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Secondments

Head of Reinsurance

Secondments

  • Undisclosed
  • Permanent Management position
  • Johannesburg Region
  • Posted 04 Feb 2026 by Secondments
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2632457
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About the position

Job Role
Implementing strategic initiatives, making strategic recommendations, managing treaty placements and ensuring governance and compliance.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Lead negotiations for reinsurance treaties and risk sharing arrangements, including structuring, pricing and terms.
  • Act as senior contributor to the execution of company reinsurance strategy in alignment with business objectives and risks appetite.
  • Advice executive management on reinsurance structures, market conditions, and risk transfer options.
  • Perform experience and other investigations on the reinsurance and risk sharing portfolios and making sound risk and profitability management recommendations.
  • Understand clients' needs and their priorities and ensuring that their needs are met.
  • Contributing to technical reinsurance management, including monthly reporting on reinsurance arrangements and interpretation and application of reinsurance and risk sharing agreements.
  • Build and maintain strong relationship with reinsurers and clients.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders (actuarial, underwriting and claims, finance, legal, compliance, risk) and reinsurers to ensure effective communication and execution of reinsurance arrangements.
  • Enforce policies, procedures and controls relating to reinsurance activities.
  • Manage the performance and development of direct reports.
  • Cover operations in South Africa and Mauritius.

Skills and Competencies

  • Excellent negotiation and relationship management skills.
  • Strong analytical, financial, and actuarial modelling skills.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to balance risk, growth and cost.
  • Team management and stakeholder engagement abilities.
  • High integrity and decision-making skills.

Experience and Qualifications

  • Degree in Actuarial Science, Finance or related field.
  • Nearly or Newly Qualified Actuary, CA, or equivalent qualification will be advantageous.
  • Extensive knowledge of reinsurance arrangements (treaty and facultative) and structures (quota share, surplus, excess of loss etc).
  • At least 7 years relevant working experience in the life insurance/reinsurance industry.

Desired Skills:

  • Word
  • Excel

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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Secondments

About the agency

Uniquely positioned to address your skills shortages, Secondments specialises in placing high-quality candidates in permanent, contract, project and interim management positions. We believe in creating synergy with our clients by building sound business relationships which enhance our understanding of their business and needs. Using a managed, controlled recruitment process, we are able to match the staffing needs of their organisations with suitably talented secondees. Our pool of professionals have a range of skills, both generic and specialist. These candidates, all of whom have verified education levels and experience, are available from two weeks to longer periods, depending on client needs. And if we do not have exactly the right fit for the role, we will source the best candidate. We are dedicated to providing a seamless, turnkey solution to ensure our clients get the right person, in terms of skill and integrity, at the right time to fulfil their organisational needs. Notwithstanding the name change due to the acquisition of Ernst & Young’s Advisory Secondments business to Secondments, the business has been in existence since 2003. The business was acquired as a going concern with the full staff complement, including all clients. This change broadens the scope of clients that Secondments can offer services to. Following a successful 13-year working relationship with Ernst & Young (EY), Siphiwe Dondolo, Jayson Theron and Carl Endenburg acquired the global audit and advisory firm’s secondment portfolio. Secondments started trading on 1 April 2015 with the full support of the EY Africa Executive Committee. Secondments works across South Africa, Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We support our clients through a sophisticated talent pool of associates, working regularly with colleagues across international borders. Our candidates can assist in the finance, risk, IT/technology, human resources (HR), management consulting, operations and supply chain fields – across a number of sectors – including: • Financial Services (Banking, Insurance and Private Equity) • Oil and Gas • Construction • Power and Utilities • Public Sector and Government • Health • Mining and Metals • Consumer Products and Retail • Technology, Media and Telecommunications • Automotive Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Secondments is a 51% black-owned Level 2 B-BBEE organisation, one of the few specialist recruitment consultancies that are a true Level 2 B-BBEE provider. Eleven per cent (11%) of our company is now in the hands of a Black Ownership Trust, making a real difference to previously disadvantaged individuals. We opted for this in the belief that it would make a significant impact rather than benefit a select few. We are determined not to pay mere lip service to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Our Managing Director (MD), Siphiwe Dondolo, owns 40% of the business and was with EY for 9 years prior to moving over to Secondments as a shareholder and as the MD. OUR SERVICES As Secondments, we are confident we have the right combination of people, methodology, best practices and technologies to ensure we deliver seamless, efficient and effective services. These are based on a solid foundation of integrity, excellence, professionalism, best practice and value – delivered to both clients and candidates. Client services We offer the full- service of strategic talent matching ,namely: Permanent placements Executive Search Contract placements Temporary Employment Services Project Placements Interim management position placements Executive Search Our specialised service offerings have evolved in response to our clients’ unique needs for a strategic,customisable,Executive recruitment service whose delivery is executed with excellence in mind throughout the process. Leveraging off our unique networks within the Executive landscape to tap into passive candidates,our experienced recruitment team and proven track record in the industry we are best positioned to assist our clients to fill key positions in the most timeous, professional and efficient manner. Temporary contract staff work under the supervision and direction of our clients. Secondments manages them from a planning, HR, payroll and industrial relations perspective, however, freeing clients from time-consuming administration.

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