Job Description

This is your opportunity to join a forward-thinking insurance group with a strong presence in South Africa and Mauritius. You'll lead the life reinsurance function, driving strategy, treaty structuring, and executive-level advisory.
In this high-impact role, your expertise will shape risk-sharing frameworks, influence senior decision-making, and lead a specialist team -- all within a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
Be the key driver behind reinsurance excellence in a business that values leadership, integrity, and strategic thinking.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the structuring, pricing, negotiation, and placement of life reinsurance treaties and risk-sharing arrangements.
• Drive the reinsurance strategy in line with business goals, risk appetite, and profitability objectives.
• Advise executive leadership on reinsurance solutions, market dynamics, and capital optimisation.
• Manage relationships with reinsurers, internal teams (actuarial, underwriting, and finance), and key stakeholders across two regional markets.

Job Experience and Skills Required:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science, Finance, or a related field.
• Qualifications: Qualified Actuary, Chartered Accountant (CA), or equivalent (advantageous but not essential).
• Experience: Minimum of 7 years in life reinsurance or insurance, with strong exposure to structuring treaty and facultative reinsurance deals (e.g., quota share, surplus, and excess of loss).
• Skills:

• Strong financial, actuarial, and analytical modelling skills
• Excellent negotiation and relationship management
• Strategic thinking with a commercial edge
• Team leadership and stakeholder management

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