Responsibilities:

Drive Strategic Alignment

• Closely collaborate with the Human Capital and business community to analyze current and future business area(s) specific learning needs and functional requirements based on sector, product, and client segment, aligned to the business area(s) strategy and associated business outcomes.
• Understand the current and future skill requirements and commercial learning landscapes.
• Identify clear learning objectives to achieve the business outcomes in the context of the current learning landscape and the needs of the learner.  Ensure alignment with the broader Group Learning strategy 
• Develop measures to monitor the progress of learning priorities closely aligned to the defined business outcomes. Validate and obtain approval for these with business area leaders and Human Capital Business Partners
• Working closely with business subject matter experts, external partners (where necessary), and learning partners, define the learning journey(s) required to enable business outcomes that meet the needs of the learner.  Take into account the content delivery platforms, content curators, course materials, and user support or learning resources to enable high-impact innovative delivery aligned to Group Learning standards.

Learning Regulatory and Budget Management and Monitoring

• Together with the Group Learning Governance and Assurance team, participate in the development of regulatory scorecard scenarios and the likely impact of learning on regulatory scorecards.
• Provide feedback to the supported business area if planned learning experiences fall short of scorecard expectations. Provide advice on corrective actions.
• Engage with the Group Learning Governance and Assurance team to support the process of regulatory engagement on the formal accreditation of learning programs where required.
• Work closely with the teams that liaise with local regulators and training bodies to identify alternative funding opportunities. Ensure that such funding options are maximized for the specific business area(s).
• Drive the implementation of strategies to maximize learning funding for core skills program development.
• Act as a business advisor during the annual budgeting process as well as the review processes on the allocation of learning budgets. Take into account business priorities, scorecard objectives/regulatory targets as well as the anticipated cost of planned learning experience solutions.

Learning Design and Development/Curation

• Ensure that the design of the learning experience incorporates the optimal use leading learning practices and experience driven learning design
• Oversee the development of the learning experiences by acting as the sponsor for the learning projects. Ensure that adequate resources are identified and assigned to the development process.
• Optimize the use of, and drive the efficacy of digital libraries, learning journeys, microlearning, etc. for all related learning interventions (micro-and macro-learning).
• Use, and encourage the use of, digital libraries as a tool to address critical learning issues applicable to the organisation’s context.
• Make use of learning technologies across the digital learning architecture for the enhancement and innovation of learning and skills in a manner that ensures the user's interaction is as simple and efficient as possible.

Learning Delivery

• Develop a strategy for marketing learning experiences throughout the business, in collaboration with the Learning Adoption team, ensuring that the offerings are clearly communicated regularly through various means.
• Partner with line management and learning communities across the business area(s) to instill the learning culture prescribed.
• Monitor the execution of experiences testing and pilot runs. Determine whether experiences are ready for deployment and provide assurance to release the experiences.
• Execute on learning experience initiatives across the sector, product, and client segment to enable a consistently positive and effective experience for all users
• Motivate the adoption of digital learning tools available, understand learner characteristics and methods of impacting learner segments and experiences, to integrate Learning with the way of work.

Learning Governance

• Perform quality assurance reviews of the experiences development process by reviewing a sample of the information and supporting materials.
• Review all learning experiences for quality before they are uploaded or run.
• Critically review all third party learning spend for design, development, or delivery of training on at least a quarterly basis. Determine if vendor performance is in line with contractual commitments and review samples of participant feedback. Work with the learning operations team to institute any penalty clauses for below par delivery.
• Ensure that standards in terms of learning content and use of assessors and moderators are adhered to.
• Conduct formal performance reviews with the top 5 business line specific learning providers on at least a quarterly basis. Create remediation plans if performance is not to standard and make recommendations to the group learning operations team to terminate contracts if performance remains poor.
• Collaborate with other learning colleagues, under the guidance of learning operations, in developing a preferred suppliers list for learning and development. Participate in the development of technical specifications of tender documents and in selection panels for vendors that will service the supported business area.
• Ensure that all parts of the supported business line understand the learning and development policy, process, and governance standards. This includes human capital partners, line managers, cost center owners, and employees.
• Monitor the adherence to group standards and create corrective actions for any deviations.

People Management

• Foster effective teamwork, a collaboration between employees, subordinates, internal and external stakeholders, while ensuring individuals perform optimally to contribute to team objectives.
• Guide, coach, and mentor direct reports and others with informal reporting relationships to foster excellence and teamwork.
• Manage the performance of staff following the appropriate performance management policies and procedures, including the setting and reviewing of objectives.

Manage associated information

• Ensure that direct reports understand control requirements related to physical and systems access control and other information security requirements.
• Safeguard reputational risk by ensuring that personal privacy is adequately protected in reports generated and data gathered across the system life cycle.
• Interrogate the appropriate use of data to create insights, optimize the solution offering, and inform decision-making processes.
• Achieve compliance with relevant information governance processes, ensuring that insights gathered to inform decisions maintain individuals’ rights to privacy.
• Understand the implications of using cross-border data. Ensure adherence to data legislation as well as privacy and data security policies.

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Responsibilities:

• Unpack and understand each ILR functional area
• Understand the supporting functionality code at a high level
• Present functional area capabilities to the ILR teams with TechArchs
• Take ownership (as per overview above) of Configuration
• Review tasks wherein changes to the business function are implied, or new setup is needed, or upstream / downstream impact is suspected
• Create new business requirements for identified gaps in current ILR offering
• Work closely with TechArchs in identified new business requirements to design business solution
• Actively identify potential roadmap items that would enhance the ILR solution for possible new development
• Actively keep abreast of industry regulations, developments and trends
• Present business / insurance training
• Train and support in terms of functionality and configuration, as well as provide an induction to new team members
• Work closely with client Product Owner as a stakeholder
• Work closely with Testers (internal and client) and regression teams
• Keep other BAs informed of state of their clients
• Facilitate with the client’s 3rd parties: Auditors, Actuaries and Accountants

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Requirements:

• 5 years’ related experience
• Big data analytics
• Scripting and programming
• Statistical modelling
• Financial industry
• Fraud detection models
• Data wrangling
• Expert in MS Office, SQL
• Advantageous: Machine learning techniques, Oracle, NetReveal, RStudio, Python
• MSc or BSc - Applied mathematics, mathematics of finance, statistics, actuarial science or equivalent
• Data analytics life cycle
• Data engineering
• Payment fraud
• Good communication (written, oral) and interpersonal skills
• Organise and manage multiple tasks
• Work autonomously and in teams

Responsibilities:

Financial Management

• Demonstrate cost awareness and control and report on revenue, costs and volumes where applicable

Stakeholder Engagement   

• Build, influence, and manage key stakeholder relationships (internal and external) and expectations within all direct areas of responsibility.
• Deliver a high performing fraud detection model that meets detection matrix communicated to industry through:
• Benchmark statistics of industry fraud levels
• Measurement criteria adherence
• Actionable insight to fraud mitigation

Strategic Alignment

• Ensure individual deliverables are aligned to BU strategy, documented, clearly understood and regularly reviewed
• Strategic Payments System Enhancements
• Provide subject matter expertise for future data driven fraud/analytics related projects for TFM
• Detection Model Development and Management
• Reviewing, analysing, and evaluating ideas, develop and optimise core fraud detection models on payment streams
• Manage client risk profiles by tuning detection models and thresholds to balance client risk requirements (hit rates, false positive rates, and alert volumes)
• Ad hoc investigations of system output anomalies and general troubleshooting

Acquistiion of Quality Data – Technical Support

• Data engineering support for the acquisition of quality fraud data
• Data wrangling evaluation to minimise validation errors
• Technical to business communication
• Ad hoc investigations of system output anomalies and general troubleshooting

Though Leadership

• Contribute to department publications on actionable insight in line with proven data science use cases.

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Requirements:

• Bachelors in IT qualification or related field

Required Post graduate qualification:

• Senior post graduate qualification (Certified Scale Agile Program Consultant (SPC) or SAF’e Agile, Scrum Master/ Experience of Kanban/ Software Development Lifecycle)

Other advantages

• 8 or more years of overall IT experience
• Experience working in a SAF’e Program/ Value Stream Layer
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Agile Coach
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple Scrum teams

Responsibilities:

Prioritise and plan program Increment as part of the Agile Release Train (ART)

• Facilitate nWOW adaption, standardizing and documenting practices.
• Guide the team, including facilitating programme level processes and execution and growing the nWOW methodology at the program level (yet still allowing the team to self-organise).
• Plan and obtain resources and tools.
• Organize, run and facilitate the Program Increment (PI) Planning
• Organize, run and facilitate Release Management forum
• Secure Shared Services commitments and accountability for release plans.
• Provide release plans that offer realistic means of achieving commitments.
• Establish program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo Inspect and Adapt Workshop)

Execute Agile Release Train based on agreed PI Objectives

• Drive multiple release planning sessions
• Facilitate the resolution of impediments within span of influence. Once an impediment is outside of a Scrum Master’s span of influence the RTE steps in to remove or escalate the impediment to someone that can remove the impediment.
• Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog and execution alignment.
• At the program level, meet with all Delivery Engineers and Scrum Masters to track dependencies and risks.
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality.
• Support Product Owners with various requirements gathering and scrum activities as needed
• Escalate impediments and manages risk
• Help to assure value delivery

Foster collaboration amongst and across ART             

• Encourage cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
• Facilitate intergroup communication and dependency resolution, specifically helping to keep information moving so that the teams can focus on delivery.
• Facilitate alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum Teams.
• Encourages the collaboration across Program and Team layer of SAF’e

Coaching and Mentoring of the ART

• Provide leadership, direction and coaching to Feature team and Scrum Masters
• Develop, coach and mentor teams and scrum masters in lean/agile practices and mind-sets
• Actively contribute to the banks nWOW Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums
• Chairs the scrum of scrums (SoS). As a leader and the scrum master of scrum masters, the RTE is perfectly positioned to ensure that teams interact and share cross-team issues and risks by facilitating the SoS.

