Business Lead Finance

Discovery Limited; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in wellness seeks a Business Lead for their Finance and Commercial team. The role involves coordinating finance activities, managing product vision, and ensuring operational readiness. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and communication skills, with a background in business or engineering.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of strong analytical experience.
• 1-3 years finance specific experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate finance, commercial, and project activities.
• Manage Product Backlog and drive product delivery.
• Ensure operational readiness and product marketing strategy.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Project Management

Strategic Thinking

Education

Business / Engineering Degree

Job description

Discovery Vitality RSA

Business Lead

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Vitality RSA

Vitality is at the heart of Discovery’s shared value model and aims to reward members for positive behaviour change. Vitality is a global thought leader in wellness and encourages members to live healthier lives. Vitality operates in a fast-paced and agile environment and has remained at the forefront of wellness thought leadership by delivering cutting edge innovation through bi-annual product launches. Within the team of 500+ creative minds, projects span across all areas, including marketing, finance, data, people, MIS and actuarial, operations, systems, strategic programs and wellness – providing opportunities for a holistic experience. Vitality partners with leading partners to provide members with a superior rewards experience, providing a dazzling service to our members. In all they do, Vitality people pride themselves in living the Discovery values and championing its core purpose of making people healthier and enhancing and protecting their lives whilst being the everyday ambassadors.

About the role

As a Business Lead within the Finance and Commercial team at Vitality, you will be responsible for coordinating the various finance, commercial and project activities, partner relationships and project and analytical reporting within the finance and commercial team space.

You will be responsible for understanding and creating the product vision, business case and product and finance specs on allocated initiatives as well as maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team by managing the Product Backlog.

Responsibilities include partner co-ordination on owned-product projects as well as integration of partners including onboarding of partners. You will also be responsible for partner, finance, campaign and product reporting setup and maintenance on allocated products.

Job Purpose

Outputs may include but are not limited to:

• Work with Product Management and business operations to understand and create the business case and product spec
• Work with solution team to understand solution and customer journey options
• Work with Operational Team for operational readiness
• Work with Marketing Team to create product marketing strategy
• Work closely with the Development Teams to drive product delivery:
  • Act as the single decision maker giving direction to the team
  • Prioritize and manage the Product Backlog
• Emerge Product Backlog Items (PBIs) together with the team
• Drive just-in-time PBI elaboration
• Elaborate product requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria
• Order the PBIs to best achieve product goals admissions
• Optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs
• Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next
• Ensure the Development Team understands PBIs to the level needed
• Perform Backlog Refinement to prune and maintain the Product Backlog
• Ensure Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for all PBIs
• Drive Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning sessions
• Present product vision and goals for each release / sprint
• Present prioritized PBIs to the team in Sprint Planning
• Drive rapid product decision making
• Accept PBIs as per acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) in Sprint Reviews
• Take ownership and sign off on items developed and delivered within product portfolio.
  • Approve business specifications and system’ user specifications
  • Approve marketing content and UX / member journeys that they are in line with the strategic outcomes of the product
  • Approve testing plans to ensure all scenarios are catered for when new features and products are introduced.
• Provide insights on the performance of products that own/manage against strategic objectives, targets and expected outcomes, and propose interventions where required to ensure that these are met.
• Maintain operational processes where required and drive systematic roll-out of automated solutions to replace any manual, error-prone processes

Education / Qualifications / Accreditations with Professional Body

Business / Engineering degree

Work Experience

2 – 4 years of strong analytical experience

1 – 3 years finance specific experience

Ability to communicate effectively in multiple business areas (e.g. marketing, finance, operations, legal, systems, etc.)

Strong relationship building skills

Project management or coordination experience (advantageous)

Product management / ownership / delivery experience (advantageous)

Track record of working well across various departments in a large organization is preferable (advantageous)

Competencies

• Proactive and with curious mindset
• Hands on working style
• Eye for detail
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to think strategically and translate strategy to action plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to deliver results
• People management skills

Employment Equity

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.