Jobs at Old Mutual South Africa

This role provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts.

What is a financial adviser?The role of a financial adviser is one that demands utmost professionalism, integrity and a customer-centric approach. An accredited financial adviser commands the respect and trust of those customers who are entrusting their and their families financial futures to them.The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams, accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.As an accredited financial adviser with Old Mutual, you will represent the ideals and values to which the company has subscribed for over 175 years – Integrity, Professionalism, Customer-first, Advice led.What is required of you?Provide appropriate financial advice, in line with the customer’s resources and financial goals, to enable positive financial futures and protection of assets and estate.Provide pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within your allocated customer markets.As a financial services professional, you will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through effective personal time and task management. Importantly, the financial adviser profession requires continuous personal development through the attendance and completion of accredited courses and programmes.Providing relevant and appropriate financial advice, hinges on a complete understanding of the customer’s personal and financial circumstances – and their goals or dreams for the future. As such, interpersonal and communications skills in order to build solid relationships are fundamentally important.What do we need from you?

• A Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
• FAIS compliance
• RE5 an advantage
• A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
• A clear criminal and credit check
• A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
• Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

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This role is traditionally in a back office setting and is accountable for assigned responsibilities that will relate to the efficient day to day running of retirement group annuity solutions already set in place for existing clients.

The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary team that forms the operational arm of the core Employee Benefits offering with exposure primarily to Post-Retirement Medical Aid Solutions.

The successful incumbent will carry out technical and administrative work through their own efforts, with minimum guidance, while continually looking for ways to streamline processes.

• Data administration and management.
• Regular reconciliation of records between the business, stakeholders and clients to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Internal stakeholder management.
• Accountable for annuity quote process for new and existing retirees and related record keeping.
• Accountable for annuity asset report preparations and information sharing on monthly basis.
• Accountable for ad-hoc technical and administrative duties relating to delivering service to the existing client portfolio.

Qualification(s) and Experience required:

• Grade 12
• Tertiary Qualification (Commerce/Science/Business Science) or
• National Diploma (Accounting Sciences/Engineering/Tech) or
• NQF7 (National Certificate in Financial Services’ related field)
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience and financial services knowledge
• Employee Benefit/Retirement industry knowledge would be advantageous

Skills

Education

Bachelor of Business Science (BBSc) (Required), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) (Required), Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required), National Diploma (NatDip) (Required)

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This role provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts.

What is a financial adviser?The role of a financial adviser is one that demands utmost professionalism, integrity and a customer-centric approach. An accredited financial adviser commands the respect and trust of those customers who are entrusting their and their families financial futures to them.The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams, accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.As an accredited financial adviser with Old Mutual, you will represent the ideals and values to which the company has subscribed for over 175 years – Integrity, Professionalism, Customer-first, Advice led.What is required of you?Provide appropriate financial advice, in line with the customer’s resources and financial goals, to enable positive financial futures and protection of assets and estate.Provide pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within your allocated customer markets.As a financial services professional, you will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through effective personal time and task management. Importantly, the financial adviser profession requires continuous personal development through the attendance and completion of accredited courses and programmes.Providing relevant and appropriate financial advice, hinges on a complete understanding of the customer’s personal and financial circumstances – and their goals or dreams for the future. As such, interpersonal and communications skills in order to build solid relationships are fundamentally important.What do we need from you?

• A Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
• FAIS compliance
• RE5 an advantage
• A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
• A clear criminal and credit check
• A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
• Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

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Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries.

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This role ensures that the programming requirements of the business are met through own efforts

• Write programs according to business specifications.
• Conduct unit testing.
• Draft implementation plans.
• Work closely with Business Analyst to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications
• Contribute to Old Mutual Finance body of knowle dge (documentation, wikis, how - Tos ).
• Identify inefficiencies and work towards continuous improvement of existing systems and/or processes.
• Participate actively in Scrum delivery ceremonies (standups, planning, design retro, review).

Minimum Requirements

• Matric
• 1 -3 years relevant experience as a IT Programmer

Technologies

• Java
• Source control – Git, SVN
• XML
• XSL
• Html
• Jquery
• Web servers (E.g Tomcat, Jetty/Netty

Competencies

• Collaboration (Relating)
• Customer First
• Execution
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Leading with Influence
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Strategic

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This role works closely with the GMC communications managers / communication specialists deliver on objectives. This role will execute on the Communication capability thought leadership, participate in strategy formulation and produce clear communication strategies in support of the consolidated OMF Marketing Plan.

This role works closely with the GMC communications managers / communication specialists deliver on objectives. This role will execute on the Communication capability thought leadership, participate in strategy formulation and produce clear communication strategies in support of the consolidated OMF Marketing Plan.