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Responsibilities:

• Unpack and understand each ILR functional area
• Understand the supporting functionality code at a high level
• Present functional area capabilities to the ILR teams with TechArchs
• Take ownership (as per overview above) of Configuration
• Review tasks wherein changes to the business function are implied, or new setup is needed, or upstream / downstream impact is suspected
• Create new business requirements for identified gaps in current ILR offering
• Work closely with TechArchs in identified new business requirements to design business solution
• Actively identify potential roadmap items that would enhance the ILR solution for possible new development
• Actively keep abreast of industry regulations, developments and trends
• Present business / insurance training
• Train and support in terms of functionality and configuration, as well as provide an induction to new team members
• Work closely with client Product Owner as a stakeholder
• Work closely with Testers (internal and client) and regression teams
• Keep other BAs informed of state of their clients
• Facilitate with the client’s 3rd parties: Auditors, Actuaries and Accountants

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Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in implementation of creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Big Data frameworks, supporting on-premise or Azure cloud to enable use cases in analytics and AI
• 3+ years’ experience with extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources such as structured, unstructured, and semi-structured using SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and on-demand workloads
• 3+ years’ experience with data warehousing or data lakes.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand non-technical language in order to facilitate, communicate and interact with executives and business stakeholders, working with Agile development methods in data-oriented projects
• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in quantitative areas such as Computer Science, Information Management, Big Data & Analytics, or related field is desired; certifications in Azure are an asset.

Responsibilities:

• As part of a team implement end-to-end modern data platforms in support of analytics and AI use cases
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, ETL developers & engineers, data scientists and information designers to lead identification and definition of required data structures, formats, pipelines, metadata, and workload orchestration capabilities
• Address aspects such as data privacy & security, data ingestion & processing, data storage & compute, analytical & operational consumption, data modelling, data virtualization, self-service data preparation & analytics, AI enablement, and API integrations
• Estimate effort and mentor junior colleagues
• Participate in technical meetings with client staff, and advise client with technical option analyses based on leading practices

Specialized Competencies

• Supports Data Analytics team in the implementation of client delivery on specific engagements. Applies deep knowledge of technology to drive continuous improvement

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REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Interaction Design, or related fields
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively, both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to create and communicate relevant documentation about the user experience
• Ability to ‘sell’ your ideas and solutions to various stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• A good track record and portfolio of projects where you have performed a similar role
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user needs
• In-depth understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices
• Ability to demonstrate interface interactions through prototypes
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously
• Ability to work well under pressure and able to take feedback openly
• Exceptional communication skills and a positive attitude
• Proficiency in Sketch, Zeplin, and Illustrator
• Innovative and self-motivated

 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create beautiful, engaging visual designs and interactive experiences
• Design wireframes and prototypes
• Maintain a product’s design aesthetic across multiple platforms
• Present and justify concept designs clearly and professionally
• Hand over designs to Engineers in a clean and organized manner
• Work closely with Product Leads and Engineers to ensure accuracy of final screens
• Stay on top of UI trends, industry techniques, and developments in digital technologies
• Documenting work done

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• BComm qualification is not required, but it, or a similar qualification, or significant progress towards such qualification will be an advantage
• Practical and demonstrable experience in the Systems Development Life Cycle and associated Project Management processes.  A related qualification is an advantage
• Practical experience in client service management. A related qualification will be an advantage
• At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in the group life and risk industry would be an advantage.  A related qualification and an understanding of the group life insurance and funeral business and related products, processes and systems will be an advantage
• Client Relationship management
• Insurance Knowledge, Business and Systems Knowledge and Experience
• Understanding of the technical aspects of the SDLC

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients, internal IT, operational business areas and service providers according to the required processes and system solutions
• First line system and business processes support to clients
• Manage and participate in operational prioritisation meetings and reporting
• Manage all client project scope changes with assistance from Program Manager
• Direct support to developers to clarify client requirements with assistance from Business Analyst
• Manage and participate in tasks through each of the key areas of the SDLC, including classification, prioritisation, business requirements, design, testing, user training and deployments
• System and system environment administration, release management and configuration
• General System, Process and Client Communication
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve service quality, accuracy, compliance and productivity
• Develop skills to enhance personal effectiveness and efficiency
• Must have experience in Business Analysis, Project management and Software Development

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant Degree in Finance or Economics or Accounting
• FAIS accreditation required (RE)
• 3 to 5 years relevant client facing experience (PB – Wealthy)
• Experience in dealing with complex personal and juristic financial structures
• Experience in analysing and interpreting complex personal and juristic financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, financial ratios)
• Experience in structuring non-traditional security-based lending facilities
• Experience in providing tailored solutions to significant families
• Experience in advising clients regarding company succession planning
• Experience in dealing with clients and structures across various jurisdictions
• Product knowledge in capital markets, risk management, investment management, trust and estate planning

Responsibilities:

• Identify, control and escalate potential risks which may lead to increased costs
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
• Deliver against operational and cost targets
• Prioritise resource allocation in order to minimise and reduce wastage
• Drive adoption of digital and other self-service options across client base
• Collaborate closely with relevant business units and product houses as per strategy
• Be an ambassador for the bank as a financial service provider encompassing internal values and ethical standards
• Maintain expert knowledge on all approved products, application procedure, processing and timelines in order to drive and achieve relevant sales targets
• Ensure that the quality of advice remains high and consistent and in line with bank’s investment philosophy and product approved matrix
• Liaise and interact with clients and or customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner
• Respond to customer requests in a timely and efficient manner
• Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of operational services by communicating with and auctioning stakeholder concerns.
• Resolve customer dissatisfaction/complaints by taking ownership of the problem
• Analyse customer feedback to help improve customer service
• Ensure that delivery is accurate, timeous and of an acceptable standard
• Ensure that product or service knowledge and advice is technically accurate
• Know and understand customer needs in order to deliver a quality service
• Propose ideas to improve customer service
• Manage stakeholders and adhere to relevant SLA agreements
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members
• Maintain and build relationships for purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration
• Inform and educate customers on products and services to ensure retention of existing customers
• Liaise and interact with clients and or customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner
• Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and the bank’s internal compliance procedures and requirements
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by the bank
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks
• Ensure optimal usage and protection of business assets
• Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data
• Ensure fulfilment of the sales processes until client is fully on-boarded into the correct service model
• Achieve sales targets in line with performance scorecards and achieve an acceptable cost of sales ratio

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In order to be considered the following is required:

Daily activity requirements:

• 2 x prequalified confirmed appointments with business owners that are available to do business within the next 3 months / open for business (An example of the above would be opening a new store, was previously manual or their current contract has expired or is expiring, and they would be able to sign up within the next 3 months. It is very important that this information is establish and confirmed when booking the meeting with the client)
• 1 x prequalified confirmed appointment with a business owner that is only available to do business after 3 months / future business (An example of the above would be someone who is currently locked in a device contract with a competitor for more than 3 months, a prospect that is opening a new store but only in the new year, the prospect is a corporate and the deal may take longer than 3 months to convert. It is very important that this information is established when booking the meeting with the client)
• From the above 3 meetings – the expectation is that 3 referrals can be secured with additional prospects and 2 x Vault app downloads can be actioned – this can either be linked to ongoing capital campaigns or introducing new prospects to capital

Weekly activity requirements:

• The above activity must result in a minimum of 5 quotes per week. Please note that the above is the minimum requirement for 4 out of 5 days weekly to accommodate for admin and office time.

Monthly activity requirements:

• Minimum 3 new deals per month
• Pipeline growth of no less than 20 quotes (Loaded on the online quoting system)
• Minimum 1 lunch / breakfast secured with an industry influencer and the Regional Manager
• Weekly reports due on Fridays @9am

Responsibilities:

• Consult, negotiate and make progress on deals to the point of signing with decision makers / business owners
• Source viable opportunities to promote the business to in order to secure required daily quote output and build a solid pipeline of opportunities with business owners / decision makers
• Focus on securing meetings (confirmed with the decision makers) where the business is currently in the market for a cash management solution
• Focus on securing meetings (confirmed with the decision makers) that is currently in contract with a competitor and should form part of your future dated pipeline
• Strive to understand your prospects business and cash management requirements to effectively provide the correct cash management solution and negotiate post objections
• Sell our end-to-end solution and the benefits thereof
• Build up a healthy pipeline of opportunity on the CRM system (core suite)
• Bring in new business in line with the monthly/quarterly and annual targets agreed to
• Manage and retain relationships with key industry influencers
• Grow one’s available opportunities via referral business events / tradeshows
• Understand the solution fully in order to best consult with your prospect base and ensure maximum client satisfaction once the product is installed
• Assist in transferring the relationship post installation to the Account Manager / Hybrid managing the customer thereafter
• Manage prospects expectation post signing to installation
• Manage all activity and reporting via core suite and report server to effectively manage and secure your prospect base
• Managing and actioning ongoing promotions/campaigns/strategic decisions throughout the prospect base
• Keep the prospect base appraised of any changes or new product development/services within the business
• ADHOC requests as and when required

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Oversee the compliance with environmental, health and safety and related industry regulations established by applicable laws and company internal rules and promote training and personal development of staff in terms of SHE processes and standards.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Technical professional education
• NQF 7 / 8 in SHE or associated fields
• Extension studies in SHE
• 3+ years leadership position
• 2 to 4 years management experience
• Master in technical discipline – Beneficial
• Must have knowledge of SHE legislation and regulations (SA) and Computer literacy
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Strong attention to detail

Responsibilities:

• Implementation Management (South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa)
• SHE Coordination
• Employee Wellness Programme Management
• Financial Management
• Staff Leadership and Management
• SHE Compliance (as an employee)
• SHE Management System
• H&S Policy, Directives and Guidelines
• Risk Management
• WSMP Auditing & Inspection
• Emergency / Management
• Monitoring and documenting
• Local emergency management system

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The ability to interact with all employees of a potential customer is important, this may include owners, managers, cashiers and admin staff.

