Head Of Business Intelligence - Sandton at Sasria

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor degree (actuarial, data science, statistics, mathematics, econometrics).
• CERA qualification, or similar, will be advantageous.

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum of 3 to 6 years experience in a similar (risk or actuarial) position.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Operational Delivery

• Underwriting risk profile intelligence: Identify, track and report on the key risks affecting Sasria’s underwriting risk profile.
• Lead team and/or work with suitable industry experts such as consultants, academics, NGOs, international counterparts, etc) to perform research and analysis to identify economic, political, socio-economic, legal and other risk metrics.
• Maintain a database of events that may/do give rise to claims under Sasria’s defined perils. This includes working with other departments (such as underwriting and claims) as well as suitable external parties (eg SAPS, NGO’s, social media companies) to develop intelligence to identify and profile events.
• Catastrophe model: Develop, maintain and manage Sasria’s catastrophe model.
• Lead team and/or work with suitable industry experts (such as consultants, academics, NGOs, international counterparts, etc) to perform research and analysis (and/or work with suitable industry experts such as consultants, academics, NGOs, etc) to develop suitable catastrophe model(s), which can be used for pricing, reinsurance purchase and optimization, underwriting, strategy development, investment strategy, risk mitigation, etc.
• Probable Maximum Loss (PML) studies: Develop, maintain and manage Sasria’s PML studies.
• Lead team and/or work with suitable industry experts (such as consultants, academics, NGOs, international counterparts, etc) to perform PML studies for the purpose of Sasria’s reinsurance and capital optimization strategies.

Risk Mitigation

• Work with stakeholders in Sasria, including Underwriting, Claims and SMD, to identify “hot-spots” for Sasria’s underwriting risk exposure and to develop practical risk mitigation strategies to reduce the incidence of loss events and/or minimize severity from loss events.
• Examples include the identification of high-risk transit routes along the SA road network; locations within the country that consistently “flare up” following specified events (eg local government elections, university/school registration, etc).

Risk Analytics

• Assist the broader business with reports and analytics, as may be required from time to time.
• Examples may include the development of models to validate claims against a register of potential loss events, identification of multi claimants, fraud analytics, etc.

Data Collection and Management

• Work closely with IT and BCT to ensure that suitable technological and data management solutions are in place tom support Sasria’s current and future data and analytics needs.

2. Business focused collaboration

• Contribute to the successful achievement of Sasria’s vision, strategy and business plan, by assisting with the resolution of problems that pose a threat to the Company of not achieving its vision, strategy and business plan.
• Responsible for considering key risks and broad based solutions for a number of key projects / issues within Sasria.

3. Strategic Involvement

• Contribute to the creation the Sasria’s long term strategy and short term business plan.
• Shaping Sasria’s risk culture by ‘setting the tone from the top’ not only through words but actions and reinforcing commitment.

4. People Focus

• Managing own career by being accountable for one’s behavior, performance and development.
• Managing individual and team performance to achieve individual and organization goals and objectives.