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FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER (REPORTING: BRANCH, BINDER AND PROJECTS)
 
Details
Closing Date2024/01/19
Reference NumberHOL231024-1
Job Title Finance Business Partner (Reporting: Branch, Binder and Projects)
Business Unit Hollard Insure
Department Reporting: Branch, Binder & Projects
Job Family Finance
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Head: Branch, Binder & Projects Reporting
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Insure, Finance area.  We are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner, for the Branch, Binder and Projects reporting.
 
Role Objectives:
Responsible for Financial Reporting, review of Business Unit KPIs and management accounts to ensure accurate analysis & evaluation of performance against strategic objectives.
 
Key Responsibilities:
  • Oversee and management of accounting functions and processes, this includes but not limited to the following:
  • Review of journals for validity and accuracy
  • Review of the management accounts for validity and accuracy, submit review notes, sign off on the income statement and balance sheet accounts
  • Review of reconciliations and address any discrepancies and reconciling items
  • Ensure that the subledger/systems reconciles to the GL
  • Preparation of monthly financial packs, reporting, analysis, commentary on portfolio profitability and presentation to Business Heads, Managers and or Regional Managers
  • Responsible for the budgeting process, forecasting and variance analysis
  • Co-ordinate the planning and preparation of the annual audit
  • Support the Head of Finance in executing various tasks/projects delegated from time to time
  • Support the implementation of IFRS 17
  • Responsible for creating a high-performance culture through effective coaching, training, supervision and management
  • Responsible for the adequacy of the control environment and engagement with the IFC (Internal auditors) team to address findings and remediation within the agreed timelines
  • Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures; and
  • Build strong working relationships with the Operations teams and various stakeholders
 
Required Knowledge and Experience
  • 5 -6 years post articles reporting experience in the commercial financial services industry
  • 3 -5 years people leadership experience
  • Insurance industry experience is mandatory - non negotiable
  • Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls including budgeting
  • Exceptional Business acumen and broad business knowledge
  • In depth knowledge of financial accounting and related processes & International accounting standards
  • Continuous learning ability, resilient critical thinker, collaborator & change agility, Digital Literacy
  • Ability to resolve complex problems
 
Educational Requirements
  • Matric
  • Qualified CA (SA) – non-negotiable
 
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE
 
 
 
 
 
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT (REPORTING: BRANCH, BINDER, PROJECTS)
 
Details
Closing Date 2024/01/19
Reference Number HOL231214-1
Job Title Management Accountant (Reporting: Branch, Binder, Projects)
Business Unit Hollard Insure
Department Reporting: Branch, Binder & Projects
Job Family Finance
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Head: Branch, Binder & Projects Reporting
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Insure, Finance area (Reporting: Branch, Binder & Projects). We are looking to recruit a Management Accountant.
 
Role Objective:
To compile, analyze and report on management accounts to various stakeholders e.g. Finance Business Partners, Finance Heads, Divisional CFO, General Managers, Auditors and External Partners.
 
Key Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for posting monthly journals
  • Timely preparation of management accounts
  • Manage the budget and forecasting process
  • Timely preparation of balance sheet and income statement reconciliations
  • Analyze and provide commentary on monthly results
  • Prepare and analyze monthly expense variance reports
  • Review monthly cashbook reconciliations
  • Assist with the annual audit process i.e. external/internal auditors
  • Review and release of online banking payments
  • Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Assist with key projects i.e. IFRS 17, Audit Remediation, Process automation etc
  • Assist with day-to-day activities of the finance reporting function
  • Assist with defined ad hoc projects according to business needs
 
Required Knowledge and Experience
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience within the Financial Services industry (including articles)
  • 1 - 2 years post articles experience in a commercial environment
  • Insurance accounting would be advantageous
  • PC literate (Advanced MS Office knowledge)
  • Technical accounting, financial and management accounting
  • Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls and their integration into the accounting system (Great Plains experience would be an advantage)
  • Financial and management accounting (IFRS)
  • Knowledge of systems and controls, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
  • Digital literacy
 
Educational Requirements
  • Matric
  • CA (SA)
 
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE
 
 
 
 
 
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HEAD: BIMS
 
Details
Closing Date 2024/01/15
Reference Number HOL240108-1
Job Title Head: BIMS
Business Unit Group Finance & Assurance
Department Management
Job Family Finance
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Group Chief Financial Officer
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Group Finance, in the BIMS area.  We are looking to recruit a Head BIMS
 
Role Objectives:
This group role leads the Balance sheet and Investment Management Services (BIMS) team and has overall responsibility for the group’s balance sheet investments, group entity structure, funding, liquidity and bank accounts.  The incumbent will be a member of the Group Investment committees
 
Key Responsibilities:
 
Group Balance Sheet Management
  • Maintain the group entity structure, and intra group funding structures
  • Set solo ALM strategy and mandates
  • Execution of large transactions
  • Portfolio Management
  • Manage internal asset portfolios
  • Oversee external managers
 
Corporate Finance
  • Manage and value private equity interests.
  • Negotiate and / or execute private transactions, credit and equity.
  • Be available as a director on investee boards.
 
