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Work History
Education
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Certification
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Zanele Netshapapame

Perth,WA

Summary

Seasoned qualified Actuary with 10 years of work experience in the life insurance industry. I have experience in areas such as Individual Life & Group Business Pricing; Product design; Experience investigations; Valuations, Capital calculations & Reporting ; Extracting insights from data; Presenting to management ; conducting research.

I have led and managed teams and have a track record of delivering results. I am highly adaptable, agile and can respond quickly to emerging business needs.

I have a big heart for people and believe in human centred leadership. I do my best to impart knowledge and inspire those I lead to become the best versions of themselves.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Investigations & Business Intelligence Manager

Sanlamsky
09.2019 - 01.2022
  • Conducting experience investigations (economic & demographic).
  • Updating valuation assumptions and quantifying related financial impacts from proposed basis changes.
  • Preparation of Board and Audit reports for approval of proposed basis changes.
  • Bonus stabilization reserve calculations, including recommendations to the Board of final and interim bonus rates for smooth bonus funds.
  • Investment updates for Trustees of Retirement annuity funds.
  • Identifying insights from the book's experience and presenting findings to Executives, Head of Actuarial function and other management stakeholders.
  • Producing assumptions for Budget purposes – unit cost calculations.
  • Managing and developing a team of actuarial consultants.

Actuarial Manager: Data Insights

Sanlamsky
09.2019 - 01.2022
  • Convert data into business insights & actions and help drive actions
  • Drive data-driven cross-sell strategy
  • Understand drivers of persistency to help with retention strategy

Corporate Actuary

MMI Holdings (Momentum business unit)
02.2017 - 08.2019
  • Calculating Capital Requirements (SCR and CAR) at both a segment level for Momentum, and consolidating results at a group level for the MMI entity.
  • Embedded value sensitivity testing.
  • Economic basis setting.
  • Preparing asset shock factors for asset managers.
  • Process documentation.
  • Process optimization
  • This involved creating SQL processes for Excel tasks in order to become more efficient.
  • Provide DCS training to colleagues

Actuarial Specialist

Hannover Re
01.2013 - 01.2017

Data cleaning.

  • Exposure, expected and actual versus expected calculations.
  • Analysis of results.
  • Checking calculations and results.
  • DCS coding.
  • Basis setting.
  • Setting assumptions for HIV/AIDS basis to be used in APN105 model.
  • Writing basis reports.
  • Writing up experience investigation results.
  • Presenting to clients.
  • Preparing quotes for various group schemes.
  • Mortality and Critical illness pricing for quotes and tenders.
  • Producing a pricing model for HIV positive lives.
  • HIV related research.
  • Provide DCS training to colleagues and clients.

Education

Master of Business Analytics - Business Analytics

University of Western Australia
Perth, WA
12.2024

Bachelor of Commerce Honours: Actuarial science - Actuarial Science

University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
12.2012

Bachelor of Commerce: Actuarial Science -

University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
12.2011

Skills

  • Prophet including DCS
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • R and Rstudio
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel)
  • Written and Verbal communication
  • 3 years of management
  • Drawing insights from data
  • Modelling
  • Time management
  • Critical thinking
  • Adaptability and Agility

Affiliations

Fellow member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa

Languages

English
isiZulu

Certification

Human centred Leadership - Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

References

Vicky Reddy (Previous direct manager)

Sanlam Sky

Actuarial and Product Executive

Email: Vicky.Reddy@Sanlamsky.co.za

Cell: +27 84 812 5498


Timeline

Investigations & Business Intelligence Manager

Sanlamsky
09.2019 - 01.2022

Actuarial Manager: Data Insights

Sanlamsky
09.2019 - 01.2022

Corporate Actuary

MMI Holdings (Momentum business unit)
02.2017 - 08.2019

Actuarial Specialist

Hannover Re
01.2013 - 01.2017

Master of Business Analytics - Business Analytics

University of Western Australia

Bachelor of Commerce Honours: Actuarial science - Actuarial Science

University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Commerce: Actuarial Science -

University of Cape Town
Zanele Netshapapame