Job Description

• Ensures tat all communication is developed in alignment with the integrated OMF communications strategy.
• Contributes to the media strategy that confidently builds relationships with the media and aims to make them brand advocates.
• Contributes to disciplined delivery of an annual communication activity calendar that spans all OMF segments and countries.
• Applies innovative practices where appropriate and in line with brand promise and identity.
• Applies and adheres to overall OMF & OML communication governance. This includes overall architecture, metrics and communication rules.
• Engages with agreed internal and external stakeholders as needed to deliver on mandate.
• Contributes to the reputation strategy that ensures the OMF reputation is managed in accordance with strategy and brand requirements.
• Monitors brand reputation and escalate issues as required.
• Contributes to and delivers on an appropriate crisis management responses as required through media.

Skills

• Brand Marketing, Communication Skills, Public Relations (PR) Management, Social Media Relations

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA): Marketing (Required), Bachelors Degree (B): Journalism (Required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

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This role defines and monitors adherence to architectural standards for the domain-specific development, deployment and management of application, information, communication and technology infrastructure. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts, for periods of up to 1 year.

IT Architect Responsibilities:

• In this role you will primarily combine your skills of routing & switching in on-premise network such as WAN, LAN and Wireless LAN, with emerging cloud networking technologies
• Translate logical designs into physical designs, taking account of business requirements, target environments, processes, performance requirements, existing systems and services
• Assess and analyse business requirements so as to present architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision of Old Mutual and wider industry best practice
• Link the business strategy and processes to the IT strategy and document this using multiple architectural models or views, e.g. conceptual, physical and logical designs.
• Defines and maintains architectural standards for the development, deployment and management of information, communication and technology infrastructure.
• Governs and assists in the life cycle management of solutions to promote adherence to design principles and synergy across OML group entities in South Africa and Rest of Africa markets.
• Acts on expert advice and is a key role player in solution design discussions and contract negotiations with outsource service providers
• Design and support the implementation of network technologies on multiple vendor platforms which include, but are not limited to Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Checkpoint and Palo Alto.
• Collaborating with network architects to design and implement functional networks, emphasizing security, usability, performance, reliability, scalability and supportability (LAN, WAN, WLAN)
• Monitor network performance and integrity
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to restore service post an incident, identify route cause and propose long term resolution actions
• Managing various IT suppliers (internal and external) delivering communication services
• Guide / instruct team members on technical issues resolution
• Assist in continued growth of our business by supporting the next generation of converged data/voice systems in our enterprise
• Suggest improvements to network performance, visibility and scalability
• Mentoring junior Network Engineering staff.

Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education/experience
• Industry-related experience as an network / connectivity services architect, minimum of 7 years
• Strong understanding of AWS global services and best practice implementations according to the AWS Well Architected Framework
• Relevant AWS certification
• Competency working with AWS and core services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing, IAM, Security Groups, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud networking architecture, cloud operations, security, automation and orchestration.
• Expert knowledge on routing, switching, firewalls, and SSL and IPSEC VPN solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of IP protocols and their services at the application layer, e.g. HTTPS, LDAP, DNS, SSH, RDP, etc.
• Good knowledge of cybersecurity as it relates to computing infrastructure and networking environment.
• Experience in designing and supporting the implementation of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including but not limited to Cisco Identity Services Engine
• Experience in supporting implementations of forward and reverse proxy solutions, e.g. cloud proxy solutions including but not limited to Netskope, ZScaler and Palo Alto Prisma access
• Understanding of SDN (Software Defined Networking) technology and the architecture
• Experience in IP Address Management at a large scale
• Have a good understanding of DHCP and DNS services
• Understand end-to-end conceptual architecture of how Internet services are delivered to customers and key roles players or service providers within the service chain
• Excellent documentation, communication and interpersonal skills is key working in an Enterprise such as Old Mutual Limited where there are many inter-dependent cross-functional teams and group-entities
• Understanding of the IT managed service provider industry in South Africa
• Understanding of hosted solutions, virtual and physical, including services offered by co-lo data centres
• Proficient in Active Directory and Azure Active Directory service with administration level experience
• Proficiency in basic Linux and Windows system administration
• Experience in troubleshooting incidents using the OSI model as a reference
• Experience in driving / implementing Network Automation is advantageous
• Excellent leadership and mentoring skills.
• High level problem-solving skills.

