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Fixed Term – System Administrator
Job Description
Purpose of Role
Reporting to the Head of Technology Infrastructure, the candidate will be responsible for day to day system administration tasks within Old Mutual ICT department. The incumbent will support data center servers, networks, cloud environments as well as server operating systems.
KEY OBJECTIVE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Capacity Support, Management & Maintenance
- Support data center equipment capacity management tasks such as managing and installing new business capacities in the data center.
- Set up of the required compute and storage capacities at data centers to serve new and existing business projects.
Routine Operations & Maintenance
- Routine data center maintenance operations to ensure the health of the data center hardware and other systems.
- Ensuring data center operations are compliant to internal and external compliance regulations.
Business Continuity
- Ensuring adequate capacity for business resilience is set up, tested, and maintained.
- Support successful execution of backups in accordance with the defined backup policy.
- Liaising with various parties such as data center colocation providers and data center support vendors to ensure efficient running of the assets.
- Ensure that I.T Disaster Recovery plans are updated and reviewed.
- Execute Disaster Recovery failover tests as defined in the BCP policy.
Secure Data Center Operations
- Support and execution of patching of Windows and Linux servers running on the environment in accordance with the patching cycle in place.
- Support and execute controls on on-premise servers (Linux and Windows) and cloud platforms to ensure compliance to CIS benchmarks.
Set Up and Operation of Adequate Data-centre Monitoring Framework
- Ensure all datacentre assets are monitored and reported on regularly.
- Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports of data center systems performance.
- Ensure both the internal and external SLAs are met for all data center systems.
Active Directory and Group Policy Management
- Support and troubleshoot active directory and group policies defined on the local AD and on Azure Entra ID.
Skills and Competencies
- Technical Knowledge
- Ownership
- Gaining Commitment/ Influencing
- Decision Making
- Business Awareness
- Building Relationships
- Aligning Performance for Success
Academic Requirements and Professional Affiliations
- Graduate in information systems or related discipline
- Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and related certifications.
- Certification in Linux will be an added advantage.
- At least one year experience in managing and supporting a virtualized data center environment.
- Experience in computer networking.
- Excellent and proven team worker.
- Good communication skills
- Analytical skills and out of the box thinking.
- Knowledge of emerging industry practices
Intermediate Actuarial Valuations Specialist, Life
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
- Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to Old Mutual Life Kenya by working closely with the Business Entities and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
- Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
- Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial, Senior Management and Board of Directors.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Technical Actuarial Support: Conduct and/or review internal actuarial liability valuations for relevant insurance subsidiaries and analysis of profitability/surplus,
- Review of external actuaries’ report and collaboration with the appointed actuaries to produce the Financial Condition Report.
- Experience Investigations: Perform profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations to inform business decisions.
- Product Profitability Review: Perform profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations for Old Mutual to inform business decisions.
- Solvency and Capital management: Carry out solvency computation for the BUs on a risk-based capital basis including solvency stress tests.
- Financial Modeling: assist with financial modeling of business scenarios/projects to inform business decision making.
- Strategy and Business Planning Support: assist with business planning financial projections and solvency projections for the Business Units. Perform stress and scenario analysis on the plan numbers.
- Reinsurance Support: Carry out a reinsurance analysis for the Life Kenya subsidiaries to explore ways to optimize on reinsurance arrangements.
- Reporting and Documentation: Presentation of results and reports to businesses and subsidiary boards committees. Preparation of Board Papers and regulatory solvency and valuation reports.
- Risk Management support: assist the Life Business Units and Risk Department in identifying, quantifying risk (insurance, market, credit risks etc.) where appropriate. Formulate appropriate risk mitigation measures for the BUs and develop a risk register for an enterprise in CURA (Risk System).
- Investment Strategy support: Develop/formulate appropriate investment strategies and/or review and monitoring of investment strategies for Old Mutual Life businesses.
- Other reasonable duties that may be assigned by management.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Analytical Skills
- Data Handling knowledge
- Business Awareness
- Problem Solving Skills
- Communication and Presentation skills
- Ability to prioritize and work on a wide range of deliverables at once
- Working under minimal supervision
- Good interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft office packages
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
- IFRS17 Knowledge
- Familiar with the current Insurance regulations, Capital markets and Central Bank regulations
- Strong actuarial technical skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong data programming skills
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Actuarial Science or other related finance or mathematics degree
- Minimum 5 years actuarial experience
- Actuarial Knowledge: Show progress with actuarial examinations, Minimum 7 papers from a recognized actuarial body
Method of Application
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