Manager: Analysis Actuary at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• The experience investigations team is responsible for delivering business insights through retrospectively looking at claims and persistency experience.
• The team is also one of the few within the broader Sanlam Group to be a custodian of a Business Intelligence (BI) asset. The vision for the team is to fully digitalise our processes, and also to further enable consumption of new age statistical/actuarial techniques to add business value.

Output/Core Tasks:

• Manage, own and enhance the Experience Investigation reporting process within SRS/Glacier Actuarial to deliver valuable insights for the businesses that we serve
• Collaborate to define, create and realise the ideal operating model for actuarial experience investigations in the context of a new business intelligence (BI) platform
• Liaise and engage with stakeholders from Sanlam Group BI to ensure the efficient running of the experience investigations operation model
• Ensure the Experience Investigation operating model delivers business value
• Maintenance of the Experience Investigation model
• Automation and optimisation of legacy processes
• Assist with ad-hoc actuarial analyses on special projects
• Collaborate in the wider SLS teams working on special projects
• Regular engagement with senior management on the performance of the business
• Deliver analytical-, business- or projection models as required from special projects
• Research data science/statistical techniques and their application in an actuarial context

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications:

• Qualified or nearly qualified actuary (FASSA)
• 3-4 years in the life insurance industry

Experience and skills:

• Experience / knowledge of Sanlam’s life insurance products will be an advantage
• Leadership and managerial qualities
• Python, R, SQL experience or knowledge of advanced analytics
• Keen interest in advanced predictive modelling capabilities
• Comfortable building and implementing statistical forecasting models
• The combination of actuarial and data science experience will be an advantage
• Comfort working with and interrogating big data sets
• Strong operational process focus
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, take initiative and meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking
• Good MS Office skills (Word, Excel)
• Knowledge seeking/learning orientation

Closing date: 20 September 2025