Vacancies at Old Mutual Kenya

Job Description

The Service Delivery specialist is responsible for effective execution of ITIL disciplines within the OMAR Central Technology - Service Engineering business . The successful candidate is responsible for proactively managing the delivery of IT services to enable business and strategic outcomes of a specific business segment or client area.
Experience with IT projects, vendor management, ITIL processes, software deployment technologies and customer relationships is an advantageous prerequisite.

The primary purpose of the Service Delivery specialist is to support the smooth running of the OMAR Business applications and its infrastructure services. The role oversees a number of key IT Support functions within the OMAR Business. The IT operations processes will be followed namely; Incident, Problem, Service Request and IT Change Management. The second purpose is to assist in the maturing of all the ITIL disciplines. The individual will be responsible for achieving results through own efforts. 

Key responsibilities:

Incident Management 

• Facilitate the recovery of all incidents with appropriate reporting and notifications to key Stakeholders.
• Manage persistent incidents from Trend analysis and or Management Escalations
•  Proactively and effectively manage incidents to satisfactory resolution in a timely manner, ensuring minimal business impact, and initiate escalation procedure as appropriate
• Provide input for Monthly MIS Reporting
• Drive incident resolution to ensure they are resolved within SLA
• Ensure incidents that require change are resolved as per requirement (before business impact

Change Management

• Ensure changes meet requirements
• Assist team with changes if required to ensure they meet SCMG/ QAG management, etc. requirements
• Review changes to confirm 
• Weekly and Monthly Reporting
• Attend CAB

Problem Management

• Ensure resolution of problems within timelines
• Attend Problem management forum
• Weekly and Monthly Reporting
• Drive RCA
• Drive solution delivery of RCA outcomes

Capacity and Availability Management (where applicable)

•  Responsible for capacity planning with Technology owners 
• Pro-actively monitors all environments.
• Complete daily system health checks
•  Ensure application monitoring – enablement and implementation

Service Request Management (where applicable)

• Effectively manages BSR’s logged and drives completion .

Reporting and Documentation

•  Weekly and Monthly reports support BP reporting
• Weekly stakeholder reporting (Incident/BSR)
• Ensures Service Descriptions are updated
• Ensure IT Recovery Plans are updated

Technical Consultation

• Acquires and applies knowledge of business processes, procedures, policies and practices.
•  Provides technical advice and consultation to the business.
• Leads others in technical initiatives across platforms/environments e.g. cost saving, timing
• IT Service Delivery Management
• Manage the multiple suppliers to give the optimal mix of flexibility, innovation, standard and consistent service. 
• Act as the custodian of IT service management processes and procedures to be deployed across the enterprise and ensure they are followed. 
• Play a pivotal coordinating role in all service management processes. 
• Stay ahead of the Curve on advanced global service management. 
• improvements, tools, processes, and practices. 
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement across the service delivery an supporting technology teams 
• Act as the point of contact for all service delivery escalations e.g. Major Incidents and work across the value chain to ensure successful resolution. 
•  Monitoring customer satisfaction ratings to identify emerging issues and to implement remedial action. 
• Work within a DevOps environment, collaborate with development teams and ensure smooth transition of products into operations. 
• Ensure optimal use of Service Engineering technologies by technology teams e.g., Service Now & Dynatrace (where applicable)
• CMDB ensuring clean & flawless datasets across the estate. 

Role Requirements

•  Matric qualification 
• Appropriate IT qualification,  ITIL V3 Foundation Certification would be hugely beneficial
•  5-6 years practical technical support experience. Broader knowledge across platforms.
• A good understanding of any of (proof of experience) IT Maintenance and Support functions
• Standby availability (after hours)
• DR facilitation and roll-out management
• Expedition of infrastructure upgrades
• Monitoring enablement implementation and supervision 
• AND 
• Must have IT Demand Management and IT Delivery Management experience. 
•  Experience as an agile practitioner and knowledge or experience of other delivery methodologies e.g. Kanban etc. 
• Knowledge and deep understanding of ITSM – Information Technology Service Management 

Competencies

• Strong relationship management and interpersonal skills 
• Adequate stakeholder management 
• Collaboration (Relating) 
• Customer First 
• Execution 
• Innovation (Perspective) 
•  Personal Mastery (Learning) 
•  Strategic
• Work well under pressure

