Are you a curious, analytically minded graduate ready to launch your career in reinsurance and financial modelling? This is your opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a global organisation, working alongside seasoned professionals in a collaborative and fast-paced environment in Cape Town. Over 12 months, you'll build real skills, contribute to meaningful work, and grow your professional network across a dynamic cross-functional team.
About the Role
As part of the Life & Health (L&H) Client Markets team, you’ll support work related to pricing employee and retirement fund group life insurance benefits, while learning from experienced colleagues. This internship offers the opportunity to build your understanding of how data is transformed into actionable insights. You’ll work alongside the team, contributing to tasks under guidance while gaining practical experience in a collaborative reinsurance environment.
Key Responsibilities
About the Team
The Client Markets team is at the heart of Swiss Re's engagement with its reinsurance clients in South Africa. The team is responsible for delivering Swiss Re's reinsurance solutions, setting client strategy, and ensuring seamless communication across cross-functional account teams to bring that strategy to life. As an intern, you'll work directly alongside Client Managers who lead new business sales and pricing, while also collaborating with colleagues across actuarial, underwriting, claims, accounting, and finance — giving you a truly holistic view of the reinsurance business.
About You
You are a recently graduated, detail-oriented, and analytically strong individual who thrives in a team environment. You bring an open and constructive mindset, take ownership of your work, and are committed to delivering quality results. You are reliable, curious, and eager to learn — someone who can work independently while always keeping the broader team's goals in mind.
Required Skills and Experience
Additional Nice-to-Haves
This role is offered on the basis of an 12-month temporary contract, with an expected start date on 1st of September 2026. The gross monthly salary for this role is 9 000 ZAR full time.
Our interns have a hybrid work model where the expectation is that they will be in the office at least four days per week.
Preference will be given to Employment Equity candidates.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend.
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN.
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