Manager: Product Development

3 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Watershed Consulting Full time

**Job Description**:
**Manager: Product Development & Actuarial Support**

**Manage and oversee optimal system accuracy and performance from a values and functionality perspective**
- Guide IT team on programs used to administer business
- Implement and test automation of system programs for correctness and conduct audits on the administration system
- Assist with automation and integration of other divisions on the administration system
- Provide accurate and easily accessible information for optimal client servicing

**Contribute to Product Development**
- Research product feasibility from an administration system perspective
- Check compatibility with business ethics
- Contribute to in-house pricing of individual and group products
- Research of new market developments and generation of product ideas.
- Compare pricing & design of products with competitors
- Examine the terms & conditions of master policies
- Test quotation packages for new products (and product reviews)

**Manage reinsurance treaties**
- Research risk rates and reinsurance terms available in the market
- Monitor treaty monthly and recommend changes
- Manage and oversee that data and information are provided to reinsurers for special projects
- Manage and oversee reinsurance data and premiums are compiled and submitted to reinsurers on a monthly basis
- Manage profit-share payouts from reinsurers
- Maintain relationship with current and potential future reinsurers

**Management of actuarial valuation data**
- Monitor the correctness of actuarial valuation data
- Assist IT in the preparation of systems that generate actuarial valuation data
- Interpret actuarial report
- Discuss with management (actuarial committee)
- Manage the implementation of Valuation Report recommendations

**Provide professional input & support to the Group (amendments & general advice)**
- Provide input on client queries of a technical nature that was escalated by staff members
- Provide input on and monitor ombudsman queries of a technical nature
- Manage and oversee amendments to policies where actuarial support is required
- Manage values and product related queries from other departments (letters to be written, values queries and tax directive management

**Manage and oversee the updating of financial transactions**
- Manage and maintain the implementation of investment portfolio returns on the administration system
- Manage and oversee rebalancing reporting of the assets held against unit accounts
- Manage and oversee reporting to Investments Department
- Monitoring of in-force business

**Monitor and analyse in-force data**
- Manage, oversee and provide input on experience analyses of in-force business (e.g. to confirm lapse assumptions, mortality/morbidity assumptions, etc.)

**Manage the administration of the retail pension funds**
- Manage and ensure the annual contribution certificates are completed for mailing to clients
- Manage the correctness and submission of tax directives to SARS on claims
- Manage and oversee the compilation and submission of documents and monitoring of Section 14 transfers
- Oversee the submission of SARS, SARB and other regulatory reports and compilation of the report for the quarterly Trustee Meetings
- Oversee that Finance are assisted with fund financial statements and assist Fund Valuator with fund valuations

**Requirements / Formal Education**
- B Degree Actuarial Sciences
- Passed CT 1- 9

**Experience**
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in long term insurance

**Skills**:
Acturial, Product Development

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