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Job Advert Summary    

• Hello… an exciting new opportunity has become available in our Hollard Life Solutions Division. We are looking to recruit a Regional Sales Manager.

Why This Role Matters:

• This role plays a critical part in delivering Hollard's "win-win-win" philosophy by creating value for clients, advisers, employees, and shareholders.
• The Regional Manager drives sustainable business growth, develops high-performing teams, builds strategic market relationships, and ensures the region operates efficiently, profitably, and compliantly.

What You Will Do:

• Onboarding new productive Brokers and Partnerships.
• Maintaining and building relationships with supporting and potential supporters.
• Supporting and driving projects and campaigns.
• Submitting innovative ideas to reduce medical and other costs.
• Managing operational expenses to reduce wastage and to increase productivity.
• Escalating relevant complaints and constraints to relevant internal partners.
• Coaching, mentoring and teaching staff to enable each team member to perform at their optimal ability.
• Recognizing and rewarding achievements.
• Encouraging and create opportunities to enhance creativity and innovation.
• Having open brutal honest discussions in the team to ensure effective root cause problem solving and to ensure learning and personal development and growth that will enhances overall team effectiveness.
• Managing and monitoring sales activities on a daily basis to obtain a consistency that will enable sustainable performance above expected targets. This includes pipeline management to ensure sufficient sales stock. This also includes monitoring of final offer implementation to enhance the business conversion ratio.
• Monitoring consultant adviser panel activities to ensure that we partner with advisers who are willing to support us on a consistent basis.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What You Will Bring:

• Minimum 7 years' experience in the insurance industry, including at least 5 years in sales leadership, management, or mentoring roles. 
• Strong sales, relationship management, communication, planning, and problem-solving abilities. 
• Proven ability to lead teams, develop talent, and drive performance.
• Commercial acumen with a focus on business growth, client service, and operational effectiveness.
• A results-driven, proactive, and relationship-focused approach, aligned with Hollard's values and culture.

Educational Requirements    

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Business Management, or a related field
• Regulatory Examination (RE) qualification

Deadline:12th November,2026

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• At Hollard, we believe that great businesses are built on strong relationships, operational excellence, and talented people who take pride in delivering exceptional service. We're looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Credit Controller to join our Personal & Commercial Lines team.
• This is more than a credit control role. It is an opportunity to work at the heart of our business, partnering with brokers, intermediaries, and internal stakeholders to ensure healthy premium collections, accurate account management, and a seamless customer experience.
• If you enjoy problem-solving, building relationships, working with numbers, and making a real impact on business performance, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• As our Credit Controller, you will play a key role in maintaining the financial health of our broker portfolio while ensuring excellent service delivery and operational efficiency.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the collection of outstanding premiums and maintaining healthy debtor accounts.
• Reconciling and allocating premiums received from brokers and intermediaries within agreed timelines.
• Dispatching premium statements, commission statements, and EFT advices promptly and accurately.
• Managing unpaid debit orders, unallocated cash, and account discrepancies.
• Conducting age analysis and bank reconciliations to support sound financial controls.
• Investigating and resolving exceptions arising from automated bordereaux uploads.
• Producing accurate monthly reporting and supporting national credit control initiatives.
• Building strong relationships with brokers and internal stakeholders to resolve queries efficiently.
• Identifying process improvements that enhance operational effectiveness and customer satisfaction.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What makes you a great fit?

• We're looking for someone who combines financial accuracy with strong relationship management skills.

Skills that will help you succeed

You are someone who:

• Has exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Takes ownership and follows through on commitments.
• Communicates professionally and confidently.
• Builds trusted relationships with brokers and colleagues.
• Enjoys investigating discrepancies and resolving complex queries.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can effectively prioritise competing demands.
• Embraces change and continuously looks for opportunities to learn and improve.

Educational Requirements    
Minimum requirements

• Grade 12 (Matric).
• 3-4 years' experience in insurance credit control.
• Sound understanding of credit control principles and basic bookkeeping.
• Knowledge of commercial short-term insurance environments.
• Strong reconciliation and account management experience.

Advantageous qualifications & experience

• NQF 4 or NQF 5 qualification in Short-Term Insurance.
• Exposure to commercial underwriting administration or claims processes.
• Knowledge of insurance legislation and industry terminology.
• Experience working with insurance finance systems and advanced Excel functions.

