MFC Salaried Financial Advisor (Talent Pool)
Old Mutual
Job Description
,
for section headers, - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no , no
. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition/removal. Must convert the given raw HTML (with styles) into plain text content, then wrap appropriately.
We need to extract the textual content, preserving it exactly as appears (including punctuation, spaces?). We must not add or remove content. So we need to output the same words, but with HTML tags for structure.
We need to identify sections: The raw text includes many headings like Responsibilities
, then subheadings Customer Service
etc. According to rules, we should use for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). So we need to convert those headings to . Also subheadings like Customer Service etc maybe also considered section headers? The instruction: Use for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). It doesn't forbid using for other headings, but likely we should treat all headings as . However we must preserve content word-for-word, so we need to keep the heading text exactly, just wrap in tags.
Also we need to convert list items: The raw has - ... etc. We should keep those as
- but remove any inline styles etc. Also there are some stray
tags with empty content,
, etc. We must remove those (since they are not part of content). But we must preserve all original content word-for-word: meaning we cannot remove any actual text content, but we can remove formatting tags like
, empty
, etc. The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". That refers to the textual content, not the markup. So we can strip away HTML tags and just output the text with new semantic tags.
Thus we need to extract the plain text from the given HTML, preserving spaces and line breaks? Probably we just output paragraphs as
for blocks of text.
Let's extract the textual content sequentially.
Given the raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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.
Responsibilities
Customer Service
Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems.
Solutions Analysis
Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
Receiving Visitors
Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Needs Clarification
Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Develop and implement a relationship management plan for potential customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
Operational Compliance
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Business Development
Monitor and assess sales and market data for a specific geographic region that will assist management in identifying areas in the market where business can be developed.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Develop a personal network within the business sector and represent the organization at business sector events. Obtain market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organization, its products, and its services.
Data Exploration
Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.
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.
What is a financial adviser?
Do you have what it takes to work for a leading financial services company? Then you may be what we are looking for. Whether you’re are a graduate or a experienced professional trying to elevate your career, Old Mutual has something to offer you.
What is required of you?
A accredited financial adviser provides pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within an allocated customer market.
You will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through building strong client relationships, and recommending sound advice that deliver financial solutions in line with the customer's financial goals, the customer value proposition and compliance frameworks.
The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams and accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.
What do we need from you?
- Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
- FAIS compliance
- RE5 an advantage
- A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
- A clear criminal and credit check
- A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
- Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Personal Qualities
- Interacting with People
- Embracing Change
- Articulating Information
- Meeting Timescales
- Interpreting Information
- Developing Strategies and Producing Output
- Pursuing Goals
- Ability to convince and influence
- Seizing Opportunitie
What we can do for you!
Assist you in reaching your career goals and dreams by helping you grow, develop and build on your future aspirations through quality training and support to reach your potential. We lead with our values, which is at the heart of the great things we do. We champion our customers and employees. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion for mutually positive futures throughout our business clusters – Old Mutual Finance, Retail Mass Market, Old Mutual Invest and Personal Finance. The Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
So what now ?
If you think you fit the bill, have a desire to join a respected financial services business and would like to set your own earnings potential. Apply Now! <……………………>
What is a financial adviser?
Skills
Building Trust, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Oral Communications, Probing Questions, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strategic Selling, Strengthening Customer Relationships
Competencies
Action OrientedBalances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCustomer FocusDrives ResultsEnsures Accountability
Education
NQF Level 5 - Higher, Advance or Occupational Certificate or equivalent
Closing Date
29 November 2026 , 23:59
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.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to output HTML with for paragraphs,
for section headers, - for lists.
We must preserve all text exactly. Let's extract the textual content in order, ignoring tags.
We'll go through and produce a sequence of blocks.
Start:
"Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" (note the HTML entity ' is apostrophe). We need to output the actual character? The original text includes ' which is an HTML entity for apostrophe. Preserving original content word-for-word means we should keep the entity as is? Usually "preserve ALL original content word-for-word" means we should not change the text, including entities. But the output is HTML, so we could keep the entity as is; it will render as apostrophe. Safer to keep the entity as is. However the instruction says return only HTML, no markdown. We can keep the entity.
Thus first paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then there are three empty
tags (ignore).
Then Job Description as a heading? According to rules, we should treat "Job Description" as a section header? It's not in the list but we can still use
. Probably yes.
Then empty paragraphs.
Then the sentence: "Provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts."
Then empty paragraphs.
