Top performing Quants Analyst needed!

Main purpose of the role is to drive the analytics agenda within the business. Overall objective is to drive substantial bottom line value by transforming the organisation’s key decision processes (e.g. sales, marketing, product design and pricing, fraud, underwriting, claims) to be led by insights and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

The incumbent will be responsible for

• Identifying, prioritizing and delivering on key business opportunities where improved insights and advanced analytics can drive bottom line value

• Driving buy-in and leadership for analytical decision making and advanced analytics

• Working with stakeholders to identify the business requirements and the expected outcome

• Collaborating with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information for analysis, reporting and solution design

• Performing experimental design approaches to validate findings or test hypotheses

• Quantifying the accuracy of metrics for the analysis and presenting and depicting the rationale of the findings in easy to understand terms for business

• Supporting the design and delivery of the right infrastructure (databases, BI tools, modeling software) to support the analytics agenda

Key stakeholders:

• The managers of the respective business areas and their respective managers of sales, marketing, product development, pricing, customer management, claims

• The head of Analytics

• The head of BI and the BI team

Required Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Maths/Stats, Engineering, Actuarial Science or similar

Required Experience (relevant or in a similar role)

• 2-5 years related experience

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Experience in analytics (big data, database mining, statistical, modelling and programming knowledge, test and learn)

• Excellent relationship management, facilitation and thought leadership skills

• Strong communication skills (written and oral)

• Strong project management and delivery skills

• Experience in MS Office, SQL, PowerBI and good experience in database analytical tools and statistical packages

Key Purpose

To maintain and enhance the Technical pricing models on a full-time basis.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Update existing pricing models with emerging experience
• Presenting findings during the modelling process
• Enhance current models with new data sources

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Technical / Statistical skills
• Data management skills
• Modelling skills required: Must know Emblem & Radar
• Programming skills: SQL
• Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) – advanced level of Excel

Qualifications

• Completed degree in Actuarial Science and/or Mathematical Statistics / Computer Science
• Completed all CT subjects
• Honours degree is advantageous
• 3-4 years’ experience in short term insurance pricing – essential

Qualified Actuary needed to join a top corporate in their valuations team which forms an integral part of

the business. The emphasis is on the understanding and communication of financial numbers to enable

the business to optimise its products and financial position.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Take responsibility for planning and coordinating the half and full year valuation process.
• Identifying areas of improvement and efficiency in the various valuation process.
• Provide training and support to junior members in the valuation team.
• Liaise and coordinate with other areas within the company to:
  • Ensure ad-hoc work requested is in-line with required.
  • Changes in the business are appropriately incorporated into the various valuation processes.
• Present results from valuation processes and ad-hoc work requests to senior management.
• Ensure technical responsibilities are done at the required standard within the requested time-frame. Technical responsibilities include inter alia:
  • More complex valuation items incl. Analysis of surplus, SAM and ILT
  • Ad-hoc modelling changes
  • Ad-hoc product sign-off
  • Budgeting and funding plans.

Education and Experience

• Matric
• Completed degree in Actuarial Science and/or Mathematical Statistics
• Fully qualified actuary with 5 years post qualification experience
• Experience within retail financial services and customer behavioural impacts
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook, as well as profit modelling
• Strong communication skills

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Job Title: Senior Manager: Group Strategy & Impact Office (Senior Management) Cape Town or Johannesburg Who are we? Sanlam was established as a life insurance company in South Africa but has since transformed into a diversified financial services group that operates across the African continent, India, Malaysia and selected developed markets, with listings on the Johannesburg, A2X and Namibian stock exchanges. In 2018 the Group celebrated its centenary as well as 20 years since demutualisation and listing in South Africa and Namibia. Sanlam is one of the 50 largest internationally active insurance groups in the world with a presence in 44 countries and has the biggest non-banking financial services footprint on the African continent. The Group's four business clusters (Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam) house the Group's business operations. The Group provides strategic direction and support to the four clusters, assisting them in realising their strategies and meeting their business objectives. The Group Office is responsible for governance and for the Group's centralised functions, which include: Finance, Actuarial and Risk Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Market Development and Brand Services.

