Actuarial Analyst at Old Mutual South Africa

• Develop, maintain and control pricing structures ensuring that key underwriting / financial metrics are achieved.
• Monitor trends and advise business accordingly .
• Involvement and understanding of different clients and their businesses.
• Develop business cases for new business ventures.
• Apply the control cycle for all actuarial work: collect & analyse, build models, implement, monitor, refine.
• Developing solutions for business challenges and initiatives.
• Develop strong working relationships with various stakeholders within Old Mutual Insure.

Job Requirements

• At least 6 actuarial exams
• At least 2 years’ actuarial experience. Experience in short-term insurance, Emblem, VBA and/or SAS would be an advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of data manipulation and statistical techniques.
• Strong problem-solving and technical skills and good communication skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter who is good at working independently but is also comfortable interacting with stakeholders.
• You need to have an interest in learning new things and exploiting alternative ways of completing tasks

Additional Details

• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the team to deliver required service levels.
• Actively participate in the team to ensure functional balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.
• Ensure achievement of own performance objectives.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas