Alm System Senior Specialist

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Group Finance Full time

Introduction

  • Through our clientfacing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.
We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organizations care for and reward their employees and members.

Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilizing new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.


Role PurposeRequirements**:

  • Minimum 2 years work experience, with preference for 37 years.
  • Expertise in Python, or other similar languages, and a passion for finding automated programmable solutions to highly complex actuarial, quantitative finance and ALM problems.
  • Experience in cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and database structures (e.g. SQL Server) would be advantageous.
  • An understanding of quantitative finance, including asset pricing models adopted in the valuation of financial derivatives would be advantageous.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Functional development and maintenance of the group's inhouse ALM System, hosted on AWS. The ALM System spans daily market data feeds, internal fund prices, yield curve bootstrapping, stochastic asset return modelling, liability cash flow modelling, proxy liability modelling, hedging benchmark specification, performance attribution and dashboard reporting implemented within a fully automated productionstate process and control environment.
  • Business level coownership, in close collaboration with Group IT, of cloud platform architecture maintenance (on AWS), Python version controlling, database utilisation, hardware (incl GPU) selection optimisation, process pipeline management, backup management, Disaster Recovery, security protocols, cost monitoring.
  • Contribute towards a range of functional deliverables of the ALM function, such as the daily Dynamic Hedging process, integrated Risk Appetite modelling, Liability Driven Investment mandate optimisation, ALM risk adjusted performance monitoring, real world and risk neutral ESG calibrations, nonhedgeable risk pricing, market risk transfer processes, product design support to segments, and executive stakeholder reporting.
  • Engage with segments to understand economic and accounting liabilities and their market risk features and translate them to ALM needs.
  • Drive and support effective teamwork within the department.
  • Engage in appropriate training interventions to promote own professional development.
  • Ensure to demonstrate the company's values on a daily basis.

Competencies

  • An attention to detail and a dedication to technical excellence.
  • Drive for results.
  • Able to manage stress, pressure and competing demands.
  • Strong desire to add value and make a difference.
  • Selfstarter can run independently with complex projects.

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