Sanlam Private Wealth crafts customised investment portfolios for high net worth private clients, charitable institutions, trusts and corporate entities.
With assets under management and administration of more than R151 billion, we offer a comprehensive and integrated suite of wealth management solutions. These include equity, retirement and offshore investment portfolios, fiduciary and tax services, an equity-backed finance offering, a global stockbroking service and derivatives trading.
At Sanlam Private Wealth, our clients are at the core of everything we do. For this reason, we employ people with passion individuals who thrive in an entrepreneurial, high-energy environment.
Sanlam Private Wealth is part of the Sanlam Investments Group, a leading investment and wealth management business in South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Europe.
What will be required for the role?
The role will involve working with a team of data engineers, data analysts and report writers to deliver the data strategy to ensure optimal business value, discovering insights hidden in large amounts of data, and facilitating decision-making to deliver on business objectives and improved customer experience.
What will you do?
Key Accountabilities
- Own data integrity and conformity to meet business requirements, from data ingestion to data consumption and reporting
- Engage with a range of stakeholders (including compliance, finance, product, investments, marketing) to understand the needs and then use this information to scope the requirements for various data sources to deliver on these
- Bridge the gap between business owner requirements and technical delivery teams (vendor selection and architecture input and guidance)
- Deliver the enterprise data warehouse foundation for Sanlam Private Wealth through a thorough understanding of business data requirements and own data subject matter expertise
- Oversee data needs on projects, BAU data requirements and future trends through data science expertise. As head of the area, the role will provide technical mentoring and coaching for other team members
- Deliver MI to our business owners
- Deliver support to our business owners
- Manage day-to-day operations of the team
- Own overall accountability for data quality
- Ensure that highlighted data quality issues are promptly and adequately remediated and prevented in future
- Implement data quality dashboards and metrics, and ensure implementation of all data-related governance, audit and risk actions
- Build and maintain strong relationships with project and business stakeholders to develop an understanding of business strategy and objectives
- Provide leadership to teams regarding approach to data acquisition, data mining and overall responsibilities
- Design, develop and establish relevant frameworks, models and business practices to drive a data-centric approach to understanding current business problems and opportunities
- Take accountability for the approach and methodology for building and maintaining analytical tools to generate insights
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to analyse customer data requirements
- Oversee maintenance of data sets
- Ensure data analytics and design are communicated and understood by business stakeholders
- Establish and implement a quality framework and processes for data processes and deliverables of the team
- Provide insight for enhancing data processes to include information relevant for building analytic systems
- Perform people management function for a team of driven-data specialists
- Coach and mentor data specialists
- Relevant B-degree in Science, Business or Technology (NQF Level 7 qualification) within an appropriate field of study
- At least 10 years experience in the field of execution of technology data projects or data management
- 5 8 years experience in a senior management role
- Team leadership experience
- High degree of learning agility ability to adapt and adopt new technologies, including AI and data science
- Experience in data analytics and enterprise data warehouse development
- Experience in running large-scale projects with a strong data component
- Excellent written communication skills and very strong report-writing skills
- Ability to lead teams and provide mentorship
- Strategic thinking and ability to interact with senior stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Exceptional communication skills
- Strong numerical orientation
- Accurate and detail orientated
- Ability to perform well under pressure and show maturity, confidence and resilience
- Ability to adhere to tight deadlines
- Results focused with a strong sense of urgency
- Excellent organizational skills
- Assertive
- Team player
Were all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development and achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Through its business clusters Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Mi-way, as well as the Group Office the Sanlam Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
- To be considered for the above opportunity please upload your detailed CV on or before 30 March 2023.
- Please note that if you are not contacted within two weeks after the closing date your application has been unsuccessful.
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity, and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
