Risk Manager: Santam Re at Santam Insurance

What will you do?

• Enterprise Risk Management has a Reinsurance Risk Manager position available, based in the Santam Bellville office.
• The Risk Manager will support the Head: ERM to monitor the overall risk profile of the Santam Re business, by enabling the identification of emerging risks in daily operation of the business. This will be achieved by providing oversight in the form of frameworks, policies, tools, and techniques to support appropriate risk management and control in the first line. Appropriate challenge is required to ensure that management has implemented the control framework appropriately, and that it operates effectively. This requires specific technical reinsurance and underwriting skills.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Assist Santam Re in embedding a risk management process to identify, mitigate, monitor, report and escalate key strategic and operational risks within the parameters of the Boards risk appetite.
• Support the Head of ERM in monitoring Santam Re’s risk profile to ensure that key risks are managed, relevant action taken, and adequate controls have been implemented by management.
• Overall coordination and aggregation of all key risks within Santam Re for Risk Committee reporting purposes to provide a summary and overview of Santam’s key risks.
• Developing key risk indicators to pro-actively identify risks and/or to act as early warning signs of events that may occur or risks that are not managed within predefined thresholds.
• Obtain a good understanding of the external and internal business environment, including strategic and operational goals in order to evaluate and identify any new and emerging risks
• Obtain, aggregate, and analyze loss events occurring throughout the Santam Re business.

Qualification and Experience

• Business Commerce degree or equivalent. 
• Risk management qualification. 
• 5 years ERM experience preferred (with solid reinsurance/ underwriting management experience).

Skills

• Proven track record in reinsurance and underwriting.
• Advanced computer skills (Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint)
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• Excellent relationship-building skills at all levels of management
• Analytical skills, numerical/statistical skills
• Evaluation and data collection skills
• Delivery/results orientated
• Motivated self-starter
• Good communication and English writing skills 

Knowledge

• Operational loss management
• Analytics
• Reporting
• Internal Control 
• Performing under pressure
• Self-confidence and assertiveness to work independently in achieving desired results
• Negotiating and influencing
• Applying expertise and technology
• Analysing and interpreting
• Learning and researching
• Oral and written communication
• Problem solving 
• Maintain confidentiality
• Good judgement
• Strategic thinking
• Data Collection

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others