Head, Actuarial Services at Coronation Insurance Plc

Job Title: Head, Actuarial Services

Role Responsibilities

• Monitor the operation of delegated authority agreements, binding authorities and/or scheme arrangements to ensure that organizational underwriting procedures and policy wordings are being followed.
• Monitor and guide actuarial performances against prescribed objectives and plans.
• Extract relevant data and apply appropriate statistical modelling techniques to produce valid initial analysis to achieve the intended objectives based on appropriate assumptions and rationale.
• Review analysis of loss experience and trends.
• Oversee processes of determining required premium rates, cash reserves and liabilities.
• Apply statistical analysis and predictive modeling to support development of rates, rating plans, pricing and portfolio management.
• Provide actuarial services according to the requirements of assigned business lines.
• Work with relevant units, e.g. underwriting and claims personnel to plan for new lines of business or improve existing business.
• Monitor estimates produced and used by the team in product development and pricing.
• Review assumptions and methodologies used in actuarial models. • Review mortality and surrender risk calculation to ensure accuracy.
• Guide team members on actuarial matters.
• Provide professional advice to support corporate development by analyzing actuarial performances to effectively determine corporate development directions.
• Monitor and review operational plans and procedures for compliance.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Insurance or Actuarial Sciences discipline.
• Master’s Degree is an advantage.
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience.
• Possession of relevant Professional certifications is an advantage.
• Minimum of four(4) core actuarial exam passes is required.

What We Are Looking For:

• Ability to apply the principles of insurance to complex, unfamiliar situations.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how a range of situations may be affected by the principles of insurance.
• Ability to interpret relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice relevant to the business.
• Knowledge of IFRS17 and experience in IFRS17 implementation.
• Ability to demonstrate a detailed understanding of complex policy wordings, extensions and/or limitations and their interpretation and application.
• Knowledge and ability to implement compliance procedures and controls.
• Ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical / actuarial concepts and techniques.
• Ability to use actuarial statistical software applications.
• Excellent relationship management skills, able to forge strong commercial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communication and Influencing skills.
• Data analysis and Interpretation.

Our Benefits

• To help you stay energized, engaged, and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including competitive compensation package, Robust rewards package, Retirement benefits and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future.
• We also provide an environment that fosters the actualization of goals, and career fulfillment for our people while providing transformational solutions for Africa’s challenges.

Flexible Working Arrangement:

• Coronation’s current flexible working arrangement is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture such that it provides employees the flexibility of working from both the office (on-premises) and remotely.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 20th August, 2025. Therefore, qualified and interested candidates should send their updated Resume to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted. It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Official Job Website : https://coronation.ng/institutional/about-us/coronation-insurance/