The role will require a strong mix of sales experience and customer service to ensure a steady flow of new customers while maintaining an active customer base. Monthly growth of this customer base is key to ensuring a commercially viable customer base is developed.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric exemption, with English, additional languages beneficial
• 2 years direct field sales experience
• Experienced sales track record required, sales courses and diplomas beneficial
• Drivers License and own reliable car is essential
• Computer literate, Outlook and Excel
• Good communication skills
• The ability to build collaborative relationships with external clients
• Be proactive, initiate action and be results orientated
• Follow procedure accurately with high attention to detail

Responsibilities:

• Consult, negotiate and make progress on deals to the point of signing with decision makers / business owners
• Source viable opportunities to promote the business to secure required daily interactions and build a solid pipeline of opportunities with business owners / decision makers
• Focus on securing meetings (confirmed with the decision makers) with potential businesses
• Strive to understand your prospects business and existing value-added services provider to effectively provide the correct solution and negotiate past potential concerns
• Sell end-to-end solution and the benefits thereof
• Build up a healthy pipeline of opportunity
• Bring in new business to exceed monthly / quarterly and annual targets agreed to
• Manage and retain relationships with key industry influencers
• Understand the business solution fully to best consult with your prospect base and ensure maximum client satisfaction once your product is installed
• Manage customer expectations
• Manage all activity and reporting and report on daily / weekly / monthly to effectively manage and secure your customer base
• Managing and actioning ongoing promotions / campaigns / strategic decisions throughout the customer base
• Keep the customer base appraised of any changes or new product development / services within the business
• Conduct monthly site visits of your customer base
• Maintain an accurate customer data base and call cycle
• ADHOC request as and when required to ensure your customer base continues trading

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Requirements:

• Conduct monthly visits to your current month’s tiers
• Maintain an accurate customer database and call cycle
• Manage customer expectations and needs
• Manage the customer portfolio allocated to you by ensuring:
• Manage declared BTV to Actual BTV processed monthly/quarterly/annually
• Manage customers not utilizing the device and try reducing to a fully active portfolio Limit technical call-outs by ensuring efficient and thorough switch on training as well as ongoing training with the device users/sites
• Renewal negotiations to begin @12 months remaining on the current contract
• Keep the customer appraised of any changes or new product developments and services
• The settlement process is understood, and the client is trained on instant access and web flow financial process
• Feedback and quick resolution to customer queries acknowledgment of email within 24 hours and resolution within 48 hours
• Train the client on the current escalation process on the below:
• Technical issues
• CIT escalations
• Settlement/Recon Queries
• Source viable opportunities to promote to secure required weekly quota output and build a solid pipeline of opportunities with Business owners/decision-makers
• Manage all activity and reporting via core suite and report server to effectively manage and secure your prospect base
• Managing and auctioning CIT E2E conversions
• Managing and actioning ongoing promotions/campaigns strategic decisions throughout the customer base
• Provide assistance to Business Consultants and other Departments on matters escalated to AM’s/Hybrids on matters needed
• Assist Operations with customer training and billable calls
• Assist the Settlement staff with queries
• Meet deadlines for weekly/monthly reporting
• Daily Core Suite capturing
• ADHOC requested as and when required

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The ability to interact with all employees of a potential customer is important, this may include owners, managers, cashiers and admin staff.

The role will require a strong mix of sales experience and customer service to ensure a steady flow of new customers while maintaining an active customer base. Monthly growth of this customer base is key to ensuring a commercially viable customer base is developed.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric exemption, with English, additional languages beneficial
• 2 years direct field sales experience
• Experienced sales track record required, sales courses and diplomas beneficial
• Drivers License and own reliable car is essential
• Computer literate, Outlook and Excel
• Good communication skills
• The ability to build collaborative relationships with external clients
• Be proactive, initiate action and be results orientated
• Follow procedure accurately with high attention to detail

Responsibilities:

• Consult, negotiate and make progress on deals to the point of signing with decision makers / business owners
• Source viable opportunities to promote the business to secure required daily interactions and build a solid pipeline of opportunities with business owners / decision makers
• Focus on securing meetings (confirmed with the decision makers) with potential businesses
• Strive to understand your prospects business and existing value-added services provider to effectively provide the correct solution and negotiate past potential concerns
• Sell our end-to-end solution and the benefits thereof
• Build up a healthy pipeline of opportunity
• Bring in new business to exceed monthly / quarterly and annual targets agreed to
• Manage and retain relationships with key industry influencers
• Understand the business solution fully to best consult with your prospect base and ensure maximum client satisfaction once your product is installed
• Manage customer expectations
• Manage all activity and reporting and report on daily / weekly / monthly to effectively manage and secure your customer base
• Managing and actioning ongoing promotions / campaigns / strategic decisions throughout the customer base
• Keep the customer base appraised of any changes or new product development / services within the business
• Conduct monthly site visits of your customer base
• Maintain an accurate customer data base and call cycle
• ADHOC request as and when required to ensure your customer base continues trading

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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

The ability to interact with all employees of a potential customer is important, this may include owners, managers, cashiers and admin staff.

The role will require a strong mix of sales experience and customer service to ensure a steady flow of new customers while maintaining an active customer base. Monthly growth of this customer base is key to ensuring a commercially viable customer base is developed.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric exemption, with English, additional languages beneficial
• 2 years direct field sales experience
• Experienced sales track record required, sales courses and diplomas beneficial
• Drivers License and own reliable car is essential
• Computer literate, Outlook and Excel
• Good communication skills
• The ability to build collaborative relationships with external clients
• Be proactive, initiate action and be results orientated
• Follow procedure accurately with high attention to detail

Responsibilities:

• Consult, negotiate and make progress on deals to the point of signing with decision makers / business owners
• Source viable opportunities to promote the business to secure required daily interactions and build a solid pipeline of opportunities with business owners / decision makers
• Focus on securing meetings (confirmed with the decision makers) with potential businesses
• Strive to understand your prospects business and existing value-added services provider to effectively provide the correct solution and negotiate past potential concerns
• Sell our end-to-end solution and the benefits thereof
• Build up a healthy pipeline of opportunity
• Bring in new business to exceed monthly / quarterly and annual targets agreed to
• Manage and retain relationships with key industry influencers
• Understand the business solution fully to best consult with your prospect base and ensure maximum client satisfaction once your product is installed
• Manage customer expectations
• Manage all activity and reporting and report on daily / weekly / monthly to effectively manage and secure your customer base
• Managing and actioning ongoing promotions / campaigns / strategic decisions throughout the customer base
• Keep the customer base appraised of any changes or new product development / services within the business
• Conduct monthly site visits of your customer base
• Maintain an accurate customer data base and call cycle
• ADHOC request as and when required to ensure your customer base continues trading

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant tertiary business qualification (e.g., B.Comm Accounts, Economics)
• Postgraduate qualification an advantage (e.g. MBA)
• FAIS Representative qualified - Categories: 1/1; 1/3; 1/4; 1/5; 1/8; 1/9; 1/10; 1/11; 1/11; 1/12; 1/13; 1/14; 1/15; 1/17; 1/18;1/20 (advisory and intermediary)
• 15 years’ experience within financial services
• 5 years in banking, financial planning, lending and relationship management
• 5 years in relationship management at a senior level
• 5 years in lending / credit evaluation, specifically in structuring business and personal deals
• Corporate and Investment Banking experience is an advantage
• Experience as determined by the Fit and Proper Requirements of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act
• Understanding of the Wealth and Investment client profile and lifestyle
• Knowledge of the full product spectrum as relevant to the WI market, including features, benefits, pricing, product combination possibilities for optimum use and relationship to other more specialised products
• Understanding of the corporate and business banking environments in order to fully identify opportunities at customer level
• Knowledge of equivalent competitor products and services
• Understanding of credit principles
• Knowledge of interpreting financial statements, management accounts, budgets and cash flows for all types of legal entities
• Knowledge of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS) and the Code of Banking Practice
• Understanding of current business issues as well as the macro socio-political and economic environment both locally and abroad and their impact on the local market
• Knowledge of risk and compliance, credit, banking best practise, stockbroking and markets, wealth management, local and offshore markets
• Understanding of financial service trends and Private Banking offerings, nationally and internationally
• Understanding of the activities of the traditional and non-traditional competitors and the impact of these on private client service relationship with the client
• Computer literacy
• Sales skills
• Relationship management skills
• Risk management skills
• Lending / credit evaluation skills

Responsibilities:

Building relationships:

• Accountable for the relationship with the client, across all hierarchical levels, which includes integrating and coordinating all contact between the bank and the client.
• Leverages Group resources (i.e. CIB, Liberty, Business Banking and Commercial Banking) to service ultra-high net-worth (UHNW) clients
• Maintains the integrity of existing propositions and processes as well as expands potential client base over the medium- to longer-term
• Maintains relationships with and services Standard Bank’s most important ultra-high net worth family clients
• Establishes credibility and overall profitability for the bank and the client by the skilful application of specialist knowledge to deal with diverse client environments and provides qualified leads to relevant areas within the bank (e.g. Wealth, Lending, PBB, CIB, International)
• Provides end-to-end financial planning by appropriately balancing technical input and marketing skills to address the client’s needs
• Introduces specialist skills on specific products and product mix at the appropriate time and level in order to create solutions, which effectively satisfy the client’s needs
• Drives a culture of Financial Planning (FP) in the Wealth and Investment business
• Provides input on system development and maintenance; risk solutions and Trust and Fiduciary
• Consistent, excellent customer experience:
• Enables and supports team members in embedding customer 1st into normal business operations, including coaching staff on required behaviours
• Ensures that all new service requests (queries and complaints) are logged and resolved accurately

Portfolio profitability:

• Optimises customer contribution and ensures value add to customers through cross-selling, specifically focusing on wealth and lending opportunities
• Grows portfolio profitability through the utilisation of opportunities and the development of the multi-channel delivery strategies, such as actively managing customer migration onto electronic banking channels
• Manages customer migration between segments, sub-segments and private banking
• Together with the Product Heads (product heads of business that provide the specialists products and service i.e. Investment Services, Specialised Lending, Transactional Banking, drives the wealth, lending and transactional group budget process
• Identifies assets under management through Financial Planning and places the investments within the appropriate Wealth and Investment wealth structure (e.g. Melville Douglas, Stockbroking and Fund Solutions)
• Works closely with the Structured Lending Specialist to initiate business deal proposals for new facilities, or facility modifications that require the assessment of credit or other risk, and motivates the deal with insightful information regarding business strengths and vulnerabilities. Retains final sign-off on all credit facilities granted
• Proactively and timeously identifies potential problem accounts and formulates appropriate risk mitigating strategies
• Identifies cross-selling opportunities as well as the relevant resources within the bank to optimise these selling opportunities
• Utilises information management systems and processes to pre-empt selling opportunities and identify opportunities and threats to clients and the bank
• Continually provides information to ensure that the products and services of the bank meet the needs of the client and stays abreast with world best practices

Execution of customer plan:

• Ensures successful retention of existing customers in assigned portfolio to strengthen and expand relationships by intimately understanding the customer, servicing the customer’s personal financial needs and focusing on the execution of the customer plan through product and service providers
• Develops and defines a customer plan for each customer portfolio
• Monitors the delivery of the different groups (i.e. Wealth, Lending, Transactional) as well as other specialist product and service providers against the customer plan
• Tiers customers in terms of importance and draws up the relevant marketing plans
• Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS)
• May be required to fulfil the role of Key Individual (KI) on WI investment License
• Custodian of all Wealth advice with WI and any FAIS representative matters
• Investigates and finds appropriate resolutions to all FAIS related complaints in WI
• Oversight of the rendering of financial advice in terms of the FAIS act within WI
• Accountable for quality of all financial proposals that are submitted to clients
• Accountable for regulatory compliance locally and offshore
• Ensures compliance with all relevant legislation in the financial advisory environment
• Exercises delegated authority into FAIS losses, expenditure and customer banking transactions

