South African Reserve Bank Vacancies – Pensions Supervisor

Job Description:

The main purpose of this position is to provide first-line supervision within the Pensions Administration Section in order to ensure accurate, complete and timeous pensions administration tasks within the Financial Services Department of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan work for self and others in the team, using discretion in defining and prioritising work for the team.
• Supervise the section’s administrative processes, thereby ensuring adherence to relevant policies, legislation and regulations.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders/clients at varying levels of seniority within the South African Reserve Bank Group (SARB Group) and external parties, displaying a service orientation in own work and the ability to solicit information as well as to convey and explain information fluently.
• Ensure adherence to controls and that work is performed independently within established practices, given processes, rules and regulations, ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines.
• Diagnose problems and choose and/or modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions for problems within a defined context.
• Supervise and review the calculations, accounting input and data captured by junior team members, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeous delivery.
• Proactively broaden own knowledge of functional area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices).
• Take responsibility for managing the performance and development of the team.

Job Requirements:

• a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (NQF 7) or an equivalent qualification; and
• two to five years of working experience in a financial environment, specifically in the area of pensions administration.
• The following would be an added advantage:
  • supervisor experience;
  • experience on a unitised pensions administration system; and/or
  • experience in providing retirement benefits counselling to members.
• Additional requirements include:
  • industry, organisational and business awareness, skill and knowledge;
  • quality assurance skill and knowledge;
  • continuous improvement skill and knowledge;
  • continued learning and/or professional development skill and knowledge;
  • financial accounting knowledge and skill;
  • financial reconciliation knowledge and skill;
  • taxation knowledge and skill;
  • pensions administration knowledge and skill;
  • function-specific performance management knowledge and skill;
  • function-specific information systems knowledge and skill;
  • conceptual thinking;
  • effective communication;
  • flexibility;
  • a drive for results;
  • teamwork;
  • a service and stakeholder focus
  • building and maintaining relationships;
  • judgement and decision making;
  • impact and influence;
  • analysis and problem solving;
  • resilience; and
  • managing complexity and ambiguity.

Job Details:

Company: South African Reserve Bank – SARB

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pretoria

Application Deadline: N/A

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