Senior Actuary: Team Leader Cape Town

2 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

Our Client in the Financial sector is seeking a Senior Actuary: Team Leader to join they dynamic team :

Minimum Requirements:

  • Degree in Actuarial Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Qualified Actuary (FASSA/FIA/etc.).
  • Knowledge of actuarial modeling, product pricing, and statistical analysis techniques.
  • 3 - 5 years experience in a product owner/manager role.
Advantageous Experience
  • Risk Agility/Prophet.
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • VBA.
  • SQL.
Competencies Required
  • Passion to make a difference in the lives of people in the low to middle-income markets.
  • Ability to extract insights from data analyses.
  • High degree of self-motivation and ability to work independently.
  • Self-managing.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Naturally inquisitive mindset with a strong innovative tendency.
  • Ability to function in a multi-disciplinary team environment, including Marketing, Product & Solutions, IT, and Client Insights.

Responsibilities: 

INTERNAL PROCESS

  • Analyse product and client-related data from various sources to identify potential product experience irregularities, ensuring the accuracy of insights and analysis.
  • Analyse competitor products and international trends to provide insights for developing and maintaining competitive end-to-end solutions.
  • Review experience investigations, modeling, and data analysis to design and price solutions, and monitor experience on existing products.
  • Prepare product health reports and present product profitability and insights derived from analyses to support decision-making and inform appropriate actions.
  • Make recommendations and drive implementation to improve product performance, and client service, and promote fair treatment of clients.
  • Develop and maintain pricing models and bases, reviewing results and ensuring that parameters used are accurate and validated.
  • Identify solutions to enhance cost-effectiveness and increase operational efficiency of solutions.
  • Ensure compliance with practices and timelines by developing metrics to monitor delivery against set objectives.
CLIENT
  • Provide expertise and advice on technical/actuarial product matters to clients and stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders, such as solution peers, IT, sales/distribution, legal, servicing, and valuations.
  • Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic performance targets, monitor appropriateness, and recommend adjustments.
  • Deliver on service level agreements made with stakeholders to ensure that client expectations are managed.
  • Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within the area of responsibility.
  • Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.
PEOPLE
  • Participate and contribute to a culture that builds collaborative relationships, encourages innovation, facilitates feedback, and provides exceptional client service.
  • Demonstrate exemplary leadership behavior through personal involvement, commitment, and dedication in support of organizational values.
  • Select and recruit suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and MMI values.
  • Drive a culture that guides and directs best practices, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement, and cohesiveness.
  • Identify employee growth and development needs and enable their ongoing development, training, and personal growth.
  • Effectively manage performance within the team to ensure business objectives are achieved.
  • Ensure technical product and legislative knowledge are always current to propose the most relevant and innovative client solutions and comply with governance requirements.
  • Take ownership of driving career development.
  • Effectively manage time and ensure optimal productivity.
  • Be self-confident, self-motivated, and relentlessly pursue targets and goals.


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