Job Description
,
for section headers, - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no , no
. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. Must convert the given raw HTML (with inline styles etc.) into proper semantic HTML.
We need to extract the content and restructure.
Given the raw text includes many etc. We need to ignore those tags and just get the text content.
We need to produce HTML with appropriate headings (
) for sections like "Job Description", "L&S CFO BAU support", "Reporting and business planning", "Actuarial and financial governance", "Performance insight and specialist support", "Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:", "Skills", "Competencies", "Education", "Closing Date", maybe also the introductory paragraphs before "Job Description". Also there is a line: "
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
" etc. Those are introductory paragraphs.
We must preserve all original content word-for-word. That means we must keep the exact text, including punctuation, spaces, etc. However we can change tags to semantic ones. We must not add or remove any characters from the text content. We must not change the wording. So we need to output the same textual content but wrapped in appropriate tags.
We need to be careful about preserving line breaks? The instruction says no
tags. So we should represent line breaks via block elements like or
- . If there were line breaks in original that are not represented by tags, we might need to preserve them as spaces? The original raw text includes
etc. Those are line breaks. We need to preserve the content but we cannot use
. We can convert those breaks into paragraph separation. For example, there is a block: "This newly created role ...
The role is responsible..." We need to keep the text exactly, but we can replace
with a paragraph break (i.e., end one and start another). Since we cannot add or remove characters, we must ensure the text content remains same. If we replace
with a space? Actually
is not part of the textual content; it's a tag that creates a line break. The textual content does not contain the characters "
" but rather the visual line break. If we remove the
tags and not add any characters, we might lose the line break (i.e., two consecutive lines become one line with a space?). However the instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. This likely refers to the visible text content, not the markup. So we can change markup as long as the visible text remains same. Using
tags will create block separation, which may affect visual rendering but the text content (the characters) remain same. The line break is not a character; it's formatting. So it's okay.
Thus we can convert
to a paragraph break.
We also need to handle the list items: they are already in
- . We need to keep them but ensure we use
- tags (allowed). Also need to convert any
L&S CFO BAU support
to L&S CFO BAU support
. Must preserve the text inside, including the ampersand entity? The original shows "L&S". That's HTML entity for &. We must preserve that exactly? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. The original content includes the entity "L&S". If we change it to "L&S" we would be altering the content (changing the entity). So we must keep "L&S". Similarly other occurrences like "L&S". Also there is "L&S" inside text. We must keep the entity as is.
Also there is "IFRS 17, EV, capital and business performance. " includes a non-breaking space maybe. We need to preserve that as is (the space). We'll keep the characters.
Also there is a trailing space after some lines? We'll keep as is.
Now we need to decide section headers. The instruction: Use for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). So we need to wrap each section heading in . The headings present: "Job Description", "L&S CFO BAU support", "Reporting and business planning", "Actuarial and financial governance", "Performance insight and specialist support", "Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:", "Skills", "Competencies", "Education", "Closing Date". Also maybe "Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" and the following paragraph about Old Mutual is introductory; could be wrapped in
without heading.
Also there is a line: "
Job Description
" followed by empty paragraphs. We'll treat "Job Description" as heading.
Now we need to produce HTML with only ,
, - . No , no
, no CSS classes, no inline styles.
We must ensure we don't accidentally include any original tags like etc. We'll strip them and replace with appropriate tags.
We need to preserve the exact text inside each element.
Let's extract the textual content piece by piece.
I'll copy the raw text and manually extract.
Raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles.
The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making.
The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles.
The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring that material issues arising from the actuarial control cycle are identified, clearly articulated, escalated and assigned to the appropriate accountable function.
L&S CFO BAU support
- Lead actuarial and financial coordination for the L&S CFO across the recurring reporting, planning, forecasting and performance-management cycle.
- Translate results, plans and forecasts into concise analysis and commentary that informs CFO and ExCo decisions.
- Act as the coordinating link between Group, the L&S Cluster and the BUs, aligning priorities and inputs to reduce duplication, conflicting requests and rework.
Reporting and business planning
- Direct the coordination of L&S inputs into monthly, interim and year-end reporting, producing clear and consistent commentary for internal reporting and Group-led external reporting.
- Integrate the L&S business plan and forecasts, explain the main earnings, value, capital, cash, expense and volume drivers, and challenge the completeness and consistency of assumptions.
