Actuarial Specialist II
FirstRand
Date: 8 hours ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

Job Description
To autonomously handle data preparation and conduct basic to intermediate analyses, while executing complex analyses under supervision. Managing independent projects, providing mentorship to junior colleagues, and effectively communicating with stakeholders, including delivering presentations to management committees and executive teams
Hello Future Actuarial Specialist
We are currently recruiting for an Actuarial Specialist within the second line actuarial team for FNB Life. The incumbent will be responsible for assisting in the internal second line actuarial function
The incumbent will gain exposure to a wide range of Actuarial topics such as experience investigations, pricing, reserving, capital calculations. The role will give a good overall view of the workings of a life company and is ideal for someone with ambition to obtain a practising certificate
Roles and responsibilities:
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
You will have access to:
Roles and responsibilities:
- Review of technical provisions, minimum capital requirements and solvency capital requirements
- Technical challenge of assumptions, pricing and valuations
- Review of compliance with Prudential Standards and advise business on how standards apply for new products
- Model validation of pricing and reserving models (both Excel and Prophet models)
- Challenge and review of Actuarial models
- Develop proxy models to validate results
- Produce Actuarial reports for internal and Board committees
- Ad hoc research on Actuarial developments
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- Have an Actuarial Science degree
- Have completed at least all A100 and A200 exams
- Have 3+ years of relevant experience
- Have experience with Prophet, SAS and SQL
- Are comfortable with data (tables, monitoring, analysis etc)
You will have access to:
- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging Working
- Opportunities to innovate
- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
- Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
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