Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

Assist the Finance Manager in the daily accounting and reporting responsibilities in the finance function. Adhere to and improve the internal financial controls, identify and mitigate any potential financial risks facing the business, contribute to a cost-saving culture and find cost efficiencies.

Key Outputs

• Journal preparation and capturing
• Balance sheet reconciliations preparation
• Budget preparation and tracking
• Transaction validation and variance analysis
• Weekly approval of supplier orders, invoices & staff reimbursements
• Accounts Receivables
• Internal and external audit liaison
• Approval of Management expenses invoices and reimbursements
• Ad-hoc financial analysis as required
• Competencies
• Attention to detail is crucial
• Upholds ethics and integrity
• Advanced level of numeracy and solid knowledge of accounting principles
• Strong reconciliation skills
• Able to interpret complex contracts/arrangements and translate into the financials
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels
• Takes initiative and works well under own direction
• Manages time effectively
• Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way
• Works productively in a highly pressurized environment
• Accepts and tackles demanding goals with enthusiasm

Qualifications & Experience

• BCom degree or equivalent majoring in Financial Accounting
• Fully computer literate (advanced Ms Excel, Word etc.)
• Minimum 2 years working experience in Finance Reporting

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Key Purpose

The administration of all Discovery Invest products and the processing of Normal transfers (Withdrawal and Retirement) including Section 14 & Section 37 transfers (Directive 135) handling telephonic or other queries from policyholders, financial advisors, franchises and other companies.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Administration of and Specialising in Retirement funds such as Preservation Provident, Preservation Pension, Retirement Annuities, Living Annuities
• Processing of various types of transfers
• Requesting and following up on all outstanding documents with external companies, financial advisors, franchises and client’s
• Dealing with queries via email and taking of inbound calls with a possibility of outbound calls also
• Dealing with escalations
• Relationship building with financial advisors and internal and external colleagues/clients
• Dealing with walk-in clients, you should be able to assist and then also to be able to answer them regarding any and all their questions
• Monitoring of the task list to ensure all cases are assign to you that should be within the agreed Service Level Agreement
• Assist with the manual capturing of applications
• Assisting with testing and system implementations

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Drives Results
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Problem Solver
• Manages Complexity
• Balances Stakeholders
• Ability to handle pressure and tight deadlines
• Good communication skills
• Customer service orientation

Education and Experience

• Matric
• 3 – 5 years experience do you have as an administration within the LISP Industry
• Knowledge and understanding of Long-Term Insurance Act and Retirement Products
• Knowledge and experience in the processing of Section 14 and Section 37 transfers (Directive 135)
• Experience using the following systems is an added advantage (Required):
• Frontline
• Computer literacy with Microsoft Office suite

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Key Purpose

The Business Intelligence (BI) Data Architect is responsible for the design, implementation and support of all BI Data Assets. The right individual will possess knowledge of all stages of BI project work (logical data model design, physical data model design, implementation, testing and deployment). The BI Data Architect should have a firm grasp of BI implementation methodologies and will have had in-depth experience with the Microsoft BI Stack with an emphasis on Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Security and Master Data Management. Knowledge and experience in other aspects of BI (ETL and Reporting) will be an added advantage.

The Data Architect utilizes their passion for data delivery to bring about new ideas and improvement on existing solutions. The Architect utilizes strong data management, integration, and analytical skills to support BI initiatives in a Customer Centric environment. This position will work with IT professionals to ensure all data is understood and translated accurately, through defined Governance processes, to drive informed decision making.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with a variety of clients including executive and operational
• Communicate and collaborate with teams to action requirements and deliver the required Data solutions
• Interact with systems analysts, architects, developers and development managers to understand source structures and information
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders
• Transform business requirements into Star Schema data models
• Conduct data analysis and data profiling.
• Facilitate definition of business key performance metrics.
• Documenting of technical specifications.
• Ensure that BI solutions meet business needs in totality.
• Perform thorough testing of outputs using SQL.
• Manage overall quality of final outputs delivered to business.
• Perform impact and gap analysis based on requirements
• Develop subject matter expertise in both business processes and data sources.
• Provide support to the development team members and analysts.
• Establish and maintain BI and general data standards, processes and procedures.
• Establish and Implement Data Governance frameworks/standards in alignment with Group policies and POPIA
• Manage timelines, communication and feedback to all stakeholders.
• Training of users and ongoing support
• Provide input on source system change impact on not just BI and reporting but also general business impact
• Recommend new solutions and enhancements to existing implementations
• Prior experience working in an agile, fast-paced team environment.
• Co-ordinate quality assurance and user acceptance testing (Unit and UAT)
• Implementation of a Data Warehouse from the ground up.

