Introduction
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A manager of a team of 4 analysts, spanning over financial / actuarial analysis work and quantitative
analytics. The team services different business units, but ultimately our clients.

This role will be reporting to the Head of Product and Actuarial and work alongside two team
managers. The ideal candidate should be someone who understands the priorities, are able to raise
matters when blocks are experienced, and steer the team towards delivery of the required support work
items.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage the team of fund analysts and quantitative analysts supporting the Fund and Securities business units within the company .
• Provide and oversee the support provided by the team to Client Services, the company advisors and
• IFAs on client queries, new business support (e.g. welcome packs) and operational matters (e.g. performance statements, EAC statements).
• Provide and oversee calculations performed by the team in respect of policy revision calculations or in support of platform system improvements.
• Sales initiative, control function reporting and Business Unit metrics pack reporting.
• Platform (LISP) landscape and ad-hoc quantitative investigations as required by business.
• Responsible for daily upload of prices on Life priced funds
• Steering the team to provide support to the Product team in providing technical input and
• testing on tools and calculators used by the company \and our distribution network (advisors).
• Maintain control standards of all work performed by the team and inform business of
• developing or new risks

Desired Experience & Qualification

• University Degree majoring in either Investment Management, Insurance mathematics,
• Actuarial Science, Quantitative Finance or Financial management.
• Experience with LISP platforms and long-term savings and investment products.
• Programming and modelling skills, specifically financial modelling
• High level of computer literacy, specifically SQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
• Team management experience advantageous
• Programming experience in VBA, Python, R advantageous
• commitment to transform and embrace diversity is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with
• employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce. In achieving our employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants from designated groups, and we encourage people with disability to apply.

Skills/ Competencies:

• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Customer oriented
• Ability to manage others
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Time management
• Proactive
• Resilient
• Able to work with people and steer the group to reaching the shared goals of the team
• Team player.
• Striving to reach goals and deadlines
• Enjoying working in a challenging and fast-moving environment

Interested?
Disclaimer
By applying for this role, you consent to having your relevant qualifications and or accreditation verified and confirm that you meet the competency requirements. You further consent to the relevant information being verified by a BA Personnel staff member. We would like to thank you for your application and if you have not received a response within two weeks would like to advise that your application was not successful.
We do look forward to being of service to you in the near future.
We look forward to receiving applications from candidates that fully meet the requirements of the spec.