Treasury & Bank Support
  • Group Liquidity management
  • Bank account maintenance; funding, users, authorities, etc.
  • Maintain mutually productive relations with Hollard’s bankers.
 
Finance: BIMS & Hollard Investments
Accounting and Financial reporting for BIMS & Hollard Investments including:
  • Budgeting
  • Monthly accounting ledger close
  • Monthly reporting
  • Some consolidations
  • Participate in annual financial reporting.
  • (Hollard Investments is a separate market facing division which manages client money in CIS, Life and pension products.)
 
Required Knowledge and Experience        
Knowledge
  • Short term Insurance
  • Long term Insurance
  • Experience in an Investment management/leadership role
 
Skills
  • Strong Leadership/ Management capability
  • Business acumen
  • Ability to build collaborative relationships with stakeholder’s cross diverse functional teams.
  • Capability to present concise business plans with confidence to all stakeholders, clients and partners.
  • Strong Conceptual/ analytical thinker
  • High degree of self -imposed accountability and integrity
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication
  • Self- starter with the ability to work under pressure
  • Navigate through ambiguity and balance multiple priorities
  • Ability to operate in both strategic and tactical environment
  • Best practices and Commercial awareness
  • Good at making decisions under pressure
  • 10 years relevant exp.in Financial Services and/or Insurance industry
  • Including a minimum of 5 years management experience.
 
Educational Requirements
  • Relevant postgraduate financial qualification
  • CA(SA), FASA or equivalent NQF level 8 or higher qualification
  • CFA and related qualifications will also be considered
 
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE
 
 
 
 
 
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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
 
Details
Closing Date 2024/01/15
Reference Number HOL240108-2
Job Title Chief Financial Officer
Business Unit Group Finance & Assurance
Department Management
Job Family Finance
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Group Chief Financial Officer
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Group Finance, in the Finance area.  We are looking to recruit a Chief Financial Officer
 
Role Objectives:
The Divisional Chief Financial Officer is responsible to develop and safeguard a sustainable financial strategy for the business, through the creation and implementation of strategic financial management and reporting, business analysis, budgeting, controls and forecasting.  Further to ensure ongoing viability and secure the financial future in line with the business objectives.
 
Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide strategic financial support and guidance to the Business Unit, and Hollard partners where appropriate; including all necessary reporting
  • Provide strategic financial direction to financially re-engineer the business to targeted profitability
  • Provide strategic financial M&A support where appropriate
  • Ensure financial controls are designed, implemented and managed within the BU
  • Analyse, report and review of BU profitability, trends and balance sheet
  • Interact with Reinsurance, Actuarial and Tax to ensure an integrated Financial support to the BU
  • Ensure efficient and reliable Financial operations
  • Manage operational financial processes to ensure efficient partner and business support
  • Manage the budget process including CAPEX in line with group processes and guidelines
  • Deliver capital management of projects to determine and guide activities that produce an attractive rate of return
  • Provide actionable, relevant and time sensitive insight and information to the BU CEO to enable key business and strategic decisions
  • Provide Finance leadership on Process Efficiency, Business Performance Measures and Management, Analytical Support and Predictive Analysis
  • Integrate internal business information with market events and industry knowledge to identify new opportunities and formulate strategy
  • Financial systems implementation and maintenance
 
Required Knowledge and Experience
  • Exceptional business acumen and broad business knowledge
  • Strategic thinking – continuous improvement, strategy translation, innovation and creative thinking
  • Result-driven with ability to establish credibility among varied audiences
  • Strong people management (leadership) skills in a multidisciplinary environment
  • Managing complexity
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Knowledge of accounting packages, systems and controls including budgeting
  • In-depth knowledge of financial accounting and related processes
  • International accounting standards
  • Stress management / resilience
  • 10 years post articles experience
  • 8 years management experience, of which a minimum of 4 at a senior management / consulting level
  • Ability to work across in a complex Business with varying stakeholders
 
Educational Requirements
  • Relevant postgraduate financial qualification
  • CA(SA), FASA or equivalent NQF level 8 or higher qualification
  • CFA and related qualifications will also be considered
 
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE
 
 
 
 
 




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ASSESSING SCHEDULER.
 
Details
Closing Date2024/01/12
Reference Number HOL231221-2
Job Title Assessing Scheduler.
Business Unit Hollard Insure
Department Motor Claims
Job Family Operations - including Claims, Policy Servicing, Underwriting and Retentions
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Administration Manager
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Port Elizabeth
Location – Province Eastern Cape
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Insure Operations, in the Motor Claims area. We are looking to recruit a Assessing Scheduler.
 
