Pricing Actuary/Actuarial Specialist needed at Swiss Re

Specific responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to the following:

• Pricing and steering of existing and new business
• Perform day-to-day pricing, monitoring and benefit design for the relevant target markets.
• Support clients with the benefit design and pricing of products.
• Assume a proactive approach and critical reviews of pricing, benefit design and in steering of existing and new business.
• Participate in client meetings, to understand client’s needs, share our view of results and jointly steer the business together with our client partners.
• Assist in identifying and driving risk management interventions that will help our clients to limit the increase in cost of healthcare expenditure.
• Reviewing and approving within given authority group quotes our clients refer to us.
   

Control and Monitoring process

• Assist with the production of monitoring reports for both internal and external use, to ensure that the performance of our different clients is tracked regularly.
• Analysing reports and noting emerging trends and problems, as well as giving inputs on their successful resolution.

About You 

• An ideal candidate would be a qualified (or nearly qualified) actuary that has excellent analytical, problem solving and independent decision-making abilities with strong customer focus and negotiation skills. You possess excellent inter-personal, communication and presentations skills and are able to work well within technical and non-technical teams.

We would like you to have:

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience of which at least 3 years in a healthcare actuarial role
• Experience in medical insurance, with a strong understanding of pricing, monitoring and benefit design features
• Excellent understanding of the South African healthcare and/or the broader African medical insurance markets, competitors, market trends and dynamics
• Good working experience with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Good working experience with SQL-based programs

It would be nice for you to have:

• Experience in developing, emerging medical insurance markets in Africa 
• Skills in experience studies and costing bases across Africa
• Previous exposure to working in a complex environment
• Experience with SAS