Business Unit: Vitality RSA
Function: Actuarial Sciences
Date: 21 Oct 2024
Discovery Vitality RSA
Actuarial Manager
About Discovery
Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Vitality
Discovery Vitality offers the ideal platform for the best actuaries to grow, own key responsibilities and challenge their abilities and currently has roles available to close to or recently academically qualified Actuaries. The successful candidate will form part of the Vitality Risk and Analytics team.
Key Purpose
The candidate will form part of the Vitality SA actuarial team responsible for analytical analysis and modelling of the Vitality programme in order to answer key business questions, inform the business strategy, ensure the business remains financially stable and exposure to key risks are understood. A key focus of this role will be to apply actuarial and behavioural science principles to understand and analyse member journeys from initial lead generation through to ongoing engagement. This will include strategic involvement aimed at optimising each step in the journey.
Areas of Responsibility
Develop actuarial or statistical models to aid in strategic business decision-making
Short- and long-term behavioural and financial projections (including pricing and testing of new initiatives)
Extracting and analysing large datasets to yield rich insights and communicating the results to a wide variety of stakeholders including the Vitality SA Executive Committee
Identify and understand key business and data trends, assess the impact and identify possible courses of action to mitigate / capitalize on these opportunities
Conduct ad-hoc investigations and analyses including quantifying the financial and business impact of strategic projects, oftentimes working with executive decision-makers to craft and execute key strategic projects
Compilation of reports and presentations for the Vitality Exco, Vitality Board, Actuarial Committee, Discovery Board and Group Exco
Develop and leverage key working relationships with various stakeholders across the business in order to support the aims of the organization
Mentor, support and train junior analysts
Competencies
Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate information simply and effectively
Strong ability to work with, analyse and communicate findings from data (top-down verbal and written communication)
A passion for delivering results with a sense of urgency for rapid action
Excellent time-management skills with the ability to prioritize deliverables and manage stakeholder expectations
Well-versed in the ability to disaggregate issues and problem-solving
Comfortable adapting and responding to change
Strong abilities in dealing with unstructured problems and complex environments
Excellent attention to detail
Good writing and reporting skills
Good people skills and situational awareness
Ability to cope with business pressures and setbacks
Ability to think with a commercial and growth mindset
Good sense of materiality with the ability to put things into perspective
Education and Experience
Matric with Higher Grade Mathematics
Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics or Data Science, with an Honours degree being advantageous
Academically qualified (all formal actuarial examinations completed)
2 - 5 years' work related experience
Data Science skills are an advantage
Advanced proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Outlook and SQL
Advanced experience in Actuarial Modelling, Problem Solving, Data Analysis
Strong communication skills
Behavioural
Highly analytical and logical
Critical thinking
Curious and eager to know "why"
Creativity and innovation
An ability to communicate technical complexity to a non-technical audience
A focus on delivering results and meeting customer expectations
An interest in analysing large datasets
An interest in the field of Behavioural Science
Comfortable with change and a fast-paced work environment
Desire to teach and grow more junior members
Keen to pursue a career outside of a traditional actuarial environment whilst applying actuarial and statistical principles in a non-traditional way
Employment Equity
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
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