Underwriting Analyst

**What will you do?**
- We have a position available for an Underwriting Analyst who will be based in Cape Town (Head Office) in our Santam Broker Solutions: Underwriting (Personal Lines) department.**What will make you successful in this role?**
- The purpose of the role is to support Personal Lines:
- Performance of POST Action analytical Data reviews.
- Manage the Client Screening system.
- Approval of Discount Mandates
- Performance analysis of data and identification of corrective actions.
- Engage with Actuarial to drive growth and improve profitability.
- Analyse and build statistical models for various sets of data on regular basis to assist in determining business trends.
- Assist with report and process automation.
- Pro-actively identifies phenomena to be tested and explored.
- Monitor results of all action plans implemented.
- Analytical support to internal divisions (Underwriting Services - SBS/SCS).
- Report writing and presentations.
- Manage data cleansing and data quality control.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Degree in Statistics or Quantitative Management is preferred.
- Strong analytical capability is a critical requirement.
- Advanced Computer Literacy (MS Office).
- Advance experience with reporting tools (Power BI, Qlik, Business Objects, Cognos)
- 5 to 10 years short term insurance experience will be an added advantage.

**Skills and knowledge**
- Developed programming skills (SQL, Python, SAS, or R)
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Experience working with relational databases
- Ability to quickly comprehend complex concepts and table structures
- Attention to detail
- Analytical orientation
- Systems thinking
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Good planning and decision-making skills
- A good team player - integrates and shares knowledge and skills
- Exceptional problem solving skills
- Strong ability to manipulate and interpret data
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Time management and focussed delivery of deadlines
- Displays keen insight and intuition
- Writing and reporting
- Takes initiative
- Understanding the principles of Risk Management

**Competencies**
- Client focus
- Collaborative
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Innovative
- Drive results
- Action orientated
- Analytical thinking
- Information seeking
- Data Analysis
- Data modelling
- 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.