Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a highperforming team of actuarial analysts and consultants.
- Oversee, review, and ensure quality of actuarial deliverables, including:
- Statutory valuations (including IFRS17)
- Embedded Value reporting
- Product pricing and design
- Model validation & governance
- ORSA reporting
- Surplus analysis and experience investigations
- Technical actuarial audits
- Capital modelling & solvency calculations
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory standards, and actuarial frameworks.
- Manage multiple projects with effective resource allocation, timelines, and quality assurance.
- Contribute to thought leadership through research, publications, and industry presentations.
- Support business development through proposals, client pitches, and technical insight.
Job Experience and Skills Required:
Education – Minimum requirement:
- Fellow of a recognised actuarial body (FASSA, FIA or equivalent).
Experience:
- 8–10 years actuarial experience.
- Minimum 2 years in a leadership or managerial position.
- Strong technical background in insurance, risk modelling, and financial reporting.
- IFRS17 experience advantageous.
Skills:
- Proficiency in actuarial software such as Prophet, MoSes, R, Python, etc.
- Strong analytical, statistical, and modelling expertise.
- Excellent stakeholder and client engagement ability.
- Leadership qualities with proven team development experience.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of consulting environments.
- Innovative mindset with ability to apply modern tools (AI, data analytics) to actuarial work.
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I also specialise in recruiting in the following:
– Actuarial roles (Life, Short-Term, Health, Pensions, Quantitative)
– Data Scientists / Data Analysts (Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning)
– Risk Analysts (Credit, Market, Model Risk, Operational)
– Pricing Specialists (Insurance, Financial Products)
– Machine Learning & AI Data Scientists (ML Ops, NLP, Predictive Modelling)
– Quantitative Specialists across Banking, Insurance, and FinTech
If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles.
For more information, contact:
Heidi Joubert
Specialist Recruitment Consultant
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