Actuarial Manager: Analytics and Experience Investigations
Cape Town

• Defining and executing the Analytics Strategy for Retail Protection
• Packaging and communicating key business insights from analysis to senior stakeholders.
• Performing actuarial experience investigations and setting the actuarial bases for both pricing and valuing the entire Retail Protection product suite
• Engaging with IT and wider analytical community to ensure access to relevant data to enable analysis
• Providing technical input into strategic direction for product pricing and design.
• Delivering through a team of talented and motivated professionals.
• Driving the use of statistical and machine learning techniques to shape the pricing and underwriting practices of the Retail Protection Suite.
• Ensuring best practice is maintained in the methodology, tools and IT infrastructure employed for data analysis.
• Collaborating with other analytical areas in the business in order to optimize the use of data and resources.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience required:
• Qualified Actuary with at least 8+ years of actuarial experience.
• Previous experience in Protection Product related Decrement Investigations and basis setting a pre-requisite.
• Competency using data science tools like SQL, Python, R, MS Excel or similar would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in valuation and pricing of protection products would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience Prophet, DCS, Microsoft Office Suite and R a pre-requisite.
• A passion for protection business.
• A passion for data analytics.
• Business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Ability to successfully juggle several projects and priorities at once and deliver on time.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• A self-starter able to think on his/her feet.
• Ability to influence stakeholders to achieve delivery.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.