Actuarial Expert: Shareholder & Insurance Risk Portfolio at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Old Mutual is a financial conglomerate with South Africa’s largest actuarial team. Actuaries continue to be a critical talent pool for us. In fact, we are one of the largest communities of actuaries in South Africa, and we continue to grow this capability across the African continent.
• This team is part of the Old Mutual Group Finance division, reporting directly to the Group Chief Financial Officer. The team operates and provides exposure across all the businesses in Old Mutual including the various jurisdictions.

You will support the Finance Actuary of Old Mutual’s Shareholder segment, whose responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Monitoring and reporting of insurance risk (life and non-life) to the Old Mutual Limited Board,
• Driving commercial management of insurance risk (life and non-life) across the group,
• Delivering on financial reporting for the shareholder portfolio,
• providing actuarial input into shareholder forecasts, business plans, and management reporting.
• The role is not static and will evolve as continue to expand the function, driving commercial insights, critical financial reporting, and the effective management of insurance risk across the financial conglomerate.

Key Result Areas

• Effective reporting of life insurance risk to the Board.
• Driving the delivery of life insurance risk management initiatives.
• Credible financial reporting and management reporting of the shareholder portfolio.
• Process improvements to enable effective business management of the shareholder portfolio.
• Delivering through effective stakeholder engagement.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• A qualified Actuary with extensive insurance experience.
• A broad understanding of the value chain and in-depth understanding of financial reporting analysis and insights.
• The enthusiasm to drive insights from results that influence the Group’s strategic direction and insurance risk management.
• Ability to derive appropriate strategies and a strong sense of ownership to drive strategies to completion.
• Ability to see and execute on process improvements.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
• Enthusiasm to expand the capability through cross-collaboration and supporting various teams.
• Responsible project, time, and self-management.
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal) to stakeholders from different business units with differing levels of actuarial exposure.
• Please note that the appointments may be made at a lower role size depending on the successful candidates’ experience. ​

Skills

• Business Management, Communication, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Insurance Risk Management, Management Reporting, Personal Initiative, Risk Management

Education

• Fellow Of Actuarial Society Of South Africa (FASSA)  (Required)