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Job Description

• Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to UAP Old Mutual East Africa Group by working closely with the Business Entities and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial GI & Health, Group Actuary, Senior Management and Board of Directors.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Actuarial Support: Conduct and/or review internal actuarial liability valuations for relevant insurance subsidiaries and analysis of profitability/surplus,
• Review of external actuaries’ report and collaboration with the appointed actuaries to produce the Financial Condition Report for P&C business.
• Experience Investigations: Perform profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations to inform business decisions.
• Product Profitability Review: Perform profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations for UAP BUs to inform business decisions.
• Solvency and Capital management: Carry out solvency computation for the BUs on a risk-based capital basis including solvency stress tests.
• Financial Modeling: assist with financial modeling of business scenarios/projects to inform business decision making.
• Strategy and Business Planning Support: assist with business planning financial projections and solvency projections for the Business Units. Perform stress and scenario analysis on the plan numbers.
• Reinsurance Support: Carry out a reinsurance analysis for the East Africa subsidiaries to explore ways to optimize on reinsurance arrangements.
• Reporting and Documentation: Presentation of results and reports to businesses and subsidiary boards committees. Preparation of Board Papers and regulatory solvency and valuation reports.
• Risk Management support: assist the P&C Business Units and Risk Department in identifying, quantifying risk (insurance, market, credit risks etc.) where appropriate. Formulate appropriate risk mitigation measures for the BUs and develop a risk register for an enterprise in CURA (Risk System).
• Investment Strategy support: Develop/formulate appropriate investment strategies and/or review and monitoring of investment strategies for UAP-Old Mutual life businesses.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Actuarial Science or other related finance or mathematics degree
• Minimum 5 years actuarial experience
• Actuarial Knowledge: Show progress with actuarial examinations, Minimum 7 papers from a recognized actuarial body
• Other reasonable duties that may be assigned by management.

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Job Description

• Provision of Actuarial Services to Old Mutual Assurance Kenya by working closely with the Business Entities and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conduct accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Group Actuary, Senior Management and Board of Directors.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Actuarial Support: assist with conducting and reviewing internal actuarial liability valuations for relevant insurance subsidiaries, IFRS17 valuations, analysis of profitability/surplus, calculation and analysis of embedded value using Prophet and MS Excel for OM Life entities.
• Experience Investigations: assist with performing profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations to inform business decisions.
• Solvency and Capital management: assist with solvency computation for the entity on a risk-based capital basis including solvency stress tests.
• Financial Modeling: assist with financial modeling of business scenarios/projects to inform business decision making.
• Strategy and Business Planning Support: assist with business planning financial projections and solvency projections for the life entities. Perform stress and scenario analysis on the plan numbers.
• Reinsurance Support: Carry out a reinsurance analysis for the East Africa subsidiaries to explore ways to optimize on reinsurance arrangements.
• Reporting and Documentation: assist with preparation of presentation and reports to businesses and subsidiary boards committees. Preparation of Board Papers and regulatory solvency and valuation reports.
• Risk Management support: assist the Business Units and Risk Department in identifying, quantifying risk (insurance, market, credit risks etc.) where appropriate.
• Investment Strategy support: Develop/formulate appropriate investment strategies and/or review and monitoring of investment strategies for OM Life businesses.
• Other reasonable duties that may be assigned by management.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Actuarial Science or other related finance or mathematics degree
• Minimum 3-5 years actuarial experience
• Actuarial Knowledge: Show progress with actuarial examinations

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Job Description

The primary objective of this role is to design and implement effective solutions and solution architecture that fulfills the organization's business requirements. Strong expertise in application development is crucial. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for gathering requirements and functional specifications, evaluating existing software systems to identify areas for enhancement, and providing oversight to development teams. Additionally, you will be expected to regularly update the company on the progress of systems architecture projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and integrating information systems to meet the company’s needs.
• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
• Resolving technical problems as they arise.
• Providing supervision and guidance to development teams.
• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
• Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
• Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.
• Support cross-functional project teams consisting of app development, IT operations, and information security.