Actuary – Analytics & Remuneration Strategy

Discovery Limited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovery Limited is seeking an Actuary within Discovery Invest to optimise distribution remuneration and analyse churn experience. The role focuses on leveraging analytics to align remuneration with sustainable outcomes across adviser and franchise channels.

You will develop MI dashboards, provide ongoing actuarial support, and contribute to product innovation with a view to expanding into strategic data analytics and decision-support projects in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Recently qualified Fellow actuary or nearly qualified.
• 5 – 10 years’ Invest, Life insurance or other relevant financial industry experience
• Database experience (SQL)
• Data visualization software (e.g. Tableau)

Responsibilities

• Analyse adviser and franchise net business flows to optimise distribution recognition and remuneration structures.
• Monitor and analyse adviser replacement and churning behaviour across products.
• Contribute to product innovation and development using data analysis and experience investigations.
• Provide ongoing actuarial and analytical support in resolving production-related queries and business challenges.
• Apply actuarial expertise to complex and non-standard business problems, delivering innovative solutions.
• Develop and maintain management information (MI) dashboards and data visualisation solutions for senior management.
• Support strategic data analytics initiatives with scope to expand into broader BI and predictive analytics.
• Executive communication translating deep mathematical concepts into clear, actionable advice.

Skills

Data analysis

Actuarial modelling

Executive communication

Dashboard design

Education

Fellow actuary or near-qualified

Tools

SQL

Tableau

R

Python

Job description

Discovery Limited is seeking an Actuary within Discovery Invest to optimise distribution remuneration and analyse churn experience. The role focuses on leveraging analytics to align remuneration with sustainable outcomes across adviser and franchise channels.

You will develop MI dashboards, provide ongoing actuarial support, and contribute to product innovation with a view to expanding into strategic data analytics and decision-support projects in a dynamic environment.