Job Description

Actuarial Manager

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics or Data Science, with an Honours degree would be advantageous.
• Nearly or recently academically qualified actuaries
• 2 - 4 years worth of relevant work experience
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Outlook and SQL
• Advanced experience in Actuarial Modelling, Problem Solving, Data Analysis
• Ability to communicate technical complexity to a non-technical audience.
• An interest in Behavioural Science and analysing large datasets.
• Desire to teach and grow more junior members.
• Keen to pursue a career outside of a traditional actuarial environment whilst applying actuarial and statistical principles in a non-traditional way.

Responsibilities:

• Develop actuarial or statistical models to aid in strategic business decision-making.
• Prepare short-term and long-term financial projections used in setting the Company budgets, pricing new benefits, and calculating the Company embedded value.
• Monitor the emerging financial experience against budgets and stress testing the resilience of the Company business as part of the ORSA process.
• Model out the commercial implications of contracts in place with Company rewards partners, assisting executives with the optimization of existing contracts and the negotiation of new partnerships.
• Identify and understand key business and data trends, assess the impact, and identify possible courses of action to mitigate or capitalize on these opportunities.
• Conduct ad-hoc investigations and analyses including quantifying the financial and business impact of strategic projects, working with executives to craft and implement key strategic projects.
• Extracting and analysing large datasets to yield rich insights and communicating the results to a wide variety of stakeholders including the Company SA Executive Committee.
• Compilation of reports and presentations for the Company Exco, Company Board, Actuarial Committee, Company Board and Group Exco.
• Develop and leverage key working relationships with various stakeholders across the business to support the aims of the organization.
• Mentor, support and train junior analysts.