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to present solutions and data storylines.
• Advanced SQL skills
• Experience in gathering and documenting technical requirements
• Experience in writing functional and technical specifications, process flows and source-to-target maps.
• Ability to understand entity-relationship diagrams, normalized and de-normalized structures
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• Data modelling of the Data Warehouse (Kimball and/or Inmon)
• Using architecture tools such as Erwin Data Modeler
• Ability to work on Big Data technologies (e.g. Cloudera / Hadoop)

Education And Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in a Business Intelligence environment
• 6+ years’ experience in a Data Architecture in a corporate environment
• BCOM Informatics / BSC Computer Science or equivalent data qualification
• DMBOK certified will be advantageous
• Business Intelligence certifications will be an added advantage
• Implementation knowledge of Cloud based data solutions (eg. AWS, Azure)

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Key Purpose

The Data Engineer is responsible to design and implement data pipelines and systems to enable clean and usable data to inform BI, MIS, data science and analytics.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required data engineering work. This includes ensuring that data systems meet the company’s regulatory commitments and that data is reliable and efficient
• Adopt industry leading systems and ways of working to support best-in-class business capabilities for high performance database solutioning
• Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment. This includes contribution and participation in the relevant Data Governance Frameworks
• Partner with Technology, Business and other stakeholders to ensure that database structures, programmes and applications meet business delivery requirements.
• Design and implement scalable end-to-end database solutions including:
• address issues of data migration i.e. validation, clean-up and mapping and consistently apply data dictionaries
• component design and development
• identify and resolve production and application development constraints
• develop prototypes and proof of concepts
• integrate new technologies and software into the existing landscape
• develop data set processes for data modelling, mining and production
• optimal utilization of big data
• documentation management and disaster recovery
• Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed data architectural frameworks and ensure development/delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
• Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve data architectural compliance. This includes representation at relevant forums e.g. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco
• Apply project management methodology to effectively engage various data initiatives. This includes collaborating with the data architect to produce data architectural designs for group wide projects and identifying project risks.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of:
• Data governance and data management frameworks
• BI and Warehouse design
• Metadata Management
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Data Integration: Extract Transform Load (ETL), batch architecture and frameworks. Skills required here include amongst others:
• Create and manage sophisticated T-SQL, ETL jobs, and solutions to load normalized table structures as well as Dimensional (SCD2) and Fact tables.
• Develop and maintain database stored procedures, views, and functions that support reporting data models.
• Convert ETL specs into ETL code which meets performance requirements of the ETL batch execution.
• Diagnose and resolve any ETL issues relating to ETL failure, incorrect outputs, and performance.
• Design and deploy table structures in alignment to reporting and data access/query needs.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control of the ETL environment.
• Conduct unit testing and peer reviews of ETL code.
• Interact with Data Architect, System Architects and BI Leads to discuss solutions, challenges, and enhancements.
• Lead the creation, enhancement and implementation of newer Data Analytics and BI standards and processes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation of processes.
• Event Driven Architecture
• XML and related technologies
• SOA & Web Services
• Logical Database Design
• Statistical analysis and modelling advantageous
• Database architectures
• Hadoop-based technologies (e.g. MapReduce, Hive and Pig, Spark)
• SQL-based technologies (e.g. Oracle and MSSQL)
• NoSQL technologies (e.g. Cassandra and MongoDB)
• Data modelling tools (e.g. ERWin, Enterprise Architect and Visio)
• Python, C/C++ Java, Perl, R
• Predictive modelling, NLP and text analysis
• Machine learning
• Data mining
• UNIX, Linux, Solaris and MS Windows
• Cloud Architectures

Personal Attributes And Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to present technical solutions.
• Ability to coordinate and work cohesively with other Analysts and developers in the team (no ‘code-loners’).
• Solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications, process flows and source-to-target mappings.
• Experience creating databases from the ground up.
• In-depth understanding of data management (e.g., permissions, recovery, security, and monitoring)
• Strong SQL query writing ability (across database environments)
• Experience in ETL design and solid understanding of ETL solution architectures.
• Good understanding of ODS, data warehouse, data mart, cube, and database technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to navigate ambiguity and complexity around business products and benefits and how they tie into data.
• Minimum intermediate experience with SSMS, SSIS, and T-SQL.
• Adaptability and comfort with fast-moving, changing environments.
• Innovation - ability to initiate new and better ways of doing things, using appropriate methods to identify opportunities, devise and implement solutions and measure impact
• Teamwork - capacity to work co-operatively with others to achieve shared goals
• Drive and Results Orientation - self-starter and originator who maintains high levels of activity and produces a consistently high quality output within agreed deadlines. Prompt and proactive in driving for success and sets demanding goals for self
• Assertiveness- able to hold one's own in the face of opposition and exert influence calmly, firmly and fairly
• Influencing and Impact (incl. Negotiation) - capacity to create appropriate levels of impact by using verbal and non-verbal communication skills to influence and/or negotiate win-win agreements to proposals, plans or ideas
• Verbal and Written Communication - capacity to use appropriate presentation and facilitation techniques to engage an audience and help them to understand, retain and respond appropriately to the message

Education And Experience

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science / Informatics or than 7 years or more software development related experience
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in BI Data Warehouse development with degree or diploma