Actuary

Discovery Limited; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 450 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Pretoria is looking for an actuary to prepare actuarial data, perform experience investigations, and support senior actuaries. Candidates should have a degree in Actuarial Science and advanced analytical skills. This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Matric is essential for the role.
• A completed degree in Actuarial Science or Mathematical Statistics is needed.
• At least 1-3 years of experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Report on monthly actuarial experience monitoring.
• Maintain and enhance reporting processes.
• Perform ad-hoc experience investigations.

Skills

Advanced Analytical abilities

Advanced Communication skills

Advanced competence on MS Word

Advanced competence on MS Excel

Advanced competence on MS Outlook

Education

Completed degree in Actuarial Science

Matric

Professional Registration with the Actuarial Society of South Africa

Tools

Intermediate Prophet/DCS

Intermediate SQL

Intermediate Python/R

Job description

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 to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Invest

Discovery Invest is an ever-growing fast-paced and dynamic environment that provides innovative investment products to retail clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.

Actuarial Valuations

Discovery Invest's dynamic environment offers a strong strategic business focus in addition to traditional challenges associated with a technical valuation role. Invest's actuarial valuation team forms an integral part of the business. The emphasis is on the understanding and communication of financial numbers to enable the business to optimise its products and financial position.

Role Description

The primary focus of this role is the preparation of actuarial data for valuation purposes, performing ongoing actuarial experience monitoring and preparation of actuarial experience reports for Discovery Invest. This role further provides the opportunity to perform ad-hoc experience investigations and continually enhance the analytical capability of the Invest Actuarial Valuations team. The role therefore fulfills a key function within Discovery Invest to ensure the accuracy of financial results and appropriateness of the actuarial bases used to perform actuarial valuations. Success in this role will be achieved through effective ownership of the data and experience monitoring processes and continuously enhancing the management information extracted from these processes.

Key Outputs / Job Responsibilities

• Reporting on monthly actuarial experience for ongoing monitoring of the business
• Maintaining and enhancing the existing reporting and experience monitoring processes
• Performing ad-hoc experience investigations to inform understanding of underlying policyholder behaviour
• Creating and ensuring modelpoint files are accurate for semi-annual financial and regulatory reporting periods
• Maintaining and enhancing the modelpoint file process to improve efficiencyPerforming data investigations and incorporating improvements into the monthly process
• Supporting senior actuaries in team with their various semi-annual financial and quarterly regulatory valuation responsibilities
• Supporting senior actuaries in other day-to-day tasks

Education / Qualifications

• Matric
• Completed degree in Actuarial Science and/or Mathematical Statistics
• Nearly academically qualified with maximum 1-2 actuarial exemptions remaining
• Advantageous: Recently qualified actuary or academically qualified with only normative skills remaining
• Professional Registration: Student / Technical / Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa

Experience

Essential: 1-3 years' experience

Advantageous: Up to 5 years' experience as an actuary / actuarial analyst

Technical Skills / Knowledge

• Essential: Advanced Analytical abilities, Advanced Communication skills, Advanced competence on MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook
• Advantageous: Intermediate Prophet/DCS, Intermediate SQL, Intermediate Python/R

Employment Equity

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities

As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.