Risk Manager: Santam Re

4 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Santam Full time

What will you do?

Enterprise Risk Management has a Reinsurance Risk Manager position available, based in the Santam Bellville office.

**The Risk Manager will support the Head**: ERM to monitor the overall risk profile of the Santam Re business, by enabling the identification of emerging risks in daily operation of the business. This will be achieved by providing oversight in the form of frameworks, policies, tools, and techniques to support appropriate risk management and control in the first line. Appropriate challenge is required to ensure that management has implemented the control framework appropriately, and that it operates effectively. This requires specific technical reinsurance and underwriting skills. What will make you successful in this role?

Assist Santam Re in embedding a risk management process to identify, mitigate, monitor, report and escalate key strategic and operational risks within the parameters of the Boards risk appetite.
Support the Head of ERM in monitoring Santam Re’s risk profile to ensure that key risks are managed, relevant action taken, and adequate controls have been implemented by management.
Overall coordination and aggregation of all key risks within Santam Re for Risk Committee reporting purposes to provide a summary and overview of Santam’s key risks.
Developing key risk indicators to pro-actively identify risks and/or to act as early warning signs of events that may occur or risks that are not managed within predefined thresholds.
Obtain a good understanding of the external and internal business environment, including strategic and operational goals in order to evaluate and identify any new and emerging risks
Obtain, aggregate, and analyze loss events occurring throughout the Santam Re business. Qualification and Experience

Business Commerce degree or equivalent.
Risk management qualification.
5 years ERM experience preferred (with solid reinsurance/ underwriting management experience). Skills

Proven track record in reinsurance and underwriting.
Advanced computer skills (Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint)
Strong presentation and facilitation skills
Excellent relationship-building skills at all levels of management
Analytical skills, numerical/statistical skills
Evaluation and data collection skills
Delivery/results orientated
Motivated self-starter
Good communication and English writing skills Knowledge

Operational loss management
Analytics
Reporting
Internal Control
Performing under pressure
Self-confidence and assertiveness to work independently in achieving desired results
Negotiating and influencing
Analysing and interpreting
Learning and researching
Oral and written communication
Problem solving
Maintain confidentiality
Good judgement
Strategic thinking
Data Collection Core Competencies Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others Customer focus - Contributing through others Drives results - Contributing through others Collaborates - Contributing through others Being resilient - Contributing through others About The Company

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. In achieving our employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.

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