Then Responsibilities
=> convert to Responsibilities
Then empty heading, ignore.
Then Customer Service
=> Customer Service
Then paragraph: "Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems."
Then empty
ignore.
Then Solutions Analysis
=> Solutions Analysis
Paragraph: "Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature."
Then empty
Then Receiving Visitors
=> Receiving Visitors
Paragraph: "Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues."
Empty
Then Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
=> Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Paragraph: "Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities."
Empty
Then Customer Needs Clarification
=> Customer Needs Clarification
. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition/removal. Must convert the given raw HTML (with styles) into plain text content, then wrap appropriately. We need to extract the textual content, preserving it exactly as appears (including punctuation, spaces?). We must not add or remove content. So we need to output the same words, but with HTML tags for structure. We need to identify sections: The raw text includes many headings like
Responsibilities
, then subheadingsCustomer Service
etc. According to rules, we should use for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). So we need to convert those headings to . Also subheadings like Customer Service etc maybe also considered section headers? The instruction: Use for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). It doesn't forbid using for other headings, but likely we should treat all headings as . However we must preserve content word-for-word, so we need to keep the heading text exactly, just wrap in tags.
Also we need to convert list items: The raw has - ... etc. We should keep those as
- but remove any inline styles etc. Also there are some stray
tags with empty content,
, etc. We must remove those (since they are not part of content). But we must preserve all original content word-for-word: meaning we cannot remove any actual text content, but we can remove formatting tags like
, empty
, etc. The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". That refers to the textual content, not the markup. So we can strip away HTML tags and just output the text with new semantic tags.
Thus we need to extract the plain text from the given HTML, preserving spaces and line breaks? Probably we just output paragraphs as
for blocks of text.
Let's extract the textual content sequentially.
Given the raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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.
Responsibilities
Customer Service
Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems.
Solutions Analysis
Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
Receiving Visitors
Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Needs Clarification
Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Develop and implement a relationship management plan for potential customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
Operational Compliance
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Business Development
Monitor and assess sales and market data for a specific geographic region that will assist management in identifying areas in the market where business can be developed.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Develop a personal network within the business sector and represent the organization at business sector events. Obtain market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organization, its products, and its services.
Data Exploration
Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.
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.
What is a financial adviser?
Do you have what it takes to work for a leading financial services company? Then you may be what we are looking for. Whether you’re are a graduate or a experienced professional trying to elevate your career, Old Mutual has something to offer you.
What is required of you?
A accredited financial adviser provides pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within an allocated customer market.
You will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through building strong client relationships, and recommending sound advice that deliver financial solutions in line with the customer's financial goals, the customer value proposition and compliance frameworks.
The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams and accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.
What do we need from you?
- Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
- FAIS compliance
- RE5 an advantage
- A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
- A clear criminal and credit check
- A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
- Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Personal Qualities
- Interacting with People
- Embracing Change
- Articulating Information
- Meeting Timescales
- Interpreting Information
- Developing Strategies and Producing Output
- Pursuing Goals
- Ability to convince and influence
- Seizing Opportunitie
What we can do for you!
Assist you in reaching your career goals and dreams by helping you grow, develop and build on your future aspirations through quality training and support to reach your potential. We lead with our values, which is at the heart of the great things we do. We champion our customers and employees. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion for mutually positive futures throughout our business clusters – Old Mutual Finance, Retail Mass Market, Old Mutual Invest and Personal Finance. The Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
So what now ?
If you think you fit the bill, have a desire to join a respected financial services business and would like to set your own earnings potential. Apply Now! <……………………>
What is a financial adviser?
Skills
Building Trust, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Oral Communications, Probing Questions, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strategic Selling, Strengthening Customer Relationships
Competencies
Action OrientedBalances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCustomer FocusDrives ResultsEnsures Accountability
Education
NQF Level 5 - Higher, Advance or Occupational Certificate or equivalent
Closing Date
29 November 2026 , 23:59
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.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to output HTML with for paragraphs,
for section headers, - for lists.
We must preserve all text exactly. Let's extract the textual content in order, ignoring tags.
We'll go through and produce a sequence of blocks.
Start:
"Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" (note the HTML entity ' is apostrophe). We need to output the actual character? The original text includes ' which is an HTML entity for apostrophe. Preserving original content word-for-word means we should keep the entity as is? Usually "preserve ALL original content word-for-word" means we should not change the text, including entities. But the output is HTML, so we could keep the entity as is; it will render as apostrophe. Safer to keep the entity as is. However the instruction says return only HTML, no markdown. We can keep the entity.