Deadline:1st November,2026

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• We're looking for a Business Development Manager: Construction & Engineering who understands that.
• Reporting to the Senior Business Development Manager, this role is responsible for growing and managing a Construction & Engineering portfolio across an assigned broker network in Durban. You'll play a critical role in attracting and retaining quality business, strengthening broker partnerships, driving sustainable premium growth, and ensuring underwriting profitability while maintaining strong governance and compliance standards.

What you'll be trusted to own
This is more than a business development role.

• It's about balancing growth, profitability, underwriting discipline, broker engagement, and risk management to deliver long-term portfolio success.

You'll:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with assigned brokers through a structured visitation and engagement programme.
• Identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities aligned to underwriting appetite and profitability objectives.
• Present Construction & Engineering products, propositions, and technical updates to brokers and stakeholders.
• Represent the business at broker engagements, industry events, and networking opportunities.
• Deliver Gross Written Premium (GWP), new business, retention, and portfolio growth targets.
• Monitor portfolio profitability, loss ratios, production trends, and growth performance, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Conduct renewal reviews and engage brokers on actions required to retain profitable business.
• Underwrite and assess Construction & Engineering risks using qualitative and quantitative risk information.
• Provide quotations and recommend appropriate rates, terms, conditions, and cover structures within delegated authority.
• Escalate complex technical underwriting matters and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Coordinate and support risk surveys where required.
• Apply treaty and facultative reinsurance principles and ensure placement and compliance requirements are met.
• Ensure accurate application of Sasria cover, rates, processes, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with underwriting, claims, credit control, and operations teams to resolve broker and client queries effectively.
• Monitor market developments, competitor activity, and portfolio trends to identify opportunities and risks.
• Maintain accurate records, portfolio reporting, and compliance with governance, regulatory, and underwriting requirements.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What you'll bring

• A reputation for building strong broker partnerships, applying sound underwriting judgement, and delivering profitable portfolio growth within a specialist insurance environment.
• Minimum 5 years' insurance experience, including underwriting and business development exposure within Construction & Engineering or a related specialist insurance class.
• Proven experience in broker relationship management, portfolio growth, new business development, and retention management.
• Strong understanding of Construction & Engineering insurance products, risk assessment, and technical underwriting principles.
• Sound knowledge of portfolio analysis, profitability management, loss ratios, and underwriting performance metrics.
• Experience working with treaty and facultative reinsurance structures and processes.
• Knowledge of Sasria cover, rating structures, and compliance requirements.
• Strong negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial acumen with the ability to balance growth objectives against portfolio quality and risk exposure.
• Experience managing complex technical risks will be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of claims, credit control, and broader insurance operational processes.

Educational Requirements    
Required Qualifications

• BCom Degree or a comparable Insurance qualification.
• FAIS Compliant and RE Compliant, with at least an NQF Level 4 Insurance Qualification.
• Valid driver's licence and own reliable transport.
• Relevant Construction & Engineering Insurance Qualification will be advantageous.

Deadline:1st November,2026

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We're looking for an Underwriter who understands that.

• Reporting to the Team Leader: Underwriting, this role is responsible for assessing and managing commercial insurance risks in line with Hollard's underwriting philosophy and governance requirements. You'll play a critical role in supporting brokers, delivering technical underwriting expertise, and ensuring a seamless customer experience while maintaining sound risk management principles.
• This is more than a risk assessment role.
• It's about balancing underwriting discipline, broker service, regulatory compliance, and commercial decision-making to deliver sustainable portfolio performance

You'll:

• Assess new business risks in accordance with underwriting guidelines and accepted risk management principles.
• Make sound underwriting decisions relating to the acceptance or declinature of risks within delegated authority.
• Provide technical underwriting expertise and support on underwriting referrals.
• Manage reinsurance referrals and placement requirements where applicable.
• Operate within approved underwriting mandates, including pricing, discount, and risk acceptance parameters.
• Manage policy endorsements, renewals, refunds, multi-claimants, and day-to-day underwriting queries.
• Take ownership of broker and client queries, ensuring timely communication and resolution.
• Ensure compliance with underwriting guidelines, regulatory requirements, Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles, and standard operating procedures.
• Escalate complex risks and underwriting exceptions in line with governance requirements.
• Ensure accurate policy documentation is issued and maintained
• Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers, clients, and internal stakeholders.
• Support service excellence by delivering reliable underwriting support to brokers and claims teams.