Role Objectives: Dealing with daily scheduling and capturing of vehicle assessments for all the internal and external assessors.  Assist as support to the assessing department to ensure customer feedback and optimal service delivery.
 
Key Responsibilities:
  • Ensure to reduce claims cost (i.e. upliftment instructions, assessor appointed within the agreed turnaround time without any delay) and to follow agreed process and adherence to relevant mandate
  • Driving towards service delivery and accuracy and ensure correct assessor is appointed for the relevant assessment. Have a follow up process in place to confirm receipt and to give feedback where necessary
  • Ensure that standard operating procedures are being followed and to request all relevant information from internal and or external assessor for accuracy of assessments
  • Update the line of business system with all relevant information and updating of financials timeously
  • Delivering a reliable administrative support and customer service and improving the overall customer relationship to all the business units
  • Acknowledging customers and brokers promptly and treating them in a courteous manner
  • Maintaining records and carrying out customer transactions within authorized limits and update systems regularly
  • If any documentation is outstanding for longer than the required SLA, to escalate to correct level for assistance
  • Ensure efficient and effective reporting back to clients, business units, repairers, assessors and assessing management
  • Document all evidence for reference and specify if any escalations and or business decisions have been made
  • Effectively manage complaints according to the agreed process and ensure feedback to client and or account managers
  • Effective adherence to processes & quality standards according to the standard operating procedure and as measured by QA
  • Take ownership of queries and offer possible solution to the various stakeholders and of clients and ensure all urgent queries to be resolved
  • Provide feedback to clients and or internal stakeholders where relevant and needed and ensure assessors to follow through on queries
  • Ensure all messages left by clients and or other business units are being attended to within the agreed time limits
  • Liaise with service providers and other business units to ensure quality of customer management and to prevent rework
 
Required Knowledge and Experience
  • Telephonic
  • Negotiation
  • Conflict handling skills
  • Basic business ethics and financial principles related to claims.
  • Time management
  • Change Management
  • Short Term Insurance experience
  • Experience in Motor Claims
 
Educational Requirements
  • Matric
  • Higher certificate in Short Term Insurance
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
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COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST
 
Details
Closing Date  2024/01/12
Reference Number HOL231221-1
Job Title Compliance Specialist
Business Unit Group Finance & Assurance
Department Compliance
Job Family Business Assurance - Risk, Compliance, and Fraud
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Senior Compliance Manager
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Johannesburg
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
 
Job Advert Summary
The Compliance Division within Group Compliance is looking for a Compliance Specialist to join their team. The Compliance Specialist advises and guides teams on the identification of relevant compliance risks and the development of compliance risk management plans.  
 
Required Knowledge and Experience
Minimum:
  • 3-5 years Business Compliance experience in Financial Services
  • Solid understanding and experience in Business Processes environment, eg claims, sales, distribution
 
Skills: 
  • Relationship management
  • Communication (written and verbal)
  • Investigative/auditing abilities
  • Analytical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Process mapping
  • Presentation
  • Report writing
  • Computer Literacy (MS Office)
  • Planning and organising – project level
  • Legislative analysis and interpretation
  • Assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of controls
  • Business Acumen
  • Root cause analysis
  • Intermediate: Excel & Word
 
Knowledge:
  • FAIS
  • FICA (Money Laundering Laws)
  • Long Term and Short Term Insurance Acts
  • Pensions Fund Act
  • POPIA
 
Key Responsibilities: 
  • Assist teams to develop, implement and manage comprehensive compliance risk management plans through advising on:
    • compliance requirements per business area
    • identifying and rating the applicable compliance risks
    • developing a compliance risk management plan
    • the design of appropriate procedures and processes to manage identified risks
    • implementing a continuous compliance risk monitoring process
  • Perform effective monitoring and reporting of business compliance by conducting compliance monitoring reviews of high risk regulatory items within Business Units
  • Distil new legislative requirements and effectively and practically translate the compliance requirements impacting on business operations, processes and practices to the management of those business areas.
  • Proactively consult with business areas in order to align compliance requirement to current and future business activities.
  • Facilitate compliance risk management workshops within teams to identify relevant regulatory risks.
  • Review operational transactions, procedures and processes to determine whether they are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements.
  • Identify and communicate compliance risk issues and/or irregularities and assess the adequacy and effectiveness of management’s proposed mitigation and prevention plans.
  • Prepare reports on individual compliance monitoring reviews.
  • Participate in and contribute to high level summary reporting to business units.
  • Participate in and contribute to Board Reporting for the Group.
  • Assist in preparation and submission of reports.
  • Manage and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
 
Educational Requirements    
Minimum:
  • Related Degree or IISA Licentiate/Associate - Legal or Auditing Degree (preferred)
  • Compliance Management Certificate an advantage (NQF 7) 
 
 
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals. We encourage applicants living with disabilities to apply.
 
Hollard does not charge individuals seeking employment any fees, whether for registration, application, administration or placement.
 
PLEASE APPLY HERE