Company: Sanlam Group
Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Deadline: Sep 20, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors
Experience: 3 – 4 years
Location: Western Cape
City: Bellville
Field: Data, Business Analysis and AIÂ , ICT / Computer, Insurance
Job Title: Manager: Analysis Actuary
What will you do?
- The experience investigations team is responsible for delivering business insights through retrospectively looking at claims and persistency experience.
- The team is also one of the few within the broader Sanlam Group to be a custodian of a Business Intelligence (BI) asset. The vision for the team is to fully digitalise our processes, and also to further enable consumption of new age statistical/actuarial techniques to add business value.
Output/Core Tasks:
- Manage, own and enhance the Experience Investigation reporting process within SRS/Glacier Actuarial to deliver valuable insights for the businesses that we serve
- Collaborate to define, create and realise the ideal operating model for actuarial experience investigations in the context of a new business intelligence (BI) platform
- Liaise and engage with stakeholders from Sanlam Group BI to ensure the efficient running of the experience investigations operation model
- Ensure the Experience Investigation operating model delivers business value
- Maintenance of the Experience Investigation model
- Automation and optimisation of legacy processes
- Assist with ad-hoc actuarial analyses on special projects
- Collaborate in the wider SLS teams working on special projects
- Regular engagement with senior management on the performance of the business
- Deliver analytical-, business- or projection models as required from special projects
- Research data science/statistical techniques and their application in an actuarial context
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualifications:
- Qualified or nearly qualified actuary (FASSA)
- 3-4 years in the life insurance industry
Experience and skills:
- Experience / knowledge of Sanlam’s life insurance products will be an advantage
- Leadership and managerial qualities
- Python, R, SQL experience or knowledge of advanced analytics
- Keen interest in advanced predictive modelling capabilities
- Comfortable building and implementing statistical forecasting models
- The combination of actuarial and data science experience will be an advantage
- Comfort working with and interrogating big data sets
- Strong operational process focus
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to work independently, take initiative and meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking
- Good MS Office skills (Word, Excel)
- Knowledge seeking/learning orientation
Closing date: 20 September 2025