What will you do? This role resides in the Group Office, in the Strategy and Impact Office and has a dotted line to Senior: Strategy Manager in charge of the portfolio of clusters. The Strategy: Senior Manager will play a critical role in determining the long-term strategic direction and ambition for the Group on an ongoing basis, ensuring the successful implementation of key strategic initiatives across the portfolio of clusters as well as proactively identifying value-enhancing new strategic initiatives, in particular those spanning across multiple clusters. You’ll be part of senior leadership of the strategy function, overseeing a small team of Managers and Associate Managers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines and work in a team-oriented, relationship- driven environment. You’ll partner with senior Sanlam executives, taking on the role of trusted advisor, engaging on Sanlam’s most critical issues to ensure the Groups strategic ambition is achieved. In doing so, you will increase your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives and develop new skills. Expect to work with minimum supervision and exercise sufficient discretion and independent judgment.

What will make you successful in this role? Support the Group CEO in the development of long-term Group strategic plans and objectives; Support cluster executives in developing and implementing cluster strategic initiatives to execute on the Group strategic vision; Facilitate discussions with Sanlam executives to prioritize strategic initiatives for implementation, coordinate cross-cluster initiatives and resolve conflicts in cluster priorities; Working across a portfolio of clusters, ensure successful development and implementation of cluster strategic initiatives by:

Overseeing the development of robust initiative roadmaps (incl. KPIs, risks, milestones and interdependencies) for certain high-importance strategic initiatives; Acting as a sounding-board for cluster executives and initiative owners for key decisions in road mapping and implementation; Share experience and best practises with cluster executives and initiative owners; Regularly monitor performance measures and milestones put in place to determine the effectiveness of certain implemented initiatives; Facilitate monthly discussions with initiative owners to resolve roadblocks, monitor risks; and identify and manage interdependencies; Escalate roadblocks to the attention of the Executive Committee when necessary; Ensure all key strategic initiatives consistently reflect the Group’s goals and interests;

Facilitate quarterly business reviews between Group and cluster executives to evaluate overall performance against strategic targets and make adjustments as necessary;

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Support the Group CEO in the annual strategic review to evaluate overall performance against strategic targets and make adjustments as necessary; Provide mentorship and support to Managers and Associate Managers ensuring continuous individual development; Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge University degree with 10 to 15 years relevant industry experience or strategy consulting equivalent experience A MBA will be to your advantage CA (SA), actuarial or engineering background may help you with analytical part of the role Previous strategy experience and demonstrated leadership in growing personal relationships and knowledge development Strong business acumen and an understanding of the environment in which Sanlam operates Project Management

Knowledge and Skills Strategic Planning Business Innovation Forecasting Business Knowledge Research and competitor analysis

Personal Attributes Organisational savvy - Contributing strategically Balances stakeholders - Contributing strategically Plans and aligns - Contributing strategically Optimises work processes - Contributing strategically

Build a successful career with us We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically Customer focus - Contributing strategically Drives results - Contributing strategically Collaborates - Contributing strategically Being resilient - Contributing strategically

Turnaround time The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. The closing date for applications is 09 November 2020.

Our commitment to transformation The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

Business Unit Head - B2B iStore

iStore is an Apple Premium Reseller (APR) which is a dedicated hub for Apple products and accessories. iStore aims to maximise customer value offerings by providing an authentic Apple experience.

The iStore Business is expanding rapidly in the corporate sales market with a specific focus on offering integrated Apple related solutions to corporates. This focus extends to includes mobility, digital transformation and cyber security.

The successful candidate will take Executive responsibility for driving this key part of the iStore Business, with a focus on building a strategic sales offering and solutions to the Corporate market. An ability to design solutions that solve a unique problem for the client (outside-in) is a key success factor.

Our ideal candidate comes from a high level consulting background focused on solution selling, and/or has a high level skill set in selling complex professional services.

Another key requirement includes being comfortable in establishing and maintaining executive relationships that extend beyond technical issues and building lasting connections that enable us to become the provider of choice for cutting edge technology, both from a relationship and expertise perspective.

The role includes the leadership and expansion of the iStore B2B team. The position reports to the CEO of the overall iStore Business and is part of the iStore Senior Leadership team.

Required experience, skills and competence:

• Ideal Background - MBA/post graduate qualification from well recognised institution. • Minimum 15 years working experience - from the background indicated above. (high level

consulting/solution selling/selling complex professional services) • Experience in systems integration and related change management. • Thorough understanding of the B2B market. • Proven track record of a strategic selling skill set, with full responsibility for driving a sales based organisation and formulating strategic offerings and solutions into the Corporate market • Recognised for ability and track record in solution selling at Senior Executive level coupled with

ability to identify new opportunities with existing and new clients • Skilled at preparing costs and delivering high quality, proposals on our offerings • Able to negotiate and close deals and agree on mutually beneficial solutions • Well versed in all new technology trends in IT, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence and ability to engage with high level of expertise in all these areas. • Well versed in OSINT gathering for commercial purposes • Strong leadership ability and track record where has developed a top class B2B sales team that

represents the organisation at a high level • Self-motivated with a strong business acumen and proven ability to deliver on results • Driven and ambitions with real passion for our products and cutting edge technology • Highly target achievement driven • Strong communications and influencing skills and ability to communicate about software

integration and value propositions at all levels • Ability to function in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

Organisational Effectiveness & Development Specialist   

Role Specification    

Role Basics  

Headlines  

1. Join a fast-paced technology start up that is making it easier for 1000s of people to access better  

healthcare.  

2. Work remotely or one day in a modern community focused office environment in Rosebank (discuss  

during engagement).  

3. Help build a cutting edge organisational architecture that will support the organisation as we scale.   

4. Engage with the latest thinking on customer and people metrics to help inform organisation-wide  

decision-making.  

5. Design well researched initiatives that genuinely support performance.  

6. Have the opportunity to test and learn as we build our robust customer-centric culture from the grass  

roots.  

7. Apply organisational effectiveness and organisational psychology models and methodologies in the  

real world, in innovative and pragmatic ways, for an organisation that truly values them.   

Organisational Overview  

Healthforce facilitates the functioning of multi-disciplinary clinical teams, setting up nurses as the single,  

low-cost entry point into the healthcare system.  

Healthforce is a user-friendly, scalable web-application that is built for nurses to run in thousands of existing  

private and public clinics. The application facilitates nurses operating at top of scope. The nurse can call a  

Healthforce doctor into the consult room with the patient immediately through a live video connection. The  

doctor and nurse together diagnose, and the doctor can provide a sick note, script and referral. The teamwork  

between health skills will be further enhanced, in time, through clinical algorithms and healthcare episode  

management.  

As every nurse can now be a place of specialised care, the Healthforce solution makes care from  

multi-disciplinary teams available to even the most far-flung areas. Where the nurse can treat the issue, the  

cost is the lowest it can be. However, even if a doctor is called via video connection, the consultation lasts on  

average only 5 minutes, reducing the doctor cost too.  

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Title   OE & D (Organisational Effectiveness & Development) Specialist  

Function   People Dynamics (OE & D)  

Manager’s Role Title   Head of People Dynamics  

Function Purpose   Enable the customer-centric Healthforce culture through 1) innovative  

application of organisational psychology and organisational effectiveness  

methodologies and 2) development and implementation of robust customer  

and employee metrics.  

Role Purpose   To enable the Healthforce customer-centric culture through relevant and  

pragmatic human-centred programme and initiative design and  

implementation.   

OE & D Specialist Job Spec

Furthermore, given that Healthforce holds a single clinical view of the patient, patients can be managed over  

time by the lowest cost resource during each encounter with the health system we enable. Health outcomes  

improve due to lower cost, greater access, less redundancy in testing and examinations, and teamwork across  

skills.  

In time, Healthforce’s strategy is to extend the reach of our tech platform (to be discussed during engagement).  