People management:

• Responsible for the recruitment, development and retention of relevant skills in order to meet the business needs
• Creates an environment in which learning and development are emphasised and valued
• Takes personal responsibility for coaching and mentoring others
• Effectively delegates authority and responsibility, in line with business objectives
• Monitors and manages the performance and development of staff within the team
• Drives the talent review sessions in conjunction with human resources
• Fosters the transformation of the workplace and supports business in the achievement of the undertakings in the transformation scorecard
• Ensures staff are appropriately and consistently rewarded and recognised for their achievements and outputs

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant tertiary business qualification (e.g. B.Comm Accounts, Economics)
• Postgraduate qualification an advantage (e.g. MBA)
• FAIS Representative qualified - Categories: 1/1; 1/3; 1/4; 1/5; 1/8; 1/9; 1/10; 1/11; 1/11; 1/12; 1/13; 1/14; 1/15; 1/17; 1/18;1/20 (advisory and intermediary)
• 15 years’ experience within financial services
• 5 years in banking, financial planning, lending and relationship management
• 5 years in relationship management at a senior level
• 5 years in lending / credit evaluation, specifically in structuring business and personal deals
• Corporate and Investment Banking experience is an advantage
• Experience as determined by the Fit and Proper Requirements of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act
• Understanding of the Wealth and Investment client profile and lifestyle
• Knowledge of the full product spectrum as relevant to the WI market, including features, benefits, pricing, product combination possibilities for optimum use and relationship to other more specialised products
• Understanding of the corporate and business banking environments in order to fully identify opportunities at customer level
• Knowledge of equivalent competitor products and services
• Understanding of credit principles
• Knowledge of interpreting financial statements, management accounts, budgets and cash flows for all types of legal entities
• Knowledge of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS) and the Code of Banking Practice
• Understanding of current business issues as well as the macro socio-political and economic environment both locally and abroad and their impact on the local market
• Knowledge of risk and compliance, credit, banking best practise, stockbroking and markets, wealth management, local and offshore markets
• Understanding of financial service trends and Private Banking offerings, nationally and internationally
• Understanding of the activities of the traditional and non-traditional competitors and the impact of these on private client service relationship with the client
• Computer literacy
• Sales skills
• Relationship management skills
• Risk management skills
• Lending / credit evaluation skills

Responsibilities:

Building relationships:

• Accountable for the relationship with the client, across all hierarchical levels, which includes integrating and coordinating all contact between the bank and the client
• Leverages Group resources (i.e. CIB, Liberty, Business Banking and Commercial Banking) to service ultra-high net-worth (UHNW) clients
• Maintains the integrity of existing propositions and processes as well as expands potential client base over the medium- to longer-term
• Maintains relationships with and services Standard Bank’s most important ultra-high net worth family clients
• Establishes credibility and overall profitability for the bank and the client by the skilful application of specialist knowledge to deal with diverse client environments and provides qualified leads to relevant areas within the bank (e.g. Wealth, Lending, PBB, CIB, International)
• Provides end-to-end financial planning by appropriately balancing technical input and marketing skills to address the client’s needs
• Introduces specialist skills on specific products and product mix at the appropriate time and level in order to create solutions, which effectively satisfy the client’s needs
• Drives a culture of Financial Planning (FP) in the Wealth and Investment business
• Provides input on system development and maintenance; risk solutions and Trust and Fiduciary

Consistent, excellent customer experience:

• Enables and supports team members in embedding customer 1st into normal business operations, including coaching staff on required behaviours
• Ensures that all new service requests (queries and complaints) are logged and resolved accurately

Portfolio profitability:

• Optimises customer contribution and ensures value add to customers through cross-selling, specifically focusing on wealth and lending opportunities
• Grows portfolio profitability through the utilisation of opportunities and the development of the multi-channel delivery strategies, such as actively managing customer migration onto electronic banking channels
• Manages customer migration between segments, sub-segments and private banking
• Together with the Product Heads (product heads of business that provide the specialists products and service i.e. Investment Services, Specialised Lending, Transactional Banking, drives the wealth, lending and transactional group budget process
• Identifies assets under management through Financial Planning and places the investments within the appropriate Wealth and Investment wealth structure (e.g. Melville Douglas, Stockbroking and Fund Solutions)
• Works closely with the Structured Lending Specialist to initiate business deal proposals for new facilities, or facility modifications that require the assessment of credit or other risk, and motivates the deal with insightful information regarding business strengths and vulnerabilities. Retains final sign-off on all credit facilities granted
• Proactively and timeously identifies potential problem accounts and formulates appropriate risk mitigating strategies
• Identifies cross-selling opportunities as well as the relevant resources within the bank to optimise these selling opportunities
• Utilises information management systems and processes to pre-empt selling opportunities and identify opportunities and threats to clients and the bank
• Continually provides information to ensure that the products and services of the bank meet the needs of the client and stays abreast with world best practices

Execution of customer plan:

• Ensures successful retention of existing customers in assigned portfolio to strengthen and expand relationships by intimately understanding the customer, servicing the customer’s personal financial needs and focusing on the execution of the customer plan through product and service providers
• Develops and defines a customer plan for each customer portfolio
• Monitors the delivery of the different groups (i.e. Wealth, Lending, Transactional) as well as other specialist product and service providers against the customer plan
• Tiers customers in terms of importance and draws up the relevant marketing plans
• Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS)
• May be required to fulfil the role of Key Individual (KI) on WI investment License
• Custodian of all Wealth advice with WI and any FAIS representative matters
• Investigates and finds appropriate resolutions to all FAIS related complaints in WI
• Oversight of the rendering of financial advice in terms of the FAIS act within WI
• Accountable for quality of all financial proposals that are submitted to clients
• Accountable for regulatory compliance locally and offshore
• Ensures compliance with all relevant legislation in the financial advisory environment
• Exercises delegated authority into FAIS losses, expenditure and customer banking transactions

People management:

• Responsible for the recruitment, development and retention of relevant skills in order to meet the business needs
• Creates an environment in which learning and development are emphasised and valued
• Takes personal responsibility for coaching and mentoring others
• Effectively delegates authority and responsibility, in line with business objectives
• Monitors and manages the performance and development of staff within the team
• Drives the talent review sessions in conjunction with human resources
• Fosters the transformation of the workplace and supports business in the achievement of the undertakings in the transformation scorecard
• Ensures staff are appropriately and consistently rewarded and recognised for their achievements and outputs

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant tertiary business qualification (e.g., B.Comm Accounts, Economics)
• Postgraduate qualification an advantage (e.g. MBA)
• FAIS Representative qualified - Categories: 1/1; 1/3; 1/4; 1/5; 1/8; 1/9; 1/10; 1/11; 1/11; 1/12; 1/13; 1/14; 1/15; 1/17; 1/18;1/20 (advisory and intermediary)
• 15 years’ experience within financial services
• 5 years in banking, financial planning, lending and relationship management
• 5 years in relationship management at a senior level
• 5 years in lending / credit evaluation, specifically in structuring business and personal deals
• Corporate and Investment Banking experience is an advantage
• Experience as determined by the Fit and Proper Requirements of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act
• Understanding of the Wealth and Investment client profile and lifestyle
• Knowledge of the full product spectrum as relevant to the WI market, including features, benefits, pricing, product combination possibilities for optimum use and relationship to other more specialised products
• Understanding of the corporate and business banking environments in order to fully identify opportunities at customer level
• Knowledge of equivalent competitor products and services
• Understanding of credit principles
• Knowledge of interpreting financial statements, management accounts, budgets and cash flows for all types of legal entities
• Knowledge of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS) and the Code of Banking Practice
• Understanding of current business issues as well as the macro socio-political and economic environment both locally and abroad and their impact on the local market
• Knowledge of risk and compliance, credit, banking best practise, stockbroking and markets, wealth management, local and offshore markets
• Understanding of financial service trends and Private Banking offerings, nationally and internationally
• Understanding of the activities of the traditional and non-traditional competitors and the impact of these on private client service relationship with the client
• Computer literacy
• Sales skills
• Relationship management skills
• Risk management skills
• Lending / credit evaluation skills

Responsibilities:

Building relationships:

• Accountable for the relationship with the client, across all hierarchical levels, which includes integrating and coordinating all contact between the bank and the client
• Leverages Group resources (i.e. CIB, Liberty, Business Banking and Commercial Banking) to service ultra-high net-worth (UHNW) clients
• Maintains the integrity of existing propositions and processes as well as expands potential client base over the medium- to longer-term
• Maintains relationships with and services Standard Bank’s most important ultra-high net worth family clients
• Establishes credibility and overall profitability for the bank and the client by the skilful application of specialist knowledge to deal with diverse client environments and provides qualified leads to relevant areas within the bank (e.g. Wealth, Lending, PBB, CIB, International)
• Provides end-to-end financial planning by appropriately balancing technical input and marketing skills to address the client’s needs
• Introduces specialist skills on specific products and product mix at the appropriate time and level in order to create solutions, which effectively satisfy the client’s needs
• Drives a culture of Financial Planning (FP) in the Wealth and Investment business
• Provides input on system development and maintenance; risk solutions and Trust and Fiduciary
• Consistent, excellent customer experience:
• Enables and supports team members in embedding customer 1st into normal business operations, including coaching staff on required behaviours
• Ensures that all new service requests (queries and complaints) are logged and resolved accurately

Portfolio profitability:

• Optimises customer contribution and ensures value add to customers through cross-selling, specifically focusing on wealth and lending opportunities
• Grows portfolio profitability through the utilisation of opportunities and the development of the multi-channel delivery strategies, such as actively managing customer migration onto electronic banking channels
• Manages customer migration between segments, sub-segments and private banking
• Together with the Product Heads (product heads of business that provide the specialists products and service i.e. Investment Services, Specialised Lending, Transactional Banking, drives the wealth, lending and transactional group budget process
• Identifies assets under management through Financial Planning and places the investments within the appropriate Wealth and Investment wealth structure (e.g. Melville Douglas, Stockbroking and Fund Solutions)
• Works closely with the Structured Lending Specialist to initiate business deal proposals for new facilities, or facility modifications that require the assessment of credit or other risk, and motivates the deal with insightful information regarding business strengths and vulnerabilities. Retains final sign-off on all credit facilities granted
• Proactively and timeously identifies potential problem accounts and formulates appropriate risk mitigating strategies
• Identifies cross-selling opportunities as well as the relevant resources within the bank to optimise these selling opportunities
• Utilises information management systems and processes to pre-empt selling opportunities and identify opportunities and threats to clients and the bank
• Continually provides information to ensure that the products and services of the bank meet the needs of the client and stays abreast with world best practices