Required Knowledge and Experience    

What you'll bring

• A reputation for making sound underwriting decisions, delivering exceptional service, and building trusted relationships with brokers and stakeholders.
• Minimum 4 to 5 years' underwriting experience within the Short-Term Insurance industry.
• Strong knowledge of Commercial Short-Term Insurance products and underwriting principles.
• Proven experience assessing and managing commercial insurance risks.
• Sound understanding of insurance legislation, industry practices, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing endorsements, renewals, and policy servicing activities.
• Strong analytical and risk assessment capability.
• Excellent customer service and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work within delegated authority levels while maintaining underwriting discipline.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, broker-focused environment.

Educational Requirements    

Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12).
• NQF 5 Insurance Qualification.
• Recognised RE Certification (RE5).
• Additional Commercial Insurance qualifications will be advantageous.

Deadline:2nd November,2026

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• We're looking for a Senior Actuarial Specialist who understands that.
• Reporting to the Head: Actuarial Ecosystems, this role sits within the Group Actuarial function and plays a key role in modernising and streamlining actuarial reporting across both Life and Short-Term Insurance. You'll have the opportunity to drive technical innovation, improve actuarial infrastructure, and lead strategic projects that enhance the way actuarial information is produced and consumed across the business.

What you'll be trusted to own

• This is more than a traditional actuarial role.
• It's about combining actuarial expertise with technology, automation, and strategic thinking to improve reporting capabilities, strengthen controls, and build future-focused actuarial ecosystems.

You'll:

• Drive the modernisation and continuous improvement of actuarial reporting infrastructure across Life and Short-Term Insurance businesses.
• Support and enhance the end-to-end actuarial reporting pipeline, from source data ingestion through to valuation and financial reporting outputs.
• Develop, maintain, and improve actuarial models, databases, and reporting solutions.
• Build and strengthen controls across actuarial reporting environments to improve governance, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Lead automation initiatives and end-to-end process improvements across reserving, capital, reporting, and actuarial data processes.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, within actuarial reporting frameworks.
• Drive strategic technical projects that improve reporting capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Support the adoption of new technologies and improved ways of working across the broader Corporate Actuarial team.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What you'll bring

• A reputation for combining actuarial expertise with technical innovation, analytical thinking, and a passion for solving complex business challenges.
• Minimum 3 years' relevant actuarial experience within an insurance environment.
• Experience in highly technical actuarial, data, modelling, or reporting-focused roles.
• Strong understanding of actuarial concepts and principles applicable to both Life and Short-Term Insurance.
• Knowledge of actuarial reporting processes, financial reporting systems, and insurance reporting requirements.
• Experience with programming languages and tools such as SQL, Python, Git, and AI-related technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering projects, technical enhancements, and process improvement initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capability.
• Excellent technical, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and programming concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strategic thinking capability with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

Educational Requirements    

Qualifications

• Nearly qualified or newly qualified Actuary through a recognised actuarial body.
• Progress toward Fellowship or equivalent actuarial qualification will be highly advantageous.
• Additional qualifications or certifications in Data Science, Programming, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, or Technology-related disciplines will be advantageous.

Deadline:1st November,2026

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• We're looking for a Head of Complex Commercial Underwriting.
• Reporting to the Executive Head: Commercial & Personal, with a dotted reporting line to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), this role provides strategic leadership, technical underwriting direction, and portfolio stewardship across Hollard Insure's largest and most complex commercial risks. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping underwriting strategy, strengthening portfolio performance, safeguarding risk appetite, and ensuring sustainable profitable growth across the business.What you'll be trusted to own
• This is more than a senior underwriting leadership role.
• It's about setting the direction for complex commercial underwriting, balancing distribution ambitions with underwriting discipline, and ensuring every decision supports sustainable growth, profitability, and long-term portfolio resilience.

