Senior Manager – FRM Actuarial needed at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• Seeking a dynamic individual with highly quantitative skills within the actuarial team, advanced academics, and strong communication skills to manage engagements and take responsibility for deliverables.  

Key responsibilities:

•  Overseeing the development and validation of actuarial models for provisioning and (regulatory) capital calculation purposes.
• To take responsibility for managing client engagements or components of large scale engagements, as well as individually contributing quality work on the engagement.
•  Provides technical knowledge, direction and training to people, coordinates engagement management and effectively utilises resources as appropriate.
• Manages engagements to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver quality outcomes and consistently meet agreed deadlines.
• Day-to-day management of team on engagements, including coaching and providing constructive feedback.
• Increasing focus on business development, building on networks across the practice and people development activities, to manage and develop external client relationships through direct business development activity and internal people/resource management.
• Take responsibility for the seamless delivery of internal projects/services, managing others and influencing key stakeholders.

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• An undergraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial or similar. 

 Qualified Actuary

•  Relevant experience within an insurer or consultancy business is desirable with at least 8 or more years of experience.
•  Coding skills (e.g. SAS, Python, R, etc.) would be an advantage.
•  Experience in leading projects desired.
• Experience in current hot actuarial topics such as IFRS 17, ESG, big data and wider advisory engagements desirable.

 Other competencies that would be desired:

• Critical Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Strong Communication Skills with ability to articulate quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals
• Must be resilient
• Must be a team player
• Ability to cope with and work under pressure

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• An undergraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial or similar. 
•  Relevant experience within an insurer or consultancy business is desirable with at least 8 or more years of experience.
•  Qualified Actuary