Senior Actuary - London, United Kingdom - Avencia Consulting

Avencia Consulting

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About us
Avencia consulting is partnered with a leading provider of global re/insurance products.

In an exciting time for change for their model development team, we are seeking a Senior Actuary to take the lead on projects regarding reinsurance pricing models.

The role

To actively achieve solutions for complex technical challenges by leading the development, enhancements, maintenance, through the interaction with external model vendors as appropriate, and ensuring corporate governance standards of Reinsurance Pricing Modelsare met, with the goal of implementing activities or approaches that meet actuarial standards and support achieving plan loss ratios and profitability.

Key accountabilities

Champions and drives the use of actuarial rating methodologies, data quality, data manipulation, modelling and model governance to demonstrate accuracy and efficiency
Manages interactions and participation in company wide initiatives to raise the profile of the group actuarial function to include modelling, portfolio reporting, analytics, and data management
Creates and cascades robust and appropriately robust strategic deliverables applicable to the project
Is accountable for ensuring that appropriate analytical techniques and model development are being fully utilised within the actuarial function
Help to manage the expectations of stakeholders regarding timelines and prioritisation about the options available; look for ways to mitigate
Elevate actuarial talent to develop and enhance both technical (e.g. data analysis and critical judgement) and nontechnical (relationship management) skills of actuarial analysts

Skills & experience
Desirable personal attributes aligned to what success looks like in the role:

Intellectually curious
demonstrate willingness and curiosity to learn through own research
Independent challenger ability to innovate and challenge, utilising consultative questioning, current norms to drive change within the global actuarial function, and work with people of varying backgrounds and organisational levels
Knowledgeable practitioner deals confidently with uncertainty, leans into difficult conversations while lowering the pressure of resistance
Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to think, influence and act strategically
Effective communicator structures insights into clear messages and effectively engages others within group actuarial function, as well as internal stakeholders, professional and regulatory bodies
Change agent leverages a skilful understanding of persuasion and influence, knowing which techniques to deploy while remaining a trusted advisor to Group ExCo and the Board