Execution of customer plan:

• Ensures successful retention of existing customers in assigned portfolio to strengthen and expand relationships by intimately understanding the customer, servicing the customer’s personal financial needs and focusing on the execution of the customer plan through product and service providers
• Develops and defines a customer plan for each customer portfolio
• Monitors the delivery of the different groups (i.e. Wealth, Lending, Transactional) as well as other specialist product and service providers against the customer plan
• Tiers customers in terms of importance and draws up the relevant marketing plans
• Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS)
• May be required to fulfil the role of Key Individual (KI) on WI investment License
• Custodian of all Wealth advice with WI and any FAIS representative matters
• Investigates and finds appropriate resolutions to all FAIS related complaints in WI
• Oversight of the rendering of financial advice in terms of the FAIS act within WI
• Accountable for quality of all financial proposals that are submitted to clients
• Accountable for regulatory compliance locally and offshore
• Ensures compliance with all relevant legislation in the financial advisory environment
• Exercises delegated authority into FAIS losses, expenditure and customer banking transactions

People management:

• Responsible for the recruitment, development and retention of relevant skills in order to meet the business needs
• Creates an environment in which learning and development are emphasised and valued
• Takes personal responsibility for coaching and mentoring others
• Effectively delegates authority and responsibility, in line with business objectives
• Monitors and manages the performance and development of staff within the team
• Drives the talent review sessions in conjunction with human resources
• Fosters the transformation of the workplace and supports business in the achievement of the undertakings in the transformation scorecard
• Ensures staff are appropriately and consistently rewarded and recognised for their achievements and outputs

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Requirements:

• Capturing of monthly management fees and reports on XERO
• Capturing of credit notes  and recoveries and return and debits on XERO
• capture supplier invoices weekly recovery on XERO
• Opening of new customer accounts and Recoveries on XERO
• Adding payments to the expenses once credit card holders have uploaded and approved on XERO
• Reconciliation of mercantile credit card
• Debit Orders: liaising with credit control to ensure debit orders run correctly to the detailed ledger and recoveries.
• Reconciling customer payments and sending the CFO a detailed excel sheet of where customer allocation has gone to and if in the different company where it needs to be transferred to.
• Arrangement and liaison with MTN IE: Upgrades, new staff cell phone contract, blacklisting, and insurance
• Fraud check: ITC and Criminal checks for recruits and follow up of outstanding documentation required.
• Helping auditors: pulling information required and formulating spreadsheets to make audit easier.
• Ordering of office consumables from Makro for delivery.
• Ordering of office stationery.
• Adhoc responsibilities not included in this list

The information displayed above is not limited to the advertisement. Please contact me for further information. millerm@bedifferent.co.za

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www. be different. co. za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Be an integral part of digitising to client journeys through changes to websites and software applications to meet both functional and technical requirements in producing quality solutions.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric
• 5+ years experience
• C# .Net 3.5+
• SQL Server 2008 / 2012
• “Modern JavaScript libraries” – AngularJS, Underscore, KnockoutJs, JQuery, BackboneJS and Foundation
• ASP.NET (Web forms) / MVC 2.0+ (Required)
• HTML 5
• CD / CI pipelines
• Cloud PaaS consumption
• Rest Services
• Kubernetes / Docker
• Passion for software development and delivering great solutions
• Continually learns and grows own skills and industry knowledge
• Creative visualisation, critical thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning
• An ability to think outside the box
• Collaborative coordination and time management
• Be Proactive and take initiative
• Capacity to work under pressure while observing high quality standards
• Problem solving and analysis
• Add value to business outcomes
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Share knowledge and help to grow others
• Desire to understand the reasons for delivery to deliver the right solution
• Strive to continually learn and improve

Responsibilities:

• Deliver business value through quality technical solutions and code
• Be accountable for projects
• Take ownership from start to finish of all tasks
• Drive the technical standard higher through innovative and scalable technology delivery
• Understand our business and clients and deliver great services
• Work internally to improve and automate the service offerings to clients
• Ensuring that the website and internal systems have maximum uptime
• Design and deliver scalable, secure code that enables the digital offering

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Post Graduate (4 year) degree with a bias to Investment Management, Accounting, Numerical subjects e.g. Mathematics, Science and Analytics
• CFA preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant analytical experience obtained at a respected financial institution. Some investment, financial services or consulting industry experience preferable
• Sector specialist decision-making track record
• Computer literacy e.g. Microsoft Office
• Investment analytical skills
• Bloomberg / FactSet experience beneficial
• Financial modelling expertise
• Valuation dynamics involved in determining the value of stocks within a range of industry/market sectors
• Interaction of the various factors that drive investment performance
• Risk dynamics involved in managing an investment portfolio (market risk, systematic risk)
• Calculation and quantification of statistical risk metrics
• Ability to evaluate qualitative information and determine the impact this would have on the risk premium of the investment
• Ability to defend and debate investment recommendations
• Investment knowledge at an advanced level. Acts independently and provides guidance and training to others.
• Displays leadership in field of expertise but also shares insights across broader industries
• While understanding the complexities of the stock and industry, expertise in speaking simply about complex issues to other investment professionals or the distribution channel

Responsibilities:

Identification of investment opportunities (stocks) that have the characteristics of a stock that would invest in and are likely to positively impact investment performance. This would include the following steps in addition to others you deem appropriate:

• Identification of investment stocks
• Analysis of investment stocks
• Monitoring of investment stocks
• Motivation of investment ideas
• Risk management
• Stock guidelines
• Balance sheet assessment
• Management assessment
• All research to be conducted in a timely manner and saved onto the central repository

Ambassadors of the investment process and contribute to improve the outcomes in your sector as well as others:

• Thought-leadership within your sector
• Viewed industry-specialist within our investment team and provide valuable insights on where you believe the sector and opportunity set is evolving
• Proactively navigate sector opportunities and pitfalls and communicate these dynamics to the team
• Value-add probing across sectors to improve the overall investment debate in the team
• Develop a strong understanding across other sectors in addition to your own
• Build profile outside MD via internal distribution channels (WI, SBFC)
• Develop an understanding of how our investment products / insights can be helpful to our distribution channel

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Post Graduate (4 year) degree with a bias to Investment management, Accounting, Numerical subjects e.g. Mathematics, Science, Analytics
• CFA Certification preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant analytical experience. Some investment, financial services or consulting industry experience preferable. Sector specialist decision-making track record
• Bloomberg / FactSet experience beneficial financial modelling expertise
• Valuation dynamics involved in determining the value of stocks within a range of industry/market sectors
• Interaction of the various factors that drive investment performance
• Risk dynamics involved in managing an investment portfolio (market risk, systematic risk)
• Calculation and quantification of statistical risk metrics
• Ability to evaluate qualitative information and determine the impact this would have on the risk premium of the investment
• Ability to defend and debate investment recommendations
• Investment knowledge at an advanced level. Acts independently and provides guidance and training to others
• Displays leadership in field of expertise but also shares insights across broader industries
• While understanding the complexities of the stock and industry, expertise in speaking simply about complex issues to other investment professionals or the distribution channel

Responsibilities:

• Identification of investment opportunities (stocks) that have the characteristics of a stock that would invest in and are likely to positively impact investment performance. This would include the following steps in addition to others you deem appropriate.
• Monitoring of investable universe Identification of investment stocks
• Analysis of investment stocks
• Monitoring of investment stocks
• Motivation of investment ideas
• Risk management
• Stock guidelines
• Balance sheet assessment
• Management assessment
• All research to be conducted in a timely manner and saved onto the central repository
• Provide research and participate and drive content relevant to both the discretionary and advisory businesses
• Ambassadors of the investment process and contribute to improve the outcomes in your sector as well as others
• Viewed industry-specialist within investment team and provide valuable insights on where you believe the sector and opportunity set is evolving
• Proactively navigate sector opportunities and pitfalls and communicate these dynamics to the team.
• Value-add probing across sectors to improve the overall investment debate in the team.
• Develop a strong understanding across other sectors in addition to your own
• Build profile outside MD via internal distribution channels (WI, SBFC and Advisory)
• Develop an understanding of how investment products / insights can be helpful to our distribution channel

Information displayed above not limited to advertisement. Please contact for further information.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Post Graduate (4 year) degree with a bias to Investment management, Accounting, Numerical subjects e.g. Mathematics, Science, Analytics CFA Certification preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant analytical experience. Some investment, financial services or consulting industry experience preferable. Sector specialist decision-making track record. Investment analytical skills. Bloomberg / FactSet experience beneficial financial modelling expertise
• Post Graduate (4 year) degree with a bias to Investment management, Accounting, Numerical subjects e.g. Mathematics, Science and Analytics
• CFA Certification preferred
• Valuation dynamics involved in determining the value of stocks within a range of industry/market sectors
• Interaction of the various factors that drive investment performance
• Risk dynamics involved in managing an investment portfolio (market risk, systematic risk)
• Calculation and quantification of statistical risk metrics
• Ability to evaluate qualitative information and determine the impact this would have on the risk premium of the investment
• Ability to defend and debate investment recommendations
• Investment knowledge at an advanced level. Acts independently and provides guidance and training to others
• Displays leadership in field of expertise but also shares insights across broader industries
• While understanding the complexities of the stock and industry, expertise in speaking simply about complex issues to other investment professionals or the distribution channel

Responsibilities:

• Identification of investment opportunities (stocks) that have the characteristics of a stock that would invest in and are likely to positively impact investment performance. This would include the following steps in addition to others you deem appropriate
• Monitoring of investable universe
• Identification of investment stocks
• Analysis of investment stocks
• Monitoring of investment stocks
• Motivation of investment ideas
• Risk management
• Stock guidelines
• Balance sheet assessment
• Management assessment
• All research to be conducted in a timely manner and saved onto the central repository
• Provide research and participate and drive content relevant to both the discretionary and advisory businesses
• Ambassadors of the investment process and contribute to improve the outcomes in your sector as well as others
• Viewed industry-specialist within investment team and provide valuable insights on where you believe the sector and opportunity set is evolving
• Proactively navigate sector opportunities and pitfalls and communicate these dynamics to the team
• Value-add probing across sectors to improve the overall investment debate in the team
• Develop a strong understanding across other sectors in addition to your own
• Build profile outside MD via internal distribution channels (WI, SBFC, Advisory)
• Develop an understanding of how investment products / insights can be helpful to distribution channel

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REQUIREMENTS

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfill customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
• Documenting development work done

Other duties include project documentation, creating customer software manuals, and developing prototypes for new software technologies

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• + 3 years native experience
• OOP: 1 - 2 year
• Software Development: 1 - 2 year
• TDD: 1 - 2 year

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Primary Requirements:

• The application must be Android Native.
• Installable APK must be supplied.
• The source code must also be supplied.
• Android 8 and upward compatible (will be reviewed on a Huawei P30 Pro – Android 10)

Requirements:

Weather

The application must show the real-time weather at the user’s current GPS location. E.g.:

• 25’C
• Partly Cloudy
• Sandton

Use any open-source/free weather service API.

