Job Advert Summary
What we do:
BIMS is a team of Finance and Actuarial specialists who are responsible for the management of the Hollard Group Balance Sheets, as well as the Investment Holding Companies. BIMS enables the Group to meet its strategic objectives wrt e.g profit/return optimisation, growth and competitiveness, as well as long-term sustainability/resilience through governance. We operate in the financial asset world and have a big variety of different investment types that are managed and reported on by the team.
What we want:
We are looking for a talented and reliable finance manager to play a crucial role in driving financial success. You will be responsible for all facets of BIMS finance and reporting including accounting, budgeting, risk management and enforcing compliance with finance-related and other laws, procedures and regulations such as tax filing and financial reporting. The role requires a direct interface with various stakeholders across the business and within the team so you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the business while leading a talented finance team.
What you will get in return:
You will have the opportunity to work for a high performing, high energy team in a challenging and dynamic role. You will be exposed to, and benefit from the experience of, many CA(SA)s, actuaries and finance professionals who have been in their roles long enough to know this is where they belong. Our culture promotes individual development to enhance our most important asset – our people.
Key Responsibilities
Finance & Reporting Management
- Manage reporting on investment results and measuring of performance i.t.o group KPI’s through portfolio review and benchmarking.
- Overseeing proper accounting of transactions, while ensuring loans, preference shares and other instruments are properly managed.
- Overseeing accurate and timely completion and submission of all regulatory inputs and returns.
- Review and approve all work done by the management accountants and provide guidance where required.
- Manage Finance leadership on Process Efficiency, Business Performance Measures and Management, Analytical Support and Predictive Analysis.
- Manage initiatives to drive continuous improvement within the team.
- Manage compliance with the relevant laws and standards governing financial reports.
- Ensure that finance is always closely integrated with, and positively supports, business providing managers at all levels with insightful financial information that supports decision making that will enhance sustainable growth and keep in line with strategic objectives.
- Be the primary point of contact for, and with, Group Finance.
- Manage the annual audit process and manage auditor interface, while coordinating with other parts of BIMS.
- Manage the preparation of budgets and forecasts, ensuring timely submission to Group.
Risk Management
- Manage adherence to and enhance the financial and operational processes to mitigate financial and business risk.
- Ensure robust finance governance and continuous monitoring of financial activities.
- Ensure the quarterly CAM reporting is completed adequately.
- Be the primary point of contact with Group Risk.
Stakeholder Management
- Responsible for the finance team’s performance management, and for maintaining a high-performance culture through effective talent management.
- Engage continuously with finance staff, provide training, identify areas of improvement and manage the finance team to ensure optimal performance.
- Foster a culture of striving for better performance and managing accountability within the finance team.
- Manage stakeholder reporting – Shareholder, Regulatory, Exco and Board, ICOMM, etc
Required Knowledge and Experience
- 3-5 years’ experience in a Finance role.
- Strong stakeholder engagement experience
- Financial Services experience
- Insurance experience
Knowledge
- IFRS theory and application
- Proficiency in financial reporting and compliance
- Group accounting and consolidations
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and experience in Power BI is desirable
Educational Requirements
Minimum:
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Job Advert Summary
Reporting directly into the Head: Long-term Corporate Actuarial, the role will be required to work on, provide direction and lead parts of business critical and strategic projects. The role supports and enhances BaU processes. It provides direct support to the Life Corporate Actuary and his direct reporting managers within his team on strategic priorities as and when these arise.
