Senior Consultant Project Management (Actuarial Projects)

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; Hybrid; ZAR 80 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm is seeking a project manager to support Actuarial Directors and Managers. This role involves managing multiple projects, ensuring effective client service delivery, and preparing accurate reports. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in Financial Services or Insurance, strong project management skills, and excellent interpersonal abilities. Candidates must be willing to work in Johannesburg or Cape Town and will face exciting challenges in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Dynamic culture of inclusion

Professional training and coaching

Qualifications

• 8-10 years' working experience, with 3-5 years in Financial Services or Insurance.
• Experience in project management methodologies including Agile, Hybrid, Traditional.
• Proven delivery of complex projects within timeframes and cost.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects and activities within Deloitte's protocols.
• Drive project management activities including planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Prepare accurate reporting for stakeholders and escalate material issues.

Skills

Project management experience

Problem-solving skills

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Relationship-building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Certification in Project Management

Tools

MS Project

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Job description

Company Description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

About the Division

Deloitte’s Actuarial & Insurance Solutions (AIS) practice is South Africa’s preeminent actuarial advisory practice, with a deep reach and expertise across the insurance and financial services industries. We are the largest actuarial consultancy in Africa with more than 140 actuarial staff and more than 50 qualified actuaries. Our AIS practice provides comprehensive actuarial, risk management, and advanced analytics services for Life and Non-Life insurers and reinsurers, regulators, automotive players, retirement fund providers and other related organisations.

Deloitte Actuarialprojects are multi-disciplinary, comprising of Actuarial, Chartered Accounting, Data & Systems, Finance Transformation and Strategy to name a few.

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realise your full potential.

Main purpose of the role

This role will support the Actuarial Directors and Managers in the effective delivery of client engagements aimed at creating exceptional client service delivery.

The role is the central point for delivering project management activities that includes but is not limited to:

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and related activities within Deloitte procedures and protocols.
• Drive the successful initiation, planning, scheduling, execution, monitoring and closure of respective projects including proposal development, scoping, budgeting, talent allocation, coordinating team and client activities, tasks, timeframes, scope, and deadlines.
• Assist the PMO Manager and Actuarial Managers in managing client expectations by coordinating daily engagement, holding teams accountable to technical delivery schedules, and deliverables sign-offs.
• Prepare well-articulated, accurate and timely reporting for respective team and client stakeholder audiences.
• Escalate material issues and risks to the respective Actuarial Manager/s.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement and change management by way of project management training across teams.
• Support and guide junior team members to achieve project objectives, handle challenging situations with flexibility, collaborate effectively, and present confidently to teams and peers.
• Build direct relationships with the client, identify new client, sales and/or optimisation opportunities, and present these opportunities to Actuarial Directors and Managers.

Specialised Capabilities

Technical

• Proven non-IT project management experience in Financial Services, ideally within Insurance or Banking.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the Project Management Office (PMO) strategic and operational goals.
• Good working knowledge of different project management methodologies and tools.
• Demonstrated delivery of complex projects within timeframes and cost.
• Excellent problem-solving and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and competing demands.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, professional delivery of presentations and reports.
• Experience in effective risk, issues, and dependencies management.

Behavioural

• Strong self-management and adaptability to work with dynamic team compositions.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong training and coaching ability with the desire to develop self and others.
• Highly adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease.
• Task- and detail orientated.
• Timely client delivery focus.
• Acute focus on quality and risk management.

Leadership Capabilities

• Living our purpose: Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact.
• Influence: Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills.
• Performance drive: Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track.
• Strategic direction: Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.
• Personal brand integrity: Establishes a strong personal brand that inspires integrity, cooperation, transparency, and appreciation of others\' contribution.
• Competitive edge: Pursues professional- and personal development and applies knowledge/learnings of best practice and trends to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree
• Certification in Project Management

Minimum Experience

• 8-10 years\' working experience, with 3-5 years\' experience in a relevant role within the Financial Services or Insurance Industry, with exposure to Actuarial and/or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) projects.
• Project management fundamentals – e.g., Agile, Hybrid, Traditional, Waterfall
• Advanced proficiency on MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Project.

Additional Information

• This is a professional staff role (100% client-facing)
• The role is based in Johannesburg; although we will consider candidates based in Cape Town, provided that you can work from the Cape Town office (V&A Waterfront).
• You will be required to be at our offices a minimum of 2 days per week, and willing to travel to clients.
• Preferable start date - 1 March 2026.

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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