OMF Financial Consultant (Soweto Diepkloof Square)

Old Mutual; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm is looking for an individual to provide advice and achieve results in customer service and business development. Responsibilities include handling inquiries, assessing compliance, and developing customer relationships. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills and an ability to manage complex interactions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Carry out standard customer service activities and handle simple customer inquiries.
• Assess compliance with established standards for routine inquiries.
• Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information.
• Ensure that basic customer details held in the system are accurate.
• Interview customers to clarify their requirements.
• Make calls to potential customers to develop relationships.
• Follow procedures to ensure work is carried out to quality standards.
• Assist with routine business development support tasks.
• Identify potential customers by obtaining information from existing customers.
• Demonstrate understanding of the value of networking.

Skills

Balances Stakeholders

Builds Networks

Communicates Effectively

Customer Focus

Ensures Accountability

Instills Trust

Interpersonal Savvy

Manages Complexity

Job description

Overview

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Job Description

Provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts.

• Customer Service: Carry out standard customer service activities and handle simple customer inquiries.
• Solutions Analysis: Assess compliance with established standards and protocols for routine inquiries.
• Receiving Visitors: Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data: Ensure that basic customer details held in the system are accurate, and make notes of follow-up actions that have been promised, together with notes of actions taken during each sales call.
• Customer Needs Clarification: Interview the customer, following a multilevel sales script, to clarify the customer's requirements.
• Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting: Make calls (by telephone or in person) to allocated potential customers to develop relationships. Provide a first point of contact for resolving customer queries and complaints.
• Operational Compliance: Follow a range of mandatory procedures to ensure that work is carried out to the required quality standards and/or to ensure adherence to external regulatory codes and internal codes of conduct.
• Business Development: Carry out routine business development support tasks and assist others by following established procedures.
• Sales Opportunities Creation: Identify potential customers by obtaining information, referrals, and recommendations from existing customers.
• Data Exploration: Select appropriate data from information provided by others and input that data into spreadsheets or standard formats.
• Network of Influence: Demonstrate understanding of the value of networking by participating in and contributing to a network of people, technologies, and ideas both inside and outside the company.

Skills

Competencies

• Balances Stakeholders
• B uilds Networks
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Ensures Accountability
• Instills Trust
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Manages Complexity

Education

Closing Date

23 September 2025 , 23:59

EEO

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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