Use of icons/advanced UI will score additional points

Phone Signal Strength

• Show the phone signal strength(s) (for all possible data connections within a phone - SIM(s) and WiFi). RSRP / RSSI
• Use of dials would be good
• This data should be refreshed every 10s
• Show details about each data connection type e.g. Name, Tower

Phone Location Tracker

• Add function to ‘Pin’ a location the user is currently at.
• Allow users to add a name & description of the location.
• Store Pin location, name, description, and date/time
• Show a list of previously stored locations – let user select – to view details.
• For additional points – show the list on a map

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Requirements:

Qualifications

• BSC Degree / Diploma in Computer Science
• OCP Java EE 8 (added advantage)

Experience

• +5 years Java Development (J2EE)
• Development of Java-based API/Web Services (JSON)
• Developing of Microservices
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Understanding of microservices architecture best practices
  • Object Orientated Design
  • Working with API Gateways, ESB, and workflow systems
    • RabbitMQ
    • Additional frameworks/languages would be beneficial – EJB, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, GlassFish
    • Worked within an Agile / SCRUM SDLC
    • Understanding of Linux OS and associated web server technologies (Apache)
    • Source code management (GitHub)
    • Relational Databases (Postgress / MySQL)
    • Unit Testing

Technical Competencies

• J2EE
• Webservices
• Microservices
• Asynchronous sockets

Responsibilities:

• Design, Develop, Implement and Maintain enterprise applications
• To take part in software development and architectural activities
• Conduct software analysis, development, testing and, debugging
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Transforming requirements into solutions
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Recommend changes to improve established java applications/processes
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Maintain updated knowledge of new and emerging industry trends and technology.
• Perform code reviews within the project teams.
• Manage and/or mentor junior members of the team

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Requirements:

• NQF 7 in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or similar
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in supply chain management, purchasing or similar field
• Experience in managing a BBBEE scorecard and enterprise and supplier development as per the requirements of BBBEE.

Must have knowledge of

• Knowledge of supply chain management practices.
• Knowledge of third party vendors in the health care sector.
• Managing the company's BBBEE scorecard and Enterprise and Supplier development as per the requirements of BBBEE

Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• To contribute to the development and review of the procurement strategy by obtaining and providing strategic input as required
• Play a critical role in managing the company's BBBEE scorecard and implement the procurement transformation process in terms of Enterprise and Supplier development as per the requirements of BBBEE.
• To define and implement supplier performance strategies for suppliers of goods and services to Roche Diagnostics by defining KPI metrics, tracking performance against metrics and addressing gaps as required
• To coordinate with stakeholders and position the purchasing function as a key partner in the business operations by supporting and instigating initiatives for cost reduction, compliance, and value improvement as required
• To ensure competitively priced and uninterrupted flow of 3rd party goods and services by leveraging the buying power of Roche (one procurement)  and the global and regional networks to drive efficiencies and economies of scale as required
• To support stakeholders to manage change through effective communication and collaboration as required
• To develop and implement sourcing strategies by reviewing opportunities, analyzing the impact, achieving improvement in total costs, service, quality, and timely delivery for materials and services identified in the scope of centralized purchasing in line with global category strategies as required
• To set procurement targets in the areas of centralized purchasing by defining the KPI metrics in line with company strategy and performance metrics as required

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Requirements:

• First Degree/ Diploma in Finance and Accounting/ BSc Computer Sciences
• SAP BW Certification
• SAP HANA Certification
• A5-7 Years of broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• Proven hands-on experience with SAP BW development
• Proven hands-on experience with SAP HANA development
• Strong SQL Scripting skills BAP would be advantageous
• Experience working with a team in end-to-end development, testing, and deployment within SAP BW/HANA environments is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Agile methodologies and follows agile principles through work outputs and behaviors
• Scope, Plan, Design, and Review end to end solutions
• Define and Develop application complex code
• Conduct Testing across various IT platforms
• Drive continuous improvement

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Post Graduate Degree: Information Technology
• 8-10 years’ experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow,
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for expanding and optimising the organisations data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimising data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.
• Owns and extends the business’s data pipeline through the collection, storage, processing, and transformation of large data-sets and oversee the process for creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture and creating databases optimized for performance, implementing schema changes, and maintaining data architecture standards across the required Standard Bank databases
• Oversee the assembly of large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements and align data architecture with business requirements
• Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimising Standard Bank into an innovative industry leader
• Monitor the existing metrics, analyse data, and lead partnership with other data and analytics teams in an effort to identify and implement system and process improvements
• Utilise data to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability
• Developing ETL processes that convert data into formats for consumption
• Responsible overseeing the process for enabling and running data migrations across different databases and different servers and defines and implements data stores based on system requirements and consumer requirements
• Responsible for executing testing and validation in line with data governance and quality business requirements
• Oversee, design, and develop algorithms for real-time data processing within the business and to create the frameworks that enable quick and efficient data acquisition including data preparation according to business requirements
• Manage the analysis of complex data elements and systems, data flow, dependencies, and relationships in order to contribute to conceptual physical and logical data models
• Liaise with and collaborate with data analysts, data warehousing engineers, and data scientists in finding and applying best practices within the data and analytics department as well as defining the business’s data requirements, which will ensure that the collected data is of a high quality and optimal for use across the department and the business at large
• Acts as a subject matter expert from a data perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to data engineering and the use thereof
• Provide guidance in terms of setting governance standards
• Responsibility for contributing to the continual improvement of the business’s data platforms through thorough observations and well-researched knowledge
• Keeps track of industry best practices and trends and through acquired knowledge, takes advantage of process and system improvement opportunities
• Provide oversights and expertise to the data insights and analytics that is responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business’s data requirements

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Requirements:

• New qualified or nearly qualified Life Insurance Specifically IFRS and SAM experience Minimum of 4 to 6 years’ experience in life insurance
• Risk space Ability to build and develop client relationships Aptitude for developing and managing teams excellent people skills ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment Strong communication skills – written and oral Flexibility to work on a wide range of projects Open to local travel Modelling skills will be an advantage As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. 

Responsibilities:

Risk assurance and consulting assignments the principal accountabilities will be

• Management of consulting engagements managing and forming part of multi-disciplinary project teams researching and staying up to date with changes in the regulations and landscape of specified field and how it affects our clients responsible for technical content of audit or consulting engagements assist with new business development mentor internal teams

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• NQF 6 in Medical science or similar is required. A university degree or higher is preferred and a Business Management qualification is an advantage
• At least 8 years commercial experience in the medical industry with at least 5 years in Account Management / Sales
• Proven sales track record at key account / outsourced partner level within the medical diagnostic industry
• Strong working knowledge of commercial / or working experience in the Africa market
• Evidence of strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Evidence of strong business acumen
• Travel
• MS office (all packages at advanced level) and CRM system exposure
• Strong planning and organising (project management) skills
• In the absence of relevant qualifications, experience in the relevant field and at the relevant level will be considered

Responsibilities:

• Implement an operational strategy for the strategic pillar “Commercial Excellence” within MCZA
• Define together with MCZA countries individual roadmaps for commercial excellence tools
• Be the owner of implementing a data driven culture and empower MCZA countries in maximizing the usage of data and transforming to digital tools/channels in order to gain insights into customers, markets and business which drives actions
• Use data by tapping into quantitative methods to monitor success of strategy and roadmap implementation
• Support MCZA countries with REXIS and Miller Heiman sales training, campaigns, best practices, implementation, assessment and tracking, thereby ensuring full adoption.
• Define and implement sales force effectiveness KPIs for better measuring and monitoring of sales performance in MCZA countries
• Proactively help sales and marketing teams within MCZA countries to identify and win sales opportunities using commercial excellence tools
• Streamline communication and create common sales language and a sales community within MCZA
• Identify, systemize and share best practices and provide Managers Coaching across all relevant sales roles
• Simplify sales processes and increase agility within the team
• Voice the needs of enhancements of the CRM system to appropriate stakeholders
• Identify new sales tools to aid in the development of better work plans
• Monitor the impact of training and development actions by continuously analyzing the outcomes of evaluations and satisfaction surveys, combined with in-field observations, to ensure continuous improvement of the processes
• To report on sales performance by understanding KPIs, analysing sales data daily, identifying trends and patterns, providing feedback on performance, monitoring and achieving profitability and drafting reports monthly and as required
• To participate in global and EMEA working groups by contributing to forums and providing feedback to the broader team as required

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Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a UI/UX manager or similar role
• Good understanding of the performance criteria of a digital platform
• Experience with recommendation tools
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as well as wireframe tools would be an advantage
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills
• BSc in Design, Computer Science or relevant field

Responsibilities:

• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Actively monitor User Experience across our client interfaces, including but not limited to response times, look & feel, content images, metadata
• Continuous usage testing and improvement planning.
• Stay up to date with latest trends on user interface in the Industry
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Create briefs on Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widget
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images

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Requirements:

• NQF 7/8 in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Finance or similar is required
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management, Finance or similar is required
• At least 2 years staff management experience is required

Must have knowledge of:

• Inventory management
• In the absence of relevant qualifications, experience in the relevant field and at the relevant level will be considered

