Vacation Work January 2027 - Actuarial & Insurance Solutions (AIS) - Cape Town

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Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

About the Division

Actuarial & Insurance Solutions (AIS) team. It is a specialist insurance and actuarial consulting team, we specialise in the following key areas:

- Life insurance (Long-Term Insurance)
- Non-life insurance (General Insurance/Short-Term Insurance)

We focus on solving business problems by using our advanced actuarial and analytics. We provide a wide range of specialised actuarial and risk services to the insurance and reinsurance industry in South Africa and other African countries, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States.

This opportunity is designed to provide students with valuable work experience and the chance to develop crucial skills within our Actuarial team. Participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities whilst working on critical projects in Life & General insurance.

The programme will commence on, 18 January 2027 and conclude on 22 January 2027 with in-person attendance required at our Cape Town Office.

This programme is open to students who by the end of 2026 would have completed their third year (or equivalent) of Actuarial Science and are intending to complete their Honours (or Honours equivalent) in 2027.

Behavioural

- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Desire to develop self
- Client delivery focus
- Adaptable
- Focus on quality and awareness of risk
- Problem solving ability
- Basic business acumen

Requirements

Attend and actively participate in presentations on hot topics within the Actuarial industry.; Apply theoretical knowledge from your actuarial studies to complete tasks mimicking real-world scenarios that would be performed when starting your career at Deloitte.; Complete an actuarial project with your peers and prepare a presentation to deliver to actuaries on your final day.; Utilise advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to solve complex actuarial problems.; Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to all relevant regulatory requirements and company policies.; Basic technical knowledge in specific functional area; Basic skills in analysis and report writing; Experience in drafting of professional presentations and reports for review; Proficient in MS Office suite; Basic financial knowledge and understanding