Key Responsibilities
Support to the BaU function
- Assist with BaU activity in the Life Corporate Actuarial
- Assist with automation of data source reconciliations and data controls
- Work on ad hoc projects including
- Process optimisation
- Process automation
- Capital optimisation
- Control enhancements
- Reporting enhancements
- Profitability drivers and value measurement
Support to Life Corporate Actuary and his direct reporting managers
- Assist with insights required into the various businesses that cannot be obtained through BaU processes
- Assist with the actuarial model development and optimisation initiatives
- Assist with IFRS17 BaU embedment as well as refinement of reporting process
- Be part of the Ledger transformation project and drive to completion
- Assist with Iterative Risk Margin implementation as well as other capital optimization
- initiatives
Business Insights and Enablement
- Assist the Head of Corporate Actuarial to provide Exco and senior management with management information and business insights
- Assist in embedding the alternative reporting metrics workstreams into the Business Units
Required Knowledge and Experience
- A minimum of 2 to 3 years relevant actuarial experience
- Preferably have prior Life Insurance valuation and capital experience
- Preferably been exposed to coding of actuarial models including being familiar with Microsoft
- Excel/VBA, SQL and/or other open-source coding languages e.g. Python
- Must have a successful track record of having worked on projects and adhoc tasks
- In-depth knowledge of financial accounting, actuarial and related processes
- Ability to interpret and apply legislation and regulation in all operating environments.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Analytical thinking skills
- Strategic thinking skills
- Educational Requirements
- Meet all the subject requirements for AMASSA (or international equivalent)
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Role Objectives:
The HC Advisor will be required to perform the role of a strategic partner to the assigned Divisions through integrating the people strategy and business strategy, and to provide HR operational management support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the implementation of the HR strategy and delivering HR strategic objectives.
- Create a high-performance culture that enables the achievement of our strategic priorities.
- Maintain functional excellence, quality service and deliver value add to our customers.
- Build sound business relationships with internal and external customers through providing effective advisory services, accessibility, and on-time quality service.
- Continuously live, promote and act as custodian of the organizational values and culture.
- Effectively participate in change management activities adopting and utilizing agreed change management methodology.
- Work as the custodian of all people related policy and procedure providing effective advice, response and implementation.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- 3 - 5 years related experience
- psychometric assessment experience
- Business acumen
- Business Writing
- HC Project Coordination
- HC Information Analytics
- Problem Solving
- Culture & Change Champion
- Change Management Facilitator
- Talent Management
- Understanding of how to create customer value proposition.
- Sound working knowledge of relevant HR legislation: BCEA, LARA, EEA, SDA
- Demonstrates interdependence and team player qualities
- Managing Talent
- Enabling change and culture Transformation
- Getting the fundamentals of HR right (E.g. mastering people processes)
- Driving Employee Engagement
- Becoming a Learning Organization
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources or organizational & industrial psychology
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Job Advert Summary
The Compliance Division within Group Compliance is looking for a Compliance Specialist to join their team. The Compliance Specialist advises and guides teams on the identification of relevant compliance risks and the development of compliance risk management plans.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Minimum:
- 3-5 years Business Compliance experience in Financial Services
- Solid understanding and experience in Business Processes environment, eg claims, sales, distribution
Skills:
- Relationship management
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Investigative/auditing abilities
- Analytical thinking
- Problem solving
- Process mapping
- Presentation
- Report writing
- Computer Literacy (MS Office)
- Planning and organising – project level
- Legislative analysis and interpretation
- Assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of controls
- Business Acumen
- Root cause analysis
- Intermediate: Excel & Word
Knowledge:
- FAIS
- FICA (Money Laundering Laws)
- Long Term and Short Term Insurance Acts
- Pensions Fund Act
- POPIA
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist teams to develop, implement and manage comprehensive compliance risk management plans through advising on:
- compliance requirements per business area
- identifying and rating the applicable compliance risks
- developing a compliance risk management plan
- the design of appropriate procedures and processes to manage identified risks
- implementing a continuous compliance risk monitoring process
- Perform effective monitoring and reporting of business compliance by conducting compliance monitoring reviews of high risk regulatory items within Business Units
- Distil new legislative requirements and effectively and practically translate the compliance requirements impacting on business operations, processes and practices to the management of those business areas.
- Proactively consult with business areas in order to align compliance requirement to current and future business activities.
- Facilitate compliance risk management workshops within teams to identify relevant regulatory risks.
- Review operational transactions, procedures and processes to determine whether they are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements.
- Identify and communicate compliance risk issues and/or irregularities and assess the adequacy and effectiveness of management’s proposed mitigation and prevention plans.
- Prepare reports on individual compliance monitoring reviews.
- Participate in and contribute to high level summary reporting to business units.
- Participate in and contribute to Board Reporting for the Group.
- Assist in preparation and submission of reports.
- Manage and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Liaise across all risk management areas of the business to deliver a combined assurance approach.
Educational Requirements
Minimum:
- Related Degree or IISA Licentiate/Associate - Legal or Auditing Degree (preferred)
- Compliance Management Certificate an advantage (NQF 7)
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