Data Science Manager

6 months ago

Randburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

To implement the Analytics standards in allocated business units, that contribute to the monetisation of data through the

development and delivery of advanced mathematical models and business principles that find hidden patterns and associations in data used to influence business strategy, inform channel design and make predictions on the behaviour of clients.

Hello Future Data Scientist Manager

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talent team at FirstRand Short Term Insurance, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Are you someone who can:

- Develop the valuation basis for new product launches while driving / building on the profitability of existing products
- Drive the business successfully in the required direction while also supporting the long term vision
- Lead and grow the team
- Review the previously set valuation basis for launched products and setting new basis assumptions to calculate technical provisions for the purposes of financial reporting on a monthly basis and for financial year-end reporting as well as implementing reserve monitoring
- Drive the implementation and maintenance of the IFRS17 standard as well as providing technical support to finance and business on the actuarial assumptions underlying the model
- Be accountable for the capital requirements on a quarterly and annual basis as required by the Prudential Authority and hence submitted for regulatory purposes
- Undertake capital requirement projections to ensure annual capital planning for the entity in conjunction with the Balance Sheet Management function, this includes capital planning on when capital injections will be required throughout the financial year, as well as capital projections that form part of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment report
- Be accountable for the insurance group-wide capital requirements in-line with the regulatory requirements and submitting the returns on a semi-annual basis
- Project the actuarial sections of the financial budgets and re-forecasting on a monthly basis based on actuals to date and any revised expectations of future assumptions
- Monitor the liquidity position of FNB short-term and ensuring that liquidity needs of the company are met on a monthly basis as well as optimising cashflow to ensure that excess cash is deployed optimally for expense settlement while avoiding any early realisation of investment instruments
- Monitor reinsurance catastrophe exposures and implied capital requirements based on current reinsurance programmes
- Support of the product heads on actuarial matters related to product development and launches
- Manage direct reports and providing knowledge support, guidance and serving as first line of review
- Have experience in SAS / SQL/ResQ coding (or other actuarial reserving software)
- Have experience in Stakeholder management including the relevant internal committees as well as regulatory and auditor engagements, while also supporting group wide Projects
- Have 6+ years of experience
- Have a degree in Actuarial Science
- Are a fellow or associate member of ASSA

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging Working
- Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
- Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it

Job Details

Application Closing Date

05/04/24

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