
Senior Pricing Analyst
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Are you looking to step up in your actuarial career?
- Are you looking to have your voice heard and make a real, measurable impact on our business?
- Are you looking for variety in your role whilst working alongside some of the best actuaries and underwriters in the market?
- Are you excited about joining a team that is constantly looking to innovate and explore the art of the possible?
- Case Pricing - Carrying out bespoke pricing and performance analysis across Property, Casualty, Energy and Specialties lines of business. Collaborating closely with underwriters to come up with robust competitive prices on some of the most unique offerings in the market.
- Pricing tools - Lead the build of new pricing tools and devise a maintenance plan for our current suite of pricing tools, working across various platforms and working closely with underwriters. Ownership and monitoring of technical price assumptions and market pricing decisions. Work closely with our Group actuarial and underwriting teams to scope, build, develop, document and maintain global pricing tools.
- Portfolio management - Working with underwriters to define, analyse and implement underwriting strategies to improve and grow our portfolios. Lead the delivery of pricing and portfolio management solutions across multiple portfolios, through advanced analytics, data analysis and modelling. Regular monitoring and reporting of key trends to senior stakeholders in the UK and to Group.
- Technical skills - The chance to constantly challenge yourself through innovation and adaptation of new technologies with opportunities to learn and apply R/Python, Power BI, SQL & more.
- Culture - Contributing to a positive and supportive team environment.
- Collaboration - Building strong relationships across the company (underwriting, reserving, finance and claims), providing trusted insights and helping to foster a strong data-driven culture.
- Coaching & mentoring - Support and supervise junior colleagues through coaching of technical and non-technical skills. Provide regular training and support to the actuarial and underwriting communities with a specific focus on best practice.
- Process improvement - Continuously improving and challenging our processes to drive further efficiencies for the team and underwriters.
- Educated to degree level
- Nearly/newly qualified actuary
- Experience gained in an actuarial role (ideally commercial lines / London market)
- Excellent knowledge of actuarial professional guidance
- Market, risk and business awareness
- Excellent knowledge of insurance products and industry
- Highly numerate and analytical
- Technical experience - MS Office suite, coding languages (R/Python, VBA, SQL)
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage own and other team members work portfolio
- 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme.
- Annual company bonus.
- Income Protection.
- Life cover - four times your salary.
- 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays.
- You can also request to swap UK bank holidays for days off that have cultural or religious significance to you.
- The option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday.
- Three days paid volunteering.
- Up to 16 weeks' full pay for maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
- Access to Private medical insurance.
- Virtual GP appointments.
- Discounted gym membership.
- Free flu jab.
- Access to a wealth of support from our wellbeing partners.
- Creating a brighter, more sustainable future underpins all that we do here in Zurich. We were the first insurer to sign the 'UN Business Ambition for 1.5˚C' pledge.
- Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, has awarded grants and volunteered time to deserving causes in the UK valued at over £90 million.