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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The five business clusters (Personal Finance, Investments, Emerging Markets, Corporate, and Short-term insurance) house the Group’s business operations. The Group Office serves as the ‘glue’ that keeps the Group together by providing strategic direction and support to the five clusters to assist them in meeting their business objectives. The Group Office is responsible for the Group’s centralised functions, which include: Finance, Actuarial and Risk Management, Information Technology, Human Resources, Market Development and Brand Services.
What will make you successful in this role?
- Identify and define business requirements for new business models/applications or changes to existing models/applications.
- Produce Business Requirements Specifications (BRS) and prepare use case specifications / user stories supported by appropriate UML diagrams and identification of test conditions.
- A key responsible on agile projects will be to define the features and stories along with grooming and the prioritization of the team backlog
- Define and design changes to existing processes as required and ensure integration of changes into process environment.
- Work with business owners, Business Consultants, users, Project Managers, Architects and other team members to define non-functional requirements (including metrics and performance goals) for the application.
- Support Business Consultant on selected projects within the Business Design unit.
- In agile projects assist with the preparation for PI Planning events and participate in PI Planning events
- Participate in transitioning the requirements and use cases to Systems Analysts and Designers, and ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements.
- Review test approach and test cases to ensure coverage of relevant business scenarios.
- Participate in quality management reviews throughout the business change life cycle and systems development life cycle to ensure requirements are fulfilled. On agile projects, this will include the acceptance of stories as done.
- Participate in review of test results to ensure that business requirements have been met.
- Be actively involved in limited testing if required on a particular project.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade 12.
- Relevant Degree will be an advantage.
- Accredited Business Analysis Diploma could be an advantage.
- Relevant Agile certification could be an advantage.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of business and understanding of IT, and ability to converse in both domains.
- Ability to articulate complex or technical concepts and issues in business terms.
- Relationship development.
- Sound knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, writing effective use cases and the application of the appropriate UML models for business analysis.
- Sound knowledge of agile frameworks & methodology.
- Knowledge of modelling tools e.g. Rational Software Modeller, Visio (UML stencils), Aris.
- RPA knowledge could be an advantage.
- Client journey mapping and Client Experience knowledge could be an advantage.
Experience
- At least 2 years’ relevant experience within the Financial Services industry.
- Exposure to analysis methodologies, process disciplines and SDLC methodologies.
- At least 1-year’s relevant experience on Agile projects.
Competencies
- Good communication skills
- Decision making
- Analytical thinking
- Work standards
- Planning and organising
- Treating customers fairly
- Building and maintaining relationships
- Team success
- Learning orientation
- Computer skills (MS Word & MS Excel & MS PowerPoint)
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An Analyst Developer BI is an IT specialist with advanced analytical and technical skills who understands the data structures and various data sources.
Job Measurement
The performance of the Developer (BI) can be measured by:
- Timely delivery of analysis, reports and data presentations to support business reviews.
- Turnaround time for answering a given business demand.
- User satisfaction.
Output/Core Tasks
- Defining the requirements for analysis within a given business area.
- Design and develop ETL processes by performing detailed analysis using the ingestion toolsets of the organization.
- Providing users with correct data to do their analysis on.
- Performing root cause analysis of data issues and troubleshoot technical difficulties.
- Identifying data anomalies and communicating back to the data owners.
- Interpretation of specifications received (including data models, if applicable
- Create and maintain data model documentation.
- Work with data sources(raw data)
- Presenting results to the business unit leader in a preferred tool (such as Office suite, BI report or dashboard).
- Testing and debugging of programs
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualifications
Role Requirements:
- An appropriate post grade 12 qualification (Diploma/Degree) will be a strong recommendation.
Technical Knowledge And Experience
The Analyst Developer BI is a technical expert with a strong understanding of data, data structures and data sources. Required skills include:
- Knowledge and experience of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships and metadata.
- Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL querying.
- Ability to combine data from multiple sources when needed for the analysis.
- Familiarity with the use cases, business purposes and quality of the data.
- Knowledge of technical toolsets to perform all duties such as(but not limited to):
- Datastage
- DB2
- SQL
- SAP Hana (DB)
- SAP Data Services
- Cloudera Hadoop technologies
- Database viewing tools
- Scripting languages
- Report generation tools
- Knowledge of BI processes and methodologies such as (but not limited to):
- Agile development
- ETL
- Data integration
- Data modelling/Application modelling
- Data analysis, visualization and reporting
- Ingestion
- SDLC, release management and project management
- API integration
Work Experience
- The Analyst Developer BI must have at least 1 year of relevant experience in a similar environment working with the relevant tools and techniques
Competencies
- Strong analytical & numerical ability
- Problem solving skills
- Conceptual thinker
- Good communication / interpersonal skills
- Action / results orientation
- Quality orientation
- Knowledge seeking / learning orientation
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Sanlam Group Internal Audit established an Actuarial Assurance function in 2012, which has grown to a team of five actuarial professionals.
- Engaging actuarial functions across the Sanlam Group to understand their mandate and the risks they manage and are exposed to.
- This includes actuarial processes and controls around data, models and model governance, assumption setting, and valuation and reporting on various bases. In addition, processes around actuarial risk management and models, asset valuation models, investments, credit risk management, balance sheet management and the Group’s growing General Insurance footprint require increased focus.
- The Sanlam Group is faced by challenging regulatory changes, which include prudential and market conduct regulations. Internal Audit’s role is to provide assurance over the robustness of processes, controls and models included in the designed solutions.
The Actuarial Assurance function is responsible for assurance over actuarial functions globally. Key geographical areas include the South African businesses (including Santam), selected African countries, Malaysia and the UK. The function is risk-based and as such the Actuarial Assurance function will link with Sanlam’s growing geographical footprint across Africa.
What will make you successful in this role?
As an Actuarial Assurance Specialist, the role will support the provision of independent assurance to the Board and Management. The role is Cape Town based at Sanlam’s head office and will include assurance assignments over actuarial functions across the Sanlam Group (including travelling to execute assignments on-site within various Sanlam businesses in Johannesburg, rest of Africa, Malaysia and the UK).
Duties And Responsibilities Include The Following
- Support overall planning and execution of actuarial assurance assignments group-wide.
- Working with Group Actuarial & Risk Management to understand combined assurance.
- Planning and execution of specific audit assignments such as validation of actuarial and financial models, processes and controls around the management of market, credit and insurance risks, and actuarial and financial reporting under various internal and statutory bases, including SAM, Solvency II and EV.
- Assurance activities relating to governance - specifically the adequacy of risk management and actuarial control functions across the Group, as well as ORSA processes established under SAM and Solvency II.
- Support in providing specialist assurance over the Group’s IFRS17 programme. This relates to the control environments around actuarial data and modelling, actuarial processes, valuations and reporting functions.
Qualification, Knowledge & Experience
- Nearly-qualified actuary, with a minimum of 3 years actuarial experience in life insurance
- Knowledge of SAM and/or Solvency II (Pillar 1 and Pillar 2/ORSA) and EV methodologies
- Working knowledge of balance sheet management, capital management, and investment risks
- Working knowledge of IFRS17 and developments around the new standard
- Awareness of regulatory and governance developments
- Experience in an assurance function (advantageous but not required)
- Experience with Prophet (advantageous but not required)
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Provide secretarial support to the Regional General Manager 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 the secretarial duties
- Assist with adhoc requests
- E2 Financial payments & order supplies
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