Head of Actuarial

**Finance ~ Insurance**
**JHB North**
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**Head of Actuarial - Illovo Johannesburg**

**R1 300 000p/a - Permanent Vacancy**

**Role description**

The head of actuarial is responsible for all actuarial operations within the Company. This would include being responsible for the valuation of technical provisions, modelling related to risk requirements, technical rate reviews and financial and capital modelling related to risk management (including ORSA projections, reinsurance assessments and asset-liability modelling.) The head of actuarial is effectively responsible for the quantification of underwriting and other financial risks to which the Company is exposed. The Company will from time to time have to advise government on how to deal with special risks and this role would be expected to use its skills and expertise to formulate such advice.

**Key Performance Areas (Duties and responsibilities)**

**Operational Delivery**
- **_Execution of evaluation of technical provisions._**
- Lead team to perform quarterly and annual valuations on an IFRS and regulatory basis, signing off on the valuation, and producing a report in line with professional guidance notes of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
- Make recommendations on changes needed for reserving policies, processes, and procedures.
- Ensure appropriate documentation is kept for internal needs as well as those of external stakeholders (external auditors, actuarial control function and regulators.)
- **_Regulatory Capital Requirement Calculations._**
- Lead team to perform quarterly and annual calculations of the company’s minimum and solvency capital requirements as per the regulatory requirements.
- Ensure appropriate documentation is kept for internal needs as well as those of external stakeholders (external auditors, actuaries control function and regulators.)
- **_Economic Capital Requirement Calculations_**
- Lead team to perform quarterly and annual calculations of the company’s economic capital requirements.
- Maintain and enhance the Economic Capital Model as required to ensure that all the company’s material financial risks are adequately quantified.
- Ensure appropriate documentation is kept for internal needs as well as those of external stakeholders (external auditors, actuarial control function and regulators.)
- **_Reporting_**
- Assist the finance department with all regulatory reporting (quantitative and qualitative) on a quarterly and annual basis, including regulatory technical provisions and regulatory capital requirements.
- Perform monthly risk reporting on technical provisions, capital requirements, key risk indicators etc.
- **_Own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) process._**
- Support the risk management department to set the company’s risk strategy, risk preferences and risk appetite.
- In partnership with the underwriting department, evaluate alternative reinsurance structures on an annual basis to ensure that the company’s reinsurance programme is optimal from a solvency and profitability prospective.
- In partnership with the investment department, conduct an asset-liability matching exercise on an annual basis to ensure that the company’s investment strategy and strategic asset allocation is in line with the company’s risk strategy, risk appetite and liquidity needs and optimises capital requirements and investment returns.
- Assess the impact that the company’s strategy and corresponding financial projections will have on the company’s solvency over the business planning horizon (Risk Budget)
- Together with the risk department, conduct stress testing on an annual basis to evaluate scenarios that could have a material impact on the solvency of the company. This would include identifying scenarios, determining assumptions, and performing financial and capital projections.
- Coordinate the collation of the ORSA Report as well as upkeep of the ORSA record.
- **_Support underwriting department with technical pricing, product developments and product enhancements:_**
- Perform technical rates review on a regular basis/or as required by the underwriting department on existing products as well as prior to the launch of new products.
- Together with the risk department, assess the impact that new products/product enhancements will have on the solvency of the company
- Make recommendations to IT on improvements to data structures and collections from agents to improve pricing and reporting.
- **_Other:_**
- Support the integrated reporting cycle on an annual basis.
- Assist the claims department to review generic case estimates on an annual basis.
- Perform ad-hoc data and experience investigations as required by management.

**_Business Focused Collaboration_**
- Contribute to the successful achievement of the Companies vision, strategy, and business plan, by assisting with the resolution of problems that pose a threat to the company of not achieving its visions, strategy, and business plan.
- Responsible