Carolyn Erasmus Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior leadership role that forms part of the global leadership team that reports into EMEA MD. Strategic planning and execution in securing long term revenue generating accounts. Outperformedcommercial targets & P&L ownership. Strong communicator able to engage and influence diverse stakeholders. Thought leader in the industry by hosting high profile events, interviews, webinars andmagazine articles.* Promotion of Bravura in the local market via consultancy organisations and establishing strategic partners.* Identify emerging market needs, monitoring market trends and competitor activities and establishing opportunities to boost the SA market share.* Stimulated focus on market assessment and propositional build out aligned with targeted opportunities.* Unlocked additional annual revenue with existing clients, AUD$2m - 4m as they further entrench the solution features to improve their business performance.* Proactively drive deal negotiations with existing clients and the securing of the latest new logo, with a focus on ensuring a mutually beneficial commercial model is at play.* Cultivating valuable and sustainable executive client relationships focusing on improving customer experience and business benefits, whilst driving growth and delivering on Bravura strategy.* Cultivated committed and loyal team which is fully aligned with global vision and strategy who are primed to take the business into the future.* Navigated the SA team through the journey as the global organisation pivoted in strategy and executive change to remain a leader in the industry during the phase of transformation and change management.

I strongly believe in the importance of all employees feeling valued and accepted and the creation of equal opportunity for all.* Championed and matured the Social Mobility Pillar within the organisation, shown through Bravura ranking on Social Mobility Employer Index ranking from 197th in 2021 to 91st in 2022 with agoal to be within top 75 in 2023.* Pioneered the Women in SA Financial Services network, created in 2021 and gained massive momentum with attendance increasing from 50 attendees to 80 attendees in 1st year.* Fostered and sponsor the Global Success Circles Mentoring program which focuses on a group of 30 individuals per annum, currently in the 2nd year.

South Africa

Cultivator of strategic partnerships with our clients focusing on business solutions that achieve ROI, strategizing with a future lens and making sure we are listening and respondingaccurately. Augmenting the global teams in creating the most optimal operating model in SA. * Strengthened and reformed all existing client relationships and cost of ownership profiles focusing on providing business benefit and sustainable partnerships.* Secured two Tier 1 organsations as referenceable clients in local market as a result of successfully integrating the Wealth solution into our clients business operations.* Established a local operational team (from 3pax to 20pax) within 3 years, that took full ownership of all client implementation projects, which included in-depth understanding of the Wealth solution and integration into global ways of workings. * Reduced project cost profile YoY by 10% due to reduction in supplementing local team with offshore resources.

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FNB Wealth and Investment ManagementProgramme Manager for the delivery and implementation of the entire Investment Solution Platform build for FNB. This involves oversight, co-ordination and alignment of delivering continuous product requirements whilst focusing on building the end state foundational base.

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FNB Investments Due to my past experience with global vendor selection processes and implementation thereof, I joined the newly formed Investments business unit within FNB to drive the process in selecting an investment platform solution which included multiple aspects of investigation from an in house build to an off the shelf packaged solution to an outsourced model. Simultaneously, unpacking the Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) landscape across FirstRand in order to align business needs, remove system duplication and identify potential synergies to improve efficiencies between FNB business units (Cash Investments, Fiduciary, Insurance, Share investing etc.) and FirstRand Brands (Ashburton, RMB and Treasury).

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FNB Life InsuranceThe key lead in running a global vendor selection process for a new policy admin system for Life Insurance. This process involved numerous detailed stages such as RFI, RFP, Demonstrations & running a dual application POC with the final two vendors over a 5 week period.Programme Manager for the implementation and delivery of the newly acquired solution into the greater FNB eco-system I.e. integration into the peripheral systems of the bank such as the finance systems, customer master information system, template management and document storage systems and sales channels. This included the configuration / development of the policy admin system to align with the business products and processes.Vendor Management including executive level interactions After a successful delivery and implementation of the policy admin system, I introduced 'business as usual' structure, processes and governance to the IT Project Management Office (PMO).Thereafter, I managed the PMO and continued with Project Managing the Risk Programme Portfolio.

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FNB Insurance (Risk and Investment Advice)Ultimately responsible for all projects that fell under this business area. Performed duel role of business analyst & project manager on the entire portfolio.These projects were system & regulatory based and supported a financial planner industry of around 400 brokers. Both risk & investment products fell into this space & we worked very closely with the Ashburton brand & FNB premium segment due to alignment in systems, products & target market.

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FNB Insurance Brokers (Short Term Insurance)Financial BA on a project implementing a new short term insurance system. Responsible for identifying the gaps between the legacy systems & the newly acquired system, providing business requirements which included re-engineering the current processes & implementing efficiencies to all functional areasAssisted the developers in the financial setup & configuration of the application to customize the solution to the business needs. Assisted with all types of functional & technical testing & provided support to the business as a super user post implementation

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FNB Insurance Brokers (Short Term Insurance)Originally brought in to restructure the setup of the short term insurance bank & GL accounts & reconcile it back to the operational & financial systems. Thereafter, managed a FinOps team that handled the financial operations of the short term business for clients & insurers which pertained to all recons, processing of payments, managing transactions on the operational & financial systems, queries and Bordeaux's for premiums & claims.

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Responsible for minute taking, compiling special resolutions & presenting management accounts at the Audit & Remuneration Committees, Board of Trustees & AGM meetings.Responsible for completing the statutory returns, liaising with Council for Medical schemes regarding all regulatory matters & co-ordinated the updating of the annual benefits & contribution schedules for the Medical Scheme.

Bcom, Management Accounting

Prince2 Certified (Foundation & Practitioner)

New Managers Development Program

Certificate Of Business Analysis