Actuarial Analyst
job description
**What will you do?**
- Santam’s Actuarial and Data Analytics team has an exciting new opportunity available for a general insurance professional. The position will be based at either
- **Santam’s Head Office in Bellville, Cape Town or Santam’s Office in Sandton, Johannesburg**.**What will make you successful in this role?**Key responsibilities**:
- Develop effective pricing and risk management strategies to balance profitability and growth
- Benefit tracking and performance monitoring of financial, underwriting and distribution indicators
- Create and maintain business reports to direct thought processes that drives action
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the internal data assets to support pricing and other modelling initiatives
- Continuous process improvement and strategy evaluation
- Participate in strategic projects where actuarial input is required
- Support current underwriting segmentations models
- Interacting with distribution (sales) and claims with the objective of constantly incorporating market trends into the product solution value chain
- Supporting the development of product solutions for various market segments and channels
- Ad-hoc analysis - statistical investigations as required from time to time by the business
**Qualifications &
Experience**
- One to two years working experience, preferably in general insurance.
- Advanced computer literacy skills in one or more of the following:
SAS, SQL, R, Python, Emblem etc.
- Strong modelling skills including experience in performing statistical investigations and building pricing / predictive models
- Strong data management skills
- Logical and analytical ability
- Self-starter, problem solver and finisher
- Good report writing and presentation skills
- Analysing
**Competencies**
- Attention to detail
- Planning and organising skills
- Collaborates
- Client focus
- Drives results
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Cultivates Innovation