Climate Risk Programme Manager

Programme Director in this multi-national organisation delivering the short term insurance solution to South African bank assurers. Teams across the globe working under me to deliver the insurance solution. The platform delivered all admin domains; New Business, Policy Admin, Claims, Re-insurance, Technical Accounting, Billings and Collections, etc.High value projects where I am responsible for programme P&L, new revenue streams, annual targets and budgets and contract negotiation and… Show more Programme Director in this multi-national organisation delivering the short term insurance solution to South African bank assurers. Teams across the globe working under me to deliver the insurance solution. The platform delivered all admin domains; New Business, Policy Admin, Claims, Re-insurance, Technical Accounting, Billings and Collections, etc.High value projects where I am responsible for programme P&L, new revenue streams, annual targets and budgets and contract negotiation and sign-off. Also implementation into a neighbouring country. Show less

Full replacement of the short term insurance admin system including data migration. This was the same Sapiens solution as in Alexander Forbes. In this instance, the business rolled out its full offering, i.e. Motor and its related Credit Life product. The program was successfully deployed in November 2019. Left due to company restructure

Jointly accountable for a strategic initiative called the Enterprise Data Programme. The objective of the Programme was to use all of the banks' data more efficiently by using it as an asset to make the bank more competitive in the market as well as to comply with new SA Reserve Bank regulation. The Programme aimed to take all bank data from source, on board it into a data lake and move it through the requisite stages to marts for either regulatory reporting or advanced analytics purposes. I… Show more Jointly accountable for a strategic initiative called the Enterprise Data Programme. The objective of the Programme was to use all of the banks' data more efficiently by using it as an asset to make the bank more competitive in the market as well as to comply with new SA Reserve Bank regulation. The Programme aimed to take all bank data from source, on board it into a data lake and move it through the requisite stages to marts for either regulatory reporting or advanced analytics purposes. I was head-hunted to implement an insurance solution at TCR Group | SA Taxi Show less

My role is within the modernization effort in AF as part of a full systems renewal programme across the organisation and I was specifically responsible for the Short Term business. This programme was the single largest initiative and expense in the company’s history.Alexander Forbes Insurance (AFI) admin system replacement.Full ‘rip-and-replace’ of existing home-grown admin system with a third- party solution from Sapiens including all admin modules as well as finance and… Show more My role is within the modernization effort in AF as part of a full systems renewal programme across the organisation and I was specifically responsible for the Short Term business. This programme was the single largest initiative and expense in the company’s history.Alexander Forbes Insurance (AFI) admin system replacement.Full ‘rip-and-replace’ of existing home-grown admin system with a third- party solution from Sapiens including all admin modules as well as finance and reinsurance.Integration into the modernization Enterprise Architecture strategy for the organization and its common interfaces via an enterprise service busIntegration into the new client Portal and BI reporting systems.Comprehensive data cleansing and migration.Full system and user functionality regression testing and stabilization.Early termination of entire programme due to company restructuring. Show less

My tenure at Mentum/MMI Holdings was as a project and Programme Manager across the organization spanning various disciplines and areas of business, operating mainly from the office of the Chief Risk Officer in the Enterprise Risk Management division of Group Finance. Projects/Programmes Managed During Contract At MMI Holdings Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) ProgrammeRegulator (FSB) driven initiative that effectively replaced the Long Term and Short Term Insurance Acts… Show more My tenure at Mentum/MMI Holdings was as a project and Programme Manager across the organization spanning various disciplines and areas of business, operating mainly from the office of the Chief Risk Officer in the Enterprise Risk Management division of Group Finance. Projects/Programmes Managed During Contract At MMI Holdings Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) ProgrammeRegulator (FSB) driven initiative that effectively replaced the Long Term and Short Term Insurance Acts in South Africa shifting regulatory responsibility to the SARB and keeping market conduct within the FSB – Twin Peaks.As Programme Manager for this initiative, I set up and ran the SAM Project Office that facilitated the extensive coordination across the various business divisions and sixteen technical workstream projects ensuring that a structured methodology and governance structure was in place that also met the objectives of internal and external audit. This included the creation and use of a SharePoint Portal to facilitate, manage and coordinate the programme.PCI DSS Programme – Payment Card Industry Data Security StandardCredit Card data and systems security requirements driven by all major South African credit card vendors. Similar to POPI.Clarity Reporting Systems. Interlinx forensic software project Show less

Senior project manager for bespoke software development for the DoC portfolio of projects and then moved on to manage the Project Office

Branch manager - Pretoria operations. Ensured that all Microsoft, CISCO and other courses ran within proper regulated parameters as well as ISETT SETA learnerships were correctly managed.