Actuarial Analyst at Hollard Insurance

Job Purpose

• To support the Hollard Insure Personal Lines (PL) Pricing team in servicing the various product portfolios through data management and analytics, pricing, product development, portfolio monitoring, and technical assistance. 

Key Responsibilities

Reporting and Monitoring

• Own and optimise reporting and monitoring workflows within the end-to-end pricing environment.
• Produce management information reports and dashboards.
• Analyse trends and provide actionable insights to guide business decisions.
• Ensure timely and accurate product monitoring and reporting.

Data Management, Quality and Financial Reconciliation

• Collaborate with all business partners to ensure data requirements of PL pricing team are met.
• Define and uphold data quality, lineage, and metadata standards.
• Extracting, cleaning, processing, and reconciling data from various data systems and providing the data in a suitable format for PL actuarial calculations.
• Apply forward-thinking and innovative approaches to data challenges, leveraging advanced techniques such as artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), and other emerging methodologies to develop effective and scalable solutions.

Pricing and Product Development

• Design, implement, and oversee tailored, advanced pricing models using a range of statistical approaches tailored to the segment and data availability. Techniques include simple burning cost methods, frequency–severity models, original loss curves, multivariate approaches such as GLMs and machine learning algorithms.
• Conduct ongoing review and monitoring of product pricing.
• Perform impact analysis of new rates to support stakeholder decision-making and change management.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
Required Skills and experience

• 3-6 years’ relevant experience in short-term insurance pricing
• Experience with rating platforms (e.g. Radar, Earnix)
• Experience in one or all of SAS, SQL, Python, PowerBI and MS Fabrics
• Experience building and maintaining data ingestion layers, with a focus on data quality, lineage, and integration of relevant datasets
• Track record in designing, pricing, and monitoring insurance products, including renewal pricing, experience monitoring, and impact analysis.
• Proficiency in generalised linear models, machine learning techniques, and advanced analytics for insurance pricing is advantageous.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates strategic and commercial acumen by designing and executing pricing strategies that drive segment profitability and growth.
• Builds, validates, and deploys advanced actuarial models and data-driven solutions with precision and rigor.
• Collaborative problem-solving. Actively engages with colleagues and stakeholders across Hollard to scope, refine, and implement effective solutions
• Anticipates data and pricing challenges with a forward-thinking mindset, leveraging emerging methodologies to drive ongoing enhancement.
• Communicates complex analytics clearly, translating data insights into compelling business narratives that secure buy-in from diverse audiences
• Thrives in dynamic environments, demonstrating flexibility, perseverance, and a strong team orientation
• Maintains high standards of precision in technical work, ensuring reliability and credibility of outputs.

Educational Requirements    
Required Qualifications

• Matric/Senior Certificate
• Degree and have passed 9 -12 subjects

Deadline:3rd May,2026