THE ROLE
Santam Structured Insurance team has an exciting new opportunity available for an actuarial professional. The position is based in Sandton, Johannesburg.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
We are looking for a talented actuarial professional, with a specific focus on life and/or non-life valuation and capital. The successful candidate will be involved in first-line actuarial work including regulatory and financial reporting. Working closely with the senior management team, the successful candidate will be key in the development and maintenance of actuarial models. The scope includes performing actuarial calculations across various local and foreign insurance and reinsurance entities. The successful candidate would also gain significant exposure to insurance actuarial calculations, deal-making and structuring arrangements.
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE?
First-line / corporate actuarial valuations
Regulatory capital calculations including forecasts under the ORSA
Production of management information, including reporting on risk appetite measures
Ad-hoc analyses – actuarial investigations as required from time to time
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum 1-year actuarial experience
University degree in actuarial science
Good progress with actuarial exams
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Ability to work under pressure
Deadline driven
High attention to detail
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Effective time management skills
Teamwork
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Results orientated
Self-starter, problem solver and finisher
Planning and organising skills
Balancing conflicting objectives
Ability to see the bigger picture
WHO ARE WE
Santam Structured Insurance is a specialist insurance structuring financial institution offering partners and clients individually designed financial solutions. The company uses a portfolio of on and offshore insurance licenses and a highly specialised skill set to create tailored financial solutions aimed at optimising capital structures and enhancing profitability.
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We're about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.
At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.
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