- Escalate material performance issues or assumptions requiring deeper review to the appropriate accountable function.
- Manage expense and cost savings related reporting.
Actuarial and financial governance
- Drive effective AFF and related governance forums through focused agendas, rigorous review, clear escalation, decision records and disciplined action tracking, ensuring effective functioning of the Actuarial Control Cycle across the Cluster.
- Ensure that material experience, valuation, capital and reporting issues are surfaced through AFF and assigned to the appropriate accountable function.
- Establish consistent definitions, methods, controls and reporting expectations across L&S, while execution remains with the relevant BU or specialist team.
Performance insight and specialist support
- Identify material performance issues through reporting, planning and actuarial governance, and recommend appropriate follow-up.
- Provide technical actuarial and commercial input on finance initiatives requiring judgment across IFRS 17, EV, capital and business performance.
- Lead competitor analysis across major South African insurers, translating peer results into actionable insights.
Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
- Qualified actuary with at least 8–10 years’ actuarial experience, including substantial post-qualification experience.
- Strong experience in financial and actuarial reporting, business planning, forecasting and executive commentary within life and savings.
- Broad understanding of the actuarial control cycle and of life and savings products, valuation, capital and value metrics, including IFRS 17, EV/RoGEV, VNB and SAM/Solvency.
- Sound commercial judgement, with the ability to interpret technical analysis, identify material issues and explain implications clearly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear reporting commentary and executive narrative from complex information.
- Proven ability to coordinate and influence senior stakeholders across BUs, L&S and Group without relying on direct authority.
- Strong planning, prioritisation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work across multiple businesses and reporting cycles.
Skills
Analytical Thinking, Computer Literacy, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Executing Plans, Information Management, Insurance Product Management, Insurance Sales, Legal Practices, Market Analysis, Numerical Aptitude, Risk Management
Competencies
Balances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksBusiness InsightCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyDecision QualityDrives ResultsEnsures Accountability
Education
NQF Level 9 – Masters
Closing Date
05 October 2026 , 23:59
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to produce HTML.
We'll treat the introductory paragraphs before "Job Description" as elements.
First paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together! (with apostrophe HTML entity '). We must keep that exactly: Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. (note trailing space after period? The original has a space before closing . We'll keep the text as is: "Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. " (including trailing space). We'll keep it.
Then there are three empty
which we can ignore (they produce empty paragraphs; but we should not add empty tags? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. Empty paragraphs have no content; we could either keep them as
or omit them. Omitting them would remove content (the empty paragraph). However empty paragraph is still content (a tag). But the instruction likely refers to visible text; empty paragraphs have no visible text. Safer to keep them? But we are not allowed to add etc. We could keep empty tags. However they have no class or style; we can just output . That's allowed ( tag). It doesn't add visible text. It's okay.
But we also have empty paragraphs after Job Description heading etc. We'll keep them as
maybe.
But we also have
etc. We'll convert to paragraph breaks.
Simplify: We'll produce a structured HTML with headings and paragraphs, ignoring empty paragraphs (since they don't affect content). The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. If we omit empty tags, we are removing those tags (which are part of original content). However the original content includes those tags; but the instruction likely means the textual content, not the markup. Usually in such tasks they want to keep the text, not the exact markup. So we can drop empty paragraphs.
Thus we will output:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then maybe a blank line? We'll just continue.
Then Job Description
Then the description paragraphs.
We need to split the description text into paragraphs logically.
The description text after heading:
"This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles.
The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making.
The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles.
The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring that material issues arising from the actuarial control cycle are identified, clearly articulated, escalated and assigned to the appropriate accountable function."
We need to preserve the text exactly, including the apostrophe in “Cluster’s” (that’s a curly apostrophe? Actually it’s a right single quotation mark ’ (Unicode U+2019). We must keep that character.
Also there is "managess" (typo) we must keep.
We need to replace
with paragraph breaks. So we will have three paragraphs:
Para1: "This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles."
Para2: "The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making."
Para3: "The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles."
