"🌟 Be the Backbone of Success! ðŸŒŸAre you a problem-solving powerhouse with a knack for optimizing operations? Step into the role of Operations Support Manager and drive efficiency, innovation, and seamless collaboration across teams. This is your chance to make a real impact where it counts!"

Title: Operations Support Manager
Location: Johannesburg
Budget: R740 000 CTC per annum Maximum
 
This role involves leading a team of analysts specializing in financial and actuarial analysis, as well as quantitative analytics. Reporting directly to the Head of Product and Actuarial, the ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of priorities, proactively escalate issues when challenges arise, and effectively guide the team to ensure timely delivery of support tasks.
 
Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of fund and quantitative analysts providing support to the Fund and Securities business units
• Oversee and manage team support for Client Services, advisors, and Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs), including assistance with client queries, new business support and operational tasks.
• Supervise and review policy revision calculations and support work for platform system enhancements.
• Drive the preparation and delivery of sales initiatives, control function reporting, and Business Unit metrics reporting.
• Conduct platform (LISP) landscape analysis and handle ad-hoc quantitative investigations as required by the business.
• Ensure daily uploads of prices for Life-priced funds.
• Uphold robust control standards for all team outputs and promptly inform the business of emerging or new risks.

 
What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree in Investment Management, Insurance Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Quantitative Finance, or Financial Management.
• Familiarity with LISP platforms and long-term savings and investment products.
• Proficiency in programming and financial modeling skills.
• Advanced computer literacy, particularly in SQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
• Team management experience is a plus.
• Experience with programming languages such as VBA, Python, or R is advantageous.

 
For more information contact:
Stefan Pretorius
Branch Manager
stpretorius@networkfinance.co.za