SUMMARY:
Our Corporate Client is an exceptional, premier commercial risk specialist in Africa who enables better risk decision across the continent is seeking an accomplished Pricing Manager who will have the overall responsibility for managing one of the actuarial general insurance pricing teams based in Johannesburg.

POSITION INFO:

The Role:

Key Tasks & Accountabilities

External:

• Manage stakeholder expectations and foster collaborative relations.
• Constantly strive towards improving pricing insight relevance in the greater business.
• Provide professional actuarial support and advice to the business.
• Analyse and interpret pricing monitoring results and communicate conclusions to product and underwriting teams.
• Support and participate in portfolio management and performance assessment against KPIs.
• Collaborate and coordinate efforts with the managers of product & underwriting, reinsurance, capital, reserving, finance, claims, policy administration, management information, various IT functions.

Internal:

• Plan, prioritise and manage your team’s work within SLA and capacity.
• Manage pricing basis review projects within agreed milestone delivery dates.
• Ensure new and existing data sources are developed and maintained.
• Create, maintain and constantly improve price monitoring reports.
• Maintain modelling minimum standards and drive your team and processes towards best practice.
• Recruit new staff and ensure their systematic training and development.
• Manage performance and take corrective action when required.
• Provide appropriate leadership to staff and reinforce company culture.

Technical Proficiency:

• Computer Literacy
• Accomplished Microsoft Office user, effective PowerPoint presenter and able to automate using VBA
• Accomplished SAS (preferable), SQL and Qlikview (and advantage) user, with proven ability to reconcile administration and claims transaction data to financials
• Accomplished pricing modelling software user, e.g., WTW, Earnix, Quantee, etc. (with optimising experience an advantage).
• Accomplished GI actuarial pricing specialist with in-depth familiarity with concepts, such as: Large Account Pricing, GLM modelling, Segmentation, Rate and Exposure Change, Premium and Loss Ratio Walks, Inflation and Frequency assumption setting, etc.
• Office and project management experience
• Familiar with GI pricing and portfolio management best practice an advantage.

Qualification(s):

• 3 Year Actuarial Science Degree
• Significant progress with actuarial exams
• Other relevant qualifications, courses and training

Work Experience:

• At least 4 years GI insurance pricing experience
• Experience in other actuarial functions, e.g. Capital and Reserving an advantage
• Experience of providing actuarial advice to senior management.
• Experience at prioritizing, resourcing and planning.
• Ability to manage diverse work portfolio and team.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively across functions and influence outside of own function.

Skills:

• Time Management & Prioritising
• Planning, delegating and tracking work
• Organising and coordination
• Information driven decision taking
• Able manage expectations and change

Personal Qualities:

• Motivator, influencer and thought leader
• Accomplished communicator, a great listener
• Earnest collaborator, with best practice bias
• Prolific solution and synergy coordinator
• Efficient at delivery, while maintaining high quality
• Control cycle proponent, an accomplished process improver
• Decisive and assertive caretaker

Additional Information

• Your application will only be considered should you meet the minimum requirements of the vacancy.
• If you have not received a response within 14 days from the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
• The company reserves the right not to fill this position.