Para4: "The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring
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. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. Must convert the given raw HTML (with inline styles etc.) into proper semantic HTML. We need to extract the content and restructure. Given the raw text includes many
etc. We need to ignore those tags and just get the text content. We need to produce HTML with appropriate headings (
) for sections like "Job Description", "L&S CFO BAU support", "Reporting and business planning", "Actuarial and financial governance", "Performance insight and specialist support", "Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:", "Skills", "Competencies", "Education", "Closing Date", maybe also the introductory paragraphs before "Job Description". Also there is a line: "
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
" etc. Those are introductory paragraphs. We must preserve all original content word-for-word. That means we must keep the exact text, including punctuation, spaces, etc. However we can change tags to semantic ones. We must not add or remove any characters from the text content. We must not change the wording. So we need to output the same textual content but wrapped in appropriate tags. We need to be careful about preserving line breaks? The instruction says notags. So we should represent line breaks via block elements like
or
etc. Those are line breaks. We need to preserve the content but we cannot use
. We can convert those breaks into paragraph separation. For example, there is a block: "This newly created role ...
The role is responsible..." We need to keep the text exactly, but we can replace
with a paragraph break (i.e., end one
and start another). Since we cannot add or remove characters, we must ensure the text content remains same. If we replace
with a space? Actually
is not part of the textual content; it's a tag that creates a line break. The textual content does not contain the characters "
" but rather the visual line break. If we remove the
tags and not add any characters, we might lose the line break (i.e., two consecutive lines become one line with a space?). However the instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. This likely refers to the visible text content, not the markup. So we can change markup as long as the visible text remains same. Using
tags will create block separation, which may affect visual rendering but the text content (the characters) remain same. The line break is not a character; it's formatting. So it's okay.
Thus we can convert
to a paragraph break.
We also need to handle the list items: they are already in
- . We need to keep them but ensure we use
- tags (allowed). Also need to convert any
L&S CFO BAU support
toL&S CFO BAU support
. Must preserve the text inside, including the ampersand entity? The original shows "L&S". That's HTML entity for &. We must preserve that exactly? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. The original content includes the entity "L&S". If we change it to "L&S" we would be altering the content (changing the entity). So we must keep "L&S". Similarly other occurrences like "L&S". Also there is "L&S" inside text. We must keep the entity as is. Also there is "IFRS 17, EV, capital and business performance. " includes a non-breaking space maybe. We need to preserve that as is (the space). We'll keep the characters. Also there is a trailing space after some lines? We'll keep as is. Now we need to decide section headers. The instruction: Usefor section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). So we need to wrap each section heading in
. The headings present: "Job Description", "L&S CFO BAU support", "Reporting and business planning", "Actuarial and financial governance", "Performance insight and specialist support", "Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:", "Skills", "Competencies", "Education", "Closing Date". Also maybe "Let's Write Africa's Story Together!" and the following paragraph about Old Mutual is introductory; could be wrapped in
without heading. Also there is a line: "
Job Description
" followed by empty paragraphs. We'll treat "Job Description" as heading. Now we need to produce HTML with only,
,
- . No , no
, no CSS classes, no inline styles. We must ensure we don't accidentally include any original tags likeetc. We'll strip them and replace with appropriate tags. We need to preserve the exact text inside each element. Let's extract the textual content piece by piece. I'll copy the raw text and manually extract. Raw:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles.
The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making.
The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles.
The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring that material issues arising from the actuarial control cycle are identified, clearly articulated, escalated and assigned to the appropriate accountable function.L&S CFO BAU support
- Lead actuarial and financial coordination for the L&S CFO across the recurring reporting, planning, forecasting and performance-management cycle.
- Translate results, plans and forecasts into concise analysis and commentary that informs CFO and ExCo decisions.
- Act as the coordinating link between Group, the L&S Cluster and the BUs, aligning priorities and inputs to reduce duplication, conflicting requests and rework.
Reporting and business planning
- Direct the coordination of L&S inputs into monthly, interim and year-end reporting, producing clear and consistent commentary for internal reporting and Group-led external reporting.
- Integrate the L&S business plan and forecasts, explain the main earnings, value, capital, cash, expense and volume drivers, and challenge the completeness and consistency of assumptions.
- Escalate material performance issues or assumptions requiring deeper review to the appropriate accountable function.
- Manage expense and cost savings related reporting.
Actuarial and financial governance
- Drive effective AFF and related governance forums through focused agendas, rigorous review, clear escalation, decision records and disciplined action tracking, ensuring effective functioning of the Actuarial Control Cycle across the Cluster.
- Ensure that material experience, valuation, capital and reporting issues are surfaced through AFF and assigned to the appropriate accountable function.
- Establish consistent definitions, methods, controls and reporting expectations across L&S, while execution remains with the relevant BU or specialist team.
