working knowledge of Test Reporting and Metrics
• Understanding of system architectures such as Client / Server, Service orientated architecture, Web based architecture, would be advantageous
• Computer Literacy including Windows operating systems and Microsoft office
• Fair understanding of database programming skills, i.e.: Intermediate SQL skills
• Good working knowledge of MS Project and Excel
• Working knowledge of finance, costing, and cost/benefit analysis
• The use of public/private cloud and virtualization technologies preferable
Competencies:
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management from supervisory to senior management level
• Results Driven
• Accuracy
• Analytical thinking
• Quality of decisions
• Customer service
• Communication skills
• Conceptual thinking
• Proactive and Initiative
• Ability to work independently
• Planning and organising
• Ability to work under pressure, manage your time appropriately and to be able to multi-task multiple projects
Personal Attributes
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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Turnaround time
Should you not hear from us 4 weeks after the closing date (14 January 2022), please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
Appointments will be made in line with the company’s transformation plan.
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.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group 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. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process
Who are we?
The Sanlam Retail Affluent business (SRA) is dedicated to empower South Africans in the middle- and upper-income segments to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. With deep client understanding and a focus on excellence in technology, client and intermediary experiences, SRA delivers financial solutions including comprehensive financial planning, life- and disability insurance, credit solutions, savings and investments, retirement and fiduciary services that can be accessed through various platforms.
What will you do?
The Performance Test Engineer will manage multiple complex projects for performance testing initiatives. The PTE will assess the performance needs of an application and develop a performance test strategy to evaluate application/infrastructure performance, while working with scrum teams, architecture, and infrastructure teams. The PTE will be responsible for conducting in-depth analysis and troubleshooting to identify root cause of performance-related issues and performance improvement opportunities, providing technical leadership, assisting the development team in identifying coding improvements, and coaching/mentoring performance test engineers and scrum teams on performance testing best practices
As our Performance Test Engineer, you must be able to communicate risks, employ appropriate risk mitigation strategies and tactics, and effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders at all levels
What will make you successful in this role?
1. Qualifications:
• BSc degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
• ISTQB Performance Testing Certification advantageous
2. Experience:
• Experience - 3 to 5 year’s experience in an Automation and Performance Testing environment
• Ability to identify potential issues and ensure minimisation of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews Application
• Layer (Java, Python, etc.) and Infrastructure (Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Requirement Gathering, Scripting, Scenario designing and Execution, Performance Analysis
• Baseline Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing and Endurance Testing
• Monitoring Client side and server-side resources using Perfmon, HP Site scope And JVM monitoring tools
• Experience in testing and test tools advantageous
Functional knowledge of DevOps Concepts, Agile Methodologies, and DevOps tools advantageous
• Experience in optimizing system components such as CPU/Memory/Disk/OS/Application software for maximizing computer resources utilization
• Minimum 5 years SQL knowledge
• Java, Maven and Bamboo knowledge experience
• Hands on experience working with Microfocus LoadRunner, NeoLoad and Apache Jmeter tools
• Experience in Application, DB and Services performance testing
3. Knowledge:
• Understand Environment needs, Data needs
• Working knowledge of Test Reporting and Metrics
• Should have very good knowledge on NFR gathering and Test plan designing
• Ensure a positive user experience for our customers by performing load and performance testing across multiple products to verify that c our applications meet industry standards for reliability and response time
• Analyse system usage from test results (identify memory leaks, connection issues, bottlenecks, etc.)
• Knowledge in APM tools - Dynatrace, AppDynamics, newrelic and datadog beneficial
• Awareness of Existing Web and Mobile Technologies
• Has a good understanding of general SDLC attributes and activities
• Computer Literacy including Windows and Mac operating systems
Competencies:
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management from supervisory to senior management level
• Accountable for commitments made and schedule deliverables
• Ability to help foster a team-oriented environment
• Results Driven
• Accuracy
• Analytical thinking
• Quality of decisions
• Customer service
• Communication skills
• Conceptual thinking
• Proactive and Initiative
• Ability to work independently
• Planning and organising
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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Turnaround time
Should you not hear from us 4 weeks after the closing date (14 January 2022, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
Appointments will be made in line with the company’s transformation plan.
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.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group 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. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
Who are we?
The Sanlam Retail Affluent business (SRA) is dedicated to empower South Africans in the middle- and upper-income segments to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. With deep client understanding and a focus on excellence in technology, client and intermediary experiences, SRA delivers financial solutions including comprehensive financial planning, life- and disability insurance, credit solutions, savings and investments, retirement and fiduciary services that can be accessed through various platforms.
What will you do?
The System Engineer has to be capable in driving processes, change management with Business, adapt Agile methodology. The Systems Engineer will have four core functions, these functions aim to ensure that delivery of testing to business is not interrupted, that test applications are maintained, test environments are stable and business can leverage ROI on the tool stack
System administration and tool integration
Maintaining the test tool stack
Supporting the test tool landscape, including:
Micro Focus tools: Quality Centre; Octane, UFT, S printer, Fortify, UFT Mobile(Mobile Centre), Network & Service Virtualization and Load Runner.
Provide regular status updates about the test tool environment to Sanlam stakeholder(s)
What will make you successful in this role?
1. Qualifications:
• BSc degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
2. Experience:
• Minimum of 1 - 3 years in Systems Management and Application Management
• 1 year experience in networking and network architecture
• 1 - 3 years’ experience in application maintenance, deployment and troubleshooting
• Experience in testing and test tools advantageous
• Functional knowledge of DevOps Concepts, Agile Methodologies, and DevOps tools advantageous
3. Knowledge:
• Minimum 1 year SQL knowledge
• JAVA, Maven and Bamboo knowledge experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration, including the following build/deploy/version control tools will be advantageous:
• Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, Maven, other
• Familiar with JIRA and Micro Focus Tool stack advantageous
• Experience in mobile automation testing is desired
• Experience in container technologies and cloud will be advantageous
• Good working knowledge of testing best practices, techniques, artefacts and testing frameworks
• Has a good working knowledge of all forms of test approaches, configuration management and requirements management principles
• Working knowledge of Test Reporting and Metrics.
• Has a good understanding of general SDLC attributes and activities
• Computer Literacy including Windows and Mac operating systems and Microsoft office
Competencies:
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management from supervisory to senior management level
• Ability to help foster a team-oriented environment
• Results Driven
• Accuracy
• Analytical thinking
• Quality of decisions
• Customer service
• Communication skills
• Conceptual thinking
• Proactive and Initiative
• Ability to work independently
• Planning and organising
Personal Attributes
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 four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
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