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement inbound logistics strategies, policies and procedures that are relevant and meet global and local requirements and are adhered to through the implementation of appropriate controls to ensure inventory holding meets required sales forecasts at all times
• To update policies, procedure and systems by reviewing and identifying amendments and improvements required, submitting policies and procedures for approval as required
• To manage policy, end to end procedures and systems implementation by tracking compliance, implementing new policies and procedures, identifying areas of concern and risk and developing and implementing corrective actions as required
• To develop the functional plans and performance metrics by identifying work to be undertaken, allocating responsibilities and monitoring performance monthly and as required
• To manage logistics performance by defining local targets in line with global category strategies, tracking performance against key metrics, identifying challenges and managing implementation of corrective action monthly
• To support appointment of 3PL providers by provide input into the terms of reference and review and provide recommendations on appointments as required
• To provide input into warehousing and distribution solutions by reviewing options and good practices and making recommendations as required
• To manage inventory levels by monitoring stock levels, stock turn, stock outs and write offs, identifying challenges and managing implementation of corrective action monthly
• To provide support in demand planning by analyzing inventory trends, identifying key factors and providing input and recommendations as required
• Provide guidance to Product Managers on all aspects of inventory management in line with sales objectives to establish the best possible inventory forecast for each 15 month rolling period.
• Set, monitor and manage inventory holding levels against agreed KPI metrics (total rand value)
• Manage relationship between RDSA and 3rd party logistics providers (3PLs)
• Provide operational solutions to internal business partners that are aligned to business objectives, processes and requirements.
• Oversee and/or generate management reports against inventory management and inbound logistics KPI metrics as and when required or as per SOP requirements
• To define the staff requirements by reviewing the workload, defining work allocations and developing job profiles as required
• To resource the team by retaining, recruiting, selecting and appointing staff as required
• To induct staff members by managing the development of an induction programme, monitoring performance and supporting the development of new staff members as required
• To manage the performance of staff by agreeing performance expectations, building relationships with staff, motivating staff, providing staff with feedback, supporting staff development, addressing areas of non-performance and implementing corrective action monthly and as required
• To develop staff members by consulting with staff to identify learning areas and paths, supporting the development of the staff member, coaching and mentoring and tracking impact of learning monthly and as required

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Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 to 6 years of relevant coding & development experience
• IT related degree/diploma (BSc or B.Com, BSc (Hons) Computer Science, B.Tech)
• JAVA v6-8
• JEE v5 -7
• Familiarity with JEE application servers (Wildfly, Payara, Glassfish)
• JPA (Hibernate/Eclipselink)
• Maven
• Experience in Web Services and IBM WebSphere Application Server will be advantageous

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT and Computer Sciences or related studies
• Honors Degree in IT and Computer Sciences or related studies (preferred)
• Proficiency in application and web development
• Structured and Unstructured Query languages e.g. SQL, Teradata, Qlikview; Tableau; SSIS SSRS, SAP BW, PowerBI, SalesForce
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in technical business intelligence
• In depth understanding of the bank's data processes, systems, and products
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data principles that form the basis for data quality management. Project management experience. Exposure to governance and regulatory matters as it relates to data.

Responsibilities:

Reporting - Implementation

• Executes, implements, monitors and maintains a comprehensive operational reporting plan, rules, methodologies, and initiatives for the operational reporting capability within the BU.
• Implements signed-off processes and business that is mandated for BI resulting in the ability to track solutions through dashboards and reporting models.

Analytical Modelling and dash-boarding

• Creates maintains and optimizes reporting solutions that enable an analysis of business objectives and remediation capabilities
• Oversee and partake in the development of models [PowerBI, SQL, Qlikview] that enable reporting or track processes & including semantic and reporting data-marts
• Develops, maintains, and optimizes effective ETL to ensure that information generated and gathered for analysis and reports are effectively curated into data-marts.
• Creates performance dashboards for all levels of consumption.
• Drives reporting production through a team of BI developers ensuring sustainable and effective solutions reporting solutions.

Data and IT governance and standards

• Provides input into Reporting infrastructure requirements and monitors the implementation thereof through the bank infrastructure development processes, including the management of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensures adherence to governance processes to manage the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of business rules.
• Conducts regression testing across all relevant systems as required.
• Measures:
• Level of adherence to governance standards and business rules
• Signed off regression testing

Stakeholder Management

• Influences the ideation process of data-related initiatives and processes in order to ensure the data in province and business always has the highest integrity.
• Attends regular stakeholder meetings.
• Ensures alignment with key business stakeholders such as business unit managers.
• Actively engages with stakeholders to fulfil and deliver the Information Management objectives.
• Measures:
• Quality of Reporting related monthly updates
• Frequency and format of stakeholder engagement

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Requirements:

• Matric/Equivalent as a minimum qualification.
• A relevant tertiary qualification as a minimum.
• A relevant Java Certification (Sun certified Java Programmer or Developer) is required
• Openshift will be highly advantageous.

JAVA:

• 5years Software Development experience in a distributed computing environment using Java.
• Solid (Java) back-end development experience.
• Containerisation understanding and experience advantageous (Openshift).
• Advanced understanding and everyday use of OO principles such as inheritance, interfaces, abstract lasses, etc.
• Good systems and code design skills including good documentations skills where necessary.
• Working knowledge of spring framework, architectural and development best practices (e.g. SOA, dependency injection, ORM, EJB3, and JPA etc.) as well as J2EE application server environment will be an added advantage.
• Understanding and experience with micro-services.
• Strong knowledge of REST API designs.
• JBPM experience advantageous.
• Strong knowledge with CI/CD principles.
• Experience with Apache Camel.
• GIT Lab experience.
• Strong Linux experience advantageous

Responsibility:

• Develop software based on technical design (Internal Process)
• Keep abreast of new technologies/methodologies, business changes and internal system changes in order to align system development with best practices and system architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis and prioritise requests
• Contribute to the design of scalable solutions that supports the system architecture
• Translate business requirements into workable solutions and document solution into technical specifications
• Design and code new software functionality using codes that is scalable, readable, maintainable and re-usable
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and organisational role players to achieve effective collaboration
• Provide stakeholder with regular feedback on the technical design and timelines for solution in order to manage expectations
• Collaborate with business analysts and testing team in developing, testing and deploying new software system components or software system enhancements
• Collaborate with testing team to co-create test cases
• Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and resolve all issues/queries.
• Contribute to user acceptance testing (UAT) and training material.
• Once the solution has been successfully tested, prepare and produce releases of software components into production/live environment.
• Maintain existing programmes, ensuring all errors are resolved and documented.
• Design solutions that eliminate reoccurrence of errors.
• Provide technical guidance to the operations and support team.
• Monitor performance of solutions and make recommendations to improve the performance and functionality of the solution. Engage with clients in a client centric manner(Client Services)
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed

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Requirements:

• A BSc or other relevant degree
• Minimum of 5 years working with object-orientated programming languages such as C# or Java.
• Preference for experience in Financial Services / Asset Management
• Experience working with REST APIs and GraphQL.
• Experience implementing software within an automated test-driven development environment.
• SQL is essential - NoSQL, Data Lake, EDM advantageous.
• Source control via Git essential.
• UI/UX skills would be a useful addition, though not essential for data-focused roles.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS and Azure desirable.
• Experiencing building data integration solutions using different on-premise and cloud-based technologies (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Functions)

Responsibilities:

• Developing to house standards; ensuring code is clear, functional, and simple to support.
• Requirement gathering, communicating with stakeholders, and documenting findings in the form of user stories.
• Partnering with engineering leads and product owners to deliver value-adding functionality sprint by sprint.
• Working in a quick-to-market proof-of-concept manner to engage stakeholders and focus on high-quality deliverables.
• Utilizing Test Driven Development to maintain high-quality products.
• Working in a collaborative manner across teams.
• Embracing DevOps techniques

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Requirements:

• Play an architect role in delivering a solution to a customer
• Take ownership and accountability in delivering the solution on-time within budget
• Experience in delivering across the entire IBM Cognos Analytics implementation lifecycle
• Assist in putting the right mix of skills together for a project team to ensure success
• Be in a position to comfortably influence others to work towards a common project goal/outcome, including effective delegation
• Be comfortable liaising and negotiating with the customer

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in delivering the IBM Cognos Analyst strategy/vision across the customer base
• Architecting a solution based on the customer’s requirements
• Ensure consultants are applying BI best practices across projects
• Requirements gathering/business analysis, including writing project charters, proposals, and quotes, etc.
• End-to-end BI design and development, incl. dimensional data warehouse design, data modeling, ETL, report writing, cube building, dashboard development
• Presenting a proposed solution to a customer
• Ensuring that agile methodologies are being adopted (incl. SCRUM)
• Quality assurance of work being delivered by peers and team members reporting to the senior consultant
• Take ownership and overall accountability of the technical delivery of the implementation
• Have the ability to manage a medium/large team of consultants to deliver a solution
• Developing others through mentoring and presenting knowledge sharing sessions
• May be required to present formal training courses to consultants and users
• Formulate project documentation templates
• Ensure that throughout the project lifecycle, a customer is kept informed through good verbal and written communication

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In order to be considered the following is required:

• Relevant Degree in Finance or Economics or Accounting
• FAIS accreditation required (RE)
• 3 to 5 years relevant client facing experience (PB – Wealthy)
• Experience in dealing with complex personal and juristic financial structures
• Experience in analysing and interpreting complex personal and juristic financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, financial ratios)
• Experience in structuring non-traditional security-based lending facilities
• Experience in providing tailored solutions to significant families
• Experience in advising clients regarding company succession planning
• Experience in dealing with clients and structures across various jurisdictions
• Product knowledge in capital markets, risk management, investment management, trust and estate planning

Responsibilities:

• Identify, control and escalate potential risks which may lead to increased costs
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
• Deliver against operational and cost targets
• Prioritise resource allocation in order to minimise and reduce wastage
• Drive adoption of digital and other self-service options across client base
• Collaborate closely with relevant business units and product houses as per strategy
• Be an ambassador for the bank as a financial service provider encompassing internal values and ethical standards
• Maintain expert knowledge on all approved products, application procedure, processing and timelines in order to drive and achieve relevant sales targets
• Ensure that the quality of advice remains high and consistent and in line with bank’s investment philosophy and product approved matrix
• Liaise and interact with clients and or customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner
• Respond to customer requests in a timely and efficient manner
• Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of operational services by communicating with and auctioning stakeholder concerns.
• Resolve customer dissatisfaction/complaints by taking ownership of the problem
• Analyse customer feedback to help improve customer service
• Ensure that delivery is accurate, timeous and of an acceptable standard
• Ensure that product or service knowledge and advice is technically accurate
• Know and understand customer needs in order to deliver a quality service
• Propose ideas to improve customer service
• Manage stakeholders and adhere to relevant SLA agreements
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members
• Maintain and build relationships for purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration
• Inform and educate customers on products and services to ensure retention of existing customers
• Liaise and interact with clients and or customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner
• Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and the bank’s internal compliance procedures and requirements
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by the bank
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks
• Ensure optimal usage and protection of business assets
• Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data
• Ensure fulfilment of the sales processes until client is fully on-boarded into the correct service model
• Achieve sales targets in line with performance scorecards and achieve an acceptable cost of sales ratio

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Requirements:

• Develop digital content designs in to rich media, animated GIFs, cinemagraphs, animations and motion graphics using the Adobe Suite
• Have an impressive portfolio reflecting strengths in motion graphics, typography, layout and design.
• Be able to execute motion and static brand design content for our clients.
• Understanding of 3D software environments for rendering and simple videos and animations is a valued plus

Desirable Skills:

• 3D Motion design packages such as Maxon Cinema 4d including 3D Modelling, Rigging, Lighting, Texturing, Animation, Composition and Rendering
• Grading packages such as Davinci Resolve
• Spark AR
• Mac and PC literate

Responsibilities:

• At least 4 years graphic design work experience including video production, motion design and animation
• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design or Animation
• Have an impressive portfolio/showreel showcasing high-end digital design skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to comprehend and uphold brand style guidelines of our clients, producing work of a suitable style and standard.
• Ability to solve an array of challenges through visual design
• Must be able to mediate creative problems to arrive at the best solution
• Manage time effectively, ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Detail-oriented individual who reviews his/her work carefully, quality control is key.
• Present creative work, absorb feedback in a positive manner and accomplish required changes.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaborate with a team.
• Professional demeanour with high degree of comfort speaking with internal clients

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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.different.co.za, for available positions that you may be suited for.

