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Our team consists of more than 100 actuarial professionals across 5 locations in Africa - Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mauritius, Nairobi and Lagos.\nOur actuarial consulting team offers a great opportunity to gain exposure across various technical actuarial areas and across a range of insurers in the South African and international market. This accelerates your learning curve, challenges your thinking and gives you the opportunity to gain depth in terms of the application of your technical actuarial skills.\nWe value teaming, proactivity as well as diversity and inclusion in our team. Our team thrives because of the growth mindset environment andcollaborative team culture. You would get the opportunity to work with some of the most knowledgeable actuarial professionals in the industry and colleagues that are not only brilliant but also committed, dynamic and creative.\nThrough the combination of actuarial audit and consulting experience, our team members gain exceptional technical knowledge, moulding them into industry leaders and front runners on trending actuarial topics.\nYour key responsibilities\nProjects and Client Responsibilities\n Project Delivery: Leading the technical delivery of complex, multi-faceted client projects, including overseeing actuarial managers and managing teams of actuarial consultants. Projects may include1st line life actuarial work including reserving, pricing and capital calculations\nHead of Actuarial Function work for life insurers and reinsurers\nActuarial audits (IFRS17 and SAM) for life insurers/reinsurers\nInnovative and value-adding projects for insurers e.g. implementation of new regulations, future-state operating models, or improving models and processes\nReviewing, enhancing or establishing ERM frameworks, ORSA, Risk Appetite or other risk components\nPerforming due diligences on life insurance business\n\nInnovation and AI: Drive and develop the next generation of actuarial processes and tools by building frameworks that combine human expertise with AI capabilities, automation, and data-driven decisioning, utilise AI tools internally as \"thinking partners\" to accelerate delivery and drive efficiencies.\nBusiness Development: Driving and supporting go-to-market and sales initiatives, leading and contributing to proposals, and helping grow actuarial service offerings and our practice, including the development of intellectual property to support sales/client interactions.\nClient Management: Acting as primary client contact, building trusted relationships and managing expectations. \nTeam Leadership: Coaching, mentoring and developing team members, continually learning and sharing your expertise with the wider actuarial team, contribute to reskilling the team to adapt to rapidly changing work methods driven by AI\nMost of your work will be project based for a once-off set period time or on a recurring basis, which enables you to work with different team members and subject matter experts, gaining invaluable experience and technical knowledge.\nSkills and attributes for success\n7+ years’ professional experience in the Life Insurance industry in an actuarial consulting or corporate insurance role\nFASSA, preferably with specialisation in life insurance\nExperience in financial reporting (SAM/Solvency II and IFRS17) and actuarial modelling \nExposure to data analytics, coding (Python/R), and AI frameworks \nStrong communication skills, presence and confidence in reporting to and engagement with Senior Stakeholders, incl. Board, preferentially with such experience \nCritical thinker and solution-orientated approach, curious mind and keenness to learn, team player and proactive, self-starter \nAbout EY\nOur values define who we are\nPeople who demonstrate integrity, respect, teaming and inclusiveness.\nPeople with energy, enthusiasm and the courage to lead.\nPeople who build relationships based on doing the right thing.\nAs a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. 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