Thus first paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then there are three empty
tags (ignore).
Then Job Description as a heading? According to rules, we should treat "Job Description" as a section header? It's not in the list but we can still use
. Probably yes.
Then empty paragraphs.
Then the sentence: "Provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts."
Then empty paragraphs.
Then Responsibilities
=> convert to Responsibilities
Then empty heading, ignore.
Then Customer Service
=> Customer Service
Then paragraph: "Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems."
Then empty
ignore.
Then Solutions Analysis
=> Solutions Analysis
Paragraph: "Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature."
Then empty
Then Receiving Visitors
=> Receiving Visitors
Paragraph: "Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues."
Empty
Then Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
=> Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Paragraph: "Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities."
Empty
Then Customer Needs Clarification
=> Customer Needs Clarification
for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). It doesn't forbid using for other headings, but likely we should treat all headings as . However we must preserve content word-for-word, so we need to keep the heading text exactly, just wrap in tags.
Also we need to convert list items: The raw has - ... etc. We should keep those as
- but remove any inline styles etc. Also there are some stray
tags with empty content,
, etc. We must remove those (since they are not part of content). But we must preserve all original content word-for-word: meaning we cannot remove any actual text content, but we can remove formatting tags like
, empty
, etc. The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". That refers to the textual content, not the markup. So we can strip away HTML tags and just output the text with new semantic tags.
Thus we need to extract the plain text from the given HTML, preserving spaces and line breaks? Probably we just output paragraphs as
for blocks of text.
Let's extract the textual content sequentially.
Given the raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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.
Responsibilities
Customer Service
Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems.
Solutions Analysis
Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
Receiving Visitors
Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Needs Clarification
Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Develop and implement a relationship management plan for potential customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
Operational Compliance
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Business Development
Monitor and assess sales and market data for a specific geographic region that will assist management in identifying areas in the market where business can be developed.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Develop a personal network within the business sector and represent the organization at business sector events. Obtain market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organization, its products, and its services.
Data Exploration
Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.
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.
What is a financial adviser?
Do you have what it takes to work for a leading financial services company? Then you may be what we are looking for. Whether you’re are a graduate or a experienced professional trying to elevate your career, Old Mutual has something to offer you.
What is required of you?
A accredited financial adviser provides pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within an allocated customer market.
You will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through building strong client relationships, and recommending sound advice that deliver financial solutions in line with the customer's financial goals, the customer value proposition and compliance frameworks.
The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams and accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.
What do we need from you?
- Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
- FAIS compliance
- RE5 an advantage
- A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
- A clear criminal and credit check
- A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
- Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Personal Qualities
- Interacting with People
- Embracing Change
- Articulating Information
- Meeting Timescales
- Interpreting Information
- Developing Strategies and Producing Output
- Pursuing Goals
- Ability to convince and influence
- Seizing Opportunitie
What we can do for you!
Assist you in reaching your career goals and dreams by helping you grow, develop and build on your future aspirations through quality training and support to reach your potential. We lead with our values, which is at the heart of the great things we do. We champion our customers and employees. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion for mutually positive futures throughout our business clusters – Old Mutual Finance, Retail Mass Market, Old Mutual Invest and Personal Finance. The Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
So what now ?
If you think you fit the bill, have a desire to join a respected financial services business and would like to set your own earnings potential. Apply Now! <……………………>
What is a financial adviser?
Skills
Building Trust, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Oral Communications, Probing Questions, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strategic Selling, Strengthening Customer Relationships
Competencies
Action OrientedBalances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCustomer FocusDrives ResultsEnsures Accountability
Education
NQF Level 5 - Higher, Advance or Occupational Certificate or equivalent
Closing Date
29 November 2026 , 23:59
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.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to output HTML with for paragraphs,
for section headers, - for lists.
We must preserve all text exactly. Let's extract the textual content in order, ignoring tags.
We'll go through and produce a sequence of blocks.
Start:
"Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" (note the HTML entity ' is apostrophe). We need to output the actual character? The original text includes ' which is an HTML entity for apostrophe. Preserving original content word-for-word means we should keep the entity as is? Usually "preserve ALL original content word-for-word" means we should not change the text, including entities. But the output is HTML, so we could keep the entity as is; it will render as apostrophe. Safer to keep the entity as is. However the instruction says return only HTML, no markdown. We can keep the entity.
Thus first paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then there are three empty
tags (ignore).