You’ll make your mark by:

• Leading the Complex Commercial underwriting strategy across Property, Liability, Engineering and other large commercial risks.
• Turning strategy into clear portfolio plans, underwriting priorities and team deliverables.
• Driving profitable growth against loss ratio, expense ratio, COR and return-on-capital targets.
• Setting strong underwriting standards across risk selection, pricing, authorities, referrals and governance.
• Building trusted broker and client relationships, while partnering with actuarial, claims, reinsurance, pricing and data teams.
• Leading portfolio improvements and developing a high-performing team that values accountability, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What you'll bring

• A reputation for combining technical underwriting expertise with strategic leadership, strong commercial judgement, and the ability to deliver sustainable portfolio performance in a highly complex environment.
• 10+ years’ Commercial Lines underwriting experience, with at least 5 years leading at a senior level.
• The technical confidence to navigate large, complex and unusual commercial risks.
• A sharp eye for portfolio performance, pricing, governance, reinsurance and risk appetite.
• Strong broker relationships and the judgement to pursue the right growth, not growth at any cost.
• A data-led approach to decision-making and a sound understanding of South African insurance regulation.
• A proven ability to grow technically strong teams that take ownership and keep raising the bar.

Educational Requirements    

• Bachelor's / Honours Degree in Insurance, Risk Management, Actuarial Science, or a related field.
• RE1 / Key Individual accreditation (where applicable).
• Professional membership with IISA, CII, or an equivalent professional body will be advantageous.
• Additional executive leadership, risk management, or insurance qualifications will be advantageous.

Deadline:4th November,2026

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• We're looking for a Technical Underwriting Manager who understands that
• Reporting to the Head: Complex Commercial, this role is responsible for providing specialist technical underwriting expertise across HCC's mid-corporate portfolio. You'll play a critical role in assessing, pricing, structuring, and managing complex commercial risks while supporting underwriting excellence through referrals, broker engagement, governance, and capability development.

What you'll be trusted to own

• This is more than a technical underwriting role.
• It's about balancing growth, profitability, underwriting governance, broker relationships, and portfolio quality to ensure complex commercial risks are written within appetite, authority, and reinsurance frameworks.

How you'll make your mark:

• Assess new business, renewals, mid-term adjustments, and referrals for complex commercial risks, with a particular focus on property damage and business interruption exposures.
• Evaluate construction, occupancy, fire protection, catastrophe exposure, accumulation risks, and other material underwriting considerations.
• Review claims experience, loss trends, exposure changes, and risk improvement measures to support sound underwriting decisions.
• Determine appropriate terms, conditions, deductibles, warranties, exclusions, and subjectivities aligned to risk quality and underwriting appetite.
• Apply approved rating methodologies and technical pricing principles to maintain portfolio profitability and premium adequacy.
• Identify concentrations, adverse trends, pricing anomalies, and emerging risks across the portfolio.
• Interpret engineering surveys and risk improvement recommendations, ensuring material vulnerabilities are appropriately addressed.
• Oversee referrals, capacity management, facultative reinsurance requirements, and treaty eligibility considerations.
• Ensure policy wordings, endorsements, schedules, deductibles, and coverage structures accurately reflect underwriting intent and reinsurance requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and support to regional underwriting teams, brokers, and internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong broker relationships while ensuring underwriting independence and consistency of decision-making.
• Coach and develop underwriting capability through training, technical guidance, case reviews, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Contribute to product enhancements, wording development, underwriting frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor portfolio performance, premium adequacy, retention, loss experience, referral trends, and accumulation exposures.
• Deliver quality reporting, governance oversight, and audit-ready underwriting documentation.

Required Knowledge and Experience    
What you'll bring

• A reputation for technical excellence, strong underwriting judgement, and the ability to influence sound commercial decisions across complex insurance portfolios. Minimum 5 years' technical underwriting experience within Commercial or Corporate Insurance environments.
• Extensive experience assessing and underwriting complex or large commercial risks.
• Strong knowledge of commercial property, business interruption, and asset all-risk insurance products.
• In-depth understanding of policy wordings, endorsements, exclusions, warranties, subjectivities, and schedule construction.
• Demonstrated experience applying underwriting pricing principles and managing portfolio profitability.
• Sound understanding of risk engineering findings, loss prevention practices, and risk improvement management
• Strong knowledge of reinsurance markets, treaty structures, facultative placements, and capacity management.
• Experience engaging with brokers, regional underwriting teams, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, financial, and risk assessment capability.
• Excellent communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working with binder partners will be advantageous.

