Financial Risk Management Actuary
6 days ago
A position exists for a Financial Risk Management Actuary at Santam Head Office based in Cape Town. The successful candidate will be part of the financial risk management team responsible for capital modelling, reserving and ad hoc actuarial work.
The role of the Financial Risk Management function is ultimately to protect the value of the company for all stakeholders and ensure the sustainability of the company into the future.
The FRM function carry out activities needed to evaluate and provide advice to the insurer in respect of technical provisions, capital requirements, asset allocation, reinsurance arrangements and compliance with related regulatory requirements. In addition, the FRM function support other activities as needed on an ad hoc basis.
What will make you successful in this role?- Maintenance and development of Santam's internal model
- Performing regulatory capital requirement calculations
- Assisting with the management and allocation of capital
- Analysing reinsurance structures and prices
- Ad hoc actuarial analysis
- Nearly/Newly Qualified actuary
- 3 – 5 years' experience
- Short-term experience is valuable but not essential.
- Highly self-motivated individual
- Proactive
- Fast learner
- Independent thinker
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
- Customer focus - Contributing through others
- Drives results - Contributing through others
- Collaborates - Contributing through others
- Being resilient - Contributing through others
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We're about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.
At Santam, we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society.
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