Special Project Actuary

2 weeks ago


Parktown, South Africa Hollard Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
Reporting directly into the Group Actuary, the role will be required to work on, provide direction and lead parts of business critical and strategic projects. The role supports and enhances BaU processes. It provides direct support to the Group Actuary and Group CFO to deliver on strategic priorities as and when these arise.

They will need to be able to direct multi-disciplinary teams in execution of tasks. They will also be responsible for co-ordinating, setting the agenda and ensuring the correct coverage at the Life Liability Committee and Short-Term Liability committee (governance forums between the board and management).

**Key Responsibilities**

Through leadership driving delivery in all Corporate Actuarial functions of the business which includes solvency and capital, ORSA scenarios and projections, reinsurance, regulatory reporting, reserving, EV and VNB calculations, budgeting, risk and capital management.

**Support to the BaU function**
- Assist with quarter end triangle reviews
- Assist with automation of data source reconciliations and data controls
- Work on ad hoc projects including
- Process optimisation
- Process automation
- Capital optimisation
- Control enhancements
- Reporting enhancements

**Support to Group Actuary and Group CFO**
- Support the Group Actuary with co-ordinating the various forums
- Assist with M&A’s and adhoc investigations
- Assist the Group CFO with insights required into the various businesses that cannot be obtained through BaU processes

**Special Projects**
- Assist with IFRS17 BaU embedment as well as refinement of reporting process
- Be part of the Ledger transformation project and drive to completion
- Assist with IRM implementation

**Oversee and accountable for Regulatory Requirements**
- Provide input into solvency reporting to the prudential authority
- Manage the transition to IFRS17
- Operate as key stakeholder of the Head of Corporate Actuarial Function
- Engage with Hollard HAF

**Business Insights and Enablement**
- Provide Exco and senior management with management information and business insights
- Provide guidance to business on management actions required to enhance profitability and achievement of new business profitability and ROC targets
- Advise business on financial aspects of new ventures and potential transactions
- Ad hoc work including but not limited to M&A support, capital management and insights into drivers of business performance over the medium to long-term period
- Ensure the appropriateness and robustness of financial performance measures and closely reflect the driver of value generation in the business
- Produce competitor comparisons highlighting drivers for performance at other insurers

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Must have prior Life Insurance valuation experience and/or Short-term reserving and capital experience
- Preferably been involved with IFRS17 implementations
- Must have a successful track record of having worked on special projects and in multi-disciplinary teams
- Must have previous experience presenting to governance forums and/or board (sub)committees

**Educational Requirements**:
FASSA (or international equivalent, preferably with exposure to both Life and Non-Life).

**All Hollard appointments are made in line with our DEI policy.**
- Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating and enabling a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of care, dignity and inclusion.?We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including, but not limited to disability, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language and social origin, gender diversity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity). These grounds enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone._
- We proudly promote the “Hollard Way we work,” which is a combination hybrid work environment at this time.? We offer flexibility in our work as far as possible, dependent on the nature of the role. Even if you don’t meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply_



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