Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key purpose of the role

• The purpose of this to lead the Group Consolidations and Group Finance Systems functions for the Discovery Group. The role reports directly to the Head of Strategic Reporting and Business Enablement, with key engagement with various stakeholders across the Group.
• We are looking for an exceptional financial leader with solid financial consolidations and finance systems experience in financial services. Must have an excellent understanding of insurance, banking, health and investments, and experience in building and leading a high-performance team. This is a rewarding, challenging role in a complex environment and will best suit a motivated self-starter, who is resilient, a quick thinker, and able to hit the ground running.
• We are looking for an exceptional financial leader with solid financial consolidations and finance systems experience in financial services. Must have an excellent understanding of insurance, banking, health and investments, and experience in building and leading a high-performance team. This is a rewarding, challenging role in a complex environment and will best suit a motivated self-starter, who is resilient, a quick thinker, and able to hit the ground running.

Areas of responsibility

• Production of all consolidated financial numbers (IFRS and non-IFRS) for all scenarios (actual, forecast, budget)
• Advise finance teams on the consolidation impact of complex transactions, and ensure relevant consolidation entries have been accurately captured
• Own all consolidation entries for the group, and ensure entries are valid, accurate, appropriate, and complete
• Ensure the consolidated disclosures are accurate and complete
• Produce relevant proofs for the group consolidation
• Review of segment submissions for completeness and accuracy
• Ensure group calculations have been accurately captured in segment submissions
• Own and maintain the group chart of accounts mapping
• Manage month-end actual and forecast reporting requirements and timelines
• Understand requirements of users of the consolidation and ensure reporting templates meet requirements
• Ensure optimal functioning and performance of the group wide finance systems (group reporting tool, general ledger, analysis tools)
• Spec all changes to Finance Systems, ensure appropriate testing and approvals, and manage the change control process for all metadata changes
• First line support for Group Finance Systems
• Approval and bi-annual review of user access for finance systems
• Manage all system downtime to ensure minimal interference with reporting processes
• Work closely with Group IT to ensure optimal system performance, upgrades and security
• Work closely with Business Finance Systems owners to ensure optimal integration where required
• Preparation of functions workplan, and alignment to overall team workplan
• Recruit and retain talent, team management, build talent pipeline
• Support the reporting optimisation function - key part of the EPM implementation team
• Implement finance processes and relevant controls over areas of responsibility and ensure adequate documentation thereof
• Ensure internal controls are adequate and appropriate to manage risks
• Support the CFO, Office of the CEO and other key stakeholders
• Build solid relationships and work collaboratively with the Discovery Group Finance team, Group IT and business finance teams

Profile

• Exceptional CA(SA) with solid experience in complex consolidations for a listed entity and finance systems - non-negotiable
• Experienced in building a high-performing team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Very strong understanding of finance processes and finance systems
• Ability to translate technical accounting concepts into practical application
• Ability to grasp complex concepts quickly
• Growth and improvement mindset, ability to face challenges
• Meticulous, organized, deadline driven, disciplined
• Impeccable attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships
• Advanced Excel knowledge and experience

Qualifications

• The candidate should be a qualified CA (SA) or similar with minimum 10-12 years of experience.

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Job Purpose 

• The Analyst will be required to do the business requirement analysis, followed by data analysis and from there generate the technical designs. This will be followed by a walkthrough of the solution must be done with the development team. 

Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to: 

• Ensure that the application performs the functions as required by business.
• Perform all duties assigned and prioritized with Business & EIS management with primary focus on the building of bank client and product demographics data assets for consumption by the bank analytics and self-service data analysis community 
• Lead an initiative from start to finish including consultations with various stakeholders including Business, Functional & Technical teams
• Data sourcing, cleansing & analysis making use of best practices to achieve the Bank’s Data Strategy
• Data Modelling
• Data Asset design and specifications
• ETL specifications using SAP Power Designer
• Testing of Data Assets & ETL’s which have been developed
• Participating in quality control and review processes in the team
• Teaching, mentoring and sharing knowledge with the team
• Adhoc data extraction and analysis

Education and Experience:

• At least 5 years in Data warehouse experience. 
• BSc/BCom Computer Science / Statistics / Mathematics / Computer Engineering.
• Several years of relevant IT and business/industry work experience required.

Technical skills or knowledge: 

• Knowledge of SDLC, Unit Testing, Database structures, Technical Change Control
• Technical stack (database platform, data movement and reporting)
• Data modelling
• Data transformation and transfer (ETL)
• SAP HANA (SQL)
• MS SQL Server (SQL)
• Change data capture (CDC)
• SAP power designer – documentation (data asset modelling)
• Confluence - documentation

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Key Purpose

• To head up, lead and manage the 24-hour emergency services operations call centre and associated functions.
• Implement, drive and manage set strategy and targets for the area and provide a service of high standard and support to customers.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Manage all service levels and standard operating procedures of the 24-hour emergency services call centre, and all associated functions
• Full line management function within scope of role
• Analyse trends relative to area
• Effectively manage operating costs within the call centre as per budget
• Effectively implement, drive and manage strategy and targets as set out for the business area.
• Develop, mentor and coach direct reports
• Escalated query handling from various stakeholders – internal and external
• Reporting to various stakeholders on business – internal and external
• Cultivate Discovery culture within business area
• Effectively lead and develop the team to enable growth, ensure career developments across all levels of staff within the team.

Education and Experience

• Matric (Essential)
• Minimum 5 years’ call centre (in- and outbound) experience (Essential)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a leadership role within an emergency services call centre (Essential)
• Experience in Emergency services environment – 5 years (Essential)
• Vehicle tracking – 5 years’ experience (Essential)
• Degree (Advantageous)