Job Opportunities at Old Mutual

Job Description

This role assists clients telephonically or face to face, in accordance with business, process and compliance rules. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts. Customer focused role.

Skills

• Provides telephonic and face-to-face service to customers.
• Adheres to service and quality standards.
• Adheres to business, process and compliance rules.
• Moderate to high level of technical knowledge.
• Multi skilled across product and process relevant to the business area.

Closing Date

• 01 September 2022

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Job Description

This role is accountable for execution, governance, and be accountable for achieving results through the efforts of others.

You will have a combination of strong business, financial, strategic, and analytical skills to ensure the provision of business and support services (Finance, Operations, Legal, and Risk management) is of a high standard and enables OMART to meet its objectives.

• Being the Financial Accountant of OMART, this role will provide a strong business partnership to the Senior Financial Accountant for achievement of the overall business objectives as defined in the business plan
• Developing financial processes and performance metrics and interpret cost drivers, KPI’s and benchmarks. Provide commentary on financial results and implications and implements corrective actions to be taken.
• Preparation of OMART audited financials
• Manage the relationship with the external auditors
• Prepare OMARTs tax submissions on the 5 funds tax approach
• Prepare all regulatory submissions
• Maintains a strong financial control environment
• Responsible for audit liaisons as per tax, legislative and statutory requirements.
• Assisting with the development and implementation of the business strategy and business plan from a financial perspective
• Manage the finance team
• Review the OMART HFM submission to Old Mutual Limited
• Management of entities fixed assets & fixed asset register

Job Requirements

• Matric
• Finance degree required
• Newly qualified CA would be considered
• Exposure to five funds tax
• Exposure to the cell captive business (would be an advantage)
• 3yrs experience in a leadership/management role preferred
• Strong knowledge of IFRS17
• Working knowledge of Oracle
• Working knowledge of Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Attention to detail
• MS Office with excellent excel skills
• Stakeholder management & excellent communication skills required

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Job Description

The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

The role of Software Engineer – Senior Android Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality mobile solutions. This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centred software and contribute to developing technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional mobile applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the mobile digital channel/platform
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
• Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes
• Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
• Mentor and coach developers
• Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
• Create and test software prototypes

Experience & Qualifications Requirements

• Matric certificate with relevant tertiary qualification
• 4+ years of experience in Android mobile application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in mobile frameworks and technologies such as:
• Kotlin/Java
• Android Studio
• Spring Framework
• Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
• AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
• Collaboration tool e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness

COMPETENCIES

• Customer focus
• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving
• Conflict management and resolution
• High EQ