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This role manages projects to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled IT team. The IT Service Delivery Manager oversees a team of technical specialists that enable the delivery of high quality technology solutions to end users to meet business needs. Defining project needs and feeding these into the programme/portfolio/product process to enable resources to be appropriately allocated. This role is core to decisions that build high performing teams, where people are excited about the work they are undertaking. The IT Service Delivery Manager is required to establish and manage expectations within the business and to drive the IT team to achieve those expectations to a high standard working closely with Product owners, delivery teams, 3rd Parties and Scrum Masters. IT Service Delivery Managers oversee employees, facilitate planning meetings, and ensure that products and services satisfy consumers, having a long-term focus. As leaders, IT service delivery managers use strong communication skills to motivate and encourage employees. They also use strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with customers/stakeholders. Key responsibilities will include amongst others the following;

• Lead a team of technical IT specialists.
• Provide support, supervision, training, direction and mentorship in tech development, support and service delivery.
• Delivering complex projects, breaking down barriers for your team and both planning at a higher level and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed.
• Monitor, control and support service delivery; ensuring systems, methodologies and procedures are in place and followed.
• Give inputs to best practices in IT.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are followed.
• Ensure that teams are improving performance, service, and product quality.
• Use gathered information and research to target areas that need improvement.
• Ensure that team members are familiar with IT service delivery processes and best practices

Operations and Development

• Process efficiency and effectiveness
• In-scope process optimization
• Operational compliance
• Oversee and provide guidance on link delivery process from start to finish

Effort Management

• Customer (user) satisfaction
• Good communication around issues and opportunities – get things done, make things happen.
• Building, maintaining and analysing service reports to address any possible delays before it occurs.
• Drive deliverables thru industry-standard life cycles by establishing repeatable, well managed team and delivery environment

Organizational Management

• Manage service delivery resources within budget and project schedules
• Nurture, grow, and develop team members.
• Articulates the technical architecture, roadmap, and solution details to the all stakeholders.
• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
• 4 -6 years managerial experience
• Experience working in a IT Agile Environment
• In-depth knowledge of the system development life cycle
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Strong communication skills to motivate and lead
• Ability to lead a team of technical specialists
• Strategic Thinking
• Innovation
• Changing and improving
• Making effective decisions
• Leading and communicating
• Collaborating and partnering
• Managing a quality service
• Delivering at pace
• Strong technical knowledge on the following;
• Software knowledge
• Technical experience in a delivery environment
• Familiarity with AGILE methodology.
• Leadership – IT essential leadership skills to encourage teamwork and motivate employees
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Detail oriented and diligent.

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Job Description

• Design test cases and perform testing of applications
• Identify, document and track bugs
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Work within an Agile environment
• Understanding of UI and backend testing
• Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems.
• Design test cases and perform testing of applications
• Identify, document and track bugs
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Work within an Agile environment
• Understanding of UI and backend testing
• Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems.

IT Service Delivery

• Completes Test Strategy and have a high level understanding of all projects.
• Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
• Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
• Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.

Reporting

• Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Monitors progress and provide regular project reports to Test Manager.

Risk Management

• Identifies impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
• Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.

Team Effectiveness

• Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.
• Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.
• Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements

Technical Consultation

• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review.
• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required to projects being undertaken by other business units.

Requirements

• Matric - Grade 12
• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role

Experience

, Knowledge/Skills Required

• Java knowledge and coding skills advantageous
• Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

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Provide quality TIA Oracle systems development services for the Old Mutual iWYZE Information Technology team in order to implement and sustain a best-practice TIA Oracle systems framework which ensures optimum management of the TIA Oracle systems.

Detailed Description:

• Develop requirement and do unit testing (defect / enhancement).
• Develop requirement and do unit testing (project).
• Prepare technical specifications.
• Send technical specifications to technical lead for approval.
• Update HPQC and route to test analyst.
• Update HPQC with copy of technical specification.
• Update HPQC with test results and route call to Product Support Services resolver group manager (defect / enhancement).
• Provide customer services in line with quality and performance standards.
• Build positive customer relations and solve or escalate customer queries and complaints.
• Gather feedback on customer satisfaction and report to the relevant party.
• Proactively suggest improvements in customer service and relations where applicable.
• Contribute to a service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Adhere to agreed processes in order to deliver targeted operational results.
• Continuously strive to enhance and improve the Information Technology processes.
• Represent and market this process internally to peers and clients.
• Identify and report on Information Technology process issues.
• Proactively ensure use of time, of resources, money, materials or equipment is in line with policies and procedures.
• Comply with corporate governance policies, procedures and standards.
• Operate within agreed mandates.
• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the Information Technology team to deliver required service levels.
• Actively participate in the Information Technology team to ensure functional balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.
• Ensure achievement of own performance objectives.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
• Actively participate in own professional development and career path.

Job Requirements

• Grade 12
• Oracle-based business systems and development in SQL, PL/SQL, Forms, and Reports
• 5 years solid Oracle development experience
• 3 years’ experience in field of TIA Oracle systems development
• Oracle Forms programming
• Oracle PLSQL programming
• TIA application framework
• ADF
• Knowledge of software & hardware interfaces, programming & debug solutions

Skills

• Oracle ADF, Oracle Forms, Oracle Systems, SQL, TIA Portal

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BS): Information Technology And Computer Science: Information Technology Management (Required)