Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

To service brokers with new business policies, sales presentations, policy advice, all ongoing support for brokers and potential customers. The role also requires liaising with internal business stakeholders.

Areas Of Responsibility May Include But Not Limited To

• Ongoing Broker support.
• Accurate, timely administration.
• Maintain accurate details of queries (product knowledge, soft skills) and communicate to management.
• Provide 1st call resolution.
• Achievement of monthly product and soft skills knowledge targets.
• Stakeholder engagement.
• Dealing with Service providers.
• Teamwork, self-management and alignment with Discovery values.

Education And Experience

• Matric (Essential).
• 1 year’s call centre experience in the short-term insurance industry (Essential).
• FAIS Credits - full qualification (Advantageous).
• RE 5 qualification (Advantageous).
• Experience dealing with Brokers (Advantageous)
• Degree (Advantageous)

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Key Purpose

Within the CAS system area, the Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source codes.

The Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.

We are in the process of transitioning over from .Net to Java, cndidate will be expected to do .Net until transition process is completed.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
• Present to senior stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to peers
• Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Source control, experience with GIT

• Passionate about technology and development.
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Analytical thinking
• Personal organisation and time management skills
• Technical and business writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
• Attention to detail
• Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications.
• 6 years Java systems development experience
• Java EE knowledge and experience
• Experience with SOAP and REST services

Preferred

• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
• Angular Framework
• Spring Framework
• ORM/Hibernate/JPA experience
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience
• Oracle and PL/SQL knowledge
• SOAP and REST (XML/JSON)
• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Be able to code .net code into Java
• Be able to translate .net code into Java

Advantageous

• Honours degree
• DevOps/Continuous integration
• Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)
• Be-able to code and translate .net code into Java

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY                       

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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Key Purpose

The successful applicant will be responsible for the financial control aspects of a new partnership in Asia. You will report to the Divisional FM and form part of a team to improve and implement control frameworks, process enhancements, value-added reporting and perform the complete accounting function for the above-mentioned areas while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Month end activities and journals,
• Owning the P&L for these areas (expense and revenue management, including trend and variance analysis)
• Invoicing on SAP
• Balance sheet recons
• Budgets and forecasting
• Working Capital Management
• Compile month end reporting packs
• Ensure governance and internal financial controls are followed
• Assist with ongoing process enhancements, automations and value-add
• Adhoc and routine stakeholder reporting, meetings and deliverables
• Working with the auditors, group reporting and project/market team
• Cost tracking and analysis (working with project team to ensure finance systems (WBS) and PM systems are aligned)
• Tracking KPI’s
• Partner with market leads to understand the business, goals, strategies, and the impact on the finances of VG.

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Action Orientated
• Business Insight
• Financial Acumen
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Drives Results
• Problem Solver

Education

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with BCom(Hons)
• Completed articles at big 4 (preferable)
• CA (SA), or CIMA (preferable) or strong experience in finance

Knowledge

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Financial acumen, accounting principles & practices, IFRS, US GAAP and financial control knowledge
• SAP, SAGE, Power BI

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.