Job Vacancies at Sanlam

What will you do?
This is a Support role in the IT Finance department.
The role requires a well-balanced, self-motivated individual to navigate between large volumes of work and tight financial deadlines.
Responsibilities Include

• Purchase Order processing
• Goods Receipt Processing
• Creditor Reconciliations (mostly internal Clients)
• Debtor Reconciliations
• Journals (incl Accruals)
• Financial Analysis
• Billing of Clients
• Asset Management and related procurement management
• Handling Client queries
• Planning and organizing
• Communication with Clients and internal service departments

What will make you successful in this role?
Expense Linked Activities

• Process Procurement & Asset invoices for Sanlam & Sky (and any other applicable group companies)
• Capturing of accrual journals monthly (FA095)
• Processing of BAU supplier invoices
• Source all creditors statements and request invoices not received but reflected on statements
• Follow up with approvers to ensure that purchase orders and invoices are approved timeously
• Forex Invoices - manage payments and capture on Walker
• Management of the GTI Finance / Procurement mailbox
• PPO journal processing
• Ensure receipt of goods are done on a monthly basis
• Processing of Project PO’s
• Capture DD invoices (FA039)

Revenue Activities

• Preparation and distribution of all GTI Client statements
• Provision of ad hoc billing and supporting documentation to client to support invoices
• Update the billing reminder excel document on the shared drive to ensure billing to the client is effected monthly
• BAU invoice direct billing to Client
• Provision of PDF/Essbase invoices to subsidiaries
• Provision of 3G report to Sky on monthly basis
• Ensure that all tariff charges are billed to clients on a monthly basis

Review/Analysis

• Update Gijima Forum with supporting info on a monthly basis
• Investigate Income and Expense queries from clusters
• Basic financial analysis

Other

• Ad hoc tasks
• Back-up & support for other finance team members

Additional Requirements

• Matric with Accounting
• Post Matric Accounting qualification will be an advantage
• Understanding of accounting principles
• Experience of the financial and accounting environment for at least 2 years
• Microsoft Office (intermediate/advanced excel skills)
• Experience in providing support for month end in a finance environment
• Experience with SharePoint, Walker and Essbase an added advantage
• Working on SAP will be an added advantage
• Information and Communication Technology (ITC) experience and understanding, an advantage

Qualification And Experience

• Grade 12 with 1 to 2 years related experience.

Knowledge And Skills

• Processing transactions and conduct simple calculations
• Data collection and analysis
• Record keeping, filing and maintenance of databases
• Maintain work standards and quality verification

Personal Attributes

• Plans and aligns - Contributing dependently
• Communicates effectively - Contributing dependently
• Action orientated - Contributing dependently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently

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 Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Being resilient - Contributing dependently
• Customer focus - Contributing dependently
• Collaborates - Contributing dependently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing dependently
• Drives results - Contributing dependently

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

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What will you do?
Under limited supervision, provides key support for functional groups, including performance of a wide variety of specialised clerical functions involving compiling and arranging data, making computations, laying out and preparing reports, processing and coding documents and maintaining specialised and comprehensive records and filing. Sets up and prepares statistical reports. Resolves discrepancies and may communicate with a variety of administrative and professional employees within and outside the company.
The Project Administrator provides a service to the Programme to ensure project support to the individual projects within the Programme, as well as support to the PMO. This primary role is to work with the project teams to record progress against plan (on Jira and MS Project), ensuring that deliverables are taken through the required governance process and ultimately filed in the Programme’s SharePoint repository.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Project Progress monitoring - Collaboratively reflect progress against project plans with stakeholders on Jira and MS Project, highlighting risks and blockers to Programme Management.
• Project Stakeholder List - Collaboratively maintain Programme Stakeholder List with the Programme’s Change Management team
• Progress Reporting - Provide support to the PMO on Progress Reports to governance structures, such as the Programme Steering Committee
• Deliverables - harvest and file Project deliverables on SharePoint, and carry out regular quality checks on the Sharepoint environment to ensure compliance with Programme standards
• Manage project finances - Assist PMO in the management of actual, budget and forecast costs.
• Maintain project tools - Collaborate with GTI or other service providers to support bugs or enhancements to Jira, Sharepoint or other PMO tools

Knowledge And Skills

• Processing transactions and conduct simple calculations
• Record keeping; filing and maintenance of databases
• Maintain work standards and quality verification
• Data Collection and processing of transactions
• Procedures Knowledge

Qualifications, Experience And Additional Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in project management or comparable tertiary level qualification.
• At least 5 years relevant project management experience.
• Demonstrable experience with Jira, or similar project management systems
• Demonstrable experience of MS Project.
• Demonstrable experience with MS Sharepoint, of similar content management systems
• Demonstrable Intermediate level skills in MS Word, including work with sections, creating templates, using styles, and customize them; Creating and formatting complex tables, and manage table data; Inserting graphic elements in MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and MS Word
• Demonstrable Intermediate skills in MS Excel, including filtering data and managing a filtered list; performing multiple-level sorting, use sorting options and design considerations; use mathematical, logical, and financial functions; work with data and perform interactive analysis; and work with Pivot tables
• Intermediate MS Powerpoint skills.

Personal Attributes

• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Communicates effectively - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

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 Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Being resilient - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently

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.

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What will you do?

• Analysis of change requests received
• Provide recommendations and cost / man-day estimates for implementing changes
• Design prototypes for change requests
• Design/Build Web Interfaces if applicable
• Maintain existing programmes according to change requests
• Produce appropriate software programs that satisfy the specifications
• Test own programs / artefacts
• Test Interfaces to other systems
• Debugging of programs
• Provide test information to Testers
• Implement changes into the Production environment
• Provide/update design documentation
• Technical support / assistance to others on own programs / systems
• Provide standby / support (if and when applicable)

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• A tertiary qualification will be advantageous

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within application development
• Experience in designing and architecting solutions
• Experience in working with the following:
  • .Net C#
  • ASP.Net MVC / Web Forms / ASP.Net Core
  • Classic ASP (VBScript)
  • HTML (including HTML5)
  • Modern CSS (including CSS3)
  • CSS frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap) and familiarity with SASS/SCSS
  • JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, Knockout, jQuery)
  • JSON
  • MS SQL server (2012+) and SQL Reporting Services
  • Web Services (WCF / REST)
  • XML
  • Test-Driven Development (MSTest & XUnit)
  • ORM (Entity Framework & NHibernate)
  • Dependency Injection
  • Familiarity with mainframe is a plus
  • Familiarity with NodeJS
  • Knowledge of HTTP
  • Familiarity with CI/CD

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Visual Studio 2015+ & Visual Studio Code
• Systems analysis and design concepts
• Repositories (e.g. Subversion, Team Foundation Server, GIT)
• Responsive Design
• Familiarity with building inclusive and accessible web applications
• OOP / SOLID Design Principles
• Database architecture and design
• IIS

Competencies

• Client focus
• Strong analytical & numerical ability
• Problem solving skills
• Conceptual thinker
• Good communication / interpersonal skills both written and spoken
• Action / results orientation
• Quality orientation
• Knowledge seeking / learning orientation
• Strong Interpersonal and people interaction skills
• Ability to perform under pressure

Personal Attributes

• Organisational savvy - Contributing through others
• Manages complexity - Contributing through others
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

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 Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others

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.