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Senior Insurance Risk Specialist at Absa Bank, Sandton, South Africa

Absa Bank

Senior Insurance Risk Specialist at Absa Bank, Sandton, South Africa

Absa Bank

Full time Job

Date Posted: February 4, 2025

Application deadline:

Expired on: February 11, 2025 5:00pm

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Job description

Insurance risk oversight and reporting, including

  • Oversight and support of data processes, calculations and reporting of key insurance risk metrics
  • Production and presentation of insurance risk management information (monthly insurance risk reporting) to AFS Board and AGL Exco committees
  • Check and challenge of key insurance risk metrics
  • Responsible for monthly EC calculations and reporting
  • Attend, check and challenge Life risk forums
  • Consolidation and review of the published Insurance risk disclosures (Booklet and Insurance Risk Note)
  • Consolidation / drafting of the insurance risk sections of the AGL ICAAP and relevant sections of the ORSA report
  • Consider how other group wide policies impact insurance specific policies and standards.

Product and pricing reviews

  • Performing and reporting on product reviews
  • Assess the insurance and financial risk exposure of proposed new product development
  • Provide assurance to relevant stakeholders regarding the appropriateness of pricing structures and terms and conditions of new products or product changes
  • Reviews and signs-off on various product reprice, refinements / amendments.
  • Supporting the A&I PRC as an advisor on actuarial matters
  • Act as an assurance partner in the NAPA process by providing sign-off from a financial risk management perspective for life and non-life insurance and sitting on the respective PRC committees as a voting member.

Model governance and model risk oversight

  • Responsible for end-to-end oversight of model lifecycle controls
  • Preparation of Model Risk reporting and management & Report on insurance model risk management in the relevant AFS and AGL forums
  • Refresh of the Model Risk Management Framework, Policy and Standard(s)
  • Chair the model governance and control forum (MGCF) and attend AGL Model Risk Committee
  • Present Insurance Model Risk updates to the AGL Models Committee annually
  • Annual Review, update, governance approval & training of the Model Risk Framework and reviews of the supporting policies for AFS Group
  • Evaluates and provides advice on the development and use of internal models.
  • Act as the co-ordination point between model principal risk team and insurance operations

Support Group HAF activities

Financial Position review

Reinsurance Adequacy review

Stress and scenario testing review

Support MTP and ACS processes

  • Support business with MTP and ACS processes
  • Prepare and present risk results at Exco and Board level
  • RWA and EC forecasting over the MTP period

Contributes to the following Risk management strategy initiatives / deliverables

  • The Development the AFS wide risk management strategy and plan.
  • The Review and challenge of business entity risk management strategy and plans
  • The alignment between AFS BU & AFS Risk management objectives, strategies and policies to solo entities.
  • The approach proposed / used to manage AFS’ material risks.
  • Strategic Risk Assessment on the AFS Group Strategy

General

  • Manage and develop talent to support business resilience, providing technical and organisational support to key resources while offering guidance and mentorship.
  • Provides data analytics insights, machine learning and AI capabilities to risk management teams.
  • Supports risk teams with embedding smarter processes and interfaces.
  • Supports the Business with the interconnected monitoring of insurance risk management and climate risk management
  • Support AFS senior management in Prudential Authority engagements
  • Prepare content for AGL risk booklet and pillar 3 report
  • Conducts integrated assurance.

Education

Bachelor Honours Degree: Actuarial Science (Required)

Application deadline:

Expired on: February 11, 2025

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