Quantitative Risk Specialist at PwC South Africa

Job Description Summary

• A career within Actuarial Services, will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, banks, regulators, and third party administrators. You’ll provide advice covering solvency, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and risk control, financial modelling, underwriting, new legislation, and the efficiency of claims or reporting processes. Simply put, you might help analyse the impact that new regulation will have on an insurance company’s balance sheet or you could be revising businesses’ projections and making sure they have adequate reserves.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
• Be involved in the financial management of clients
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
• Train, coach, and supervise staff
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
• Developing and maintaining client relationships
• Management of audit support engagements
• Managing and forming part of quantitative risk project teams
• Researching and staying up to date with financial service related regulations
• Development of risk IP such as cashflow projection models

Preferred skills:

• Knowledge of financial services environment including credit risk, advanced analytics or insurance risk. ​Ability to program. Ideally in SAS, Matlab, R, Python or VBA

Minimum years experience required:

• 4 to 10 years in financial services environment
• Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required: Certifications