Then Job Description as a heading? According to rules, we should treat "Job Description" as a section header? It's not in the list but we can still use
. Probably yes.
Then empty paragraphs.
Then the sentence: "Provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts."
Then empty paragraphs.
Then Responsibilities
=> convert to Responsibilities
Then empty heading, ignore.
Then Customer Service
=> Customer Service
Then paragraph: "Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems."
Then empty
ignore.
Then Solutions Analysis
=> Solutions Analysis
Paragraph: "Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature."
Then empty
Then Receiving Visitors
=> Receiving Visitors
Paragraph: "Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues."
Empty
Then Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
=> Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Paragraph: "Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities."
Empty
Then Customer Needs Clarification
=> Customer Needs Clarification
. However we must preserve content word-for-word, so we need to keep the heading text exactly, just wrap in tags.
Also we need to convert list items: The raw has - ... etc. We should keep those as
- but remove any inline styles etc. Also there are some stray
tags with empty content,
, etc. We must remove those (since they are not part of content). But we must preserve all original content word-for-word: meaning we cannot remove any actual text content, but we can remove formatting tags like
, empty
, etc. The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". That refers to the textual content, not the markup. So we can strip away HTML tags and just output the text with new semantic tags.
Thus we need to extract the plain text from the given HTML, preserving spaces and line breaks? Probably we just output paragraphs as
for blocks of text.
Let's extract the textual content sequentially.
Given the raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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.
Responsibilities
Customer Service
Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems.
Solutions Analysis
Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
Receiving Visitors
Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Needs Clarification
Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Develop and implement a relationship management plan for potential customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
Operational Compliance
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Business Development
Monitor and assess sales and market data for a specific geographic region that will assist management in identifying areas in the market where business can be developed.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Develop a personal network within the business sector and represent the organization at business sector events. Obtain market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organization, its products, and its services.
Data Exploration
Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.
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.
What is a financial adviser?
Do you have what it takes to work for a leading financial services company? Then you may be what we are looking for. Whether you’re are a graduate or a experienced professional trying to elevate your career, Old Mutual has something to offer you.
What is required of you?
A accredited financial adviser provides pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within an allocated customer market.
You will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through building strong client relationships, and recommending sound advice that deliver financial solutions in line with the customer's financial goals, the customer value proposition and compliance frameworks.
The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams and accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.
What do we need from you?
- Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
- FAIS compliance
- RE5 an advantage
- A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
- A clear criminal and credit check
- A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
- Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Personal Qualities
- Interacting with People
- Embracing Change
- Articulating Information
- Meeting Timescales
- Interpreting Information
- Developing Strategies and Producing Output
- Pursuing Goals
- Ability to convince and influence
- Seizing Opportunitie
What we can do for you!
Assist you in reaching your career goals and dreams by helping you grow, develop and build on your future aspirations through quality training and support to reach your potential. We lead with our values, which is at the heart of the great things we do. We champion our customers and employees. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion for mutually positive futures throughout our business clusters – Old Mutual Finance, Retail Mass Market, Old Mutual Invest and Personal Finance. The Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
So what now ?
If you think you fit the bill, have a desire to join a respected financial services business and would like to set your own earnings potential. Apply Now! <……………………>
What is a financial adviser?
Skills
Building Trust, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Oral Communications, Probing Questions, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strategic Selling, Strengthening Customer Relationships
Competencies
Action OrientedBalances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCustomer FocusDrives ResultsEnsures Accountability
Education
NQF Level 5 - Higher, Advance or Occupational Certificate or equivalent
Closing Date
29 November 2026 , 23:59
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.
The Old Mutual Story!
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for section headers, - for lists.
We must preserve all text exactly. Let's extract the textual content in order, ignoring tags.
We'll go through and produce a sequence of blocks.
Start:
"Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" (note the HTML entity ' is apostrophe). We need to output the actual character? The original text includes ' which is an HTML entity for apostrophe. Preserving original content word-for-word means we should keep the entity as is? Usually "preserve ALL original content word-for-word" means we should not change the text, including entities. But the output is HTML, so we could keep the entity as is; it will render as apostrophe. Safer to keep the entity as is. However the instruction says return only HTML, no markdown. We can keep the entity.
Thus first paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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. Probably yes.
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Paragraph: "Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues."
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Then Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
=> Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Paragraph: "Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities."
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, empty, etc. The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". That refers to the textual content, not the markup. So we can strip away HTML tags and just output the text with new semantic tags. Thus we need to extract the plain text from the given HTML, preserving spaces and line breaks? Probably we just output paragraphs as
for blocks of text. Let's extract the textual content sequentially. Given the raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
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.Responsibilities
Customer Service
Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems.