The role, thus provide marketing support services on both the company marketing and product marketing strategies which will broadly include: marketing, channel liaison, branding, advertising, technical promotional activities, training material and website management.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Degree in Marketing or equivalent
• Minimum 5 - 10 years’ experience in the sales and marketing environment
• Global customer liaison experience (USA, Europe and Australia) an advantage
• Fully literate in the following packages:
• Adobe Creative Suite (In-Design, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• WordPress

Responsibilities:

• Devise, develop and implement marketing material, promotional material, and training material.
• Develop and sustain the DetNet website, portal and apps
• Manage DetNet’s product brands
• Manage and track all Trademark registrations and legal aspects regarding brand and product registrations
• Develop editorial content for products to support PR activities within the channels
• Work with channel and distributors to promote DetNet products and to develop a market demand / pull from a diverse customer base. Also support channel events and exhibitions
• Maintain detailed competitor information that include product features, product costs, product pricing, production and sales volumes and all other relevant information for existing competitors and new entrants
• Manage all branding aspects with regards to packaging and ensuring the brand is aligned throughout both channels externally
• Conduct market research using a variety of techniques, such as surveys, and provide the company with updated market and industry information in terms of size, segments and application needs
• Manage the budget for all DetNet’s marketing, advertising, branding and promotional activities
• Monitor the effectiveness of the agreed marketing and sales strategies to proactively comment, recommend amendments and propose revisions to existing product sales
• Develop and maintain all internal communication including the company intranet, internal documents, value campaign and internal events
• Monitor positioning of the DetNet product opposite competitive offering
• Be a marketing support to HR with regards to their events and career fairs
• Management of sponsorships pertaining to industry collaborations

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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Working to a brief agreed with the client or account manager, a UX / UI Designers develops creative ideas and concepts, choosing the appropriate media and style to meet the client's objectives. The work demands creative flair, up-to-date knowledge of industry software and a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines. Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address the clients’ needs and help us grow thecustomer base.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Qualifications: BSc in Design, Computer or Diploma Design (or a degree in communication / design / fine art etc. that shows competent visual skills)
• Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role
• Minimum years’ experience: 5 years
• Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Adobe XD, InVision, Sketch, Figma)
• A sound knowledge of the relevant structures and processes in the agency
• Excellent computer skills
• Confident communication skills
• Creative digital agency background
• Proficiencies
• Ideation
• Foundation in UX/UI
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Outlook
• Keynote
• Adobe XD, Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• And any other programmes or presentation tools necessary in order to perform the role

Responsibilities:

• Meeting creative directors, clients or account managers to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and designers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and would look like
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colours and images
• Interpreting the creative directors and client's business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose
• Estimating the time required to complete the work to provide accurate quotes for clients
• Developing design briefs by gathering information and data through research
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Thorough understanding of communication practices including usability and graphic interface design
• Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time
• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to creative directors, clients or account managers
• Working with a wide range of media, including raw video or photography using a variety of UX/UI design and animation software
• Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work
• Contributing ideas and design artwork to the overall brief
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches
• Working as part of a team with creative directors, copywriters, photographers, other designers, account executives, developers and marketing specialists

Creative:

• Work with Creative Director to establish the art / design direction of all projects
• Monitor the conceptual / visual evolution of product and application development
• Ensure that the highest creative and design standards are met
• Brand and CI custodian / gatekeeper on all interactive projects
• Implement brand and communication strategy through design
• Prepare and present your own creative solutions

Production:

• Design production from concept through to implementation
• Deliver on design solutions for applications and templates
• Overall accountability for your deliveries
• Develop, communicate and maintain strict design guidelines and consistency standards
• Work closely with the team to build visually striking marketing communications
• Assume a mentorship role to grow junior designers
• Assist and contribute toward regular creative team meetings
• Manage a variety of projects simultaneously
• Liaise with technical managers and other members of the technical team

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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Responsibilities:

• Writes code according to the business standards and guidelines
• Update and ensure accuracy of Developer Manager and Developer views in task manager by cross checking with the status report
• Attend scrums
• Collaborate
• Report to the team members and not to the Scrum Master
• Responsible for writing code according to an ASD with was jointly constructed together with the Functional Owner or Technical Architect
• Adheres to coding standards
• Understands and follows the SDLC
• Has a solid proficiency with the development environment and coding language used
• Has good problem solving skills and reasonable ability to ask the right questions to clarify the understanding of supplied requirements
• Scope of work is non-core, broader in focus, low to medium impact in nature
• Works closely with pool lead or functional owner
• Provides daily progress reporting to the Pool lead or Developer manager
• Must be proactive, have a quest to gain knowledge and is able to think laterally and logically
• Good communication skills are essential
• Must be able to work as an individual or as part of a team
• Be able to work to tight deadlines
• Work in a logical manner
• Demonstrate good attention to detail

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Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. Primary ongoing responsibility is for management of projects. Focuses on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders. May or may not have direct reports. Spends significant time on project management responsibilities. As assigned, leads or assists in the planning, implementation and introduction of projects for new systems and technologies. Responsible for significant, Institute-wide projects, typically with large budgets and sizeable staff. Focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders etc. Would not necessarily have strategic or operational responsibilities. Spends majority of time on project management responsibilities. Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of complex projects for systems that typically affect many users.

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Appropriate degrees are an advantage but not a requirement
• At least 3 to 5 years project management experience
• Knowledge and experience in personal finance industry
• Experience in software
• Good attitude and aptitude with enthusiasm to achieve

Job would require the following:

• Manage the project plan:
• Manage the project plan according to agreed client project targets
• Monitor progress to achieving milestones
• Review the status of all logs for a given development phase (target date) and address any delays with either the Account or Developer Manager
• Make adjustments for estimate changes as communicated
• Consider alternatives / action steps where overruns
• Manage all client facing issues
• Handle all communication between the client and the company
• Provide regular and transparent feedback on project progress to stakeholders
• Manage changed events affecting project time lines

Responsibilities:

• Manage the project plan
• Manage the project plan according to agreed client project targets
• Monitor progress to achieving milestones
• Review the status of all logs for a given development phase (target date) and address any delays with either the account or developer manager
• Make adjustments for estimate changes as communicated
• Consider alternatives/action steps where overruns
• Manage all client facing issues
• Handle all communication between the client and the company
• Provide regular and transparent feedback on project progress to stakeholders
• Manage changed events affecting project time lines
• Lead planning and/or implementation of projects
• May participate in the design and/or testing phases
• Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements
• Resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas
• Develop methods to monitor project or area progress; and provide corrective supervision if necessary
• Responsibility for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and/or termination during the project or projects
• Manage project budget and resource allocation
• Facilitate the definition of service levels and customer requirements
• Interact regularly with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving delivery
• Advocate on behalf of clients and represent clients' needs as appropriate to senior management
• Work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes
• Follow a defined, agreed upon project management plan
• Lead the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the department
• Cultivate contacts with vendor requirement planners or developers – to obtain information about future vendor developments in the functional area and to try to influence those developments in ways favourable to the company
• Participate in outside professional activities to maintain knowledge on developments in the field
• Establish liaisons with universities and other comparable vendor users to keep abreast of status of computing and communications activities at these institutions
• Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used
• Provide expertise and consulting to project managers in the process of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation

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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.

Requirements:

• Postgraduate degree in Behavioural science is required for this role
• More than 10 years - Extensive experience in developing benefits and rewards programs with a particular focus on behavioural science in the workplace

Responsibilities:

Data

• Analyse vast data sources using various statistical analysis tools relating to the behaviour and profiles of employees and use these insights to inform the Benefits program for the organisation.                                  

Financial Management

• Determine the short and long-term financial implications, of benefits decisions for both the organisation and the employees, with the support of actuarial and other specialists to ensure that all parties get the best value for any investments made.                            

People

• Design innovative, data-backed Employee Benefit programs and initiatives which are aligned to the Group Benefits Strategy and that will meet the needs of employees to drive the engagement and motivation of employees.
• Conduct an in-depth research studies into the motives of employees and use the insights gained to inform benefits programs that will drive the behaviours necessary for the success of the organisation.
• Research global trends in employee engagement and benefit programs, benchmark programs, and where appropriate, introduce the global best practice to the position as an employer of choice.
• Conduct research on the global and local economic climates and articulate the impact thereof on the Employee Benefits programs in order to drive the development of resilient plans that will continuously benefit the employees.
• Build the frameworks and toolkits that  Human Capital teams can localize to adapt benefits programs and initiatives to their individual functional or geographical areas to ensure that nuances are considered and that the most appropriate programs are implemented
• Drive the socialization of the new and innovative benefits and initiatives both internally and externally to further promote an employer of choice to attract and retain top talent.

Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance

• Review the regulatory frameworks within the jurisdictions that operate and identify the similarities and differences in legislation to ensure that Benefits policies and practices are compliant across all jurisdictions.
• Participate in external governing bodies, giving expert input and commentary to influence future regulatory changes.

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millerm@bedifferent.co.za

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.bedifferent.co.za, for available positions which you may be suited for.