Junior Assistant Liquidator at Sanlam Group

About the job
Who are we?

Sanlam is a leading financial services group, originally established as a life insurance company in 1918. The Sanlam Group conducts its business through Sanlam Limited, the corporate head office and four business clusters. The corporate head office is responsible for the Groups’ centralized functions such as strategic direction, financial and risk management, marketing and communications, Group human resources and corporate social investment (CSI). The four business cluster include; Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam.
One of the largest businesses within the Sanlam Group, Sanlam Employee Benefits (SEB) specializes in the provision of risk, investment and administration services to institutions and retirement funds. Focused on meeting the unique needs of its diverse clients, SEB assists companies in creating and delivering customized employee benefits solutions, including the collection of premiums and communication to fund members.

What will you do?  

Key Responsibilities:    

• Direct assistance to Liquidator & Assistant Liquidator
• Reconciliation of assets & payments
• Engaging with relevant departments to arrange for payment/transfer of benefits
• Drafting of exemption reports
• Attend to member queries
• Follow up on outstanding items
• Maintained Filing System
• Ad-hoc requests

Qualification & experience

• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience in the Employee Benefits or Retirement Fund industry
• Minimum 2 years knowledge of legislation applicable to Retirement Fund Industry
• Minimum 2 years experience of internal workflow systems
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Office

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of legislation applicable to the retirement fund industry
• Previous retirement fund experience will be advantageous
• Knowledge of internal workflow systems will be advantageous

Personal qualities

• Attention to detail
• Proactive
• Analytical
• Ability to work independently
• Innovative and demonstrates initiative
• Ability to collaborate and pull information together

Our aim is to help you 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 realize 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.

Turnaround times

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.