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  • Posted: Jan 27, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Senior Manager: Actuarial Models And Ecosystem Automation

    Job Advert Summary    

    • Reporting directly into the Head: Long-term Corporate Actuarial, the role will be required to work on, provide direction and lead parts of business critical and strategic projects, including the finance and actuarial transformation project, actuarial model development and the wider actuarial ecosystem automation across the Valuation and Capital functional areas. The role supports and enhances BaU processes. It provides direct support to the Life Corporate Actuary and his direct reporting managers within his team on strategic priorities as and when these arise. 

    Key Responsibilities

    Support to the BaU function

    • Assist with BaU activity in the Life Corporate Actuarial across the Valuation and Capital functional areas.
    • Manage automation of data source reconciliations and data controls
    • Manage the actuarial model development and optimisation initiatives
    • Manage the end-to-end actuarial ecosystem from data to models to results production and SQL database results management.
    • Driving efficiencies in actuarial models through model automation, development and streamlining.
    • Ensure there is a streamlined results production capability in order for the valuation and capital teams to utilise standard run structures and result templates from SQL to facilitate their results insights capabilities.
    • Work on ad hoc projects including
    • Process optimisation
    • Process automation
    • Capital optimisation
    • Control enhancements
    • Reporting enhancements
    • Profitability drivers and value measurement
    • Support to Life Corporate Actuary and his direct reporting managers
    • Assist with insights required into the various businesses that cannot be obtained through BaU processes
    • Assist with IFRS17 BaU embedment as well as refinement of reporting process
    • Be part of the Ledger transformation project and drive to completion

    Business Insights and Enablement

    • Assist the Head of Corporate Actuarial to provide Exco and senior management with management information and business insights
    • Assist in embedding the alternative reporting metrics workstreams into the Business Units
    • Required Knowledge and Experience    

    Experience

    • A minimum of 5-6 years relevant actuarial experience
    • Preferably have prior Life Insurance valuation and capital experience
    • Preferably been exposed to coding of actuarial models including being familiar with Microsoft Excel/VBA, SQL and/or other open-source coding languages e.g. Python
    • Must have a successful track record of having worked on projects and adhoc tasks

    Knowledge and Skills

    • Good Understanding of the different life insurance valuation methodologies (e.g. published, statutory, etc.) and reporting requirements applicable to life insurance companies
    • Growing understanding of key actuarial concepts and principles applicable to life insurance
    • Understanding of the financial reporting/systems and reporting requirements applicable to life insurance companies
    • SQL experience will be an advantage
    • Strong technical, analytical and communication skills
    • Ability to take ownership of their tasks
    • Ability to work independently and accurately
    • Excellent interpersonal communication skills
    • Analytical thinking skills
    • Strategic thinking skills

    Educational Requirements    

    • Meet all the subject requirements for FASSA (or international equivalent)

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