Product Specialist

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa Momentum Corporate Full time

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

**Role Purpose**

**Requirements**:

- Actuarial Science degree prefered or relevant qualification.
Advanced knowledge of SQL and VBA will be advantageous.
- Good knowledge of discretionary participation business as well as structured and/or guaranteed investments.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Ongoing management of corporate discretionary participation business, including but not limited to the oversight, evaluation and projection of assets and liabilities;
- Identifying improvements to the discretionary participation book or the management thereof, including obtaining approval for the changes from the various governance forums;
- Management of corporate structured and/or guaranteed investments including conducting the necessary quantitative analysis, solution research, stakeholder engagement and compiling marketing content;
- Reviewing and proposing changes to discretionary participation business management actions;
- Recommendation of bonus rates (vested, non-vested where applicable) for discretionary participation business;
- Reviewing and updating of the bonus philosophy which may require creating new bonus smoothing formulae;
- Building, updating or reviewing appropriate models in order to quantify financial impacts appropriately, including repricing and ongoing profitability monitoring;
- Reviewing and proposing changes to the segment Principles and Practices of Financial Management (PPFM);
- Managing the implementation of statutory and contractual requirements for corporate discretionary participation business;
- Mitigating financial, legal, reputational and other pertinent corporate discretionary participation business risks by ensuring administration systems are continuously rigorously tested for adherence to contractual obligations;
- Mitigating operational risks by adding a layer of governance to manual processes inherent within corporate discretionary participation business;
- Reviewing legal documentation (for example, client contracts, counterparty agreements, etc.);
- Actuarial, compliance and performance reporting for corporate discretionary participation business;
- Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with various internal and external stakeholders and assisting them in analysing, supplying and translating information on corporate discretionary participation business;
- Driving projects to completion within stipulated timelines; and
- Undertaking ad-hoc actuarial tasks including the resolution of technical queries.

**Competencies**
- Ability to work accurately under pressure.
- High attention to detail and quality orientation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to work in a team as well as independently.

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