There has been a remarkably rapid uptake of the Healthforce offering thanks to its value to clinics, health  

funders and doctors. Healthforce is rolled out to 400 clinic rooms across South Africa so far. Over 1 million  

nurse consultations have been captured on the system. Over 85,000 doctor consultations have been  

concluded. Healthforce releases new functionality to the web-based system on a fortnightly basis. The  

organisation is on a pathway to rapidly scale this offering in South Africa and internationally. In addition, it has  

several new products in its pipeline. Nevertheless, the organisation is still in its infancy. And it is time to grow  

our team...  

Responsibilities  

❏ Design and deliver culture and organisational effectiveness interventions, making complex ideas  

compelling and easily understood.   

❏ Design measurement instruments that are practical, relevant, and ensure long term sustainability of  

approach. Collate, synthesise and analyse customer and employee related data . Present findings in a  

cohesive, easy to understand way.   

❏ Socialise the environment to new ways of working by developing and hosting excellent training  

sessions.   

❏ Support change through individual and group communication activities.   

❏ Practise sufficient research to ensure robust thinking:   

❏ Identify and gather relevant information using a broad spectrum of appropriate sources  

balancing quality, availability, timelines, and cost factors.    

❏ Be pragmatic, consider the customer need and context and make recommendations that are  

practical, useful, sustainable and aligned to the desired Healthforce culture.   

❏ Produce documented outputs that make complex thinking easy to understand and implement.    

Knowledge  

● Organisational culture, group dynamics, motivation theories and other organisational psychology   methodologies  

● Communicating for change/ change management   ● Social data analysis   ● Knowledge of out of hospital care and value-based care (beneficial)  

Experience  

● Preferably trained in a consulting environment   ● 6+ years work experience in a related field  

Skills  

● Deep knowledge of approaches to building organisational culture and organisational effectiveness.  

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OE & D Specialist Job Spec

● Facilitation of group learning opportunities.   ● Ability to extract and convey insights from analysis in a clear and impactful manner of communication.   ● Apply theory in a practical and useful way.   ● Superior planning and organisational abilities.   ● Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.   ● Superior problem solving and analytical skills.   ● Ability to work proactively and independently as well as in a team.   ● Willingness to work with a wide variety of OE &D topics in a highly demanding and results-oriented  

team environment.  

● Highly oriented towards confidentiality.   ● Very strong PowerPoint and Excel user (Google Slides and Sheets preferred).  

Education  

● Post-graduate degree, preferably in the social sciences (MComm Industrial-Organisational   Psychology preferred)  

Behavioural expectations  

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Behaviour   Behavioural Standards  

I Connect  

I listen to hear the rational need without interrupting  

I consider the individual context and identify the emotional need  

I ask appropriate questions to clarify my understanding of the real need  

I respond appropriately to the real need (encompassing both rational and emotional)  

I demonstrate openness to ideas different to my own  

My language and style serve the relationship (above my own agenda)  

I Plan  

I make time to think through my approach, considering past learnings, the real need and  

the possible impact on Healthforce's strategy  

I use appropriate research and information to inform my thinking  

I turn the need identified into clear and realistic objectives  

I identify the what, when, who and how necessary to achieve my objectives  

I define and document a clear plan  

I Keep People  

Informed  

I consider the context and identify appropriate communication channels  

I commit to defined dates and times for updating people  

I explain the why, what, how and who of the journey  

I build buy in and confidence by using appropriate language and style for the context  

I am proactive in sharing information  

I Deliver  

I define my commitments clearly  

I deliver what I committed to  

I deliver at the date and time I promised  

I adapt to unforeseen circumstances by effectively modifying my approach when necessary  

I remain calm under pressure, maintaining a healthy perspective  

I collaborate effectively with other people  

OE & D Specialist Job Spec

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I Learn  

I seek out opportunities to learn, improving my skills, knowledge and expertise  

I seek out feedback from others about how to improve my contribution  

I share lessons in a structured way so that others can benefit from my experiences  

I encourage new and innovative approaches