
Senior Pricing Actuary, UKISA (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)
- London
- Contract
- Full-time
- Global Impact: Be part of a world-renowned insurer with a strong presence across Europe and beyond.
- Strategic Role: Work on high-profile projects that directly influence the success of our UKI Property portfolio.
- Collaborative Environment: Partner with underwriters, senior management, and actuarial teams to deliver meaningful results.
- Career Growth: Take ownership of key initiatives, mentor junior staff, and develop your leadership skills.
- Innovation: Leverage cutting-edge tools and technologies to drive data-driven decision-making.
- Act as a Trusted Partner: Collaborate with UKI Fire and Tech Lines underwriters to assess portfolio performance, optimize risk selection, and develop strategies to enhance underwriting results and grow the book.
- Drive Portfolio Excellence: Lead portfolio reviews, planning, and forecasting to ensure sustainable growth and profitability.
- Develop Advanced Tools: Build and calibrate exposure and experience rating engines to support benchmark rating and case pricing. Ensure tools are tailored to meet the needs of underwriters and stakeholders.
- Deliver Insights: Monitor and communicate key portfolio trends, including renewal rate changes, new business adequacy, inflation impacts, and more, through dashboards and reports.
- Support Risk Management: Lead the parameterization of underwriting risk for UKI Property and contribute to reinsurance submissions and allocations.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Engage with reserving, catastrophe modeling, and other actuarial teams to share knowledge and drive common projects.
- Mentor Junior Talent: Provide guidance and indirect management to junior staff within the Short Tail lines pricing team.
- Actuarial Expertise: Professional actuarial qualification (or close to qualifying) with experience in case pricing and portfolio management.
- Analytical Skills: Strong loss cost modeling and statistical analysis capabilities.
- Commercial Acumen: Knowledge of commercial insurance and catastrophe risk.
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills to articulate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Tech Savvy: Proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with tools like Dataiku, Qlik, VBA, R, Radar, ResQ, and Python (a plus).
- Self-Starter Attitude: Highly motivated, adaptable, and able to drive projects independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams.