New Openings at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Provide secretarial support to the Head of Adviser Transformation at SanlamConnect Nationally.
• The ideal individual must have strong administrative skills and strong planning and organisation skills, be detail-orientated, structured, have good communication skills and the ability to multi-task in a high-performance culture environment.

Provide secretarial support in terms of the following:

• Office and diary management
• Mail and information management
• Travel arrangements 
• Organising and preparation of meetings; functions; presentations; conferences; workshops; satellite broadcasts, video conferences etc.
• Preparation of documents and the distribution thereof for the above
• Minute taking
• Consolidate and provide relevant reports
• Support team members with all secretarial duties
• Assist with adhoc requests 

What will make you successful in this role?
Qualification & Experience 

• Matric 
• Secretarial Qualification/Diploma
• A minimum of three years Secretarial/Personal assistant experience
• Previous experience in a Sales environment will be an advantage.
• TravelIT System

Personal Qualities 

• Cultivates Innovation
• Client Focus
• Drive Results
• Collaborates
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Communication & Literacy
• Assertiveness
• Concern for accuracy and order
• Technical knowledge & skills
• Treating customers fairly (TCF)
• Stress tolerance
• Problem-solving
• Decision-making
• Managing work 

Knowledge and Skills

• Reservation Management
• Secretarial Support
• Administration
• Manages various Stakeholder queries and support
• Personal Attributes
• Communicates effectively - Contributing dependently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing dependently
• Action orientated - Contributing dependently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently

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What will you do?

• The role will report to the Group Risk and Reinsurance Actuary. The role will give the successful candidate exposure to a wide range of actuarial disciplines, different people and cultures, and a broad range of products and businesses in Africa across the SanlamAllianz Life portfolio.

What will make you successful in this role?

The successful candidate will be responsible for building out SanlamAllianz Life Group Risk product support. This will include: 

• Support the local SanlamAllianz businesses with strategies to scale the group risk portfolios profitably
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in local businesses
• Group risk pricing support and the governance thereof, experience rating and technical marketing 
• The development of new and revision of existing group risk products and riders 
• Ensure effective engagement on group risk product matters within SanlamAllianz Life portfolio businesses and support teams 
• Develop and maintain relationships with Sanlam Corporate in South Africa to stay close and apply best of class practices around group risk products across the SanlamAllianz Life portfolio
• Working closely with the SanlamAllianz Life Distribution support function and develop innovative solutions for new market segments and multinational clients
• Working closely with the SanlamAllianz Life IT and Operation support function to ensure effective operational processes, systems and procedures for group risk products
• Collaborating with the SanlamAllianz Life Operations team to develop an experience rating capability aimed at establishing and maintaining a competitive and profitable pricing framework
• Collaborating with the SanlamAllianz Life Reporting team to ensure correct reporting of group risk products

Qualification and Experience

• Qualified actuary with a strong preference for experience in group risk pricing

Personal Attributes and Competencies

• Experience of group life insurance products would be advantageous
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Good verbal and written communication skills, as well as excellent people skills to manage relationships with business stakeholders
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking
• Ability to work independently, take initiative and meet deadlines
• Self-management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks and hold oneself and others accountable
• A strong commitment to achieving results coupled with a positive attitude

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What will you do?

• We’re a newly created engineering organization on a mission to empower and accelerate autonomous value creation through insights and ML across the group. Our main users are the data scientists and analysts who sit inside the business units and support them in developing and re-developing their financial and digital products to better meet the needs of our clients and our shareholders. Our other users are the data management and data product teams who produce the data sets analysts and scientists need to launch straight into their work. 
• The tribe is made up of 3 different engineering squads covering everything from how we ingest and store data, to how we develop and share ML artefacts and insights. We have one for ingestions, one for data storage and processing and one for insights & ML tooling. We have one data engineering talent pipeline for the whole tribe, where placements into specific squads are explored later in the interview process based on squad needs and candidate abilities. Data engineers report to the tech leads of the squad they are embedded into.
• Agile Delivery Leads are an essential feature of high performing squads. By creating and continuously evolving the rhythms and rituals of the team, they maximize the time and cognitive load in the team invested towards team objectives and delivery. They work within their squad and across the organization to establish optimize the squads' meetings, communication channels, ceremonies and even norms for agility and achieving their outcomes. Optimal team behaviors and inner workings are what make agility and high performance possible.
• This is a role where mastery in group facilitation, team reflection and a variety of agile approaches comes together to give the squad the best environment possible to support their evolution to high performance. They work to ensure the squad works smarter, not harder, ensuring alignment, flow, and continuous improvement across every sprint and initiative.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Maximized ‘flow’ time for engineer execution: Team has most time possible to focus on delivering impactful outputs and achieving their objectives.
• Meetings and ceremonies aligned to performance: All regular interactions, from sprint planning to retrospectives, are optimized to directly enhance team performance and drive outcomes. Zero wasted hours in team meetings.
• Clear alignment from missions to sprint tasks: Supporting Product Manager to in achieving seamless cascading from missions to OKRs, EPICS, initiatives down to daily work, eliminating duplication of discussions and delays. 
• Elimination of persistent blockers: Proactively addresses and removes obstacles, ensuring that no blockers persist across sprints and the team can maintain momentum.

Qualification

• Matric
• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous 
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous

Experience

• 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in team and/or company that builds technology
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development

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What will you do?

• The successful candidate will act as the Senior Lead for the financial reporting function in the SanlamAllianz Life Finance Team and will report to the SanlamAllianz Life Head of Finance. 

What will make you successful in this role?

The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal and stakeholder relationship management skills at all levels in the organisation. Key responsibilities will include: -
Financial Reporting

• Oversee monthly financial reporting and consolidation of subsidiaries/associates, ensuring compliance with IFRS and company policies.
• Manage the month-end close process and collaborate with the actuarial team for accurate financial reports.
• Analyse financial performance and assist with planning, forecasting, and budgeting.
• Ensure adoption and adherence to financial reporting standards across the group.
• Support business combinations, statutory reporting, and audits, while guiding internal and external audit processes.
• Coordinate onboarding of new entities and handle ad-hoc financial reporting tasks.

Financial management

• Balance sheet reviews of subsidiaries and associates to identify areas of optimisation and areas of risk and control weakness.
• Advise on effective internal controls and systems to ensure the achievement of objectives relating to operations, reporting and compliance.
• Ongoing review of existing processes to identify and deliver on improvement plans.

Training and Digitisation

• Develop and facilitate training programmes for the central finance/actuarial teams as well as in-country training of finance teams.
• Collaborate with SanlamAllianz Life management and the management of portfolio businesses for advice on the financial implications of business activities.
• Supervise the SanlamAllianz Life finance team to ensure delivery of team responsibilities and objectives and assist with the training and mentoring of finance team members.
• Embrace technology and innovation in building a SanlamAllianz Life finance environment for the future.

People Leadership and Management

• Provide leadership and direction to the relevant central and in-country stakeholders, teams and role players.
• Lead by example in demonstrating the organisation’s desired values and culture.

Qualification and Experience

• CA (SA) with at least 6 years post articles experience 
• Experience within the life insurance industry with strong understanding of IFRS17
• Experience in successfully leading a team 

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong financial reporting and accounting skills 
• Insightful at analytical review, results analysis and results commentary 
• Consolidation experience
• Experience in implementation of financial systems an advantage 
• Understanding of systems and how these impact on the business
• Financial risk management
• Demonstrable skills in successfully leading and influencing people
• Ability to speak French is an advantage but not a requirement

Personal Attributes

• Ability to pay attention to detail but also see the bigger picture
• Lead and build a central team culture of excellence
• Good time management & organisational skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Improvement mindset
• Manage complexity
• Manage change
• Ability to delegate 
• Dependable
• Business Insight

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What will you do?

• The project coordinator will organise and manage the various parts of a project to ensure its success. This includes assigning and monitoring daily tasks and communication, as well as creating reports and updates for the project manager and other members of management.

What will make you successful in this role?

Project Management

• Work closely with the Project Manager (PM) to understand the needs of the project, the project plan and how to support its execution.
• Set up the necessary meetings to execute the project plan.
• Execute the project management tracking process.
• Prepare status reports and draft presentations for various stakeholders.
• Escalate impasses to PM.
• Support the PM in ensuring that all projects adhere to RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) log management.

Process Efficiency

• Manage the engagement of the project team by setting up relevant meetings, discussions etc.
• Manage the tracking of critical risks for reporting purposes and ensure that the PM is aware of these.
• Allocation of tasks to various project team under the guidance of the PM.
• Draw reports from JIRA and compile reports which are required by the Project for the various governance structures for the PM.
• Prepare minutes (recordings) for relevant meetings to ensure that to maintain records of discussions, decisions and signoffs of project milestones.

Stakeholders 

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery against project milestones
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and document defects, obtain clarity, replicate defects where possible to ensure clear understanding so issues can be resolved adequately
• Build strong relationships with Business representatives from each OE to ensure successful achievement of the common goals

Qualification and Experience

• Matric Certificate
• Computer literate (Working knowledge of Advanced MS Office)
• Project Coordinator experience
• Working knowledge of JIRA and other project management software.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills
• Strong client service orientation
• Ability to work under pressure
• Problem solving
• Hard-working.

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What will you do?

• We’re on a transformation journey to be an innovative company at the forefront of the financial services industry's digital transformation. By harnessing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we aim to redefine the financial landscape with intelligent, advice led solutions. To do this, we need to be a net producer of technology, rather than a net consumer and engineering leaders are a critical part of this mission.  
• Reporting to the Group Data & ML Platform Tech Lead, this is an engineering leadership role focusing on empowering and accelerating autonomous value creation through Insights and ML across Sanlam Group. With your mastery of engineering, your expertise in Data & ML Platforms and your experience of building and leading high performing, autonomous technology teams, you’ll ensure business teams across the group make data a source of competitive for them in their markets.

What will make you successful in this role?

What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.

Build a configurable data ingestion platform to collect and protect data from any on-prem or cloud-based source within two weeks or less: 

• Through a mixture of building and buying, you’ve assembled a tool suite of ingestion tools, optimized for cost efficiency and reliability. Success will be measured by the consistent achievement of the two-week ingestion target while maintaining high reliability and security.

Build a high performing engineering team : 

• You've built a lean, high-ownership, high-agency teams with clear missions and success metrics and ensured continuous performance improvement each month. Success was measured by the consistent delivery against your service level objectives (e.g. new data acquired from any source in 2 weeks or less) and the achievement of your yearly OKR's. 

Define and measure team success :

• Define or refine success metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLO's) for your part of the platform to cover adoption, satisfaction, cost as well and reliability. Service Level Indicators (SLI's) such as accuracy, recency and latency. Inspire your entire team to take full ownership of their performance as measured through these metrics. Success will be measured by the continuous improvement of performance the metrics as well as unanimous approval of their definitions.

Ensure your teams have everything they need to be successful :

• Identify the capability (i.e. skills) and capacity (i.e. enough of them) your team needs to be successful, with little dependency on other teams throughout execution. Think holistically, from data science and research to design and engineering. Attract, hire and onboard all talent you identify in your planning. Success will be measured by team delivery and satisfaction, as well as the number of new hires who meet our high-performance expectations on their 12 month anniversary. 

Ensure the team has what they need from other teams and contract with the other teams :

• Contract with the other teams you depend on to ensure clear boundaries and high performance to the level you need to enable your own high performance. Success will be measured by the absence of externally imposed blockers based on things the team can (or should) control.

Cultivate and maintain a culture of excellence and continuous improvement fostering : 

• Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning in your teams. Work with the delivery lead to carry out pre and post-mortems, sharing lessons learned across the organization along with how you are improving based on those lessons. Championed the development of your direct reports and teams, as they self-assess and develop their own individual learnings. Success will be measured by the continuous growth of practices and individual excellence in the team. 

Qualification

• Matric
• National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or a bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a quantitative field will be recommended.

Experience

• 7+ years' experience in leading engineering teams with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies and autonomous high performing team organisational patterns
• A track record of high impact and investing in your own development

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What will you do?

• We’re a newly created engineering organisation on a mission to empower and accelerate autonomous value creation through insights and ML across the group. Our main users are the data scientists and analysts who sit inside the business units and support them in developing and re-developing their financial and digital products to better meet the needs of our clients and our shareholders. Our other users are the data management and data product teams who produce the data sets analysts and scientists need to launch straight into their work. 
• The tribe is made up of 3 different engineering squads covering everything from how we ingest and store data, to how we develop and share ML artefacts and insights. We have one for ingestions, one for data storage and processing and one for insights & ML tooling. We have one data engineering talent pipeline for the whole tribe, where placements into specific squads are explored later in the interview process based on squad needs and candidate abilities. Data engineers report to the tech leads of the squad they are embedded into.

What will make you successful in this role?

What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.

(Ingestions Squad) Built configurable data ingestion platforms to collect and protect data from any source within two weeks or less.

• The team has bought and built to assemble a tool soup of persistent and secure ingestion tools, optimized for cost efficiency, with reliability as a non-negotiable standard. Success will be measured by the consistent achievement of the two-week ingestion target while maintaining high reliability and security.

(Data products empowerment squad) Simplified data transformation and product development for the platforms SQL only users:

• Developed solutions that allow SQL-only users to easily schedule and orchestrate complex data transformation processes, such as through Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). Success will be measured by the 100% adoption of your tools by platform users, the full deprecation of custom solutions and stored procedures, and the reliable orchestration of multi-stage transformation processes underlying our company wide data products. 

(Insights & ML tooling squad) Accelerated the development of insights and ML models by analysts and data scientists across the company:

• Built systems that empower analysts and data scientists to produce the insights and ML models needed to drive customer and commercial success with minimal engineering skills and platform friction. Success will be measured by the number of successful deployments of insights and models per month that directly contribute to improving our business success metrics.

Engineered the platform for observability and performance.

• Made your systems observable from the outside, taking ownership of their performance. Facilitated real-time tracking of the system’s internal state through logs, metrics, and traces. Defined clear and measurable Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and integrate these into team OKRs to drive excellence. Success will be measured by meeting or exceeding defined performance and reliability benchmarks, and the quick identification and resolution of issues.

Engineer the platform with privacy and security by design. 

• Secured the platform through compliance engineering initiatives that reduced the time and cognitive load related to compliance. Implemented our Data Governance and Privacy policies effectively, leveraging encryption, firewalls, VPCs, Role Based Access Control and IAM integrations such as Active Directory. Success will be measured by the platform’s adherence to security and privacy standards, with minimal compliance overhead for users.

Leveraged containerization and infrastructure as code.

• Implemented containerization strategies and infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to ensure scalable, repeatable, and efficient deployment of data services. Utilized tools like Docker and Terraform to automate infrastructure management and streamline the development pipeline. Success will be measured by the consistency and reliability of deployments, reduced deployment times, and increased system scalability.

What will make your successful in this role (continue)

What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.

Contributed to technology decisions. 

• Engaged in technology spikes to clarify needs and articulate solution criteria. Evaluated different options through hands-on experimentation, leading to documented evaluations and recommendations that were understood by technology leaders or users across the company. Success will be measured by the quality and clarity of your contributions to technology decisions and the adoption of your recommendations.

Invested in your own development.

• Executed on a culture of excellence and continuous improvement for both your part of the platform and your own abilities. Lived our culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning. Participated in pre and post-mortems, sharing lessons learned across the organization along with how you are improving based on those lessons. Success is measured by your active participation in continuous learning initiatives and the tangible improvements in platform performance and personal growth.

Technical leadership and coaching. 

• Enable a culture of continuous learning and assist other engineers in their development journey.

Qualification

• Matric
• National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or a bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a quantitative field will be recommended.

Experience

• 5+ years' experience as a data engineer in data platform or service engineering team with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development

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What will you do?

• We’re a newly created engineering organisation on a mission to empower and accelerate autonomous value creation through insights and ML across the group. Our main users are the data scientists and analysts who sit inside the business units and support them in developing and re-developing their financial and digital products to better meet the needs of our clients and our shareholders. Our other users are the data management and data product teams who produce the data sets analysts and scientists need to launch straight into their work. 
• The tribe is made up of 3 different engineering squads covering everything from how we ingest and store data, to how we develop and share ML artefacts and insights. We have one for ingestions, one for data storage and processing and one for insights & ML tooling. We have one data engineering talent pipeline for the whole tribe, where placements into specific squads are explored later in the interview process based on squad needs and candidate abilities. Data engineers report to the tech leads of the squad they are embedded into.

What will make you successful in this role?

What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.

(Ingestions Squad) Built configurable data ingestion platforms to collect and protect data from any source within two weeks or less.

• The team has bought and built to assemble a tool soup of persistent and secure ingestion tools, optimized for cost efficiency, with reliability as a non-negotiable standard. Success will be measured by the consistent achievement of the two-week ingestion target while maintaining high reliability and security.

(Data products empowerment squad) Simplified data transformation and product development for the platforms SQL only users:

• Developed solutions that allow SQL-only users to easily schedule and orchestrate complex data transformation processes, such as through Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). Success will be measured by the 100% adoption of your tools by platform users, the full deprecation of custom solutions and stored procedures, and the reliable orchestration of multi-stage transformation processes underlying our company wide data products. 

(Insights & ML tooling squad) Accelerated the development of insights and ML models by analysts and data scientists across the company:

• Built systems that empower analysts and data scientists to produce the insights and ML models needed to drive customer and commercial success with minimal engineering skills and platform friction. Success will be measured by the number of successful deployments of insights and models per month that directly contribute to improving our business success metrics.

Engineered the platform for observability and performance.

• Made your systems observable from the outside, taking ownership of their performance. Facilitated real-time tracking of the system’s internal state through logs, metrics, and traces. Defined clear and measurable Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and integrate these into team OKRs to drive excellence. Success will be measured by meeting or exceeding defined performance and reliability benchmarks, and the quick identification and resolution of issues.

Engineer the platform with privacy and security by design.

•  Secured the platform through compliance engineering initiatives that reduced the time and cognitive load related to compliance. Implemented our Data Governance and Privacy policies effectively, leveraging encryption, firewalls, VPCs, Role Based Access Control and IAM integrations such as Active Directory. Success will be measured by the platform’s adherence to security and privacy standards, with minimal compliance overhead for users.

Leveraged containerization and infrastructure as code.

•  Implemented containerization strategies and infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to ensure scalable, repeatable, and efficient deployment of data services. Utilized tools like Docker and Terraform to automate infrastructure management and streamline the development pipeline. Success will be measured by the consistency and reliability of deployments, reduced deployment times, and increased system scalability.

What will make you successful in this role?

What success will look like for you 12 months into the role.

Contributed to technology decisions. 

• Engaged in technology spikes to clarify needs and articulate solution criteria. Evaluated different options through hands-on experimentation, leading to documented evaluations and recommendations that were understood by technology leaders or users across the company. Success will be measured by the quality and clarity of your contributions to technology decisions and the adoption of your recommendations.

Invested in your own development.

• Executed on a culture of excellence and continuous improvement for both your part of the platform and your own abilities. Lived our culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning. Participated in pre and post-mortems, sharing lessons learned across the organization along with how you are improving based on those lessons. Success is measured by your active participation in continuous learning initiatives and the tangible improvements in platform performance and personal growth.

Qualification

• Matric
• National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or a bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a quantitative field will be recommended.

Experience

• 5+ years' experience as a data engineer in data platform or service engineering team with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development