Junior Actuary

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together one story at a time.

  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary

Overall job purpose


To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of actuarial services, enabling the provision of sound commercial and financial expertise.

This role supports sound management of business performance and financial risk.

Job Description:

Key accountabilities

Perform complex actuarial production processes under limited supervision to support sound management of business performance and financial risk.

Processes may include:
Analytics and financial reporting to ensure accurate financial reporting and support management decision making:

  • Preparation and analysis of data as inputs to actuarial calculations such as reserving
  • Production of management information
  • Production of experience analyses as an input for basis setting / pricing exercises; setting of valuation and pricing bases
  • Production of actuarial exercises such as reserving, capital, and pricing
  • Production of analysis of earning, risk reporting, analytics and ORSA processes
Product development and management to enable business performance and drive customer value, including:

  • Production of competitor research; understanding of the landscape; and development of customer value propositions
  • Creating advanced product design, formulation of product specifications and implementing multiple major product enhancements
Running models to ensure accurate financial reporting and support management decision making at an advanced level:

  • For inputs to processes such as reserving, capital, pricing or business case modelling
  • Development of and maintenance of advanced spreadsheet models which may include planning and capital and risk modelling
  • Development of and maintenance of actuarial open platform software complex models
Coordination of a committee / forum to enable business and risk management execution and oversight for a sound control environment:

  • Understand and deliver requirements of internal stakeholders, within the same business unit
  • Understand and deliver requirements of internal stakeholders, not within the same business unit i.e. Risk, Group
People management responsibilities to support talent development and business resilience:
May have 1 to 2 junior direct reports.

Education

Bachelor's Degree:
Actuarial Science

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