Performance insight and specialist support
- Identify material performance issues through reporting, planning and actuarial governance, and recommend appropriate follow-up.
- Provide technical actuarial and commercial input on finance initiatives requiring judgment across IFRS 17, EV, capital and business performance.
- Lead competitor analysis across major South African insurers, translating peer results into actionable insights.
Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:
- Qualified actuary with at least 8–10 years’ actuarial experience, including substantial post-qualification experience.
- Strong experience in financial and actuarial reporting, business planning, forecasting and executive commentary within life and savings.
- Broad understanding of the actuarial control cycle and of life and savings products, valuation, capital and value metrics, including IFRS 17, EV/RoGEV, VNB and SAM/Solvency.
- Sound commercial judgement, with the ability to interpret technical analysis, identify material issues and explain implications clearly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear reporting commentary and executive narrative from complex information.
- Proven ability to coordinate and influence senior stakeholders across BUs, L&S and Group without relying on direct authority.
- Strong planning, prioritisation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work across multiple businesses and reporting cycles.
Skills
Analytical Thinking, Computer Literacy, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Executing Plans, Information Management, Insurance Product Management, Insurance Sales, Legal Practices, Market Analysis, Numerical Aptitude, Risk ManagementCompetencies
Balances StakeholdersBuilds NetworksBusiness InsightCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyDecision QualityDrives ResultsEnsures AccountabilityEducation
NQF Level 9 – MastersClosing Date
05 October 2026 , 23:59The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
The Old Mutual Story!
We need to produce HTML. We'll treat the introductory paragraphs before "Job Description" aselements. First paragraph: Let's Write Africa's Story Together! (with apostrophe HTML entity '). We must keep that exactly: Let's Write Africa's Story Together! Second paragraph: Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. (note trailing space after period? The original has a space before closing . We'll keep the text as is: "Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. " (including trailing space). We'll keep it. Then there are three empty
which we can ignore (they produce empty paragraphs; but we should not add emptytags? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. Empty paragraphs have no content; we could either keep them as
or omit them. Omitting them would remove content (the empty paragraph). However empty paragraph is still content (a tag). But the instruction likely refers to visible text; empty paragraphs have no visible text. Safer to keep them? But we are not allowed to addetc. We could keep empty tags. However they have no class or style; we can just output . That's allowed (tag). It doesn't add visible text. It's okay. But we also have empty paragraphs after Job Description heading etc. We'll keep them as
maybe. But we also have
etc. We'll convert to paragraph breaks. Simplify: We'll produce a structured HTML with headings and paragraphs, ignoring empty paragraphs (since they don't affect content). The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. If we omit emptytags, we are removing those tags (which are part of original content). However the original content includes those tags; but the instruction likely means the textual content, not the markup. Usually in such tasks they want to keep the text, not the exact markup. So we can drop empty paragraphs. Thus we will output:
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Then maybe a blank line? We'll just continue. ThenJob Description
Then the description paragraphs. We need to split the description text into paragraphs logically. The description text after heading: "This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles.
The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making.
The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles.
The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring that material issues arising from the actuarial control cycle are identified, clearly articulated, escalated and assigned to the appropriate accountable function." We need to preserve the text exactly, including the apostrophe in “Cluster’s” (that’s a curly apostrophe? Actually it’s a right single quotation mark ’ (Unicode U+2019). We must keep that character. Also there is "managess" (typo) we must keep. We need to replace
with paragraph breaks. So we will have three paragraphs: Para1: "This newly created role in the Office of the Life & Savings (L&S) Cluster CFO leads actuarial and strategic financial coordination across the Cluster’s reporting, planning, forecasting and governance cycles." Para2: "The role is responsible for driving the effective delivery of the L&S CFO agenda. This is a broad, high-exposure role suited to a commercially minded actuary who can coordinate across businesses, influence senior stakeholders and translate complex technical information into clear insights for decision making." Para3: "The Business Partner will integrate the L&S financial and actuarial views, ensuring that results, plans and forecasts are complete, consistent and supported by clear executive commentary. The role aligns inputs from BU CFOs, Finance Business Partners, Finance Actuaries and Proposition Heads, as well as Group teams, and ensures appropriateness of assumptions within reporting and planning cycles." Para4: "The role managess the L&S Actuarial and Financial Forum (AFF), ensuring
- . No
- tags (allowed). Also need to convert any
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