Educational Requirements    

Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12).
• Advanced Certificate in Short-Term Insurance (NQF 6 Associate).
• Ongoing compliance with CPD and Regulatory Examination (RE)
• Additional technical underwriting, risk management, or commercial insurance qualifications will be advantageous.

Deadline:2nd November,2026

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• At Hollard, we believe better futures need strong financial foundations. Behind every policy and claim is a team making sure the numbers balance, the risks are understood and the business remains financially sound. We’re looking for a detail-focused, commercially minded Reinsurance Accountant to help manage our reinsurance financial operations. You’ll work with complex financial data, large-scale transactions and key stakeholders, helping us maintain accurate reporting, strong financial controls and effective risk management.

You’ll make your mark by:

• Preparing accurate and timely treaty accounts, including quota share, commission and excess-of-loss premium calculations.
• Analysing monthly underwriting results, investigating variances and ensuring journals are processed within reporting deadlines.
• Maintaining large-loss schedules and supporting month-end and quarter-end reporting.
• Preparing monthly balance-sheet reconciliations, monitoring movements and resolving aged or outstanding items.
• Managing reinsurance creditor and debtor accounts, including payments, recoveries, receipts and treaty settlements.
• Supporting facultative payment authorisations and following up on outstanding balances.
• Maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring compliance with insurance and reinsurance accounting standards.
• Supporting governance, regulatory and risk-management requirements, while identifying opportunities to improve processes.
• Partnering with Finance, Underwriting and Reinsurance stakeholders to provide accurate financial information and dependable service.
• Contributing to Hollard’s commitment to fair customer outcomes and operational excellence.

Required Knowledge and Experience    

Key Competencies

We're looking for someone who is:

• Highly analytical and detail-oriented
• Organised and able to manage competing deadlines
• A proactive problem-solver
• Collaborative and relationship-focused
• Professional with strong integrity and confidentiality
• Self-motivated and results-driven
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Build Your Future With Us

• Join a profoundly human, future-fit environment where learning is encouraged, expertise is valued and your contribution matters. If you’re ready to grow your finance career in the specialist world of reinsurance, let’s start the conversation.

Educational Requirements    
What You’ll Bring

• Matric, an NQF Level 5 Short-Term Insurance qualification or equivalent, and a BCom in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• At least three years’ Reinsurance Accounting experience, with exposure to treaty accounting and reinsurance settlements.
• Experience in a non-life insurance environment will give you an added advantage.
• A strong understanding of reinsurance accounting, treaty structures, financial reporting and reconciliations.
• Sound knowledge of financial controls and governance. IFRS 17 knowledge will be advantageous.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to work accurately across complex financial information.

Deadline:3rd November,2026

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Job Advert Summary

• Trucking insurance doesn’t leave room for shortcuts.
• It’s detailed. It’s fast-moving. And when it’s managed properly, it keeps businesses on the road without disruption.
• We’re looking for an Underwriting Administrator who understands that.

What you’ll be trusted to own

• This isn’t just about processing paperwork.
• It’s about making sure every detail is right, every time — and that brokers and clients experience a seamless, professional service.

You’ll:

• Manage underwriting transactions across the full policy lifecycle, from new business to renewals, endorsements, and cancellations.
• Process and validate risk and policy data with accuracy, ensuring system integrity and audit readiness.
• Issue policies, schedules, and endorsements within agreed service levels.
• Support underwriting decisions by analysing risk and claims information where required.
• Take ownership of the renewal cycle, ensuring timely follow-ups and completion.
• Act as a key point of contact for brokers and clients, resolving queries efficiently and professionally.
• Handle complaints and escalations in line with internal processes and customer fairness principles.
• Support reporting, portfolio administration, and quality assurance processes.
• Work closely with underwriting and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth service delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and service delivery

Required Knowledge and Experience

What you’ll bring

• A reputation for precision, reliability, and getting the details right.
• 4 to 5 years’ experience in underwriting administration or policy servicing.
• Strong understanding of underwriting processes, policy administration, and risk data handling.
• Experience working with brokers and managing stakeholder relationships.
• Exposure to trucking insurance products (advantageous).
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage high-volume workloads.
• Confidence working across teams and handling multiple priorities.

Educational Requirements    
Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Insurance qualification or equivalent will be advantageous

Deadline:4th November,2026