Job Description

THE ROLESantam 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 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?Duties will include, but not limited to:First-line / corporate actuarial valuationsRegulatory capital calculations including forecasts under the ORSAProduction of management information, including reporting on risk appetite measuresAd-hoc analyses - actuarial investigations as required from time to timeQUALIFICATIONS 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 WE ARE: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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