Actuarial Intern - London, United Kingdom - Swiss RE

Swiss RE

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the team
Come join us to design and build a ground-breaking approach to Life & Health (L&H) Valuation

We aim to build a fully automated production process that continuously updates valuation results with the latest actuarial assumption and cedent data.

The team will be working with experts from different business areas and specializations to deliver the benefits of real-time financial updates, reduced work effort and increase in value-added analysis.

About the role
This is a one-year intern role based in London.

We are looking for a hardworking and motivated individual to join as an Actuarial Intern. In this role you will help shape the future of financial reporting in L&H Reinsurance at Swiss Re. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a successful team across a varied reinsurance business.

You will be working as an Actuarial Intern in the Global Actuarial Systems and Process team alongside qualified actuaries and other actuarial students.

Key responsibilities include:

Making actuarial (e.g. assumptions) and business recommendations based upon data analysis
Contributing to improving the efficiency and quality of reinsurance reporting processes.
Working with actuarial colleagues to find opportunities for improvements, alignment of processes across the business, as well as developing pragmatic solutions to business problems.
Working with other business functions including Finance, Products, other project teams, IT and others recognizing much of our work requires collaboration.

About you

Graduate degree in quantitative discipline and desire to pursue actuarial qualification or partly qualified actuary with no relevant experience.
Analytical and inquisitive in your approach to problem solving.
Willing to learn and take ownership of your areas of responsibility.
A good team player, willing to support the team to meet changing priorities and requirements. Able to build effective working relationships with colleagues in other teams and across technical fields.
Ability to prioritize and deliver good results in time.
Can communicate clearly and explain the rationale logically.
Fluent in English, both oral and written
Proficiency in Excel
An independent thinker who can take ambiguous problems and propose effective solutions, able to form your view on technical and nontechnical topics, but also consider a range of perspectives.
Teamwork; willing to support the team to meet changing priorities and requirements. Able to build effective working relationships with colleagues in other teams and across technical fields.
Curiosity and problemsolving approach.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.

We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.

We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics.

In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

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