Job Opportunities at Hollard Insurance

Job Advert Summary    

• Reporting directly into the Head: Group statutory reporting responsible for the Hollard Group financial reporting with a heavy matrix to the senior finance manager, this role is responsible for the end-to-end financial reporting function and providing technical support to the business units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all internal and external financial reporting requirements of the Life license.
• Manage and oversee the month-end-close process and collaborate with actuarial and tax teams for accurate financial reports.
• Review Business Performance Measures (Performance cell levels) and provide analytical support to the Group Reports
• Provide financial support in assessing business performance by monitoring the key financial metrics, key ratios, regulatory risks, insurance reserving and other governance and risk management practices
• Management of Group wide financial planning and forecasting process across the Hollard Group
• Ensure financial controls are designed, implemented and managed within the financial reporting environment and drive balance sheet controls / management across the Group.
• Prepare and coordinate the regulatory reporting for Group (PA, SARB etc)
• Stakeholder Support: Actuarial, Tax and provide support to divisions and the external audit process.
• Preparation of the consolidated annual financial statements
• Research of changes to statutory and regulatory reporting requirements and responsible for the development of Hollard actions in response to the changes
• Provide technical accounting support to business units and drive implementation of technical standards

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Experience: 

• A minimum of 2-5 years’ experience (post articles)
• A minimum of 2 years financial management experience
• Insurance Industry experience preferable

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls including reporting and budgeting (Great Plains / HFM)
• Exceptional business acumen and broad business knowledge
• In depth knowledge of financial accounting and related processes
• IFRS and International accounting standards
• Related legislation
• Stakeholder management
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Analytical thinking skills
• Ability to work well under pressure

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Job Summary:

• The role is responsible for creating Frontend solutions according ta UX specifications. Work with our product owners and UX designers timplement HTML components and accurate CSS. Create user journeys using Sapiens digital toolset and connect the Frontend tbackend APIs using Sapiens digital toolset.
• Great English and communication skills is a must.

Key Responsibilities:

As a member of the Digital Team,

• You will be developing a complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solution, 
• and maintains its high level of quality.
• You will be expected ttake an initiative approach timprove code, tools, and 
• process. Be open minded twalk in a different path and tdeliver quickly whilst 
• maintaining high quality.
•  Members of the team usually work closely with other Sapiens R&D teams, tleverage 
• knowledge and work done and often tbe a role model for other teams regarding 
• processes and activities.
•  Ability tdesign and implement a feature/module in a web application.
• Play a role in the entire life cycle of development you must be motivated tdrive 
• tasks tcompletion and take ownership of projects from end tend.
• Ability tmeet aggressive timelines and motivate the team tmeet the product 
• deadlines.
• Proficient experience in anyone of advanced JavaScript libraries & frameworks such as 
• AngularJS/ReactJS etc.
• Proficient experience in SQL and NOSQL with any one of database technologies like 
• MySQL/Oracle/PostgreSQL/MongoDB etc.
• You will take an active part in all development phases, including research, design, 
• development, testing, deployment, and using the best technologies including:
• Java 8,
• Node.js, 
• React 16,  NoSQL persistency
• Docker, 
• Kubernetes    

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• Strong understanding of UI - Required
• Cross-browser compatibility, 
• General web functions and standards
• 3 years’ experience in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, TypeScript – Required
• 8-year experience as a Java Developer / Front-end Developer
• 1 years’ experience and hands on with LESS/SASS – Required
• 4 years’ Responsive design - Required
• Proven Material Design and Bootstrap
• Experience with REST APIs, JSON – Required
• Experience with CI/CD using frontline – Advantage
• Graphic design, UX experience – Advantage 

Educational Requirements    

• Matric
• Tertiary qualification