Lead Specialist: Actuarial

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Moving Heads Personnel Full time

Focuses on investment products (including unitised products, annuities, and the umbrella offering).
- Own the life actuarial valuations in respect of the investment products sold, including both unit-linked and annuity products.
- This will include performing financial and statutory reserving, experience investigations, assumption setting, sensitivity testing, and analyses of surplus.
- Present insights to senior management and drive conversations across the business to enable delivery of the business strategy.
- Partner with various stakeholders to develop solutions that add business value, with a key focus on the umbrella business.
- Own the experience investigations and assumption setting framework, with support from and analyses performed by the various product owners.
- Streamline and strengthen the various processes run, including the actuarial valuation and assumption-setting frameworks.
- A particular focus on bedding down the processes built for IFRS17 is required in the near-term.
- Assist in enhancing the level of governance and control within Actuarial - Corporate.
- Manage a small team, with accountability to drive and deliver the required business outcomes through the team.
- Determine resource allocation priorities and deployment necessary to support the effective integration of processes.
- Keep abreast of changes and new legislation and developments within industries that may affect area of specialisation.
- Coordinate research and make recommendations to products based on market needs, product performance and competitor analysis, increasing profitability.
- Accountable for contributing to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
- Draw on own technical and/or professional knowledge and experience to proactively develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
- Plan to deliver work outputs related to a service or operational area, manages interdependent functional activities, and directs best-practice priorities, standards, and procedures to ensure efficiency within area of specialisation.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.
- Implement and monitor financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance throughout the area of specialisation.
- Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation, and associated with area of specialisation.
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice and/or tactical area to identify and manage risk exposure liability related to the area of specialisation.
- Qualified actuary
- Min 5 years' work experience in life insurance.
- Min 5-8 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 2-3 years at specialist level
- Experience in financial analysis and interpretation, knowledge of the relevant legislation, regulations, and professional guidance of the Actuarial Society, would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of Prophet and SQL would be an advantage

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Johannesburg North, Gauteng: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

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