Actuarial Specialist at Hollard Insurance

• We’re looking for an Actuarial Specialist (Pricing) to help shape how we price, monitor, and evolve our products. You’ll bring technical depth, commercial thinking, and a proactive mindset to a team that values precision, innovation, and impact.  

Role Objectives:

• This role sits within the Hollard Insure Personal Lines Pricing team and is responsible for supporting the delivery of pricing, product development, and portfolio management across various insurance products.
• The Actuarial Specialist (Pricing) plays a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics, pricing model development, and actionable insights. The role combines technical actuarial expertise with commercial awareness to ensure sustainable growth and profitability across portfolios. What you’ll do

Reporting and Monitoring

• Own and enhance reporting processes across the pricing environment.
• Deliver management information, dashboards, and insights to support decision-making. Monitor product performance and identify trends impacting profitability.
• Data Management & Analytics Extract, clean, and process data from multiple systems for actuarial analysis. Ensure data quality, integrity, and alignment with business requirements.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques and explore innovative approaches such as AI, large language models (LLMs), and other emerging methodologies to develop effective and scalable solutions.

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.

Stakeholder Engagement and People

• Establish, manage, and maintain relationships with all relevant stakeholders (Distribution, Underwriting, IT, Product Development, Data, Reinsurance, etc.) for ongoing pricing support and product/portfolio changes.
• Communicate findings and recommendations effectively to non-technical stakeholders, including in-person broker visits to discuss portfolio performance and provide actuarial guidance.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What you’ll bring

• What you’ll bring 3–6 years’ experience in short-term insurance pricing.
• Experience with pricing or rating platforms (e.g. Radar, Earnix).
• Proficiency in tools such as SAS, SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar.
• Experience in data management, modelling, and pricing analytics.
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to translate insights into business actions.

Leadership Expectations

• Demonstrates strong commercial awareness in pricing decisions.
• Applies analytical rigor and attention to detail in all outputs.
• Collaborates effectively across teams to deliver results.
• Communicates complex insights clearly and confidently.
• Embraces innovation and continuous improvement in methodologies Personal Attributes Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy and quality.
• Curious and forward-thinking with an interest in emerging analytics techniques.
• Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic environment. Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities.
• Team-oriented with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively

Educational Requirements    
Qualifications (nice to have, valued to bring)

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

Deadline:28th May,2026