Current Openings at Hollard Insurance

Job Advert Summary    

• Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in Hollard, offering a 12-month Learnership programme designed to empower unemployed, South African youth.

Program offerings:

• Interactive Learning environment
• Mentorship from industry experts
• Practical and theoretical training
• Obtain a nationally recognized Insurance qualification - NQF level 4 certificate

Required Knowledge and Experience    

Application Criteria:

• Be a South African Citizen, between the ages of 18 and 25
• Passed English - 60% or higher and one other language
• Passed Maths – 40%
• Passed Maths literacy 50% or higher
• Not currently studying
• Not registered for any Learnership program
• Currently unemployed
• Computer literacy is an advantag

Required Skills:

• Willingness and ability to learn
• Communicate fluently in English
• Listening Skills
• Integrity
• Stress tolerance
• Distractibility resistance

Educational Requirements    

• Completed Matric/Grade 12

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Job Advert Summary    
Job Purpose:

• A role has opened in the group actuarial team for a nearly or newly qualified actuary in the group actuarial team of Hollard. This team is responsible for consolidation of results within the Hollard group both from a statutory and management perspective, as well as involvement in running first line actuarial review committee’s within the Hollard group for both the life and Non-Life licenses. Additionally, this team helps with multiple adhoc projects within the group including involvement in M&A transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Completion and Review of the group SAM returns
• Assist building stronger financial reporting standards across the Hollard Group
• Find opportunities for capital relief and optimization across the Hollard Group
• Completion of consolidated group internal reporting
• For internal management reporting
• For Board reports
• Other adhoc reporting requirements.
• Completion of actuarial projects assigned for completion
• Support for the Short term and Life corporate actuarial teams when needed.
• Assistance running internal actuarial committees
• Capital Committee
• Life Liability Committee
• Short Term Liability Committee
• Running competitor analysis across the insurance industry
• Required Knowledge and Experience    

Required knowledge:

• Understanding of key actuarial concepts and principles applicable to life and short term insurance
• Understanding of the financial reporting/systems and reporting requirements applicable to life and short-term insurance companies
• Understanding of the reporting requirements of insurance groups
• 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

Required experience:

• A minimum of 3 years or relevant work experience
• Preferably have prior Life or Short-Term Insurance valuation or 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
• Experience managing stakeholder engagements

Educational Requirements    

• Nearly or newly qualified Actuary through a relevant actuarial body

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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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Job Advert Summary    

• Hello… an exciting new opportunity has just become available in Hollard Insurance, for an Executive Personal Assistant.

Role Objectives:

• Provide high-quality administrative and organizational support to the assigned Executive, ensuring efficiency in operations and a high level of customer satisfaction. This role requires a proactive approach, with strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Communication and Coordination

• Serve as the main point of contact between management and external/internal stakeholders.
• Screen and manage calls, handling or redirecting inquiries as appropriate.
• Address and track queries, requests, and complaints, ensuring timely referrals when needed.

Administrative Support

• Ensure all office supply needs are met for management.
• Maintain organized filing systems for both physical and digital documents.
• Manage and maintain calendars, confirming appointments with all relevant parties.

Meeting and Travel Arrangements

• Coordinate travel and accommodation plans, handling expense claims on the Fraxion system.
• Prepare meeting materials, such as briefing papers, reports, and presentations.
• Organize meeting logistics, including venue booking, catering, agendas, and minute-taking as needed.

Documentation and Confidentiality

• Draft, prepare, and distribute documents, reports, agendas, and minutes according to company standards.
• Handle all information and documents with the highest level of confidentiality.

Event and Presentation Support

• Arrange internal and external meetings, events, and team activities.
• Assist in presentation setups and provide support during workshops and meetings.

Customer Service and TCF (Treating Customers Fairly)

• Monitor and report on customer complaints to ensure resolution and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure all stakeholder / customer interactions reflect fairness and professionalism.

Professional Development

• Take ownership of career growth through regular discussions with relevant stakeholders

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• Minimum 5 years’ executive assistant experience or in a similar role
• Organizational and Prioritization Skills: Highly organized, adept at managing multiple tasks and prioritizing effectively to meet deadlines.
• Analytical Decision-Making: Skilled in systematically analysing information to make well-informed, effective decisions.
• Team Collaboration: Works cooperatively with others, sharing information and supporting team objectives to foster a collaborative environment.
• Client Orientation: Proactively identifies and addresses the needs of both internal and external clients with responsiveness and efficiency.
• Interpersonal Communication: Builds trust and positive relationships through transparent, honest communication with individuals and teams.
• Self-Management and Initiative: Demonstrates energy, motivation, and self-discipline to achieve both personal and team goals, maintaining high standards and overcoming challenges.
• Effective Communication: Communicates clearly and effectively in both written and verbal forms.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in MS Office suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook (especially diary management), and PowerPoint. Demonstrates excellent data accuracy and typing proficiency.
• Attention to Detail: Detail-oriented, ensuring precision in data entry and task completion.
• Professionalism: Presents a professional image that aligns with Hollard’s standards, embodying the “Hollard Way” and contributing visibly to Hollard's reputation as a leading business insurer.

Educational Requirements    

• Matric
• Diploma in Secretarial / General Business field
• Advanced in MS Office and relevant Software programmes

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Job Advert Summary    

• This role will be responsible for helping to form and express a central group view about regulatory changes across the Hollard Group. This involves:
• Providing a central point of contact with the financial services sector regulators (such as the Prudential Authority, Financial Sector Conduct Authority, National Credit Regulator, and Financial Intelligence Centre) to ensure timeous collation and submission of information with such regulators (e.g. maintaining regulatory returns and coordinating engagements with the regulators).
• Supporting the Senior Manager with identifying, escalating, and managing regulatory risk.
• Maintaining an understanding legislation affecting the Group in order to provide support and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support a working relationship with key internal stakeholders from the different Business units, Head of Control Functions and all central function to ensure you are able to identify who is required as part of the commenting process.
• Support the Senior Manager with engagements with the financial services sector regulators, namely, Information Regulator, BBBEE Commissioner, Competition Law Commissioner.
• In collaboration with the Senior Manager, prepare and maintain a formal communications plan to facilitate the scheduling of essential meetings and encouraging information sharing to maintain effective relationships with the authorities.
• Give input into established Hollard forums to communicate, share information, participate in engagements and provide commentary on regulations impacting the broader group as well as conduct and training as and when required.
• Collate data and provide trends, analysis and recommendations to mitigate market conduct risks to assist with driving a mature conduct discipline.
• Coordinate statutory engagements with the regulators inter alia:
• Ensure that requests and queries received from regulators are appropriately routed within Hollard and responded to consistently (considering previous submissions) and timeously;
• Collate, consider with the Senior Manager and then submit applications and reports to applicable regulators within the timelines;
• Co-ordinate onsite visits, thematic investigations and ad-hoc engagements between the regulators and Hollard;
• Assist the Senior Manager with ensuring business is prepared for the regulatory engagements and provide guidance, support, and management of any resulting mitigating actions.
• Monitor and analyse regulatory developments and advise on how the proposed changes will affect current and proposed business activities. In addition, advise on the impact of the company's strategy on the organisation's inherent regulatory risk;
• Coordinate Hollard’s review, input to and potential lobbying activity related to new or revised relevant legislation and regulation.
• Assist with drafting and presenting overviews for information sessions/ interventions.
• Maintain industry networks and occasionally represent the group in industrywide affiliations/ memberships in order to increase industry expertise and acquire insight into international regulatory agendas in order to benchmark Group actions and experiences.
• Assist with the annual review process, collation and sign off, of the Hollard Regulatory Universe across the different BUs.
• Managing and retaining records of changes and current state is paramount.
• Assist with adhoc overall Group Compliance responsibilities as and when required.
• Manage the administration function within the Regulatory Affairs and Compliance areas

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• 7 years’ relevant experience
• Financial services industry experience required, with previous experience in an insurance company highly advantageous
• Understanding of Twin Peaks model of financial sector regulation
• Previous FAIS licence and legal entity reporting desirable
• Excellent verbal and writing skills to prepare regulatory documentation and communication with internal stakeholders and regulators.
• Detailed understanding of the regulators’ approach to conduct risk management, product governance, corporate governance, assurance frameworks, organisational systems / controls and key customer interfaces and related issues across the industry
• Thorough understanding of Insurance and Financial services with the keen ability to have ‘bigger picture’ thinking
• Analytical Ability
• Attention to detail Business Acumen
• Proficient in power point and presentations
• Proficient in excel
• Stakeholder Engagement and management
• Project Management
• Risk Management

Educational Requirements    

• Admitted attorney with the required qualifications
• Post Graduate Diploma in Compliance (preferred)