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  • Posted: Sep 26, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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    Administrator

    Key Purpose

    • The position is responsible for the day to day administration and managing a small team within Umbrella Fund Operations, within the Retirement Funds business unit. This is a core administration function and the incumbent would be required to holistically manage and control a portfolio of different Retirement Fund disciplines, for example monthly contribution, claim, investment option, individual transfer in, section 14, section 28 processes. The incumbent must ensure that processes and procedures are implemented, maintained and improved. The incumbent needs to ensure operational activity is conducted within regulatory frameworks, accurately, effectively and efficiently. The incumbent must ensure that he/she has the knowledge, skills, tools and competencies required to perform the required job within service level agreements. The incumbent must have an appetite to be part of a growing new business unit, continuous improvement, able to adapt to change easily and play a role in change management within the team, challenge the status quo, inspire and motivate others. The incumbent will continually review existing processes and procedures in order to ensure the delivery of committed services to the Umbrella Funds Clients.

    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

    • Processing of all daily and monthly transactional activity within agree service levels.
    • Performing QA function for document verification where necessary.
    • Ensure that day to day administration is accurate, compliant and abreast with regulatory frameworks such as, Pension Funds Act, Tax Act, Rules of the Discovery Life Umbrella Pension and Provident Funds, Participating employer special rules.
    • Ensures delivery of key operational attributes such as data completeness and data quality.
    • Dealing with queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
    • Prepare management and client report for submission to superiors.
    • Dealing with escalated calls or queries from internal stakeholders, communicate effectively with clients to resolve queries and escalations, ensure client expectations are met.
    • Develop and maintain excellent business relations with internal and external brokers.
    • Assistance to the Team Manager to ensure effective managing of projects.
    • The incumbent is the Subject Matter Expert in Retirement Fund areas under management. Produces new ideas, approaches or insights. Produces range of solutions to problems and do root cause analysis. Effective decision-making by “out of the box” thinking and weighing up risks involved.

    Personal Attributes

    • Leading and Supervising
    • Planning & Organizing skills
    • Working with People - Communication
    • Persuading and Influencing
    • Adhering to Principles and Values – Self management
    • Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
    • Coping with Pressure and Setbacks
    • Relating and Networking
    • Team work and analytical skills
    • Communication
    • Problem solving
    • Initiative and enterprise
    • Learning
    • Technology

    Education and Experience

    • Matric-essential and further studies are advantageous.
    • Telephone etiquette, detail orientated and self-driven.  Customer centric focus to be evident.
    • MS Office- Advanced Excel skills, Accounting, operational processes and process mapping. Employee Benefits including Group Risk claim operations.
    • Knowledgeable on Compass; Paradigm (internal)
    • 3 – 5 years claims experience in the long-term insurance industry.  Pension and Provident Fund experience is advantageous
       

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Discovery Limited on careers.discovery.co.za to apply

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