• Playing a leading role in optimising and strengthening the strategies, balance sheets and income streams of SLS by providing projections, stresses, sensitivities, and other risk management information to inform these.

• Understanding and optimising the drivers of profit streams within SLS to aid in dividend management.

• We oversee the embedment of the ORSA in the strategic & risk management of SLS.

• Providing various consulting services to SLS Actuarial via the Actuarial Consulting Unit.

• Maintaining and developing models through which insurance business performance (i.e. balance sheets, profits, embedded values, return on capital, solvency position) can be projected and sensitivity-tested for business planning purposes.

• Developing and maintaining the Required Capital Frameworks for SLS’s insurance businesses.

• Supporting risk and capital management within SLS in view of further business and regulatory requirements.

• Assisting the Actuarial Consulting Unit with automation and optimization of actuarial processes.

• Assisting the Actuarial Consulting Unit with ad-hoc consulting projects.

• Senior Actuarial student or Qualified Actuary.

• Strong technical ability in Excel (Incl. VBA and Power Query), SQL and Python.

• Balance sheet management and/or capital management experience.

• Valuations experience and/or product development experience.

• IFRS 17 knowledge and experience.

• Broad knowledge base of Sanlam and SLS Actuarial.

• Understanding of insurance products, including their risks and value drivers (i.e. IFRS profit, Embedded Values etc.)

• The desire to innovate, automate and optimise how businesses operate.

• Have a desire that your work adds value.

• Knowledge seeking/learning orientation.

• Ability to combine conceptual thinking with pragmatic solutions.

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, also across departments, businesses, clusters and legal entity boundaries.

• Good communication skills.