Sanlam Group

Who are we?

SanlamConnect is dedicated to supporting, growing, and empowering clients with affordable, easy, and suitable solutions, primarily through face-to-face intermediary channels, but also directly. We have approximately 2,000 tied advisers and 2,000 supporting independent brokers, all dedicated to meet the financial needs of our clients. Our vision: We aspire to be the best at building enduring relationships by connecting clients with Sanlam. We create sustainable value by attracting new clients, supporting ongoing client engagement, and providing adaptive solutions designed to answer life’s financial questions. ULTIMATELY, WE EMPOWER PEOPLE TO BE FINANCIALLY CONFIDENT, SECURE AND PROSPEROUS.

What will you do?

This is a 12-month contract position allowing the incumbent to gain relevant work experience in the financial services industry. This is a specialist technical role within the SanlamConnect Academy that works closely with various stakeholders within the business, and whose primary responsibilities are to undertake data analytics, investigations and reporting.

The position will ideally be based at the Sanlam regional office in Bellville, but we will only consider the Sanlam Office in Sandton: Alice Lane as an alternative option to Bellville.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Extract and create regular MIS reports for the business for the Academy’s various training programmes
• Create new/updated automated report views
• Undertake investigations and reports based on business needs/problems
• Use data and analytics to create insights about our learners’ behaviours and its impact on their performance as a financial adviser
• Build business and predictive models
• Undertake data management (structure and storage, transformations)
• Stakeholder management

Qualification and Experience

• Grade 12 or equivalent qualification
• Must have completed and be in possession of a 3-year National Diploma or Degree in IT
• Related qualification in data science preferable (maths and statistics)
• Relevant accreditations in tools, applications (i.e. Python, R, SQL, etc.)
• Experience in data analyics
• Successful candidate should be unemployed
• Preferably no or very limited previous working experience

Knowledge and Skills

• MS Office experience with advanced skills in Excel
• Report development with Power BI

Personal Attributes

• Tech savvy
• Plans and aligns
• Optimizes work processes
• Communicates effectively
• Nimble learning

Core Competencies

Being resilient - Contributing independently

Collaborates - Contributing independently

Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently

Customer focus - Contributing independently

Drives results - Contributing independently

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the 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.
• The closing date for applications is 18 July 2025.
• The recruiter reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement prior to the closing date or to allow further applications to be submitted after the closing date indicated.

Our commitment to transformation

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