Solutions Analysis
Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
Receiving Visitors
Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Needs Clarification
Set clear objectives for each sales call or meeting; tailor standard materials to make presentations to decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization; and ask relevant questions to gather information, to evaluate the customer's level of interest, and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Develop and implement a relationship management plan for potential customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organization and to enable effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues.
Operational Compliance
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Business Development
Monitor and assess sales and market data for a specific geographic region that will assist management in identifying areas in the market where business can be developed.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Develop a personal network within the business sector and represent the organization at business sector events. Obtain market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organization, its products, and its services.
Data Exploration
Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.
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.
What is a financial adviser?
Do you have what it takes to work for a leading financial services company? Then you may be what we are looking for. Whether you’re are a graduate or a experienced professional trying to elevate your career, Old Mutual has something to offer you.
What is required of you?
A accredited financial adviser provides pro-active, on demand financial service and advice to customers within an allocated customer market.
You will be accountable for maintaining superior service delivery to your customers, through building strong client relationships, and recommending sound advice that deliver financial solutions in line with the customer's financial goals, the customer value proposition and compliance frameworks.
The role calls for formal in-house training, the completion of the prescribed Regulatory exams and accreditation with the Financial Services Regulatory authority and requires continuous professional development.
What do we need from you?
- Grade 12 (Matric) certificate
- FAIS compliance
- RE5 an advantage
- A valid Driver’s licence and your own car
- A clear criminal and credit check
- A minimum of 3 years working experience (preferably in sales)
- Proven computer literacy (MS Office suite)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Personal Qualities
- Interacting with People
- Embracing Change
- Articulating Information
- Meeting Timescales
- Interpreting Information
- Developing Strategies and Producing Output
- Pursuing Goals
- Ability to convince and influence
- Seizing Opportunitie
What we can do for you!
Assist you in reaching your career goals and dreams by helping you grow, develop and build on your future aspirations through quality training and support to reach your potential. We lead with our values, which is at the heart of the great things we do. We champion our customers and employees. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion for mutually positive futures throughout our business clusters – Old Mutual Finance, Retail Mass Market, Old Mutual Invest and Personal Finance. The Group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
So what now ?
If you think you fit the bill, have a desire to join a respected financial services business and would like to set your own earnings potential. Apply Now! <……………………>
What is a financial adviser?
Skills
Building Trust, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Oral Communications, Probing Questions, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strategic Selling, Strengthening Customer RelationshipsCompetencies
Action OrientedBalances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCustomer FocusDrives ResultsEnsures AccountabilityEducation
NQF Level 5 - Higher, Advance or Occupational Certificate or equivalentClosing Date
29 November 2026 , 23:59The 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.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to output HTML withfor paragraphs,
for section headers,
- for lists.
We must preserve all text exactly. Let's extract the textual content in order, ignoring tags.
We'll go through and produce a sequence of blocks.
Start:
"Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" (note the HTML entity ' is apostrophe). We need to output the actual character? The original text includes ' which is an HTML entity for apostrophe. Preserving original content word-for-word means we should keep the entity as is? Usually "preserve ALL original content word-for-word" means we should not change the text, including entities. But the output is HTML, so we could keep the entity as is; it will render as apostrophe. Safer to keep the entity as is. However the instruction says return only HTML, no markdown. We can keep the entity.
Thus first paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then there are three empty
tags (ignore). Then Job Description as a heading? According to rules, we should treat "Job Description" as a section header? It's not in the list but we can still use
. Probably yes. Then empty paragraphs. Then the sentence: "Provides advice on a specific range of products to a specific allocated market and are individually accountable for achieving results through their own efforts." Then empty paragraphs. Then
ignore. ThenResponsibilities
=> convert toResponsibilities
Then empty heading, ignore. ThenCustomer Service
=>Customer Service
Then paragraph: "Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries, and investigating and resolving customer problems." Then emptySolutions Analysis
=>Solutions Analysis
Paragraph: "Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature." Then empty ThenReceiving Visitors
=>Receiving Visitors
Paragraph: "Receive visitors and assist with various requests for information, referring more complex matters to colleagues." Empty ThenCustomer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
=>Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Paragraph: "Schedule follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities." Empty ThenCustomer Needs Clarification
=>Customer Needs Clarification
- but remove any inline styles etc. Also there are some stray
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